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    Everything you need to know about the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak

    UK citizens from the cruise will be isolated in Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral Peninsula, UK according to the BBC. It was used to isolate suspected COVID cases at the start of the pandemic until more was known about the virus. Why there? Well they have a large unused block that used to be...
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    Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

    Can they do one on the site of the former White House East Wing?
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    Supreme Court blocks Trump’s emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed

    I liked that film too. Edit: Bugger; the line in 2010 A Space Odyssey was very very bad for my asthma. Nonetheless, one can but hope.
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    Anthrax nearly kills healthy 18-year-old welder amid puzzling pattern

    If you have a Victorian/Edwardian house in the UK, you have to be careful when doing interior DIY. The builders of that era used horse hair to reinforce plasterwork and the hair has, on occasion, been found to harbour anthrax spores.
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    NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back

    In fact They were used in the UK during the London Blitz. They specifically used blind people along with a direction mike setup to detect incoming aircraft. p.s. The acoustic sensors used in Ukraine are cheap mobile phones with custom software. Ninjaed - days ago!
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    Bose SoundTouch home theater systems regress into dumb speakers Feb. 18

    I can beat that with a couple of Celestion Ditton 15s from '77.
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    Report: CDC director being ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

    You forgot to include J.D. Vance.
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    Tesla awards Elon Musk $29 billion after much larger pay plan blocked in court

    Not even an original idea - Harry Harrison got there first with: "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!"
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    How to get another free year of updates for your Windows 10 PC

    Have a look at the Microsoft Activation Scripts site: [link removed, let's not go there] They have the LTSC isos and installation instructions on how to do an in-place install which retains all your programs and files. Tried it last week and it was successful.
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    New COVID variant swiftly gains ground in US; concern looms for summer wave

    It’s not carved in stone. My wife and I are 70, we are both called into the local GP for flu and COVID jabs each year and have been since 65. We had the first shingles vaccine this year and will have the second in July. It’s fairly flexible and left to the local CCP (Care Commisioning Panel) to...
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    People still clamor for deworming drug falsely claimed to be cure-all

    Ninja’d by a much more detailed response.
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    People still clamor for deworming drug falsely claimed to be cure-all

    If you’ve ever used explosives, you would realise how this came about. Just handling them without gloves and just breathing the air near them causes massive headaches due to the nitro- based compounds. This is due to dilation of the blood vessels in the brain. Nitroglycerine is used to treat...
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    People still clamor for deworming drug falsely claimed to be cure-all

    It's usually 4chan creating stories like this - just for shits 'n giggles.
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    Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet

    It’s usually something that appeared the previous day on the Skyrim subreddit. It got so bad, Redditors were posting fake revelations to see if Gamerrant would take the bait.
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    Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it

    Excellent channel! Thanks for recommending this.
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    Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program

    Probably the first time in his life that he has honoured a contract. So far... P.
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    Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak

    Not confirmed. The BBC(UK edition) have edited the article back to one death.
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    Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure

    I do remember using silver nitrate pencils in my youth (50 years ago) to remove warts - a long, and at times, painful process.
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    USB-C is now a legal requirement for most rechargeable gadgets in Europe

    They also make great grappling irons.