Myanmar coup: Fear and defiance at night-time arrests

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Videos show people banging pots and pans, and surrounding security vehicles in protest.

New immune drug may be Covid-19 cure as 90 per cent of treated patients fully recover – CityAM : CityAM

Professor Dror Mevorach, head of CRIM and chair of Israel’s Clinical Teaching Committee, has reportedly been given the green light to commence with a third trial, during which over 100 patients will be given Allocetra.

Mevorach explained in the Times of Israel that the drug “is useful for serious and critical Covid-19 patients because it can prevent the need to ventilate them, and that’s the major goal.”

“Because the moment you go into ventilation, the entire situation changes, complications rise, and it’s more difficult to treat.”

One of the treated patients, Yair Tayeb, said on Channel 13 that his condition improved significantly within hours after being administered the medication.

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World’s oldest known beer factory may have been unearthed in Egypt

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Ancient Egyptian site in Abydos apparently dates back to beginning of the first dynastic period

American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official said on Wednesday.

Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the factory was found in Abydos, an ancient burial ground located in the desert west of the Nile River, more than 450km (280 miles) south of Cairo.

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Why Is America Getting a New $100 Billion Nuclear Weapon?

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“America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane,” writes the contributing editor for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (in an article shared by Slashdot reader DanDrollette):

It will be able to travel some 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot.

The U.S. Air Force plans to order more than 600 of them…

Based on a Pentagon report cited by the Arms Control Association Association and Bloomberg News, the government will spend roughly $100 billion to build the weapon, which will be ready to use around 2029… The missile goes by the inglorious acronym GBSD, for “ground-based strategic deterrent.” The GBSD is designed to replace the existing fleet of Minuteman III missiles; both are intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs… The official purpose of American ICBMs goes beyond responding to nuclear assault. They are also intended to deter such attacks, and serve as targets in case there is one. Under the theory of deterrence, America’s nuclear arsenal — currently made up of 3,800 warheads — sends a message to other nuclear-armed countries. It relays to the enemy that U.S. retaliation would be so awful, it had better not attack in the first place…
Many of the missile’s critics are former military leaders, and their criticism has to do with those immovable silos. Relative to nuclear missiles on submarines, which can slink around undetected, and nuclear bombs on airplanes — the two other legs of the nuclear triad, in defense jargon — America’s land-based nuclear missiles are easy marks.

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As Scientists Study Tattoo Ink Safety, Europe Bans Two Widely Used Pigments

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Tattoo artists in Europe are fighting a new ban on two commonly-used green and blue pigments, saying that losing these ink ingredients would be a disaster for their industry and their art. Meanwhile, in the United States, where about a third of Americans have a tattoo, tattoo ink is almost completely unregulated and there’s little known about what’s in tattoo ink. Some artists here say the European restrictions don’t make any sense. “It’s strange. You almost feel that, how are you only allowed to use certain inks?” says Matt Knopp , owner of Tattoo Paradise in Washington, D.C. “You can’t tell me that all these other inks are bad, especially when I’m using them in the states.” For years, individual countries in Europe have required labeling of tattoo ink ingredients and have limited certain chemicals that are thought to cause cancer, damage DNA, or trigger allergic reactions. Now the European Union is harmonizing tattoo ink rules across the continent. The new rules say that pigments