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Ship Noise Stresses Crabs Out So Much They Lose The Ability To Change Color And Camouflage

Human activity can have some disastrous and unexpected impacts on wildlife, as highlighted by a new study in the journal Current Biology, which reveals how shore crabs lose the ability to change color when they become stressed out by ship noise. Given that this chameleon-like capacity to alter their pigmentation acts as one of their main defences against predators, the consequences of increased shipping could be disastrous for these vulnerable crustaceans. According to the study authors, the noise pollution created by shipping activity has raised ambient ocean sound levels by…

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Ford to produce roughly 50,000 ventilators in fight against coronavirus

A Ford logo on the grill of a 2018 Ford Explorer on display at the Pittsburgh Auto Show in Feb. 2018. Ford Motor Company has announced plans to make 50,000 ventilators at one of its Michigan plants over the next 100 days in an effort to arm those on the front lines with equipment to fight COVID-19. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) States with strained healthcare workers have requested the Trump administration and manufacturers speed up the production of ventilators to assist a surge in patients, according to Reuters. Hospitals in…

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Kim Kardashian Says She Loves Tristan Thompson ‘Like A Brother’ After They ‘Totally Bonded’ With Each Other… – Perez Hilton

Kim Kardashian West clearly feels some type of way about Tristan Thompson… and it’s honestly kind of surprising! Just a little over a year since the NBA star’s infamous Jordyn Woods scandal and it appears to all be water under the bridge for the head Kardashian. And while affected sis Khloé Kardashian is still navigating the post-breakup world of co-parenting and living through the fallout from the scandal, her older sis and baby daddy appear to be… bonding? Yes, really! The momma of four may have feuded with the basketball star in the past…

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Federal prisons will confine inmates to cells for 2 weeks due to coronavirus

Washington (CNN)The US federal prison system will move to a heightened state of lockdown as it fights the spread of coronavirus behind bars, the Bureau of Prisons announced. The federal prison system, composed of nearly 150,000 inmates in 122 facilities nationwide, had previously been in a moderate defensive posture, with a mandatory quarantine for new inmates and a ban on most visitation. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the Bureau of Prisons has also been taking steps to begin releasing especially vulnerable inmate populations who are nonviolent and…

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Federal prisons will confine inmates to cells for 2 weeks due to coronavirus

Washington (CNN)The US federal prison system will move to a heightened state of lockdown as it fights the spread of coronavirus behind bars, the Bureau of Prisons announced. The federal prison system, composed of nearly 150,000 inmates in 122 facilities nationwide, had previously been in a moderate defensive posture, with a mandatory quarantine for new inmates and a ban on most visitation. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the Bureau of Prisons has also been taking steps to begin releasing especially vulnerable inmate populations who are nonviolent and…

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$255 in Groceries Fly Out Moms Window, Cashier Gets Them Back and Delivers Them to Her Home

ShareTweetPin “Have to share what happened in Nashville to my mom today.. ONLY IN THE SOUTH would this happen! She’s had wayyy too much on her plate lately, so today she was headed out to the mall to do some leisurely shopping. On the way she got an unexpected call that company was on their way to her house in the next few hours. Being the amazingly hospitable hostess she is, she turned around to go to the grocery store instead so she could have food to prepare and clean…

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Johnson hails return of 20,000 former NHS staff

And last week an organ transplant consultant died after testing positive for the virus. Prof Andrew Goddard, the head of the Royal College of Physicians, said “about one in four” of its workforce was currently off work, either with symptoms or isolating because family members have symptoms. “I’ve got lots of colleagues sitting at home with family members. They themselves don’t have symptoms and are chomping at the bit to try and get back to work,” he said, adding that widespread testing would mean staff who are well can return…

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Keanu Reeves’ Girlfriend Alexandra Grant Breaks Silence On Relationship In Rare Vogue Interview! – Perez Hilton

Back in November the entire Internet was shocked to learn Keanu Reeves When asked about the reaction to the couple’s sort of debut at the 2019 LACMA Art + Film Gala, she revealed the surprise wasn’t limited to strangers — apparently they’ve been so private a lot of her friends didn’t know either! She recalled: “I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating. But the question I’ve been asking in all of this is: ‘What is the opportunity for good?’” Well, so…

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The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus

In the past few days, New York City’s hospitals have become unrecognizable. Thousands of patients sick with the novel coronavirus have swarmed into emergency rooms and intensive care units. From 3,000 miles away in Seattle, as Lisa Brandenburg watched the scenes unfold—isolation wards cobbled together in lobbies, nurses caring for Covid-19 patients in makeshift trash bag gowns, refrigerated mobile morgues idling on the street outside—she couldn’t stop herself from thinking: “That could be us.” It could be, if the models are wrong. Until this past week, Seattle had been the…

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Your Coffee And Chocolate Habit Could Be Fueling Malaria

Many of the world’s favorite food and drinks – such as coffee, chocolate, and soy – could be fanning the flames of malaria, according to a new study. Products such as coffee, cocoa, tobacco, tea, beef, soybeans, and palm oil require huge amounts of land to satisfy intense demand from developed countries and help to fuel forest clearing in many tropical regions of the world. The environmental cost of deforestation is fairly widely understood, but what does it have to do with malaria?  Previous research has shown that deforestation can help create the ideal conditions…

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Here Are 10 Vegan Beauty Brands You Need To Know About

By The Honest Company Lacey Ramburger Updated March 29, 2020 PSA 📣 We’re SO excited to announce that we are now available @urbanoutfitters 🤩 We have select skincare & color faves on urbanoutfitters.com now, and we will be available in select stores soon. Who’s excited?! ✨ Where would you like to see your fave @honest_beauty products next? 🤔 Drop it below! #CleanBeautyThatWorks #ThatsHonest #crueltyfree #UOBeauty A post shared by Honest Beauty (@honest_beauty) on Feb 20, 2020 at 10:40am PST Honest Beauty has an incredible line up of products that cover…

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The Heart of a Radiation Therapist During Covid-19

ShareTweetPin I only post about things that are near and dear to my heart, and being a Radiation Therapist is one of those things. And here we are.  In the middle of a pandemic of the likes we have never seen in our years, and we hope to never see again.  The adversities, challenges, fears, and panic are all-consuming at this point.  We are asked to stay home.  To take social distancing seriously.  To stay up to date on all the news and information that is available. Yet, as Radiation…

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