Instead of Putting Him in Nursing Home, Grandson Brings 95-Year-old WWII Vet on Epic Bucket List RV Trip

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When 95-Year-old WWII veteran Johnnie Dimas lost his full-time caregiver and wife of 67 years, there didn’t seem to be many options, other than to move out of his house and into a nursing home.

But, he and his late wife had always vowed that they would never go into a home—so his grandson Roger Gilbert devised a plan.

He moved Grandpa Johnnie from Illinois to live with Roger and his wife Jo, in Sedona, Arizona two years ago.

And, last October they decided to embark on an epic journey around the USA in their motor home, visiting all of the places on their grandfather’s bucket list.

Knowing that time was limited, the unlikely trio explored and experienced as much as they could together—from Mardi Gras to Las Vegas, to an encounter with a camel named Roger at a dairy farm on the Mexican border, where he was completely enamored with the animal.

Most importantly, they got to visit several World War II museums where Johnnie was “treated like a rock star.” He was also fortunate enough to meet a fellow WWII vet there.

“I think it was deeply cathartic for Grandpa to be able to process everything that had happened at such a young age,” Jo told GNN.

Johnnie enlisted in the U.S. Marines at the age of 17—and due to his young age, his father had to sign him up. He served in Guam where he was wounded and was sent back to the States to recover in a V.A. hospital. He had severe PTSD and was treated with electric shock therapy—until he “witnessed a friend and fellow soldier being carried out on a stretcher.” Afterward, he discharged himself from the hospital and went home.

Before loading his wheelchair into the motorhome for their trip, they dubbed their vehicle the ‘Sweet Mary Bus,’ for Johnnie’s late wife.

“Grandpa used to call her ‘Sweety’, so we named it after her and got a license plate with the name. It made him cry.”

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Some of their favorites stops turned out to be Tombstone Arizona; White Sands, New Mexico; and the Texas cities of San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas.

They loved El Paso, Texas—particularly the Rosa Cantina, which is featured in the song ‘El Paso’.

One sentimental day, the Sweet Mary Bus rolled into Waco, Texas, where Grandpa Johnnie was born and raised.

“Grandpa loved food and so we had a blast in Louisiana—trying crawfish, alligator, as well as all the things New Orleans is known for.”

They toured the Louisiana swamps on an airboat, and enjoyed the Mardi Gras celebrations, before heading back to Arizona.

“I can honestly say that caring for Grandpa was the hardest and most rewarding thing we have ever done,” Jo says. “Caring for someone 24/7 is a very difficult job, but it also teaches you to be selfless.”

“Grandpa taught us both so many things,” says Jo. “With the joy and contentment he felt in sitting by a campfire, or the sweet moments spent feeding popcorn to the ducks, he taught me that the simple times, the quiet moments in life are the ones to value.”

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“It was such an honor to see how people respected his service in WWII, and how fascinated they were by him and his stories. As we walked down the street people would stop Grandpa, shake his hand and thank him for his service. They didn’t often stop long enough to see how Johnnie would always well up with emotion and gratitude for their kind words, it touched him so deeply every time.”

At a WWII aircraft hangar-turned-museum in Texas, the young lady who helped run the place was so delighted to meet someone who’d lived through WWII that she gave Johnnie a personal tour and a tee shirt.

“She was thrilled to take photos with him, and before we left she said that meeting Grandpa had made her year! It was here that Grandpa also got his favorite mug: It simply said in big red letters “To hell with Hitler” and made him laugh every morning without fail when he drank his coffee.”

The 96 year-old passed away this year on August 16th. Their next planned trip was to visit Graceland, the home of his biggest idol—Elvis. He was so excited to go, but his deteriorating health wouldn’t allow for it. But in a final “sweet kiss from God”, Roger and Jo realized that Grandpa died the same day Elvis did, 43 years later—and he would have been tickled by that.

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“Honor to the soldier and sailor, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Quote of the Day: “Honor to the soldier and sailor, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” – Abraham Lincoln (for Veterans Day)

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Girl Who Challenged Dave Grohl to Drum Battles Is Now Co-Writing a Song to Perform With Foo Fighters

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Two people who’ve been having quite a bit of fun during lockdown are Dave Grohl and a 10-year-old girl named Nandi. Since August, they’ve been taking each other on in the most epic drum battle. Now? The pair are getting ready to jam on stage some day.

