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Social Distancing: (Fire) Escape from New York | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. The Covid quarantine has helped remind me of just how much I appreciate my fire escape -- and fire escapes, in general. Unable to spend much time on the streets of Astoria these days, I’ve come to utilize my fire escape like a top-floor terrace. With earphones plugged in, I listen to podcasts while feeding the birds, gazing at the ...

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1st Human Trial Of COVID-19 Vaccine Finds It Is Safe & Induces Rapid Immune Response | Lancet

May 22, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- The first COVID-19 vaccine to reach phase 1 clinical trial has been found to be safe, well-tolerated, and able to generate an immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in hum ...

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Hearts Of Group Drummers Synchronize | Bar-Ilan University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 21, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- The hearts of group drummers synchronize. In an interdisciplinary study published today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have r ...

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The Flame and the Crucible | John Michael Greer

Alchemist May 20, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Our journey through the hidden history of American occultism has focused so far entirely on traditions brought here from elsewhere -- the German Rosicrucian ...

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Another Bank Bailout Under Cover Of A Virus | Ellen Brown

Love you more... Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. May 18, 2020 (Web Of Debt) -- When the Dodd-Frank A ...

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Personal Accounts Of Childhood Maltreatment Matter More For Mental Health Than Records | King's College London

May 18, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- Personal accounts of childhood maltreatment show a stronger association with psychiatric problems than legal proof that maltreatment occurred, reveals a new study co-w ...

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Study Traces Brain-To-Gut Connections | University of Pittsburgh

Two opposing circuits connecting the brain to the stomach convey either "fight or flight" or "rest and digest" commands to the gut. Credit: David Levinthal, M.D., Ph.D., and Peter Strick, Ph.D. May 1 ...

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Why Israel Fears the Nakba | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudHow Memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 17, 2020 On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the "shatat," or ...

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I haven’t been touched in more than 2 months… | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. Note: Please click on all the hyperlinks. On Sunday, March 8, as I was leaving a personal training client’s home, she gave me a hug. ...

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Vaccine Hopes And Economic Woes As Virus Spreads | AFP

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 16, 202 (AFP) -- President Donald Trump voiced hope Friday that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by late 2020, cushioning dire US economic news as parts of Europe ...

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The Bionic Breast Project | University of Chicago

May 15, 202 (MedicalXpress) -- About half of Prof. Stacy Lindau's patients over the last decade have had breast cancer and express new difficulties with sexual function during and after treatment. Th ...

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