Covid-19: Super Flu or a Mild Cold?
American Thinker | 03/20/2020 | By Anthony J. Ciani

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FESTIVE FEARS Beware the new ‘super flu’ that leaves sufferers with ‘brains like porridge’ and ‘passed out on bathroom floors’
The Sun ^ | 12-14-23 | Isabel Shaw

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Flu season arriving early in US, amid warning of a fast-spreading ‘super flu’ variant
Just the News | 12-22-25 | Joseph Weber

As Stalin said, what matters is who does the counting.

As Polar Bear Population Explodes, Animal Loses its Climate Crisis Mascot Status
Legal Insurrection | September 17, 2024 | Leslie Eastman

… in 2019, I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving.

Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university.

However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true.

The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate crisis, has entirely lost its eco-activist mascot status. Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg (President of the Copenhagen Consensus and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) recently examined the numbers in a New York Post piece and came to the same conclusion.

Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death.

The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012.

And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears.

Why? Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot less [fewer] polar bears).

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This is not to say people don’t go hunting for polar bears. They do. It’s just that they do it with cell phone cameras for Instagram posts while they take “polar bear safaris.”

Canada boasts around 16,000 polar bears, approximately 60% of the world’s total population. With as many bears as taxpayers, Churchill, Manitoba (pop. 900), bills itself as the “polar bear capital of the world.”

“And we don’t pay taxes.”

vs. Lie-senkoism:

Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate
NBC News | December 12, 2025 | Elmira Aliieva

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive.

How? How are they doing this? Will it work?

The species is being forced to adapt to the harsher reality of a warming Arctic, in what scientists believe is the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal.

How? How are they doing this? Will it work?

Researchers from the University of East Anglia in Britain say these findings, published Friday in the journal Mobile DNA, offer a rare glimmer of hope for the species.

“Mobile DNA“? How are they doing this? Will it work?

“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century, with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,” Alice Godden, who is the lead author of the study, told NBC News.

Shall we check with her (or him) 25 years from now? Will he or she still be accountable for the accuracy of this prediction?

Will the journal?

Will NBC News?

“I believe our work really does offer a glimmer of hope — a window of opportunity for us to reduce our carbon emissions . . .

She or he should start keeping a journal now recording how she or he does this over the next 25 years.

. . . to slow down the rate of climate change and to give these bears more time to adapt to these stark changes in their habitats.”

Both Climate Change and Evolution measurably act on the time span of 25 years? How do they do this? Will it work?

The study “does not mean that polar bears are at any less risk of extinction,” Godden said,

— Godden forbid —

though the discovery may “provide a genetic blueprint for how polar bears might be able to adapt quickly to climate change.”

Godden added: “We all must do more to mitigate our carbon emissions to help provide and extend this window of opportunity to help save this wonderful vital species.”

How? How do scientists and reporters get away with this? Will it work?

A Smart New Spin on Vinegar Could Help Stop Superbugs
Food and Wine | November 21, 2025 | Stacey Leasca

By blending vinegar’s active ingredient with cutting-edge nanoparticles, scientists created a solution that wiped out nearly all MRSA bacteria in lab tests—without damaging healthy cells.

-Scientists in Norway and Australia have developed a “nano-boosted” vinegar solution that enhances acetic acid’s antibacterial properties using cobalt-doped carbon quantum dots.

-In mouse studies, a single topical dose of the solution eliminated 99.995% of MRSA bacteria within 24 hours and completely cleared infections within a week.

-The research could lead to new non-toxic treatments for wound infections and is a promising step in fighting antimicrobial resistance, which causes millions of deaths annually.

Vinegar is undoubtedly one of the most versatile tools in both the kitchen and the rest of your home. Not only can you use it in dressings, marinades, and more, but it’s also an excellent cleaning agent, helping to keep everything from your countertops to showerheads sparkling. And now, thanks to a few very smart scientists, it might be used to help heal wounds.

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From 9 1/2 years ago:

“… Subtle clues,” said ass trophy cyst vonOppo. “For instance, the lack of baryonic diffusion. See? And lack of money to me. Dead giveaway.”

Scientists Are Using Earth’s Shadow to Hunt For Alien Probes
sciencealert.com | 25 August 2025 | Mark Thompson, Universe Today

Hiding behind Mommy’s skirts.

… they turned to the Earth’s shadow. Every night, Earth casts a cone-shaped shadow into space where direct sunlight cannot reflect off satellites or debris.

