Surprisingly, the results showed that SARS-CoV-2 bound to ACE2 on human cells more tightly than any of the tested animal species, including bats and pangolins. If one of the animal species tested was the origin, it would normally be expected to show the highest binding to the virus. “Humans showed the strongest spike binding, consistent …
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Can fusion ever happen?
One of the problems with fusion power is that it would upset the fission business, like the fuel rod cycle business. Then you would have to retrain all the existing gov’t inspectors to understand something they don’t. All that land PWRs sit on would cost billions to convert. There’s a lot of inertia to business …
‘Unknown pneumonia’ at 2019 Military Olympics
U.S. lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China, where athletes complained of COVID-like symptoms and described the city as a ‘ghost town’ weeks before authorities admitted the spread of a new virus. Almost 10,000 international competitors from 100 countries took part in what is known as the ‘military …
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Google Keeps Stopping on Android Phones As Users Report Issues
Users reported having issues with Google as they tried to access the search engine on their Android smartphones. According to the online outage tracker Downdetector, which gives users real-time information about the status of websites, people experienced issues accessing Google at 1:20 a.m. (ET) on June 22. Visitors to Google experienced problems accessing and using …
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Researcher reconstructs earliest but deleted Covid sequence
Biden to gun owners
Crime out of control due to guns and root causes
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks — NYT
More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.
The last conspiracy theory of the late John McAfee
Put that phone down and walk away from it
Who wants to bet the alternatives to Anom that people are switching to were also developed by the US government? In other news:
Run silent, run deep
Maybe the only way to survive the book-burning, witch-hunting Woke era is to go into stealth mode, to adjust your visibility such that you are only visible to trust networks. In the end we may see the revival of hermitages and monasteries as places of survival.
No one will be spared
Soon, a Black Lives Matter advocate asked, of all things, whether I would stand for the American flag. To provide context for my decision, I shared a story. As a toddler, I’d seen my mother take a call from the Department of Defense announcing that her fighter-pilot brother had been killed. Honoring her grief, I’d …
“20 days without online advertising means @benandjerrys knows they can’t go back to business as usual”
Pro-Palestinian activists were swarming the social media comments sections of Ben & Jerry’s to demand the company boycott Israel. In response, Ben & Jerry’s appears to have indeed entered a boycott — of social media itself.
Don’t just do something. Stand there sometimes.
The virus was not the cause for global catastrophe. It was the response to the virus that crippled the global economy and our society. The disease was not nearly as damaging as the “cure” for the disease.
California, Facing Power Crisis, Frets Over Electric Car Charging Routines
Limit charging your electric cars or turning on the lights due to power grid shortages
The coming crisis
New at the Belmont Club. How Biden got Green handicapped in a second cold war he didn’t see coming.
The big empty
There are a number of observable trends in oil supplies and by extension prices, presently. I am going to discuss one of them in this article. A lack of capital investment in finding new supplies of oil and gas. A favorite analogy of mine comes to mind, the ship is nearing the dock. In nautical …
A ‘ghost armada’ of tankers carrying black-market oil to China is bankrolling Iran’s secret nuclear program
The rogue state has almost doubled its fleet sailing under other countries’ flags to 123 in the past year, letting China smuggle in up to a million barrels of oil per day – or two-thirds of the UK’s daily use. A ‘ghost armada’ of sanctions-busting tankers carrying black-market oil to China is bankrolling Iran’s secret …
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story
“It took more than a decade for the truth to come out.” The accident and a subsequent cover-up have renewed relevance as scientists search for the origins of Covid-19. … In April and May 1979, at least 66 people died after airborne anthrax bacteria emerged from a military lab in the Soviet Union. But leading …
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Questions raised about Biden the Catholic
US Roman Catholic bishops agreed on Friday to draft a statement on the meaning of holy communion which could potentially be used to deny the sacred rite to President Joe Biden because of his position on abortion.