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What It’s Like for a Lifeguard at a Florida Beach Right Now Bubble

What It’s Like for a Lifeguard at a Florida Beach Right Now

Mouth-to-mouth only happens in the movies. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by rehmno/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. For the latest public health information, please refer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. For Slate’s coronavirus…
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May 23, 2020
Craig Murray Documents Abuse of Process, aka Kangaroo Court, via Butchered Indictment Julian Assange

Craig Murray Documents Abuse of Process, aka Kangaroo Court, via Butchered Indictment

Yves here. Because we are a tiny website, we concentrate our limited resources on topics where we have or can develop an information advantage. The perverse prosecution of Craig Murray, where the real offense seems to be that Murray is a vocal friend of Julian Assange might normally seem to…
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May 23, 2020
Covid restrictions make the argument not to bring in minimum alcohol pricing ‘even more tenuous’ Scotland

Covid restrictions make the argument not to bring in minimum alcohol pricing ‘even more tenuous’

ALMOST TWO YEARS on from passing laws allowing for a minimum price on units of alcohol, the government has failed to implement them and campaigners say the current Covid-19 crisis means the logic in enacting them is “is as relevant today, if not more so, than any other time”.  The…
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May 23, 2020
Taliban leverages pandemic to burnish image as violence in Afghanistan surges Self-driving Vehicles

Taliban leverages pandemic to burnish image as violence in Afghanistan surges

Decades of war, political chaos, desperate poverty, and now coronavirus.A perfect storm has gathered over one of the world’s most benighted nations, Afghanistan, where ordinary citizens are facing a fresh form of misery.Taliban militants have announced they will keep fighting since they say there have been no confirmed cases of…
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May 23, 2020
Scented nectar and the challenge of measuring honest signals in pollination Bees

Scented nectar and the challenge of measuring honest signals in pollination

First published: 23 May 2020 Abstract Nectar scents are thought to function as honest signals of reward used by pollinators, but this hypothesis has rarely been tested. Using Penstemon digitalis , we examined honest signalling of the nectar volatile (S )‐(+)‐linalool and pollinator responses to linalool in both field and…
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May 23, 2020