The Lebanese Hezbollah movement said it underwent and captured an Israeli drone on Saturday that flew over the Blue Line disrupting Israel’s withdrawal from the country. Hezbollah said its fighters dropped the drone at the city of Aita al-Shaab. The Israeli army said one of its drones “fell into Lebanese …
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Good news. The latest COVID-19 tests work without ‘Tickling Your Brain’
Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story – health care workers were completely immersed in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deep that brain damage seemed difficult. When COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “the brain …
Read More »Asteroid to fly past Earth just before election day, NASA says
As if 2020 is not already crazy enough, an asteroid is heading towards Earth just before election day. According to NASA JPL’s Center for Near Objects Studies, space rock 2018VP1 will fly past Earth on November 2, a day before the US presidential election. At 6.5 feet in diameter, it …
Read More »Some 70,000 lives could be saved in the near future if people wore masks: researchers
The U.S. could save nearly 70,000 lives by December if the country implements universal mask mandates, according to a projection by thy University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Researchers at the institute also found that a rumor 134,000 people could die in the US from COVID-19 …
Read More »Sociopaths are more likely to refuse to wear a mask and other COVID-19 measures, research findings
A new study from Brazil has found that people with sociopathic traits are more likely to disobey mask wear and other measures to limit the spread of coronavirus. The study examined the relationship between antisocial personality traits and compliance with COVID-19 measures with a sample of 1,578 Brazilian adults between …
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