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Images of Mars Eclipse Sparks Amusement Because it Looks Like a Googly Eye

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Two images of the Phobos eclipse imposed side-by-side to look like googly eyes
Two images of the Phobos eclipse imposed side-by-side to look like googly eyes

The Perseverance rover on Mars recorded the potato-shaped moon of Phobos crossing in front of the Sun last week—a Martian eclipse.

The rover was able to snap 68 images of the February 8th transit from its vantage point in the Jezero Crater, many of which unmistakably looked like classic, stick-on googly eyes, points out a science writer.

“Each time these eclipses are observed, they allow scientists to measure subtle shifts in Phobos’ orbit over time,” NASA wrote.

The pictures were captured using the rover’s left Mastcam-Z camera, usually used to take panoramic views of the Martian landscape.

Scientists will be able to use the data captured to study Phobos, named after the ancient Greek god of fear. Phobos is on a collision course with Mars, nearing the Red Planet at a rate of six feet (1.8 meters) every hundred years.

At that rate, the moon will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring.

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“The result arguably resembles more googly eye than awe-inspiring [sic] cosmic calendar occurrence,” wrote Andrew Paul at Pop-Sci.

Spot on Andrew.

Previous eclipses have been recorded on video, such as in April of 2022 when a 40-second recording was made by the same rover.

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Belgian Boy is the First Child in the World to Have Been Cured of Brain Stem Glioma, a Brutal Cancer

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Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko
Stock photo by Tima Miroshnichenko

Advances in medicine over the decades have seen the 5-year survival rate of children diagnosed with cancer increase to 85%, but there are outliers to that average—with few more sinister than brain stem glioma.

When French doctor Jacques Grill first saw these tumors in a young Belgian boy, it was a straightforward, agonizing conversation he knew he had to have with the family: 6-year-old Lucas was going to die.

But it was not to be, and following the results of an experimental treatment randomly assigned to the young boy, the unbelievable happened.

“Over a series of MRI scans, I watched as the tumor completely disappeared,” Dr. Grill told AFP. “I don’t know of any other case like him in the world.”

Brain stem glioma, officially called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), is rare and lethal, diagnosed in just 300 children annually in the United States, and 100 in France, where Dr. Grill practices.

The two-year survival rate is 10%, and no drug is widely available for its treatment beyond radiotherapy.

After Lucas’ diagnosis, the family traveled to France to take part in a randomized controlled trial called the Biomede trial, looking for medications to combat DIPG. Lucas was randomly assigned the drug everolimus, which he took for more than 5 years with remarkable success.

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7 other children in the Biomede trial have survived, but none have had their tumors disappear completely, and Lucas is now being looked at as the case study that could finally improve the long-term outcomes for children with this cancer.

Furthermore, the outlier in Lucas’ case was that his tumors carried a genetic mutation seen only a few times in history that made it especially susceptible to this medication, and biomedical researchers speaking with AFP say they are now hoping to reproduce tumor cells with this mutation in vitro.

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If they can, they can try and replicate the trial’s findings on the tumors in vitro, and confirm it was the cause of Lucas’ remarkable recovery.

These are the most preliminary steps, and an approved medication might not be available for another 10 to 15 years, but scientists are hopeful that the pace of technological advancement will shorten this.

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“I hope I shall always possess virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” – George Washington (Happy Presidents Day!)

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Quote of the Day: “I hope I shall always possess virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” – George Washington (to Alexander Hamilton in 1788)

Photo by: Ryan Stone (cropped)

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Nonprofit Diverts an Ocean Plastic Tide, Removing 2 Million Pounds of Trash From Waterways

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By Andrea Conway / TerraCycle Global Foundation
By Andrea Conway / TerraCycle Global Foundation

The TerraCycle Global Foundation reached an impressive milestone last month, announcing that they’ve removed over 2 million pounds of waste from rivers, canals, and waterways.

Since its founding, the nonprofit organization has targeted ocean pollution right at its source—waterways. When polluted, they send waste directly to oceans, harming sea life and the environment. Over 1000 tons have been diverted and recycled.

And, because the Foundation is founded by New Jersey-based TerraCycle—a two decades-old company known for turning plastic waste into useful items for sale—none of the litter collected ever goes to waste. (See a link to their cool bracelets below.)

Operating in canals throughout Bangkok, Thailand, TerraCycle’s “world-class river waste prevention systems” are implemented with the local community and governments to address the complex challenge of collecting waste before it enters and pollutes global aquatic systems.

The Foundation is currently operating wildlife-safe river traps in Thai canals to recover waste directly from the water. The waste is then sorted, and plastics are separated and recycled.

“We take a holistic approach to reducing plastic waste in waterways,” said James Scott, Executive Director of the TerraCycle Global Foundation. “Our operations provide safe, stable employment for members of the local Lat Phrao community in Bangkok while creating cleaner and healthier environments for communities along the canal.”

TerraCycle Global Foundation’s River Trap

“Reaching this waste removal milestone is only the beginning of the Foundation’s work to clean our oceans and preserve the planet.”

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Indeed, last year the Foundation made a Clinton Global Initiative ‘Commitment to Action’, with a project that prevents ocean waste. They pledged to replicate and scale its successful canal cleanup model in a new region in Southeast Asia, and establish a material recovery center as a central hub for waste management and educational programs.

