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Tokyo logs 3,300 daily coronavirus cases amid surging infections

The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed 3,300 daily coronavirus cases Friday as the capital, where the Olympics are being held, is experiencing a surge in infections.

The figure compares with 3,865 marked Thursday when it reported a record figure for the third straight day.

The capital’s seven-day rolling average of cases has risen to 2,501.4 per day, up 80.5 percent from the previous week.

The central government has placed Tokyo under a fourth state of emergency, mostly relying on a cooperative public and not imposing a hard lockdown as in some countries, from July 12.

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Anatomy Of An Insurrection

Gulf South Free Press

First I would like to think the mindless horde for the insurrection of 06 January because it gave me the chance to use an under used diploma in Political History…..where I look at the history of this country the founding and the years forward onto the present.

Since the very beginning the fires of insurrection have been with us….first it was a slow simmer while the country came together politically but not physically and the flame of dissension was turned up to a boil that lead to the American Civil War….after the insurrectionists were beaten down the flame returned to a simmer….the reason for the insurrection was never extinguished and the simmer continued while the country slowly returned to some sort of political unity.

 In the 20th century the flames were once again raised and this time by Reagan…..his demonization of the poor with his tagline of ‘welfare queens’ started…

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Medical Falsehoods and Social Media

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Darwin is working hard these days. It’s not just with the Covid vaccine. Current research on social media shows that it is being used to spread either false or misleading treatment ideas regarding diets and cancer, some of which if followed would be fatal.

  • A study of articles published on WhatsApp found that only 13.6% of them were accurate and could withstand regulatory scrutiny. The remainder represented false or exaggerated claims with no factual basis.(1)
  • A newly reported study from the University of Utah covers items regarding cancers published on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Pinterest in 2018 and 2019. Of the 200 articles identified, 30.5% contained harmful information encouraging readers to act in ways that would be detrimental to health. (2) This study finds that Pinterest tends to have more accurate information than the other sources.

What we are seeing in fact is a resurgence of the “patent medicine” business…

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Day 59/67 of GED in Five Months, elements of an argument, and elements of a molecule

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

We use words every day, which many have different meanings in different contexts.  Pros, cons, and rebuttals are elements of a basic argumentative essay, while hydrogen and helium are basic chemical elements.  Language is important, and shouldn’t it be?

Today’s reading starts looking at one of the basic tools of understanding the world around us:

“The Periodic table characterizes the known elements in increasing order of atomic number. It starts on the top right hand corner with Hydrogen and continue from left to right which then repeats in the horizontal row below the last element. This is not just a list of elements it is organized in very different ways like properties and atomic mass. At first glance the periodic table may seem disorganized with only a couple elements on the top row and a block on the last row but it is very specific in the way that they…

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Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

One of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and a vital source of much of Brazil’s water, the Cerrado biome may collapse in less than 30 years if agribusiness keeps advancing at its current frenetic pace. That is the key finding of a primary research article presented by 12 Brazilian scientists and recently published in Global Change Biology.

The tropical savanna, which lies south and east of the Amazon rainforest, is an immense biome covering 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles), or an area the size of Mexico, and inclusive of all or parts of 10 Brazilian states.

Source: Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

One-fifth of reptiles heading towards extinction — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Almost one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are currently threatened with extinction. A recent study assessed 1500 species for extinction risks. From the 19% found to be in danger, 12% were classified as Critically Endangered, 41% as Endangered and 47% Vulnerable. Three of the species listed as being Critically Endangered are believed to be possibly extinct.[…]

One-fifth of reptiles heading towards extinction — Palm Oil Detectives

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If the trees could talk; would we want to hear what they were saying? — The Old Man of Wytham

Barbara Crane Navarro

It used to be so easy: humans were different to all other animals, made in the image of god and given dominion over the world (at least in some cultures). Now we know we are not so different, because virtually everything we thought was unique to humans can be found in other animals to some[…]

If the trees could talk; would we want to hear what they were saying? — The Old Man of Wytham

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