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The retraction confirms that the “science” used to defend the world’s most widely used herbicide was built on industry manipulation — including ghostwriting, undisclosed payments, and reliance on a narrow selection of unpublished Monsanto studies.

A primary motivation for the trial was the high content of L-arginine found in peanuts. L-arginine is an amino acid that serves as a precursor for the synthesis of nitric oxide, a molecule essential for relaxing blood vessels and regulating blood flow.

Additionally, the study focused on skin-roasted peanuts because the peanut skin is rich in bioactive compounds, including polyphenols like resveratrol, which have antioxidant properties that may further support vascular health.

participants reported developing shallower knowledge from LLM summaries even when the results were augmented by real-time web links

redistribution and polarization are the lowest in networks with maximum assortativity, where participants are segregated by wealth, and the highest in networks where the rich are most visible. Furthermore, segregation keeps the poor poorest but satisfied, while observing the rich makes them dissatisfied despite becoming better off. These findings suggest that political communication and policy strategies aiming to increase support for redistribution should enhance the visibility of excessive wealth. 

Tattooed participants had higher risks of skin cancers — including melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma — as well as lymphoma, with hazards rising further for tattoos larger than a palm. In one arm of the study, large tattoos were linked to a 2.7-fold higher hazard of lymphoma and more than double the risk of skin cancer.

For the past couple of weeks, there has been an ongoing uproar from Oura customers following the announcement of a partnership between the wearable smart ring maker, and the U.S. Department of War and Palantir. 

...a spokesperson for Oura tells me that the company has received government demands for customers' data.

An important component of this highway is a region in the center of the brain called the thalamus, which not only helps select which memories should be remembered, but routes them to cortex for long-term stabilization.

The model suggests that, after the basic memory is formed in the hippocampus, Camta1 and its targets ensure the initial persistence of the memory. With time, Tcf4 and its targets are activated providing cell adhesion and structural support to further maintain the memory. Finally, Ash1l recruits chromatin remodeling programs that make the memory more persistent.

“Unless you promote memories onto these timers, we believe you’re primed to forget it quickly,” Rajasethupathy says.

The results suggest that long-term memory is not maintained by a single molecular on-and-off switch, but by a cascade of gene-regulating programs that unfold over time and across brain regions like a series of molecular timers.

First, a former physician used his personal email address in a meeting group, contrary to hospital policy. Second, the meeting organizer did not remove the physician from the meeting invite following his departure in June 2023, according to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
As a result, when the physician installed Otter.ai on a personal device in September 2024, the transcription tool was able to access the rounds meeting invite via the physician's personal digital calendar.
...it wasn't clear whether the physician even realized the Otter.ai bot had attended the meeting on his behalf and recorded it – or whether it had done so for other meetings as well.
“That’s a whole level of autonomy and independence that we haven’t been prepared for but need to start thinking about,”