Check out all the recycling going on at TerraCycle, especially their cool beaded bracelets that help collect 20-lbs of plastic waste with proceeds from every purchase—and 100% of it is made from diverted litter.

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California Launches Free Behavioral Health Apps for Children, Young Adults, and Families

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Photo by Annie Spratt

California’s Department of Health Care Services launched two free behavioral health digital services for all families with kids, teens, and young adults up to age 25.

The partnerships have been years in the making, as the state announced in 2021 the opportunity to collaborate on a new initiative to combat the youth mental health crisis.

They selected two platforms, Brightline for young kids and Kooth‘s Soluna for young adults and teens to be the cornerstone of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI).

The tools are free for all California families, regardless of income or health insurance.

“About two-thirds of California kids with depression do not receive treatment. This platform will help meet the need by expanding access to critical behavioral health supports,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary of the California Health & Human Services Agency. “Our young people will have an accessible option to get the help they need.”

Between 2019 and 2021, about one-third of California adolescents experienced serious psychological distress, with a 20 percent increase in adolescent suicides. Meanwhile, the mental health provider shortage is causing longer wait times for appointments to community-based mental health providers. Availability is particularly limited among the uninsured and people with low incomes.

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“The Behavioral Health Virtual Services Platform will give access to services early on, reducing the likelihood of escalation to more serious conditions,” said Ghaly.

BrightLife Kids

Both web and app-based applications will offer coaching services in English and Spanish, as well as telephone-based coaching in all Medi-Cal threshold languages.

The platforms include:

  • Free Coaching: Live one-on-one coaching sessions with a trained and qualified behavioral health wellness coach delivered through in-app chat or video appointments. Telephone coaching will also be available.
  • Educational Content: Age-tailored educational articles, videos, podcasts, and stories.
  • Assessments and Tools: Stress-management tools and clinically validated assessments to understand and monitor behavioral health over time.
  • Care Navigation Services: A searchable directory and live care navigation support to connect users to their local behavioral health resources, including connecting users with their health plan, school-based services, or community-based organizations that can provide clinical care options and care coordination services.
  • Peer Communities: Moderated forums let kids connect with other youth or caregivers, posing questions or sharing their own experiences to help others with the same situation.
  • Crisis and Safety Protocols: Crisis and emergency safety resources for platform users experiencing a mental health crisis or who require immediate assistance.

Both apps have strict privacy and confidentiality requirements and must adhere to all applicable state laws and regulations pertaining to privacy and security.

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Each app will also follow robust safety and risk escalation protocols. Trained behavioral health professionals will monitor app usage to identify potential risks, and licensed behavioral health professionals will be on standby to intervene, if clinically appropriate.

Where to find the apps

BrightLife Kids is available for download on IOS devices in the Apple App Store. The app for Android devices will be available in the summer, but it’s also accessible from all devices—or by computer—at CalHOPE.org. The Soluna app for older youth is available for both IOS and Android devices in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

See a preview of what to expect in the videos below, starting with the younger kids…

Check out the app for older kids…

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At 96 He May Be Britain’s Oldest Worker–And He Has No Plans to Retire: ‘You can’t sit back…Keep going’

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Bill Parton, who turned 96 this month has no intention of retiring – SWNS
Bill Parton, who turned 96 this month has no intention of retiring – SWNS

Britain’s oldest worker says he still has no plans to retire at the grand age of 96, after a career spanning eight decades.

Bill Parton is still clocking in five days a week at the sawmill business he founded himself 42 years ago, and he has no plans to quit working.

“You’ve got to keep your mind moving. The trick is to not stop. You can’t sit back, you’ve got to keep doing something.”

The great-grandad began working at age 14 as a plumber’s apprentice in 1942 during the World War II before going on to forge the successful family-run company.

Mr. Parton now mainly helps in the office but is no stranger to getting his hands dirty and fixing tools if required on the factory floor.

He still works 40 hours a week, having only dropped his sixth day 12 months ago. Even more admirable, he has never missed a week’s work in his life.

“I’ve never missed a week’s work in all my life. I did have a hip operation that laid me off for a couple of days though.”

Three of his grandchildren are now at the helm of Hales Sawmill in Shropshire, England, but that hasn’t stopped the sprightly senior from continuing to “keep his mind active” inside the firm he built from scratch in 1982.

“I used to be the gaffer—now I’m really the go-fer. You’ve got to let the kids have a go,” Parton quipped.

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“My son and the grandchildren are running it quite efficiently. It’s wonderful to see it pass through to the third generation.

He normally comes in around 9am and leaves at 5pm, and often walks around to see what the machines are doing.

“I don’t do as much these days but I’m always on hand if they need me.”

“I can tell if something’s wrong with a machine even from a squeak—I can hear it above all the noise.”

The sawmill began with just two employees but now has a staff of more than 60, spanning across two sites.

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His stellar work ethic has sustained him since leaving school as a teen—despite not being able to read or write—but admits, “you have to be lucky in a way.”

He also credits his late wife, Joan, and their 60-year marriage.

