Archive for 2020

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MICROBIOME NEWS: Microbes in the gut could be protective against hazardous radiation exposure. “A new study by scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues published Oct. 30, 2020, in Science, showed that mice exposed to potentially lethal levels of total body radiation were protected from radiation damage if they had specific types of bacteria in their gut. Radiation absorbed in a clinical setting or during an accidental exposure can cause damage to tissues. In this study, the bacteria mitigated radiation exposure and enhanced the recovery of blood cell production as well as repair of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.”

SERIOUSLY GUYS. THERE’S SOME VERY DISTURBING STUFF AFOOT, SO: Vote as if your life depended on it!

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, it very well might.

IS ‘THREE-HOUR MEDIA’ THE NEW LONG-FORM JOURNALISM? If you haven’t heard about the “New Contra” media, you will be because it may well do what many of us grizzled veterans of the early days of blogs thought the blogosphere would do.

And, while this piece in The Federalist feels very 1998-2001-ish, check out this graph:

“Three-hour media? What a ludicrous concept. Who would listen to three hours of anything, especially if it’s just two people sitting at a table — a comedian actor and fighting commentator on one side and an eclectic guest on the other? But people do, because they have more capacity for discussion than legacy media think they do.”

EXPECT EARLY BIDEN ‘ACCEPTANCE’ SPEECH: Democrats in the Biden campaign and the media have been saying for months that President Donald Trump better not “under any circumstances” declare victory Tuesday evening.

But Axios reports Biden aides saying he will deliver a speech tonight accepting victory if the media declares him the winner and that he will immediately began making president-elect decisions.

MY PHONE TEED UP THIS “MEMORY” TODAY. STILL TRUE!