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Day: March 24, 2020

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Bernie Sanders Was My Lifeline When I Had Cancer 20 Years Ago. Today, He Could Be a Lifeline for Our Country.

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When I was a young medical student, I found a lump in my left testicle. When I had it examined, my doctor confirmed the worst. I had Stage 2 testicular cancer with a 70 percent chance of metastasis. As if that news werent bad enough, I then learned the treatment plan my doctors had devised for me. They offered only one option, which was to have all the lymph nodes in my gut removed, along with the affected testicle. This was to be followed by extensive rounds of radiation and…

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Trump-Loving CPACs Favorite Democratic Candidate Is Mike Bloomberg

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The Conservative Political Action Conference, a yearly confab dedicated to all things on the right side of the aisle, is a Democratic presidential contender. I would pick Bloomberg, because I think hes the most sane of them all, Ron Fodor, a 67-year-old retiree, told The Daily Beast. Basically because a wise man once said, Be a success before you tell someone else how to be a success. I think Bloomberg, hes been a success, theres no doubt about it Hes also a capitalist, where the other ones could swing to…

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Taylor Swift Subtly Addresses Leaked Kanye West Phone Call With New Social Media Activity! – Perez Hilton

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Taylor Swift is feeling that quarantine life The pop princess has taken to her favorite social media site of choice — Tumblr, of course — and is  At one point, Todrick tweeted (below): My heart breaks listening to that phone call, the fact that she even picked up the phone and wasted her valuable time to listen to that nincompoop speak is just a testament to how great a human she is. What do U think of all this Taylor-Kanye drama re-igniting right now, Perezcious readers?? Whose side are you on??…

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Country-rap breakout ballad ‘Rascal’ is ‘Old Town Road’s logical evolution

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The influence of Lil Nas Xs Old Town Road has resulted in one of the first viral hits of 2020 being a country trap ballad featuring a sample of Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts. Artist RMRs Rascal has been quickly gaining attention on Twitter due in part to the clashing imagery in the video and RMRs wholly unconventional sound. The official video has been taken down on account of copyright claims but a re-upload of the video has since accumulated over 450,000 views.The original video was first removed…

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Artist Draws Disney Princesses And Sailor Moon In A Unique Style That Looks Like Traditional Japanese Prints

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But tradition doesn’t have to stand still forever, and that’s why modern remakes are always a feast for the eyes. So this time, ukiyo-e is getting a Disney rendition. You heard me right! The illustrator Ono Tako has created beautiful prints featuring Snow White, Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid all inspired by the traditional Japanese technique. Scroll down for Bored Panda‘s interview with the artist behind these beautiful prints below. And share your impressions in the comments! ono800 ono800 Kitagawa Utamaro, a legendary painter of the famous ukiyo-e woodblock prints,…

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Chemists Solve A Century-Old Mystery Doing Math In 126 Dimensions

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The molecule benzene is seen everywhere in biology, is important in chemistry, and has even been detected in outer space. But the way the electrons of its constituent atoms are shared has been a mystery for over a century. Now we appear to have a solution, and it took scientists creating a mathematical function with 126 dimensions to get there. This doesn’t mean that the electrons of benzene exist in 126 dimensions, it means that if us humans want to understand how they interact as a whole we need to create…

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Did RuPaul just announce he has a fracking empire on his ranch?

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The host of RuPauls Drag Race revealed recently that he leases the mineral rights of the 60,000 acres he owns in Wyoming to oil companies RuPaul, of the beloved RuPauls Drag Race television show, said in a recent interview that he leases the mineral and water rights of his land in Wyoming to oil companies. In an interview with NPRs Terry Gross on her show Fresh Air (the irony), Gross asked RuPaul about the 60 acres of land he owns in Wyoming. Oh, no, no no. No, no, no. Sixty…

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Bernie Backers Crave Warrens Support, but Her Fans Might Vote Biden Anyway

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Less than two months ago, Brent Welder was tweeting #tweeted late on Super Tuesday when Biden re-solidified his frontrunner status. After largely avoiding confrontation in earlier debates, hard feelings between Warren and Sanders became more clear as the primary season took shape. Warren sparred with Sanders in January over whether the Vermont Independent had told Warren during a 2018 meeting that a woman couldnt beat Trump this cycle (something Sanders has denied). As her campaign began to struggle, Warren took further shots at her fellow progressive but it couldnt help…

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How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS

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It was about 8:30 pm on December 30, and Marjorie Pollack, a physician and epidemiologist, was working in her home office in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Her email pinged. In her inbox was a note from a frequent and reliable contributor to ProMED, an email list of disease alerts for which Pollack serves as deputy editor. The contributor, who speaks and reads Chinese, wanted her to know about a new post that was getting some attention on Weibo, a within-China social media network. The post said that a few hours earlier,…

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