Interesting #music combination: Post Malone singing "Have The Heart" featuring Dolly Parton. #cosomusic https://youtu.be/8mW_FI-SN0Y

@AskTheDevil Nigeria has been dealing with MonkeyPox for about 50 years and one of their recommendations is for masking You'll be hearing recommendations from internet experts that say otherwise. Again, better to be proactive now. Mind you, smallpox can be spread through direct contact and airborne droplets.

#Innewsoftheabsurd Oklahoma passed the Parental Choice Tax Credit Program which promised parents a tax credit of up to $3,750 per student for spring tuition. So, Global Harvest Christian School responded by raising its spring tuition to $3,500 from $1000. Yes, State is subsidizing #religion. #education #politics #oklahoma. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/08/13/oklahoma-private-school-tax-credit-tuition-increase-some-schools/74781756007/

Twelve percent of swabs taken from the fur, mouth, and anorectal area of pets living with an MPox patient tested positive for MPox virus DNA, but blood cultures showed no signs of infection, according to a new US study. #monkeypox #mpox #zoonotic #CoSocats #CoSoDogs https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/cdc-investigation-finds-viral-dna-no-live-virus-pets-mpox-patients

@AskTheDevil Africa was well aware of HIV as well as MonkeyPox. WHO and US CDC were aware but it did not deem them as something that would have any effect outside of Africa until it did. Practical disease control is to do it at the source so it does not get out of control. So yes, US was and continues to deem these diseases as unimportant. Climate change is bringing some of these diseases to US doorstep sooner than expected so Africa and other areas need assistance to stop them.

Monkeypox (MPox) has slowly crept up in the news as more cases are found outside the endemic zone. The current subtype (Clade 1) is 10x more deadly than Clade 2. Please, make sure to keep yourself informed of the current situation. This reminds me a lot of HIV when it first started out in Africa but it was initially ignored because it only affected homosexual men. #zoonotic, #health #disease https://www.wired.com/story/mpox-outbreak-global-public-health-emergency/

@TheNewsOwl goat

#Innewsoftheabsurd Former ChiPootle CEO to become next Starbucks CEO: He will be able to work from California and make more money than departing CEO. https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-niccol-pay-millions-starbucks-ceo-office-california-stock-options-2024-8

@peeppeepcircus recirculating hot, boisterous, polluted bathroom air replete with bacteria and viruses. Sounds about right...

California fire meets politics head on. There is currently a bill (Senate Bill 610) to overhaul California’s decades-old wildfire mapping system and backers include the California Building Industry Assn., the Housing Action Coalition and Yimby Action,. You know where this is heading...an attempt by these backers to wrest control and have the ability to build anywhere. #wildfire #housing #politics https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-11/proposed-bill-would-abolish-california-fire-hazard-rankings

There are several interesting stories with regards to using "swarm intelligence" and a few examples on how it is used in setting up shipping routes or data mining. (2/2) https://research.cs.queensu.ca/TechReports/Reports/2012-585.pdf

MannhatAnts taking over NY. An invasive European ant species (Lasiu emarginatus) is taking over and starting to displace native ant species. By the way, if you happen to view to video on this story, insects have what has been termed "swarm intelligence" and is similar to decisions that are made by a crowd. (1/2). #science #insects #invasivespecies https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manhattants-invasive-species-ants-nyc-researchers/

@LiberalLibrarian Memories of Nazi Germany sending kids and old folks to fight Allied forces towards the end of WW II. #History #WWII

@Irianabet saludos, bienvenida.

Scientists have developed a “holy grail” insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real-time and could revolutionise treatment for millions of people with type 1 diabetes worldwide. #health #insulin #diabetes https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/11/scientists-hail-smart-insulin-responds-changing-blood-sugar-levels-real-time-diabetes

Being at the right place at the right time: In October 2009 a botanist driving along a busy San Francisco freeway spotted something growing in a traffic island surrounded by ramps near the Golden Gate Bridge. It turns out it was the long-lost Franciscan manzanita, last seen more than 60 years earlier. Excellent story on how rare plants are being saved and hopefully be brought back from scarcity. #science #nature #plants https://therevelator.org/manzanitas/