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Study finds Ivermectin is ‘not clinically useful’ against Covid
Drug has become a cause celebre in parts of the vaccine-skeptical American right
www.independent.co.uk
What is ivermectin? How a livestock dewormer became a rumored COVID-19 aid with bad side effects
‘There have been lots of cases of liver problems and liver failure, severe GI upset and even things like seizure and coma,’ says UCLA Health’s Dr. Dan Uslan.
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"It is painstaking scientific testing, not magical thinking, that reveals what works well."
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Dry Fasting: What it is and why you shouldn’t do it
What 'dry fasting' is and why you shouldn't do it By Jessica Roy, LATimes.com Feb. 13, 2020...
An orange has about a half-cup of water in it; to get to the recommended 68 ounces of water a day, you'd have to eat around 17 oranges. That's a lot of peeling.
You Can Still Get a Good Flight Deal This Year—Here’s How
Airfares are on the rise, but experts offer some tips and tricks on how to find good flight deals this year.
www.afar.com
Most experts agree that booking at least four weeks in advance—ideally six to eight weeks before travel—is key to getting a better deal and could save travelers as much as 51 percent, especially if they use the calendar search feature offered on numerous search sites, such as Google Flights, as well as on the airlines’ own reservations systems. This feature allows travelers to see the entire span of airfares and select dates when pricing is lowest. Often, traveling a day before or after your originally intended travel dates can get you a cheaper fare, says Hahn.
Another way to save money is with what is called a “hacker fare,” or combining two one-way flights on different carriers. “Flying out with one airline and back with another, or using different airports, can save money,” Hahn adds.
An easy and timeless bargain-hunting hack is simply signing up for a price-monitoring alert service, which is available on the Hopper app and on a number of other travel booking sites, including Kayak and Google Flights.
30 Great Black-and-White Horror Movies Worth Revisiting
Classic films, cult favorites, and a couple newer titles.
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The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle’s magnum opus, The House on Haunted Hill is one of the greatest haunted-house movies of all time. An eccentric millionaire played with perfection by Vincent Price offers $10,000 to anyone who can spend a night in the titular mansion, the site of a plethora of murders. The participants are faced by a ceiling dripping blood, a severed head, a vat of acid in the cellar, and the iconic skeletal apparitions that walk on their own. While a fantastic movie in its own right, The House on Haunted Hill’s more prominent legacy is rooted in Castle deciding to gear his horror films to a teenage market, a trend that horror films followed moving forward. Available on Amazon Prime.
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Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? | Sally Denton
Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irénée du Pont were accused by a retired major general of plotting to install a fascist dictator
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If the plotters had been held accountable in the 1930s, the forces behind the 6 January coup attempt might never have flourished into the next century.
Origin of name for Maxwell House coffee:
In 1884 Joel Cheek moved to Nashville and met Roger Nolley Smith, a British coffee broker. He was said to be able to tell the origin of a coffee simply by smelling the green beans. Over the next few years, the two worked on finding the perfect blend. In 1892 Cheek approached the food buyer for the Maxwell House Hotel and gave him 20 pounds of his special blend for free. After a few days, the coffee was gone, and the hotel returned to using its usual brand. But after hearing complaints from patrons and others who liked Cheek's coffee better, the hotel bought Cheek's blend exclusively. After six months, the hotel agreed to allow Cheek to name his coffee after his first big sale.
In 1884 Joel Cheek moved to Nashville and met Roger Nolley Smith, a British coffee broker. He was said to be able to tell the origin of a coffee simply by smelling the green beans. Over the next few years, the two worked on finding the perfect blend. In 1892 Cheek approached the food buyer for the Maxwell House Hotel and gave him 20 pounds of his special blend for free. After a few days, the coffee was gone, and the hotel returned to using its usual brand. But after hearing complaints from patrons and others who liked Cheek's coffee better, the hotel bought Cheek's blend exclusively. After six months, the hotel agreed to allow Cheek to name his coffee after his first big sale.
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Beyond The Menu - Waffle House
Check out fun facts about Waffle House in Beyond the Menu.
www.wafflehouse.com
The Waffle House I go to is the most western one in the United States:
Although the Waffle House chain is concentrated in the Southeast, it has reached as far to the north as Austinburg, Ohio, near Ashtabula, as far to the west as Goodyear, Arizona, in the suburbs of Phoenix, as far to the south as Key Largo, Florida, and as far to the east as Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
Although the Waffle House chain is concentrated in the Southeast, it has reached as far to the north as Austinburg, Ohio, near Ashtabula, as far to the west as Goodyear, Arizona, in the suburbs of Phoenix, as far to the south as Key Largo, Florida, and as far to the east as Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
There’s Always More Money for Weapons
The bipartisan urgency to spend billions of dollars on weapons for Ukraine and a military buildup in Europe stands in stark contrast to Congress's frugality when it comes to social spending.
www.jacobinmag.com
The bipartisan urgency to spend billions of dollars on weapons for Ukraine and a military buildup in Europe stands in stark contrast to Congress's frugality when it comes to social spending...
There’s nothing outrageous about sending military aid to Ukrainians who are trying to fight off an invasion. The trouble is the long-term consequences of pouring weapons into one of Europe’s biggest arms-trafficking markets, and one filled with far-right militias that spent the years leading up to this war derailing peace efforts through anti-government violence and threats of a coup.
At the same time, nonmilitary solutions to help Ukrainians, like forgiving their foreign debt or a political settlement that could’ve prevented the war from happening in the first place, are not even considered...