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“She was the real boss. She had the brains, and always knew what we were doing. She built us a great name.

“It’s easy to get a bad name, it’s hard to get a good one and keep it for all these years.”

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New Synthetic Compound Can Kill Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics

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Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a deadly global health menace, killing a million people every year.

The new synthetic compound called cresomycin proved to be “highly effective” at killing deadly superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Cresomycin is one of several promising compounds the team from Harvard University has developed to win the war against superbugs.

The team led by Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Andrew Myers reported in Science how the new molecule demonstrates an improved ability to bind to bacterial ribosomes—biomolecular machines that control protein synthesis.

Disrupting ribosomal function is a hallmark of many existing antibiotics, but some superbug bacteria have evolved shielding mechanisms that prevent drugs from working.

The new molecule draws inspiration from the chemical structures of ‘lincosamides’, a class of antibiotics that includes the commonly prescribed clindamycin.

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Like many antibiotics, clindamycin is made via semi-synthesis—a process in which complex products isolated from nature are modified directly for drug applications. The new Harvard compound, however, is fully synthetic and features chemical modifications that cannot be accessed through existing means.

“By leveraging the power of organic synthesis, we are limited almost only by our imagination when designing new antibiotics,” said study co-author Ben Tresco. “The bacterial ribosome is nature’s preferred target for antibacterial agents, and these agents are the source of inspiration for our program.”

Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics by expressing genes that produce enzymes (called ribosomal RNA methyltransferases) which box out the drug components that are designed to latch onto and disrupt the ribosome, ultimately blocking the drug’s activity.

To solve the problem, Dr. Myers and his team engineered their compound into a rigid shape that closely resembles its target – giving it a far stronger grip on the ribosome.

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The researchers describe their drug as being ‘pre-organized’ for ribosomal binding as it doesn’t need to expend as much energy conforming to its target as existing drugs.

The team identified cresomycin using component-based synthesis, a method pioneered by the Myers Research Group that involves building large molecular components of equal complexity and bringing them together at late stages—likened to pre-building sections of a complicated LEGO set before assembling them.

This modular, completely synthetic system allows them to make and test not just one but hundreds of target molecules, which greatly speeds up the drug discovery process.

“While we don’t yet know whether cresomycin and drugs like it are safe and effective in humans, our results show significantly improved inhibitory activity against a long list of pathogenic bacterial strains, compared with clinically approved antibiotics,” said Myers in a Harvard media release.

“Antibiotics form the foundation on which modern medicine is built,” co-author Kelvin Wu pointed out. “Without antibiotics, many cutting-edge medical procedures like surgeries, cancer treatments, and organ transplants, cannot be done.”

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The research received early support from Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which awarded funding to his lab in 2013 to enable testing of drug compounds. Ongoing research by Myers was also recently awarded $1.2M by a nonprofit organization for further development on oral antibiotics that could end the scourge of drug-resistant infections.

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“Treasure your relationships, rather than your possessions.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

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Quote of the Day: “Treasure your relationships, rather than your possessions.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Photo by: Pablo Fernández (CC license)

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Monkeying Around? All 4 Types of Apes Have a Sense of Humor– Researchers Categorize Their Clowning in Video

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Juvenile gorilla plays with adult – SWNS
Juvenile gorilla plays with adult – BY Max Block, via SWNS

Apes have a sense of humor similar to humans, suggests a new study that showed four species of great apes each playfully teasing each other.

The team of cognitive biologists and primatologists found that, similar to joking behavior in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play.

Because all four great ape species used playful teasing—orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas—the research team believes it likely that the prerequisites for humor evolved in the human lineage millions of years ago.

The researchers said that joking is an important part of human interaction that draws on social intelligence, an ability to anticipate future actions, and an ability to recognize and appreciate the violation of others’ expectations.

Teasing has much in common with joking, and playful teasing may be seen as a “cognitive precursor” to joking. (Watch the sweet video at the bottom…)

The first time playful teasing in humans emerge is as early as eight months of age—even before babies say their first words. Infants tease their parents by playfully offering and withdrawing objects, violating social rules—known as provocative non-compliance—and disrupting others’ activities.

Juvenile orangutan pulling its mother’s hair – Photo by BOS FOUNDATION BPI

The new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, was conducted by scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles and San Diego, Indiana University, and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.

“Great apes are excellent candidates for playful teasing, as they are closely related to us, engage in social play, show laughter and display relatively sophisticated understandings of others’ expectations,” says study first author Dr. Isabelle Laumer.

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The researchers classified spontaneous interactions as playful, mildly harassing, or provocative—and during the interactions, the team observed the teaser’s actions, bodily movements, facial expressions, and how the targets of the teasing responded in turn.

They also assessed the teaser’s intentionality by looking for evidence that the behavior was directed at a specific target, that it persisted or intensified, and that teasers waited for a response from the target, as seen in the video below.

The team found that orangutans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas all engaged in intentionally provocative behavior, frequently accompanied by characteristics of play.

They identified 18 distinct teasing behaviors. Many of the behaviors appeared to be used to provoke a response, or at least to attract the target’s attention.

