Spiffy.A chewing gum made from lablab beans, Lablab purpureus—that naturally contain an antiviral trap protein (FRIL)—to neutralize two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2). The chewing gum formulation allowed for effective and consistent release of FRIL at sites of viral infection.
Newly-discovered Comet Swan is visible with binoculars now. It's in Pegasus and it doesn't look like it's going to be a great comet. Oh well.
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Multnomah County is facing a budget problem. So what do they do? Cut the Homeless Services Department, which pays for tents, tarps and other supplies that nonprofits then distribute to homeless people? Cut services to illegal migrants? No, they tell the district attorney to cut his staff. Yup, cut services that help the people who pay taxes that support the city. Doom Loop.
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Oregon pays people not to work during the summer. Yeah, it didn't make sense to me, either.
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They admit it! Why isn't Oregon fighting back against the Trump administration cuts to Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief program money? Because they realized that the programs that were funded weren't doing anything helpful anyway, and would be difficult to defend. Points for being honest, anyway.
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ChatGPT now has the ability to reference ALL your past conversations.Could be handy. Could be creepy.
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Elite athletes have another way they could make money – selling their feces. Apparently, it's got some good stuff in it.
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Google might be back on the AI winning track. Yeah, I've played around with Google's Gemini-2.5-Pro and it's really good. I like it, actually.
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Apparently the Nissan Leaf can be hacked. Hackers can take over your car, listen to conversations, see where you've been, etc.
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Cannabis smoking can effect long-term epigenetic changes in genes related to aging and cancer. But you didn't really care about those things anyway, right?
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Yikes. The UK is creating a precrime murder-prediction tool, to determine who is most likely to kill. What a dystopian country the UK has become.
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