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The national dish of Ukraine is borscht, the well-known beet soup, of which many varieties exist. However, varenyky (boiled dumplings similar to pierogi) and a type of cabbage roll known as holubtsi are also national favourites and are a common meal in traditional Ukrainian restaurants.[3] These dishes indicate the regional similarities within Eastern European cuisine.
The Korean Immigrant and Michigan Farm Boy Who Taught Americans How to Cook Chow Mein
La Choy soy sauce bottles and canned bean sprouts are a familiar sight in American grocery stores, but behind this hundred-year-old brand is a story fit for Hollywood.
tastecooking.com
In the United States, La Choy is the top-selling brand for chow mein noodles and Asian vegetables, and the second-best-selling brand for soy sauce behind Kikkoman.
“Non–Chinese American individuals and organizations such as La Choy played a role in the development of Chinese food in America,” says Yong Chen, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America. “This is something that some of us who write about that history sometimes did not pay sufficient attention to.”
The Price Kids Pay: Schools and Police Punish Students With Costly Tickets for Minor Misbehavior
Illinois law bans schools from fining students. So local police are doing it for them, issuing thousands of tickets a year for truancy, vaping, fights and other misconduct. Children are then thrown into a legal system designed for adults.
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Illinois law bans schools from fining students. So local police are doing it for them, issuing thousands of tickets a year for truancy, vaping, fights and other misconduct. Children are then thrown into a legal system designed for adults...
Across Illinois, police are ticketing thousands of students a year for in-school adolescent behavior once handled only by the principal’s office — for littering, for making loud noises, for using offensive words or gestures, for breaking a soap dish in the bathroom...
“Basically schools are using this as a way to have municipalities do their dirty work,” said Jackie Ross, an attorney at Loyola University Chicago’s ChildLaw Clinic who specializes in school discipline. “It’s the next iteration of the school-to-prison pipeline. Schools might be patting themselves on the back and saying it’s just the school-to-municipality pipeline, but it’s the same philosophy.”
There aren't as many high-cost procedures in emergency medicine, so EM physicians rely on seeing a high volume of patients as opposed to seeing just a few complicated ones.
It's also very expensive to keep an emergency department open all day, every day, and have the necessary staffing and resources. Since physicians are the highest-paid members of the medical team, hospitals are incentivized to stretch each physician as far as they can.
The Lessons Taiwan Is Learning From Ukraine
Russia’s invasion on the other side of the world has spurred ordinary Taiwanese to take practical steps to guard against similar action by Beijing.
www.theatlantic.com
Russia’s invasion on the other side of the world has spurred ordinary Taiwanese to take practical steps to guard against similar action by Beijing.
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The cost for a prepackaged, less-than-fresh ham sandwich at a major airport (Denver International) is now $15.50 (USD).
In contrast, in 1941 at the LaGuardia Airport, a ham sandwich made to order was 10 cents.
In contrast, in 1941 at the LaGuardia Airport, a ham sandwich made to order was 10 cents.
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It is estimated that the population of the world reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It would be more than 100 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.
The same vision for all primates
Primates process visual information similar to pixels in a digital camera, using small computing units located in their visual cortex. Scientists of the University of Geneva have investigated whether these computational units scale across the large differences in size between primates. The gray...
www.sciencedaily.com
Primates process visual information similar to pixels in a digital camera, using small computing units located in their visual cortex. Scientists of the University of Geneva have investigated whether these computational units scale across the large differences in size between primates. The gray mouse lemur is one of the smallest of them and his visual processing units reveals that all primates, independent of their body size, have an equivalent computational units.
Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
www.nationalww2museum.org
Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II
Deaths by Country
| Country | Military Deaths | Total Civilian and Military Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 30,000 | 30,200 |
| Australia | 39,800 | 40,500 |
| Austria | 261,000 | 384,700 |
| Belgium | 12,100 | 86,100 |
| Brazil | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Bulgaria | 22,000 | 25,000 |
| Canada | 45,400 | 45,400 |
| China | 3-4,000,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 25,000 | 345,000 |
| Denmark | 2,100 | 3,200 |
| Dutch East Indies | -- | 3-4,000,000 |
| Estonia | -- | 51,000 |
| Ethiopia | 5,000 | 100,000 |
| Finland | 95,000 | 97,000 |
| France | 217,600 | 567,600 |
| French Indochina | -- | 1-1,500,000 |
| Germany | 5,533,000 | 6,600,000-8,800,000 |
| Greece | 20,000-35,000 | 300,000-800,000 |
| Hungary | 300,000 | 580,000 |
| India | 87,000 | 1,500,000-2,500,000 |
| Italy | 301,400 | 457,000 |
| Japan | 2,120,000 | 2,600,000-3,100,000 |
| Korea | -- | 378,000-473,000 |
| Latvia | -- | 227,000 |
| Lithuania | -- | 353,000 |
| Luxembourg | -- | 2,000 |
| Malaya | -- | 100,000 |
| Netherlands | 17,000 | 301,000 |
| New Zealand | 11,900 | 11,900 |
| Norway | 3,000 | 9,500 |
| Papua New Guinea | -- | 15,000 |
| Philippines | 57,000 | 500,000-1,000,000 |
| Poland | 240,000 | 5,600,000 |
| Romania | 300,000 | 833,000 |
| Singapore | -- | 50,000 |
| South Africa | 11,900 | 11,900 |
| Soviet Union | 8,800,000-10,700,000 | 24,000,000 |
| United Kingdom | 383,600 | 450,700 |
| United States | 416,800 | 418,500 |
| Yugoslavia | 446,000 | 1,000,000 |
Worldwide Casualties*
| Battle Deaths | 15,000,000 |
| Battle Wounded | 25,000,000 |
| Civilian Deaths | 45,000,000 |
*Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.
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