“It was common for teasers to repeatedly wave or swing a body part or object in the middle of the target’s field of vision, hit or poke them, stare closely at their face, disrupt their movements, pull on their hair or perform other behaviors that were extremely difficult for the target to ignore,” said the study’s senior author UCLA Professor Erica Cartmill.

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Although playful teasing took many forms, the researchers noted that it differed from play.

“Playful teasing in great apes is one-sided, very much coming from the teaser often throughout the entire interaction and rarely reciprocated,” said Prof. Cartmill. “The animals also rarely use play signals like the primate ‘playface’, which is similar to what we would call a smile, or ‘hold’ gestures that signal their intent to play.”

The team found playful teasing mainly occurred when apes were relaxed, and shared similarities with behaviors in humans.

“Similar to teasing in children, ape teasing involves one-sided provocation, response waiting—in which the teaser looks towards the target’s face directly after a teasing action—repetition, and elements of surprise,” says Dr. Laumer.

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The researchers noted that Jane Goodall and other field primatologists had mentioned similar behaviors happening in chimps many years ago, but the new study is the first to systematically study playful teasing.

“We hope that our study will inspire other researchers to study playful teasing in more species in order to better understand the evolution of this multi-faceted behavior,” said Laumer.

“We also hope that this study raises awareness of the similarities we share with our closest relatives.”

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Artist Redesigns Strangers’ Lackluster Flyers for Free–After Finding Them On the Street (WATCH)

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Cleaning poster redesigned by Max Kolomatsky shared on TikTok @cool_lookin_bug (via SWNS)
Cleaning poster redesigned by Max Kolomatsky shared on TikTok @cool_lookin_bug (via SWNS)

A digital artist who usually charges hundreds of dollars for the service is surprising strangers by redesigning their lackluster flyers for free, after finding them on the street.

Max Kolomatsky came up with the guerrilla marketing idea last year after noticing the many uninspiring posters plastered on street lights, buildings, and subway stations in his New York City neighborhood.

The 25-year-old started taking them home and redesigning them in his spare time, while making videos of the ‘random acts of kindness’ for his TikTok page.

For discreetly pasting the improved flyers around the city, Max has been compared to Banksy, the pop artist who remains anonymous while creating art in public spaces.

He’s completed at least 15 free redesigns, transforming boring and hard to read flyers with eye-catching images, bold colors, and a stand-out typeface.

His most popular video, with 11 million views, features a dull, black-and-white flyer for a cleaning service named The Clean Team. He dreamed up a superhero theme that looked like the Avengers armed with spray bottle, mop, and sponge. (Watch the fun video at the bottom, showing the transformation…)

Max Kolomatsky–making the world a better place (SWNS)

The Brooklyn freelancer said the first video shows him redesigning a flyer for a group looking for people to join them in playing Catan—and the result was totally unexpected..

“I recorded it for TikTok and the reaction was pretty instant. I posted it at 5pm and it had over a million views by the time I went to sleep. The group found the TikTok on the first night and they loved it.

“They were excited that it had just come up on their phone. I was hoping they would see it in public and have a surreal moment but it’s almost better they saw the whole process.”

Max, who has worked in illustration since 2020, has found the surprise redesigns to be a win-win. He gets to market his services and make something for his portfolio while perform an act of kindness that helps local businesses.

Pet-sitting poster redesigned by Max Kolomatsky shared on TikTok @cool_lookin_bug (via SWNS)

Hundreds of people have reached out to Max after seeing his TikToks, asking him to work his creative magic on their signs but he declines to work that way. He will continue picking random posters that grab his attention (or lack thereof) on the streets of New York.

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“I prefer to do this slowly—quality over quantity— telling the stories on TikTok in a compelling way.

Max uses Adobe software and the company took notice of his viral social media presence, and they now have a paid partnership that allows Adobe to posts Max’s content on their TikTok page.

Max has also enjoyed meeting a few of the flyer-makers in person—like the goth band that was looking for a guitarist and drummer. They did complete their band and they’ve released new music.

Max Kolomatsky’s reimagined sign ‘We’re open’ – SWNS

“They had actually seen some of my videos beforehand and someone had made a joke to them like ‘what if that guy redesigns it?”

“I gave them copies of the flyer and it was good promo for them.”

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Max has never put his contact info on the public posters but it is something he’s considered changing.

“I was attracted to that idea of it being anonymous—just thinking about the moment a stranger discovers it. But the ones with small businesses, I want to try and see if I can attach files or something like that.”

Despite the reaction to Max’s artwork being overwhelmingly positive he has received a few negative comments.

“A lot of people in the goth community who commented on that video said they liked the original flyer better, because it was janky and homemade.

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“It was a turning point in the project for me because it made me very aware (that) I don’t want to make an image more corporate or take charm away from the street.”

Perhaps the best part about his viral videos is that they’ve given other people the idea to do the same thing in their cities, like Berlin. It’s a win-win for the gig economy and freelance designers everywhere, no matter the language.

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Hand-held Test for Breast Cancer Uses Your Saliva and Gives Accurate Readings in 5 Seconds

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File photo by Marco Verch, CC license

Do women prefer a mammogram to test for breast cancer? Or would they rather place a tiny sample of saliva on a test strip and get the results in under five seconds?