This creates an ideal ‘clean’ search zone. The shadow’s base spans roughly 8-9 degrees for objects at geosynchronous orbit, about 35,700 kilometers (22,200 miles) above Earth.

Oh. Never mind. Well, watch it, scientists.

From Wikipedia:

… it turns out that in addition to the black hole interior region that particles enter when they fall through the event horizon from the outside, there must be a separate white hole interior region, which allows us to extrapolate the trajectories of particles that an outside observer sees rising up away from the event horizon. For an observer outside using Schwarzschild coordinates, infalling particles take an infinite time to reach the black hole horizon infinitely far in the future, while outgoing particles that pass the observer have been traveling outward for an infinite time since crossing the white hole horizon infinitely far in the past (however, the particles or other objects experience only a finite proper time between crossing the horizon and passing the outside observer).

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Rendering my chances of hooking up with MaryAnn nil?

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Oppo in science class: “Um-hm. Boobs.”

Imagine if you could get a victim to lie still for a 3-D printed gunshot wound. Wouldn’t that be a challenge for the medical examiner!

“So We Need To Build More Windfarms in the Ocean in the Path of These Devastating Hurricanes!”

Source for the following:

WOODS HOLE, MA – The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is taking part in a collaborative program to enhance our understanding of extreme weather events such as hurricanes.  

“The Study on Air-sea Coupling with Waves, Turbulence, and Clouds at High Winds”or SASCWATCH,

Their acronym skills could use much improvement.

will involve the deployment of ocean sensors over the next three years, bringing scientists across many disciplines together to observe and better predict storm activity. 

Due to their volatility and the hazardous conditions in their proximity, air-sea fluxes

Air-sea fluxes?

are a poorly understood

But they build climate models with them?

yet essential element in understanding inclement weather. 

But they build climate models without them?

The work will include in-sight observations,

Duh. A scientist sitting in a beach-facing cottage.

turbulence simulation

Stirring the pot

and computer modeling,

The Woods-Holy Grail!

and tropical cyclone meteorology. 

🙁

… which already exists …

The study is funded by the Office of Naval Research and builds on existing programs such as Argo and ALAMO,

Never to be forgotten.

which gather water temperature and salinity data. 

Do the Office of Naval Research and the Woods Hole Institute gather similar data with federal funds?

If so, why?

Or do they gather different data with federal funds?

If so, why?

Scientists Achieve Record 4 Gbps Internet Using OLED Display Technology
Study Finds | July 20, 2025 | Kou Yoshida (University of St. Andrews)

Researchers in England and Scotland have achieved a groundbreaking 4 gigabits per second data transmission using modified organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), the same technology that makes smartphone and television displays so vibrant.

While the OLEDs used in this experiment were custom-fabricated lab devices rather than commercial panels, the underlying materials and design principles are closely related. The speeds they achieved are fast enough to download a full-length movie in about two seconds, based on typical HD file sizes and raw bandwidth.

Scientists from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and Cambridge University successfully beamed data across a 33-foot room at nearly 3 gigabits per second, with even faster speeds achieved at shorter distances. Their research, published in Advanced Photonics, could lead to a massive leap forward for visible light communication (VLC) technology, which uses light instead of radio waves to carry data.

How OLED Display Technology Transmits Internet Data

OLEDs create the brilliant displays in high-end phones and TVs by emitting light when electricity passes through them. Scientists discovered that by rapidly switching these tiny lights on and off – faster than the human eye can detect – they can encode digital information into light beams.

I thought that’s what fiber optic cables already did. But I’m hazy on this.

Previous attempts at OLED-based communication topped out around 2.85 gigabits per second over very short distances – about 10 inches. The new research not only surpassed that speed but achieved it over distances 40 times longer.

Does sound like an up-and-coming technology to invest in. But I’m hazy on investments too.

Can they come up with a better name than “OLEDs,” though? I do know something about lumpy-sounding words.

Netherlands RATIONS electricity as country struggles to cope with turning away from gas as part of green policies – as expert warns Britain is also ‘in trouble’
UK Daily Mail | 14 July 2025 | Kevin Adjei-Darko

Re: Author

Excellent try, Darko, but I have a better Witness Protection Program alias. . . . see below.

The Netherlands is rationing electricity as its overloaded power grid buckles under the pressure of rapid electrification and ambitious climate goals.

More than 11,900 businesses are stuck in a queue for access to the network, alongside public buildings including hospitals, schools and fire stations.

