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Right here’s how a videographer reimagines Hollywood blockbusters as cat movies NPR (David L)
Why Aren’t There Extra Canine on the Physician’s Workplace? JSTOR
Easy methods to Squeeze Twice as A lot Power Into Stable-State Batteries Fashionable Mechanics
Novel principle of entropy might remedy supplies design points Phys.org (Kevin W)
Our universe might have a twin that runs backward in time Dwell Science (Chuck L)
Scientists See What Folks Image in Their Thoughts’s Eye Neuroscience (David L)
Scientists Create RNA That Evolves on Its Personal. This May Be How Life on Earth Began ScienceAlert (Kevin W)
Most cancers Cells’ Iron Habit Might Be an Achilles Heel SciTech Each day (Chuck L)
Past Psilocybin: These Mushrooms Might Provide Mind-Boosting Compounds, Too Uncover Journal (David L)
Towards ‘han’, or why Koreans aren’t outlined by unhappiness Aeon (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
For loss of life charges to go up. Actually what the Quebec public well being and authorities have mentioned DURING the omicron wave.🤦🏻♀️😡😞
— FoodieKenobi 💭 (@FoodieKenobi) March 17, 2022
Science/Medication
Modifications in cognitive functioning after COVID-19: A scientific overview and meta-analysis Alzheimer’s & Dementia
What We Know Concerning the ‘Stealth’ BA.2 Omicron Variant New York Instances (Kevin W). I’m at a loss as to how you can reconcile these statements:
The subvariant of Omicron is turning into extra widespread in the US however most likely received’t trigger one other massive spike….
It seems that these mutations velocity up BA.2 by making it extra transmissible, somewhat than higher in a position to evade immunity. In Denmark, for instance, scientists discovered that individuals contaminated with BA.2 had been considerably extra prone to infect folks they shared a home with than these with BA.1.
In England, researchers discovered that it took much less time on common for somebody with BA.2 to contaminate one other individual, accelerating its unfold by way of communities.
Um, this was clearly coming and foretold repeatedly by scientist GM:
WOW – A number of Reinfections ⚠️
Do you even notice what this implies?
The world ought to be screaming.
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Hyperlink: https://t.co/luulwiY8nI pic.twitter.com/VUQxzar9aM— Gabriel Hébert-Gentle™ ⓥ (@Gab_H_R) March 17, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 impacts the limbic system. The olfactory nerve communicates with the limbic system, that’s answerable for feelings & reminiscence. If the virus impacts scent, then it may journey to the limbic system. Some ppl get limbic encephalitis after COVID-19, incl hallucinations 1/2 https://t.co/gxNKwAnXW8
— International Biosecurity (@Globalbiosec) March 17, 2022
Asia
Covid-19 circumstances are exploding in Asia. Right here’s what it means for the remainder of the world. Vox (David L)
Why Omicron Is So Lethal in Hong Kong New York Instances (David L)
HK runs out of coffins as Covid deaths surge Asia Instances Kevin W: “Clearly the folks of Hong Kong had been by no means instructed that the Pandemic is over. /sarc”
US
Why some People haven’t gotten COVID but and why it’s not inevitable they ever will: Consultants ABC. OMG so now it’s express. It’s cheap to have been contaminated, versus a complete public well being fail. They actually do wish to kill us. And conflates getting vaccinated with an infection prevention, versus extreme end result prevention, gah.
Murky case for fourth doses now with FDA as safety wanes, BA.2 looms ars technica. Kevin W: “Associated article ‘Moderna seeks US permission for second COVID-19 booster shot’ at https://www.abc.internet.au/information/2022-03-18/moderna-seeks-us-permission-for-second-covid-19-booster-shot/100922868”
Local weather/Setting
Temperatures to spike 50 levels above regular close to North Pole Washington Put up (resilc)
Nice Barrier Reef Suffers One other Episode of Widespread Bleaching Climate (J-LS)
Race to the underside: How huge enterprise took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer OPB (resilc)
Quaise’s ultra-deep geothermal drilling plans: Your questions answered New Atlas (furzy)
China?
US to construct anti-China missile community alongside first island chain Nikkei (guurst)
New Not So Chilly Battle
That is how the world ends Gilbert Doctorow. Vital. Many nuggets, reminiscent of who Putin’s “fifth column” remarks on the sixteenth focused.
The US arming of Ukraine and the preparations for warfare WSWS
U.S. Public Views of Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Biden’s Response Pew (resilc)
WATCH: UN Safety Council on Ukraine’s Bio Labs Consortium Information
Russia Mod: Briefing on evaluation of paperwork associated to US navy and organic actions in Ukraine Saker (Kevin W)
Roaming Expenses: The Ideas That Pulled the Set off CounterPunch
Ukie Battle: Blackwater Mercenary Groups Eradicated in Precision Russian Strike on Luxurious ‘Skivvy’ Lodge Veterans At present (Chuck L). From earlier within the week, nonetheless germane.