A new hand-held portable device is not only extremely quick and easy to use but very cost effective, say scientists from the University of Florida and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

The device itself, about the size of your hand, uses common components that cost just five dollars and uses widely available glucose testing strips costing just a few cents each.

The biosensor works by using paper test strips treated with specific antibodies that interact with the targeted cancer biomarkers.

When a drop of saliva is placed on the strip, pulses of electricity are sent to electrical contact points on the biosensor device.

Compared to the costly alternatives of Mammograms, which expose women to radiation—or MRIs and ultrasounds which require expensive equipment—researchers called the device revolutionary.

The team believes their device, which uses the open-source hardware-software platform Arduino, can help people in remote areas to detect breast cancer early on.

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The study’s author, University of Florida PhD student Hsiao-Hsuan Wan said, “Imagine medical staff conducting breast cancer screening in communities or hospitals.”

“In many places, especially in developing countries, advanced technologies like MRI for breast cancer testing may not be readily available,” she said. “Our technology is cost-effective, with the reusable circuit board priced at $5.”

Printed circuit board in saliva-based biosensor for detecting cancer CREDIT: HSIAO-HSUAN WAN (via SWNS)

The electrical pulses produced on the test strips cause the biomarkers to bind to the antibodies and produce a change in the output signal, which can be measured and translated into digital information about how much biomarker is present.

The results from testing the device, published in the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, showed that it could provide accurate test results even if the concentration of the cancer biomarker in the sample is only one quadrillionth of a gram, or one femtogram, per milliliter.

“The highlight for me was when I saw readings that clearly distinguished between healthy individuals and those with cancer,” said Ms. Wan in a media release from the American Institute of Physics.

“We dedicated a lot of time and effort to perfecting the strip, board, and other components. Ultimately, we’ve created a technique that has the potential to help people all around the world.”

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“We are excited about the potential to make a significant impact in areas where people might not have had the resources for breast cancer screening tests before.”

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Your Horoscope for the Week – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny

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Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free preview of the book is available here.)

Here is your weekly horoscope…

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY – Week of February 17, 2024
Copyright by Rob Brezsny, FreeWillAstrology.com

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) lived till age 76, but her destiny was a rough ride. Her native country, the authoritarian Soviet Union, censored her work and imprisoned her friends and family. In one of her poems, she wrote, “If I can’t have love, if I can’t find peace, give me a bitter glory.” She got the latter wish. She came close to winning a Nobel Prize and is now renowned as a great poet and heroic symbol of principled resistance to tyranny. Dear Aquarius, I predict that your life in the coming months will be very different from Akhmatova’s. I expect you will enjoy more peace and love than you’ve had in a long time. Glory will stream your way, too, but it will be graceful, never bitter. The effects will be heightened if you express principled resistance to tyranny.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Piscean perfumer Sophia Grojsman says, “Our lives are quiet. We like to be disturbed by delight.” To that end, she has created over 30 best-selling fragrances, including Eternity Purple Orchid, Désir Coulant (Flowing Desire), Spellbound, Volupté (Pleasure), and Jelisaveta (“God is abundance”). I bring this up, Pisces, because I believe it’s now essential for you to be disturbed by delight—as well as to disturb others with delight. Please do what’s necessary to become a potent magnet for marvelous interruptions, sublime interventions, and blissful intrusions. And make yourself into a provider of those healing subversions, too.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Some stories don’t have a distinct and orderly beginning, middle, and end. At any one point, it may be hard to know where you are. Other tales have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but the parts occur out of order; maybe the middle happens first, then the end, followed by the beginning. Every other variation is possible, too. And then there’s the fact that the beginning of a new story is implied at the end of many stories, even stories with fuzzy plots and ambiguous endings. Keep these ruminations in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. You will be in a phase when it’s essential to know what story you are living in and where you are located in the plot’s unfoldment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
As I meditate on your destiny in the near future, I sense you will summon extra courage, perhaps even fearless and heroic energy. I wonder if you will save a drowning person, or rescue a child from a burning building, or administer successful CPR to a stranger who has collapsed on the street. Although I suspect your adventures will be less dramatic than those, they may still be epic. Maybe you will audaciously expose corruption and deceit, or persuade a friend to not commit self-harm, or speak bold thoughts you haven’t had the daring to utter before.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Lately, you have been learning more than you thought possible. You have surpassed and transcended previous limits in your understanding of how the world works. Congratulations! I believe the numerous awakenings stem from your willingness to wander freely into the edgy frontier—and then stay there to gather in all the surprising discoveries and revelations flowing your way. I will love it if you continue your pilgrimage out there beyond the borders for a while longer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):
As I study the astrological omens for the coming weeks, I suspect you will feel more at home in a situation that has previously felt unnerving or alien. Or you will expedite the arrival of the future by connecting more deeply with your roots. Or you will cultivate more peace and serenity by exploring exotic places. To be honest, though, the planetary configurations are half-mystifying me; I’m offering my best guesses. You may assemble a strong foundation for an experimental fantasy. Or perhaps you will engage in imaginary travel, enabling you to wander widely without leaving your sanctuary. Or all of the above.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Of your hundreds of wishes and yearnings, Leo, which is the highest on your priority list? And which are the next two? What are the sweet, rich, inspiring experiences you want more than anything else in life? I invite you to compile a tally of your top three longings. Write them on a piece of paper. Draw or paste an evocative symbol next to each one. Then place this holy document in a prominent spot that you will see regularly. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when focusing and intensifying your intentions will bring big rewards.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy hiked across Spain along the famous pilgrimage route, Camino de Santiago. On the way, he felt so brave and strong that at one point he paradoxically had a sobbing breakdown. He realized how fear had always dominated his life. With this chronic agitation absent for the first time ever, he felt free to be his genuine self. “I started to feel more comfortable in the world and consequently in my own skin,” he testified, concluding, “I think travel obliterates fear.” I recommend applying his prescription to yourself in the coming months, Virgo—in whatever ways your intuition tells you are right. Cosmic forces will be aligned with you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
In the natural world, there are four partnership styles. In the parasitic variety, one living thing damages another while exploiting it. In the commensal mode, there is exploitation by one partner, but no harm occurs. In the epizoic model, one creature serves as a vehicle for the other but gets nothing in return. The fourth kind of partnership is symbiotic. It’s beneficial to both parties. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to take an inventory of your alliances and affiliations—and begin to de-emphasize, even phase out, all but the symbiotic ones.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Scorpio author Dan Savage says, “I wish I could let myself eat and eat and eat.” He imagines what it would be like if he didn’t “have to monitor the foods I put in my mouth or go to the gym anymore.” He feels envious of those who have no inhibitions about being gluttonous. In alignment with astrological aspects, I authorize Savage and all Scorpios to temporarily set aside such inhibitions. Take a brief break. Experiment with what it feels like to free yourself to ingest big helpings of food and drink—as well as metaphorical kinds of nourishment like love, sensations, and entertainment. Just for now, allow yourself to play around with voraciousness. You may be surprised at the deeper liberations it triggers.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Dear Wise Gambler: You rank high in your spacious intelligence, intuitive logic, and robust fantasy life. There’s only one factor that may diminish your ability to discern the difference between wise and unwise gambles. That’s your tendency to get so excited by big, expansive ideas that you neglect to account for messy, inconvenient details. And it’s especially important not to dismiss or underplay those details in the coming weeks. If you include them in your assessments, you will indeed be the shrewdest of wise gamblers.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Capricorn golfer Tiger Woods is one of the all-time greats. He holds numerous records and has won scores of tournaments. On 20 occasions, he has accomplished the most difficult feat: hitting a hole-in-one. But the weird fact is that there were two decades (1998–2018) between his 19th and 20th holes-in-one. I suspect your own fallow time came in 2023, Capricorn. By now, you should be back in the hole-in-one groove, metaphorically speaking. And the coming months may bring a series of such crowning strokes.