Thousands of new homes are also waiting to be connected, with some areas warned they may have to wait until the 2030s.

The crisis has emerged as the country scrambles to cut carbon emissions.

And now experts are warning that Britain, as well as Belgium and Germany, are all ‘in trouble.’

The countries should ‘definitely’ see what is happening in the Netherlands as a warning, says Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels-based energy think tank RAP.

My name is Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels. I work for RAP.

After shutting down production at the massive Groningen gas field last year, the Dutch government has pushed a fast transition to electric heating, solar power and battery storage.

But the national grid has failed to keep pace, creating widespread bottlenecks and driving up costs.

Tilting towards windmills, Don.

Just trying to get the attention of DamnCat.

There are lots of stray cats in the world. Some call them feral, but that’s illegal when talking about criminals, so it probably is also when talking about cats.

Stray cats strut, as we all know, but they may cause damage.

Or may not. Let’s give the complainers the benefit of the doubt, though, and suppose, even though it’s not proven, that stray cats are a menace and a detriment to society. I’ll reserve judgement on that, but I’ll proceed with the case.

If stray cats are a menace, then by some Byzantine logic mankind can be blamed for that menace.

All of it.

OK.

You are starting to see the linkage to Global Warming.

[Manmade Stray Cat Menace; Anthropogenic Global Deworming.]

Right. Let’s posit that stray cats are a menace, and humans are 100% to blame for their existence.

Who is going to calculate how many stray cats in the wild are acceptable? The government? Oh, that’s a comfort. But OK. That’s three things I’ve conceded.

Acceptable Cat Ownerless Outliers — a.k.a. CO₂ = 0.

Zero?

Okay, fine. Stray cats are a menace, humans are to blame, and none are acceptable.

What about the rest?

[This is the part of the analogy that started me writing this.]

We have non-stray, non-feral, non-human-induced CO₂ particles and snuggly cats REMAINING.

Will all their supposed ill effects then stop? By what definition?

Surely the natural — non-human-caused — snuggly CO₂ particles and cats far outnumber the feral quantities by an enormouser (heh) preponderance, and their effects will persist through the ages.

So — don’t we have something less cute to fret about?

I don’t think the artist liked cats. He should’ve given them that “Who, Me?” look.

Olivine-Microgabbroic Shergottite: a type of Martian rock formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma.

“Something Unknown Is at Work” Behind NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission—and Astronomers Are Worried
The Debrief | July 10, 2025 | Ryan Whalen

NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission may have inadvertently made future asteroid deflections much more challenging after its test sent boulders hurtling through space on unexpected trajectories.

I know what you’re thinking: Did they fire six deflections, or only one?

And you’re also thinking:

In September 2022, the DART mission successfully altered the orbit of asteroid moon Dimorphos. Unfortunately, the smaller space rocks that were dislodged when the kinetic impactor struck the natural satellite achieved three times the momentum of the spacecraft that created them.

The University of Maryland-led team (UMD) …

(anagrams are not appreciated)

… behind the new research paper on DART’s repercussions cautions that results demonstrate planetary defense may be considerably more complex than previously suspected, with the potential for many unintended consequences.

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The researchers’ data came from an Italian cubesat named LICIACube, which was sent to follow up on the DART mission, as Earth-based observations would be inadequate for deriving precise measurements from the aftermath. In the LICIACube images, the team identified 104 boulders moving at speeds of up to 116 miles per hour and tracked their trajectories in three dimensions. These newly independent space rocks range in diameter from 0.2 to 3.6 meters.

Based on the craft’s impact, the team believes that its solar panels broke up larger boulders on Dimorphos’ surface before the main body hit.

Wait — the observation probe’s solar panels broke up larger boulders before the main body of the spacecraft hit? Or maybe they mean the original DART spacecraft? Either way, what speed did the craft attain relative to the asteroid? How many nanoseconds did the solar panels hit the asteroid before the rest of the craft did?

That first part of the impact most likely created the largest debris cluster, which holds roughly 70% of the known objects. This cluster raced away from the asteroid at high velocity.

Science: Do it and see what happens. (Only record the results if they don’t hurt your funding — hold onto them for 75 years otherwise.) FDA, CDC, and FAFO approved.

Your brain physically changes when you work too much, scientists warn
Fox News | June 16, 2025 | Angelica Stabile

New research has found that being overworked can physically alter the brain.

… there could be potential risks of prolonged or chronic alterations.

This could include neural strain, inflammation or maladaptive reorganization.

They just described a typical moment at IMAO.