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[ad_1] Nuvpreet Kalra Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact that this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine. The vaccine stops the progression of cancer by developing the patient’s immune system to fight off cancer cells. This has proven to significantly prolong people’s survival. Since 2013, the vaccine has been monitored, trialled, and tested on more than 1,300 patients. Over a ten-year period, patients survived a median of 76.6 months, with 20%…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Rinus – CC BY-SA 3.0 How a Thoroughly Debunked Idea Refuses to Die, and Why 400 People Paid €150 to Eat Dinner With It in Porto Hal had been dowsing for thirty-one years and he was not about to apologize for it. The rod was aluminum, custom-bent, wrapped at the handle with electrical tape the color of old mustard, and he held it with the practiced looseness of a man who had achieved genuine expertise in something that does not actually exist. He claimed to have found water in seven states. He had located two septic tanks…

[ad_1] By Micah Herskind, Priscilla Grim and October Krausch, In These Times. How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia. New jail construction is quietly booming across the United States. Some may be surprised to learn that during the most intense jail-building years, from 1990 to 2005, a new facility opened every 10 days. There are nearly 2 million people presently caged in more than 6,000 correctional facilities across the country, including 1,566 state prisons and 3,116 local jails. Recent data shows that number has only grown, and the push to build new jails and prisons continues. Currently, a new $3 billion jail in Brooklyn is moving ahead, a $1.25 billion prison in Alabama is…

[ad_1] Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. I was seven years old in Amman, Jordan, when the Naksa broke through our television screen. I had just finished second grade. I didn’t yet have the words — occupation, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing — but I had my grandparents’ stories. The forced departure of 1948. The iron key to a house they never saw again. The certainty, unshakeable as faith, that they would return in a week. A week became 78 years. That is the first thing you need to understand about the Naksa: it did not come from nowhere, and it did not…

[ad_1] A federal judge sentenced former New York Police Department Detective Saul Arismendy De La Cruz to six years and three months in prison for helping a robbery crew that targeted Asian-American small business owners. De La Cruz took bribes from the gang, which included two of his own relatives, in exchange for using his police powers to protect them and help them commit crimes between 2017 and 2022. In exchange for cash and jewelry, De La Cruz monitored 911 calls while the robberies were happening to make sure police response stayed under control, searched NYPD databases for any information…

[ad_1] Famed for his contributions to the hard sciences—most notably his theory of heliocentricity—the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was also an acute analyst of monetary policy. To that end, Ralph Benko has done us all a great service with this new edition of Copernicus’s classic, if neglected, treatise On the Minting of Money. Indeed, its lessons, though nearly five centuries old, remain evergreen. Writing in the foreword, Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow in Financial History at the Center for Financial Stability, aptly summarizes some of Copernicus’s most astute and timeless observations—many of which would not be properly described and labeled for…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Transportation Security Administration – Public Domain For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts.  If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. Since it was created almost 25 years ago, TSA has often been criticized for targeting antiwar activists, Green Party members, or prominent leftists. TSA even has a secret watchlist for people who are “publicly notorious” – especially if they are notorious for criticizing TSA. Such targeting is especially painful when…

[ad_1] The mousetrap motif plays a major role in tales and literature, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet who set one to find his father’s murderer, to Agatha Cristie’s famous play, The Mousetrap, that opened in London’s West End in 1952 and is still running today 30,000 performances later. The mousetrap theme is ancient and enduring because the idea is so simple, yet utterly transparent. A trap is baited. Taking the bait leads to the victim’s entrapment or destruction, as anyone can later see. Which is basically how we got into the Iran war. No one expects mice to be smarter than the…

[ad_1] Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief.  After all, it was Bush the Younger who used the 9/11 attacks to engage in decades of illegal and unneeded warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan at great cost to American national security.  And it was Bush the Younger who established the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that did nothing to strengthen national security. With the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of…

[ad_1] Thank you to Patreon Vince for your support! Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter. NASA’s Mars orbiter MAVEN is officially dead after months of radio silence. A child’s 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in Central Asia on record. Human brain cells grown on a chip level up to play ‘Doom’.This is why I don’t play online, because I don’t want to be beaten on multiplayer by a clump of brain cells in a petri dish. Tangentially Speaking interviews Iranian psychedelic therapist Mehran Seyed Emami. Stanley Krippner…