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“Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.” – F.M. Hubbard

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Quote of the Day: “Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.” – F.M. Hubbard

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Young People in These G7 Countries are Interested in Investing and Find Savings Accounts ‘Sexy’ – New Poll

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OnePoll via SWNS

Survey data from two of the G7 countries show that financial planning and fiscal responsibility are attractive to a potential partner.

In America, a large survey showed that significant numbers of younger people find having a savings account sexy.

Meanwhile in Japan, a three-fourths majority of surveyed high schoolers said they were keenly interested in investing, and even at such a tender age, almost 5% had already started.

Private savings aren’t just a responsible thing for an individual or couple to maintain in order to have a secure life, they are the singular cause of wealth in human society.

According to a OnePoll survey of 2,000 U.S. adults in serious relationships, engaged or married, having a savings account (40%), not having any debt (38%), and having a five-year plan (29%) are all attractive traits in a partner.

78% of respondents agreed that someone who prepares for the future is more attractive than someone who flies by the seat of their pants.

More than two-thirds (69%) attribute their preparedness to their partner—either putting these plans in place to protect them (35%) or to make them feel secure (34%).

Conducted on behalf of Assurance IQ, the survey also looked to uncover how love changes as you grow older and how couples are preparing for the future together.

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The second survey, conducted by Studyplus Trend Kenkyujo, the research arm of Tokyo-based education-related service provider Studyplus Inc., found that more than 70% of high school students in Japan are interested in investing, and 4.7% have already started.

Thanks to the magic of compounding, the earlier a person can start investing or saving, the more money they will have when they decide not to work anymore.

The study proffered a questionnaire to 512 high schoolers at the end of the 2023 academic year. Of the 4.7% who had already begun investing, 4.5% said they did so with the help of, or under the influence from, their parents or other relatives.

“Adults close to high school students, such as parents and teachers, need to create opportunities for them to properly learn about finance and guide them correctly,” the researchers said.

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Financial literacy is a barren topic in American high schools, but unlike biology or algebra, it’s a skill they are 100% likely to need at some point.

Humans saving their wealth is what turned societies from tribes of hunter-gatherers into the complex technological marvels they are today. When people had savings, they had time to think, and when they had time to think, they invented better ways of living and working.

Fast-forward to modern society, and the same principle is present. Private wealth deposited in financial institutions like banks or funds allows those institutions to lend to people with ideas for how to make society better—to start businesses, to innovate, to expand, to construct bridges and other infrastructure.

