Gordon Shell, a retired professional cage fighter and now owner of a fighters gym in the Detroit area has now become a well known animal activist who is also adopting rescue dogs and volunteering at shelters. In addition, he now competes at charity bouts to raise funds for rescue organizations and humane societies....
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Researchers finding significant health benefits of coffee
Coffee is now being studied more closely by researchers who are seeing potential for significant disease prevention and therapeutics. They are trying to understand how the coffee and caffeine actually work within the cells as population studies show promise for therapeutics. Harvard researchers have done a study which indicates that drinking 1-3 cups of...
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Another thought on an application for Google lens–apps for diagnosing illnesses in developing countries including potential epidemics
There are visible symptoms connected with many illnesses. Where a disease does not present visible symptoms they frequently can be diagnosed through b blood test readings. As I mentioned yesterday, Google is building artificial intelligence into its Google lens connected to its smart phone. So, with regard to disease detection and "roughcut" diagnoses, I...
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Google lens turns your camera into a Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Homes is a master of deductive reasoning and pattern recognition in the sustaining novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He could, in fractions of a second, make observations of the smallest note of a person's clothing, rate of breathing, hair color and perfume type and put them together into conclusions that explained them...
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Jeffrey Newman recommends the book and film : The Man Who Knew Infinity
I am trying to find interesting books and films both new and not so new and this weekend, I stumbled on one. That is how these things seem to be found for me, mistake and happenstance when I am looking. Perhaps someone will find a more systematic method of stirring up quality writing forgotten...
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Why Fox news snatched legal analyst Andrew Napolitano off the air
Fox News has sidelined senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano after he said former President Barack Obama asked British intelligence to wiretap Donald Trump and his allies during the presidential campaign.
On March 4, the President Tweeted, "Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" before the November election. A week later, Andrew Napolitano, a former...
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Finally one pharma company wakes up — Eli Lilly offers 40% discount for insulin
Eli Lilly & Co., manufacturer of insulin, is discounting the injectable drug by as much as 40%. The move comes after several years of skyrocketing price increases in which top-selling insulins have more than doubled in price since 201. Some conclude that the increases are a result of an increase of middlemen known...
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Trump–Time’s Person of the Year promises to slash the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs
Donald Trump, revealed as TIME's Person of the Year has promised to reduce the price of prescription drugs. He said "I don't like what is happening with drug prices and I will bring down the cost of prescription drugs. Prescription drug prices have skyrocketed. Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which hiked costs on two heart medications by...
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Trump appoints Quicken Loans lobbiest to Dept of Urban Development even though Quicken named in DOJ suit on mortgages
Presidenti-elect Trump has named Shawn Krause, head of Quicken Loans' government relations division to the transition's team for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Quicken loans is involved in a case taken against it by the Department of Justice. The DOJ sued Quicken concerning allegations it knowingly issued defective mortgages insured by HUD's...
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Trump’s tough AG nominee Jeff Sessions expected to take hard line on financial and corporate crime
The new Trump administration is not expected to take it easy on banks and other financial institutions that commit financial crime.
Senator Jeff Sessions who has been nominated to be the next attorney-general and is expected to be approved by the Senate, has taken a tough line on white-collar crime. While serving on the Senate...
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