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Should You Cancel Your Trip Because Of Coronavirus? What You Need To Know | Betches

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According to , the Coronavirus is a common virus that typically “presents as a respiratory illness consistent of cough, fever, and shortness of breath and can appear from 2-14 days after exposure.” She adds, “Symptoms range from mild to severe. These symptoms can progress to pneumonia, fluid buildup in the lungs, and stress on other organs such as the kidneys.” Yikes. And if you’ve kept any sort of tabs on COVID-19, you know this sh*t is basically all over the world, and people, especially travelers, are freaking out. So if…

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Combing the Beach for Stones and Reorganizing Them Into Something Beautiful

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Jon Foreman is a creator of various styles of land art, be it with stones or leaves, inland or on beaches. He has even created works in derelict environments using materials such as broken glass or ashes and general debris. The scale of his work varies massively; he may use stones or driftwood to make something small and minimal. Otherwise he may be seen drawing massive scale sand drawings up to 50 metres across. Most often the weather and immediate climate will make his work disappear (be blown down/washed away…

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Man Asks NASA If They Still Punish Animals By Sending Them To Space, Gets Brilliant Response

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A man actually received a response for a brilliant spoof letter to NASA. Twitter comedian Sir Michael sent a letter to NASA headquarters to ask whether they still send animals to space as a punishment for misbehavior, before including a list of animals (and their crimes) that he thinks should also be banished to space. “Dear sir/madam,” the letter reads, “My name is Michael and I have been reading on Facebook about early NASA missions in which animals were sent to space as punishment for misbehavior. How come you stopped doing…

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is coming to TC Sessions: Space 2020

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This year marks our first-ever TC Sessions: Space event, and what better way to kick things off than with the head of NASA: Administrator Jim Bridenstine will join us onstage on June 25 in LA. NASA has been more open than ever before to working with startups and entrepreneurs, and we’ll hear directly from the administrator why that’s the case, and what kind of opportunities might be open to founders in the future. Administrator Bridenstine took over leading the U.S. science and space agency in 2018, and has been leading…

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DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform

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DSP Concepts — a startup whose Audio Weaver software is used by companies as varied as Tesla, Porsche, GoPro and Braun Audio — is announcing that it has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding. The startup’s goal, as explained to me by CEO Chin Beckmann and CTO Paul Beckmann (yep, they’re a husband-and-wife founding team), is to create the standard framework that companies use to develop their audio processing software. To that end, Chin told me they were “picky about who we wanted on the B round, we wanted…

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Gentle Giant Lays Down to Let Human Friend Treat His Injured Eye

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A touching moment was caught on film at an Elephant Sanctuary in Botswana, as Jabu lets his human friend treat his injured eye with an antibiotic ointment. Elephants are so majestic. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/elephant-lays-down-to-let-human-friend-treat-his-injured-eye/

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Just One Trip On Magic Mushrooms Can Improve Long-Term Mindfulness

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Just one trip on magic mushrooms could be enough to experience a long-term increase in mindfulness and openness, according to a new study. Using brain scans, they were even able to pinpoint the serotonin receptor in the brain that appeared to be responsible for these long-term feel-good changes. While only a small study, this new research is one of the first to confirm the long-touted idea that just a single psychedelic experience with magic mushrooms can help to improve peoples’ mindfulness. Reported in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers from Copenhagen…

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Hundreds Of New Viruses With Enormous Genomes Blur The Boundaries Of Life

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Defining life is hard. Plants, animals, and amoebas certainly fit, but what about viruses or prions? For those who put viruses on the non-living side of that division, things just got a bit awkward with the discovery of hundreds of viruses whose genome resembles bacteria. Bacteriophages are bacteria-infecting viruses. Some have been used in place of antibiotics, but their diversity is so great we’ve barely scratched the surface. Now, a study published in Nature has turned up 351 bacteriophage species with genomes at least four times as large as most members of their class, almost four…

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Coronavirus: UK maps and charts

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Since then, cases have been reported across the UK, with the highest number so far seen in London. EASY STEPS: What can I do? PROTECTION: Where are we with a vaccine? GETTING READY: How prepared is the UK? VIDEO: The 20-second hand wash 2. We are in the first phase of the government’s response The government has published its action plan for dealing with the virus, which involves three phases – contain; delay; mitigate – alongside ongoing research. The emphasis is currently on the contain and research phases, officials say,…

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Mistreated Wendy’s worker quits, makes escape via drive-thru window

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Weve all dreamed of quitting a bad job in dramatic, satisfying ways. Most of us never summon up the courage to follow through with our fantasies, but one TikTok teen has more pluck than the rest of us. TikTok user @mariakukulak documented her recent split from a local Wendys, and people online are in awe. Its not just how it ended, but the entire way she went about the process that drew people in. At the start of the almost minute-long TikTok, Maria explained her intent. Its hard for me…

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Alabama bill may lift yoga ban in public schools but prohibit ‘namaste’ greeting

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Lawmakers move to lift decades-old ban, but the bill would continue to prohibit chanting, mantras and the greeting Alabama could takes steps to lift a decades-old ban on yoga in public schools this week, but would keep a ban on the greeting namaste in place. A bill brought by Representative Jeremy Gray, a Democratic legislator from Opelika, is on the proposed debate agenda Tuesday in the Alabama House of Representatives. If the bill passes with a two-thirds majority, it will then go to the Senate for further debate. The Alabama…

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To My Married Daughter, With Love

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ShareTweetPin Dear Married Daughter, First of all, I am amazed that I am old enough to be writing this letter. When you were young, and sitting in the grocery cart while we shopped, people would stop me and comment on how cute you were and I would smile and thank them. They would often look at me and say, “Don’t blink. It goes fast.” I felt sorry for them because they were not standing with their with a child, and they had a look of longing in their eyes that…

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