This is the story of how Japan became the global manufacturing powerhouse of the second half of the 20th century—through constant savings and investment at rates as high as 18.2% for the average household.

The surveys suggest that maybe the world is in more responsible hands than the baby-boomer generation might imagine.

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Politician Declared Winner But Gives Up His Seat When He Learns of Election Interference on his Behalf

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File photo by The Artist Studio

In one of the most contentious elections in recent memory, a newly-elected provincial parliamentarian in Pakistan was declared victorious. But, in a display of honesty and fairness, he gave up the seat to his opponent after discovering significant vote tampering had facilitated the win.

Mr. Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman, from the mainstream Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, believed he had won Karachi’s provincial seat #129, after defeating independent candidate Saif Bari, backed by the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

Election results showed Mr. Rehman earning more than 26,000 votes, but he later told Reuters that he discovered the tally for his opponent had been reduced, without explanation, from 31,000 to 11,000 after the voting machines were tabulated.

“Public opinion should be respected, let the winner win, let the loser lose, no one should get anything extra,” Rehman told Reuters on Wednesday.

“I will not accept it, the winner should be given the victory.”

Pakistan experienced a populist political shift during the election of Imran Khan, of the PTI party, to Prime Minister in 2018. His victory saw a loss of influence and control among the powerful military establishment and its preferred political party. Khan was later removed from office after a no-confidence vote, and then he was jailed on a variety of charges, leading to political instability, martial law in some cases, and censorship of the press.

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This year’s local and national elections in Pakistan were disputed before they began. Similar to what happened in the U.S., when then-President Trump declared the 2020 presidential election to be unfair and rigged even before the votes were cast, PTI members and supporters believed their opponents would do anything to prevent a PTI victory. Claims of voter suppression and fraud were leveled all over the country—but in Pakistan, unlike the U.S., there was factual evidence to prove the claims true, at least in one race.

Amid the chaos, Rehman remained just as a lighthouse—a beacon in the storm—reminding those with heated tempers that if you participate in the democratic process, you commit yourself to accepting the will of the people, to learning what they desire, and then to try again in 4 years.

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Despite the allegations—and at least some evidence—of votes being suppressed or thrown out, the upstart PTI stunned the country’s political establishment, winning the majority of seats in the parliament. Mr. Rehman’s honesty provided one of those victories.

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Hearts Melt as Truck Firm Transports Tons of Snow from North to South for Special Needs Kids to Have Fun

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Beijing Truck Home Information Technology - retrieved from Douyin (TikTok)
Beijing Truck Home Information Technology – retrieved from Douyin (TikTok)

A Chinese commercial trucking company paid nearly $30,000 to truck thousands of pounds of snow from the frozen northern city of Harbin to a special needs school in the tropical southern metropolis of Guangzhou.

Officially, it was Beijing Truck Home Information Technology’s demonstration run of their refrigerated trucks, but for the drivers and staff who participated in the event, it was all about seeing the children’s joy.

Leaving Harbin on January 28th, the convoy drove 1,960 miles, or 3,300 kilometers, arriving at Xingzhi Children’s Growth Center on February the 1st.

The trucks then dumped out the snow and gave almost 2,000 children with autism and other impairments the chance to experience snow for the first time ever.

“We’re giving the snow to a special school in the south, giving a chance for children to experience the fun of snow fighting and making snowmen,” an employee of the trucking company said.

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Teachers at the school told Red Star News that some of the kids at Xingzhi will never be able to see snow. It’s too far away, and their parents don’t have the resources.

Beijing Truck Home Information Technology – retrieved from Douyin (TikTok)

“It was a nature lesson. Usually, we give them pictures in class and tell them that this is snow and this is a snowman,” one teacher said. “They really saw the real thing this time.”

Another teacher told South China Morning Post that “they had a great time”.

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According to SCMP, these kinds of positive stories spread like wildfire on Chinese social media, and the comments section was filled with well-wishes to the company for thinking of these disadvantaged kids.

“The snow may be cold, but everyone’s heart has completely melted,” one commenter siad poetically.

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Charlotte the Stingray, Single for 8 Years, Celebrated V-day with ‘Impossible’ Litter of Non-Fertilized Eggs

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Charlotte the stingray - Released by Aquarium and Shark Lab
Charlotte the stingray – Released by Aquarium and Shark Lab

It’s hard being alone on Valentine’s Day—something that Charlotte the round stingray had experienced for eight years in a row.

But this year she decided she wasn’t going to wait for that special someone to celebrate the day of lovers, and managed to get pregnant without a man in sight for miles.

This Valentine’s Day miracle is technically called “parthenogenesis” a kind of asexual reproduction seen in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish—but not mammals.

Lacking any genetic material from a male, the female’s egg fuses with another cell known as a polar body, triggers cellular division, and voila—an embryo appears.

The staff at North Carolina’s Aquarium and Shark Lab first noticed that Charlotte was blowing up like a balloon and believed it was merely a case of too much food—but an ultrasound revealed that parthenogenesis had occurred, and that Charlotte would be a mom of 4 pups in the coming weeks.

“We were all like, ‘shut the back door, there’s no way’,” Brenda Ramer, executive director of the small aquarium in Hendersonville, told ABC News Australia. “We thought we were overfeeding her. But we were overfeeding her because she has more mouths to feed.”

