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UK Novichok report concludes Putin ordered poisoning of Russian double agent | CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an “astonishingly reckless” act that led to the death of an innoce...

Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an “astonishingly reckless” act that led to the death of an innocent woman, a UK public inquiry concluded.

Who's next? They need to be held accountable for what they do. It affects people's lives and deaths.
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Gut microbe-derived short-chain fatty acids regulate joint inflammation and activation of infiltrating and resident myeloid cells after alphavirus infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.691668v1

King Charles decries ‘Russian aggression’ in pledge on defending Europe Monarch welcomed German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and promised both nations’ support for Ukraine The UK and Germany are ready to “bolster Europe” against the threat of further Russian aggression and both nations “stand” with Ukraine, King Charles said as he welcomed the German president. The visit comes at a difficult time for Europe in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and will aim to underscore the Kensington treaty signed in July – the first formal pact between the UK and Germany since the second world war – which sets out plans for closer cooperation on migration, defence, trade and education. Continue reading...

King Charles decries ‘Russian aggression’ in pledge on defending Europe

Which areas is Russia demanding as its price for peace in Ukraine? – visual explainer Moscow is demanding Kyiv accept its ‘annexation’ of areas it occupies. After the latest round of talks between envoys of Putin and Trump ended without progress, we look at the territory Russia is seeking to absorb

Which areas is Russia demanding as its price for peace in Ukraine? – visual explainer

Посадка першого ступеня китайського носія Zhuque-3.

New Glenn з Temu. Ну хоч не на голови населенню, населення має подякувати.

Taiwan says China sometimes stages mock attacks on foreign navy ships in strait China's military sometimes simulates attacks on foreign naval vessels in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan shares intelligence with international partners when they operate in those waters, a senior Taiwan security official said on Wednesday.

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Time trends in mortality from heart failure and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in people with and without diabetes: a multi-national population-based study Declines in heart failure mortality in both people with and without diabetes were less marked than were declines in CHD and cerebrovascular disease mortality in most jurisdictions. Heart failure morta...

Current efforts to manage #diabetes appear to have narrowed the gap between people with and without diabetes in terms of atherosclerotic CVD mortality, but not in terms of heart failure mortality www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#ASCVD #heartfailure

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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine.

“They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume over 11 years after plane went missing The country’s transport ministry said the search would resume on 30 December and confirmed that US robotic company Ocean Infinity would take part The search for the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 will resume this month, over a decade after the plane was lost, Malaysia’s transport ministry has announced. In a statement on Wednesday, the transport ministry said the search would resume on 30 December, and confirmed that US robotic company Ocean Infinity would take part in a search of the seabed that would run for 50 days. Continue reading...

Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume over 11 years after plane went missing

Trump Signs Bill to Deepen US-Taiwan Ties Amid China Concerns President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a measure forcing the US State Department to review guidelines for the country’s engagement with Taiwan, according to the White House, amid escalating concerns that China could move against the self-governing island.

President Trump signed into law a measure forcing the US State Department to review guidelines for the country’s engagement with Taiwan, according to the White House

if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera

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Doctor Calls B.S. on Trump’s Confusing MRI Explanation Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder said advanced imaging has never been standard in a presidential physical, despite the White House’s claim on Monday.

“There is no medical specialty that recommends that an otherwise asymptomatic individual get imaging," Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder stated.

YouTube video by The Liquid People's Temple Idiocracy: Brawndo Has What Plants Crave!

The next meeting of "Idiocracy" is open...
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First Ukraine, Then Who? How Trump’s Miami–Moscow Backchannel Put Democracy at Risk Trump’s Miami–Moscow backchannel betrays Ukraine, undermines other U.S. allies, and rewards Russian aggression.

First Ukraine, Then Who? How Trump’s Miami–Moscow Backchannel Put Democracy at Risk #SpookyConnections spookyconnections.com/2025/12/02/f...

