Cindy Alverez

Diageo, The Drink Company That Owns The Johnnie Walker Brand, Wants To Do A Trial Run To Package The Brand In An Environmentally-Friendly Recyclable Paper Bottle. This Is To Protect The Environment By Reducing Carbon Emissions And Plastic Usage. Diageo’s Paper Whisky Bottle Is Expected To Be Tried In Spring Of 2021.

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The House Representative Democrats Passed A Bill On Friday, 6/26/2020, To Make Washington, D.C. The 51st U.S. State. Washington, D.C Pays More Federal Taxes Than 22 States And Has A Population Of ~700,000 People, Which Is Larger Than Wyoming Or Vermont. The Bill, However, Is Seen By Some To Be Dead On Arrival In The Republican-Held Senate.

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The Largest Ancient Monument, In Britain, Was Discovered Near Stonehenge Using Geophysical Remote Sensing Technology And Sampling. The Structure, A 20 Ring Shaft, Is Suggested To Have Been Excavated By Neolithic People More Than 4,500 Years Ago. The Monument Is A 2km Circle Of Large Shafts Measuring More Than 10m In Diameter And 5m Deep.

A New Study Shows That, Obviously, New And Diverse Changes To One’s Physical Or Mental Routine Can Lead To Enhanced Happiness. Some Of These Diverse Activities Could Range From Traveling To New Places To Simple Things, One Can Do During The Lock-Down, Like Going For Walks, Exercising, Taking Different Routes To Places, And Etc.

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Another COVID-19 Inspired Innovation. This Time, A Chinese Startup, Rokid, Has Developed Wearable Glasses, T1 Glasses, Equipped With Infrared Sensor And Camera, Which Allows Wearers To “See” Peoples’ Temperatures. The Company Plans To Upgrade The Glass To Take Multiple Temperature Measurements Simultaneously In Busy Locations Like Malls.

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Coronavirus Has Led To Some Interesting Innovations, For Instance, The Upper Body Wear Called Micrashell, Which Is Designed To Enable People To Attend Large Events Like Concerts. Micrashell Comes With A Built-in N95 Air Filter, A Soft Helmet And Face Shield, Internal Speaker System, And A Supply System For Drinking Or Vaping Without Removing The Helmet.

Ying Ying And Le Le, Both 14-Year-Old Pandas, Living Together In A Hong Kong Zoo For 13 Years, Have Finally Successfully Mated On 4/6/2020, Probably Thanks To The Quietness Due To COVID-19. However, Whether In Captivity Or In The Wild, Giant Pandas Rarely Show The Desire Or Skill To Mate, Which Is Impeding Their Survival.

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This Recent Data May Be A Welcome Relief, As It Indicates No Direct Spread From A COVID-19 Infected Mother To An Infant Before Birth, A Process Called “Vertical Transmission.” This May Imply That The Babies Infected In Wuhan And London May Have Been Exposed To The Virus Via Conventional Means. Only Time And More Studies Will Tell.

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A New Born, In London, Is Now Said, To The Best Of Knowledge, To Be The Youngest Person To Contract The Coronavirus Within Minutes After Birth. This Has Also Prompted The Question On How Babies Contract The Disease? Is It In The Womb Or Via Conventional Process, From The Mother, After Birth? Coronavirus Has Killed >5000 People Globally.

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More Advances On Cancer Treatment. More Than A Thousand Scientists, In 37 Countries, After More Than A Decade, Have Now Completed 99% Of “The 100,000-Piece Of Jigsaw Puzzles” That Is Cancer. This Feat Would Enable Cancer Treatment To Be Tailored To Each Patients’ Unique Tumour Or Help In Developing Ways For Catching Cancer Earlier. Nice!

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Researchers Have Discovered A T-Cell With A New Type Of T-Cell Receptor (TCR) That Recognizes A Molecule, MR1, Which Appears On Surfaces Of Both Healthy And Many Cancer Cells. But The TCR Equipped T-Cells, However, Kill Only Cancer Cells Of Any Type With MR1. Researchers Are Hopeful The Treatment Will Be Ready In A Few Years.

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Interesting To Find Living Fishes That Walk. Scientists, While Sampling The DNA Of The Only Known Walking Shark Species To Estimate When They Evolved, Found Four New Shark Species. The Youngest Of The Walking Shark Is Said To Have Evolved < 2 Mya, Which’s Fast By Evolutionary Scale, Majorly Contradicting Belief That Sharks Evolve Slowly.

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10 Years To The End Of 2019 Has Been Confirmed By Three Major Agencies: Nasa, Noaa, And The UK Met Office To Be The Warmest Decade On Record. And The Main Culprit For This Temperature Record Is The Carbon Emission from Human Activities. Scientists Are Also Indicating The Year 2019 To Be One Of The 5 Warmest Years, From 2015, On Record.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) On Thursday, 12/12/2019, Approved A 3 Digits Suicide Prevention Hotline Number, 988, To Help Improve Mental Health Support, Reduce Stigma, Save Lives, and Ease The Pressure On The 911 Number. Some Folks Also Want Texting Capability Added To The Hotline For Young People Who Seem To Prefer It.

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Recently Discovered Penguin Species Kupoupou Stilwelli, In New Zealand, May Be The Missing Link Btw Modern Penguins And The Extinct Human-Sized (>5Ft Tall) Penguins, E.G., Crossvallia Waiparensis. Kupoupou Is The Oldest Known Penguin, Similar In Size To Modern Penguins, Which lived Around 60-62.5 Mya After Dinosaur Extinction 66 Mya.

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Doctors At Duke University Have For The First Time In The US Transplanted A Reanimated Adult Heart. The Heart Is Perfused With Cold Solution And Removed. The Circulatory Dead Heart Is Placed In TransMedics Organ Care System Where It’s Revived. The Procedure Has Been Performed In The UK And Australia, And In Pediatric Donation In The US.

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Doctors, In The US, Have For The First Time Placed Humans In Suspended Animation (SA), Where Most Vital Body Functions Are Stopped Without Causing Death. The Process Is Done By Cooling A Person To Around 10-15 °C Via Replacing Their Blood With Ice-Cold Saline. SA Is Done To Fix Traumatic Injuries That Would Have Caused Death.

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Scientists Have Discovered That Babies In The Womb Have Lizard-Like Muscles That May Indicate The Remnant Of Our Evolution, About 250 Million Years, From Reptiles. The Muscles, Except For The Ones In The Thumb, Are Deleted Before Birth. But When They Persist, May Be Linked To Limb Defects. But Why Make Them Only To Delete Them Afterward?

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WHO And The World Bank Report Is Indicating That Disease X Could Kill Up To 80 Million People In 36 Hours. And This’s Due To Factors Like World Population Growth, Poor Access To Basic Health Services, Increases In International Travel And Migration, Travel Time Anywhere Being Less Than 36Hrs, Global Warming, And Dense Urbanization ETC

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Scientists May Have Discovered A Method That Would Enable The Tooth Enamel To Be Repaired. The Method, The Ability To Produce Tiny Clusters Of Calcium Phosphate, Would Allow The Enamel To Be Reproduced And Grown Back. And The Cool Part Is That The Materials Needed For This Are Cheap And Can Be Prepared On Large Scales.

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