Ramer and her staff were quick to point out that Charlotte hadn’t seen another male stingray in 8 years, and it would have been “impossible” for her to get frisky with some of the sharks that share her tank.

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Despite being closely related, sharks and rays cannot interbreed; their DNA wouldn’t match up; their ‘anatomy’ even less so.

Kady Lyons, a graduate student at the aquarium, also told ABC Au that she isn’t surprised this auto-impregnation occurred, saying that it’s a case of how “life finds a way.”

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“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.” – Xenophon

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Quote of the Day: “The sweetest of all sounds is praise.” – Xenophon

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Christian Bale Breaks Ground on 12 Foster Homes to House Hundreds of Transitioning Teens in California

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Together California groundbreaking – by Victor R. Vega Jr.
Together California groundbreaking – by Victor R. Vega Jr.

The personal passion project of Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale seems to finally be coming to fruition as the Welsh actor recently broke ground on a children’s foster care village in Palmdale, California.

Founding the non-profit Together California, it’s taken Mr. Bale 16 years to really get the show on the road after being inspired to help improve the foster care system following the birth of his daughter in 2005.

Together California acquired a 4.67-acre site adjacent to McAdam Park in Palmdale, a city in the north of LA numbering around 160,000 inhabitants, in 2022. The ground-breaking ceremony coincided with a break in the recent stormy weather, and left both the natural lighting and sense of the future looking a lot more sunny.

“I had the very unrealistic idea that within one year I’d have created a miniature Sound of Music with kids singing on hills in an endlessly joyful environment,” the Batman star told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I discovered no, it takes an awful long time and really well-motivated people. It’s complicated and tough to help kids.

“It should be a hell of a lot easier than it was, but I didn’t flinch for one second.”

Offering pioneering care designed to keep foster siblings together, the “village” will feature 12 three-bedroom townhomes, each housing six children. A full-time, professionally trained foster parent will provide care and support.

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Studio apartments will be available to provide temporary housing for visiting relatives or transitional housing for kids aging out of foster care. A 7,000-square-foot community center will also offer enriching programs and services as part of the project.

Photo by Victor R. Vega Jr.

“Imagine the absolute pain and the trauma of losing your parents or being torn from your parents, and then losing your brothers and sisters on top of that. That’s no way to treat kids—and so, we will be the hub for that,” said Bale.

“I hope that this village will be the first of many, and I hope that people, Californians and Angelenos, know to come join us in opening our eyes to what’s happening right under our noses. These are our children, and we must help our children.”

Together California groundbreaking – by Victor R. Vega Jr.

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Bale explained that it was the birth of his daughter, Luka, with his wife Sibi that first enlightened the actor as to the conditions of the foster care system in California.

The state has the largest number of foster kids in the nation, and often it sees siblings go in and get separated—unable to grow up together.

He also said he was influenced by his father, an environmental activist who worked with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Humane Society of the United States, and who moved the family around a lot. Philanthropy was part of David Bale’s life, and Christian recalled there often being people sleeping in the family home who had nowhere else to go.

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America Has a Higher Percentage of Bilingual Citizens Than the French, Italians, or British

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Unsplash – Leonardo Toshiro Okubo

Proprietary survey and research data from a DC think tank have demonstrated that a greater percentage of Americans are bilingual than the French, Italians, or British, despite these Europeans having a more immediate need for bilingualism.

Visits to Milano, Paris, or Amsterdam may have given generations of Americans the wrong idea about the talent inherent in the tongues of Europeans: namely that all can easily produce 2 or 3 languages.

The “America the Bilingual Project” has found that the EU average for number of bilingual citizens is 25% of a country’s population, while the US is 23%—a few percentage points higher than France and Britain, just 5% less than Germany, and double that of the Italians.

There are approximately 76 million bilingual Americans, which is 3-times as many as Germany, the next highest country in Europe in terms of absolute numbers of bilingual citizens, but also represents more speakers of the world’s most-spoken languages than any other country.

The US has more English-Spanish bilinguals than all of Latin America combined, so it’s no surprise that the Project found that 66% of American bilinguals are Spanish speakers, but the US also contains more than one million speakers of seven other languages. These include Tagalog (Filipino), Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese (Cantonese), Korean, but also French and German.

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The US has between 100,000 and 1 million speakers of 35 other languages, the higher end represented by Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, and Italian, and the lower end represented by Persian (Farsi), Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Thai, Ukrainian, and Dutch.

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Obviously immigration is a large part of this success story, but it wasn’t always so. The trend up into the 1960s was actually the rapid abandonment of native languages over the first and second generations following immigration—a rate faster and more prevalent than what is found in any country on Earth.

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However, after 1960, the trend reversed, with greater and greater rates of bilingualism developing. An estimated 10%, approximately seven million American bilinguals, grew up in English-speaking homes but managed to gain professional competence in a second language, showing that America’s bilingualism boom wasn’t just down to immigration.

The Project’s founder Steve Leveen, believes that America’s bilingual abilities represent the perfect way to build American soft power around the globe, as not only does our country contain the largest repository of native English-speakers, but also these sky-high rates of bilingualism.

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