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YouTube video by Jason Fung Why Do We get Fat? Part 1 - The Biggest Lie in Obesity Medicine

Maybe it's enough to discuss these "calories" that somehow affect obesity? youtu.be/GHYS8TQpdow?...

Young Athletes With Repeated Head Blows May Have Brain Changes This Medical News article discusses new research identifying cellular changes in the brains of younger athletes with repeated head impacts, which may provide an early warning for development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The neurodegenerative brain disease #CTE, caused by repeated blows to the head, can only be determined by evidence of tau buildup after death.

But new research reveals brain changes before tau appears—and the potential for earlier detection and intervention ja.ma/4inDJJ6

A diagram from JAMA showing cardiac amyloidosis due to transthyretin protein. It details TTR monomers, misfolded amyloidgenic monomers, and amyloid fibrils, along with amyloid infiltration in the heart, leading to ventricular wall thickening and potential heart conditions.

Systemic amyloidosis from transthyretin (ATTR) protein is the most common type of amyloidosis that causes cardiomyopathy. Approximately 50 000 to 150 000 people in the US have heart failure due to ATTR amyloidosis.

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The commander of the German Army, Christian Freuding, said in an interview with The Atlantic that the Pentagon has cut off communication with the German Defense Ministry, including coordination of military aid to Ukraine.
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Whoever said "the Nazis of the future will call themselves anti-Nazis" was right:

Prada Group says it has purchased fashion rival Versace in a deal worth nearly $1.4 billion The Prada Group has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace for nearly $1.4 billion. This deal, announced Tuesday, brings the fashion house known for its sexy silhouettes under the same roof as Prada's "ugly chic" aesthetic and Miu Miu's youth-driven appeal.

BREAKING: The Prada Group has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace for nearly $1.4 billion.

Diabetes and cancer in the age of multimorbidity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#diabetes #cancer #multimorbidity
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Ukrainian drones hit an Akhmat regiment’s location in Gudermes overnight. Multiple other locations in Russia were also targeted by drones: Akhmat positions in Ichkeria, explosions near Tuapse and Krasnodar likely hitting the Ilsky refinery and a port terminal, and a fuel depot in Oryol region

YouTube video by Ben Bikman How Omega-3s Supercharge Fat Loss and Muscle Gain with Dr. Ben Bikman

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I'm just wondering if this is dementia (sclerosis) or just a defense tactic - "I don't understand what you're talking about"?

The amount of people killed has increased to 4, while 22 more got wounded after a Russian ballistic missile strike in Dnipro.

Recording setup and data analysis. Top left panel: Schematic of the position of the electrodes to record EEG (white), ESI (black), ECG (red), somatosensory activity at Erb’s points (green), and the positions of Common Mode Sense (CMS) (blue) and DRL (orange) electrodes. Note that Erb and ECG electrodes were placed on the chest, while ESI electrodes were placed on the back. Top right and bottom panels: Flowchart describing the analysis procedure. (1 and 2) Raw ESI signals are first re-referenced to the most caudal dorsal electrode (S64). (3) The artifact caused by the electrical stimulation of the median nerve is removed by linear interpolation. (4) The ECG is used to identify ESI time windows contaminated by the QRS complex (orange). This allows subsequent selection of ESI time windows to retain. (5) These time windows are epoched around the somatosensory stimulus. (6) An amplitude-based threshold is used to identify and remove artifactual epochs (red). (7) Resulting artifact-free epochs are averaged across stimuli of each block. Subject-level average waveforms are subsequently averaged across participants. (8) Images of the spatial distribution of spinal cord activity are calculated by spline interpolation across ESI electrodes. The figurine depicts spinal cord activity at the latency of the N13 wave.

The role of the #SpinalCord in relaying brain-body signals has been hard to study noninvasively. @giuliog.bsky.social &co develop Electrical Spinal Imaging (ESI), enabling high-resolution, noninvasive recordings, revealing how #attention modulates spinal activity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3MswZOf