* * * Hillary Vows To Cease Importing Dossiers From Russia Babylon Bee (Li)
* * * Readout of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Name with President Xi Jinping of the Folks’s Republic of China White Home
President Xi Jinping Has a Video Name with US President Joe Biden Ministry of International Affairs of the Folks’s Republic of China. Means far more element than US model and launched nearly instantly after the decision, in contrast to US model. I welcome reader enter, however this seems to be for the US to have come out on the very unhealthy finish of believable outcomes. Xi upped the ante re Taiwan, telling Biden the US was answerable for loose-lipped discuss relating to Taiwan independence, with Biden reaffirmed that the US doesn’t help. So it’s now on Biden’s desk to show these, ahem, misperceptions round. Xi additionally made it clear that China is not going to intermediate among the many US, NATO, Ukraine, and Russia (which the US has at all times meant to equate to “China muscle groups Russia to face down.”).
Xi urges US, NATO to speak with Russia, opposes indiscriminate sanctions International Instances. The failed Jake Sullivan assembly adopted by the Biden name request was clearly an escalation, and the Chinese language are by no means proud of the US refusing to take “no” as a solution. I don’t learn International Instances commonly however the tone appeared caustic. As an illustration:
Simply hours earlier than the assembly, China, in a uncommon transfer, despatched powerful indicators, stating it is going to by no means settle for US threats and coercion over the Ukraine subject and vowing to make a robust response if the US takes measures harming China’s official pursuits…
China won’t ever settle for US threats and coercion, and if the US takes measures that hurt China’s official pursuits and the pursuits of Chinese language enterprises and people, China is not going to sit idly by and can make a robust response, the official harassed, noting the US shouldn’t have any illusions or miscalculations about this.
Biden’s name with Xi underscores deepening bilateral impasse Politico
Biden and Xi fail to bridge variations over Ukraine warfare Monetary Instances. Extra proof now we have misplaced our minds:
US officers didn’t provide any particulars of the potential punishment for China following the decision, or present an evaluation of whether or not Xi had already determined whether or not to help Russia.
However Jen Psaki, White Home press secretary, mentioned the US had a “vary of instruments” at its disposal, together with sanctions, and that the potential western response would most likely be mentioned when Biden travels to Europe subsequent week for conferences with Nato, EU and G7 leaders.
* * * Excessive power prices set off unrest in components of Europe Related Press
Infographic: How a lot of your nation’s fuel comes from Russia? Al Jazeera (Kevin W)
Belgium scraps plan to ditch nuclear energy RT (Kevin W)
From pasta scarcity to run on iodine tablets, panic shopping for hits Europe once more Monetary Instances
Brexit
Salad, fruit, cheese and wine may run out amid provide chain chaos after P&O Ferries – which handles 15% of UK freight – stopped ships whereas farmers warn breeding livestock might be slaughtered with no route throughout the Irish Sea Each day Mail
P&O Ferries sparks outrage by sacking 800 staff BBC (Kevin W)
Eire’s custom of Neutrality is borne out of an unwillingness to kill + be killed in Imperialist Wars that don’t have anything to do with our folks + all the things to do with the pursuits of the elites making the most of Arms, Fossil Gas + Finance Industries – We like Peace not Battle… pic.twitter.com/nc8w2jsW8x
— Mick Wallace (@wallacemick) March 11, 2022
Imperial Collapse Watch
Declassified Docs Present CIA Used Prisoner as a Torture Coaching Prop Antiwar
Biden
Hunter Biden scandal: CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC utterly keep away from NYT report verifying laptop computer emails from 2020 MSN (TF)
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Ron Johnson leads Republicans asking when the ‘corrupt’ media, Twitter and Fb shall be held to account for taking a YEAR to ‘acknowledge’ the Hunter Biden laptop computer story after dismissing it as faux Each day Mail
California plan would give $100m to Indigenous leaders to purchase ancestral lands Guardian (David L)
Police State Watch
LMPD Coaching Supplies Portrayed Police As Avengers Who Carry Out God’s Wrath LEO Weekly (Dr. Kevin)
Our Famously Free Press
Western freedom of expression is extra scandalous day-after-day than yesterday
After blocking Russian networks within the West, YouTube is now eradicating important remarks within the American media pic.twitter.com/IcqT23ouD4— Spriter (@spriter99880) March 17, 2022
Most medical assortment debt is about to fall off of client credit score reviews NBC
Toyota, main chip provider droop manufacturing attributable to earthquake in Japan CNBC (resilc)
Contained in the Nickel Market Failure: Large Trades the Trade Didn’t See Wall Road Journal
Worldwide Power Company Says Nations Ought to Preserve Gas as International Power Disaster Looms New York Instances. Resilc: “Too humorous. Yeh, and put on a masks.”
IEA requires driving restrictions and air journey curbs to cut back oil demand Monetary Instances. Wowsers.
SEC takes its finger out of the dike with investigation of Massive 4 auditors’ conflicts Francine McKenna
Class Warfare
A NHTSA spox instructed me that pedestrian crashworthiness exams will come later this 12 months. However why wait, after they’re so urgently wanted? I did not get a solution.
For now, at the very least, carmakers have the inexperienced gentle to maintain designing taller, heavier fashions.https://t.co/TSuyrlFXjF
— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) March 18, 2022
1,000,000 new millionaires had been created in U.S. final 12 months, and the richest acquired richer, report says CNBC
Antidote du jour. Alison L’s Daisy:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here