Nandi Bushell lives with her family in the pretty town of Ipswich in England. A superlative drummer, she’s been playing since she was five-years-old.

She kicked things off with Dave in summer when she posted a video where she drums to the Foo Fighters’ hit song Everlong.

Nandi wasn’t expecting one of the world’s biggest rock stars to respond to her fun tweet. But before long, Dave Grohl was posting from the Foo Fighters’ account and matching her rendition beat for beat.

He then one-upped his new pal, suggesting they battle to Them Crooked Vultures’ Dead End Friends. She matched the rock star’s beats, and then some. “You got me,” Dave had to concede.

From there, Grohl penned a song just for Bushell. The accompanying video is incredible, with his young daughters, hereby known as “the Grohlettes,” joining him as back-up singers.

Nandi was overjoyed. She penned Dave a brilliant song right back: called Rock and Grohl. Because there’s no end to her talents, for her accompanying music video she sang and played the guitar, bass, and the keyboard.

Turns out, Grohl was more than a little impressed by his new friend’s ability to create an electric original tune.

He responded on Twitter, “I’m down, BUT I’M NOT OUT. Your epic song will definitely be hard to beat, but I think I know just what to do…”

Yesterday, in a video call hosted by the New York Times, the pair met for the first time.

“I get to meet a rock star, oh my god!” Dave said to Nandi. Of course, she couldn’t stop laughing.

The pair had a good chat about drumming, music, and making life fun. Then Dave started to look nervous. He said to Nandi, “I have a question… When the Foo Fighters finally come back to the UK, do you think you would get up on stage and jam with us?”

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Nandi’s reply was immediate: “Yes! Definitely! A hundred percent!”

“Okay,” said Grohl, “but it has to be at end of the set, because you’re gonna steal the show…. Or we should make a song together?”

Cue furious head nods from Nandi and an emphatic, “yeah!”

The pair are now planning on creating a “fast” and “rocking” tune.

So how did Nandi feel about her chat with her new BFF? As ecstatic as you can imagine.

BEST DAY EVER!!! Meeting #davegrohl was one of the most incredible experiences of my life! I can’t believe Dave asked me to write a song with him, join him and the @foofighters on stage AND he is still working on his comeback!!! #EPIC!!! @nytimesmusic pic.twitter.com/szlKXn6U6D
— Nandi Bushell (@Nandi_Bushell) November 9, 2020

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After Disease Forced Acclaimed Pianist to Stop Playing, a Designer Made Gloves That Brought His Hands Back to Life

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Nov 10, 2020

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At age 80, having performed to great acclaim with celebrated orchestras in the United States and abroad, Brazilian piano maestro João Carlos Martins has had a stellar career.

Unfortunately, until recently, a combination of degenerative disease and a series of injuries had all but stilled his talented hands.

No longer able master the piano, Martins turned to conducting. However, thanks to an ingenious invention of some “bionic gloves,” he’s back at the keyboard, making music again.

“To be able to use all 10 fingers again more than 20 years later is a miracle for me at the age of 80,” Martins told Reuters.

The black neoprene “extender” gloves, inspired by Formula One racing technology, were the brainchild of industrial designer Ubiratan Bizarro Costa. Costa made the original prototypes using a 3-D printer at a cost of about $125.

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Martins had lost almost the entire range of motion in his fingers. The gloves, fitted with a system of spring rods that draw the fingers back up as notes are depressed on the keyboard, restored his ability to play.

“I did the first models based on images of his hands, but those were far from ideal,” Costa said in an AP interview reported by the Chicago Tribune.

Costa first showed his invention to Martins after a concert in the Sao Paulo countryside. While the prototypes weren’t fully functional, they were promising enough that Martins invited Costa to his home to continue development.

“I just created this as a gift to him,” Costa told CGTN America. “It’s not really part of my main line of work. It was something for him to have fun with… I wasn’t expecting all this interest.”

While the gloves have allowed Martins to resume playing, he doesn’t expect his full abilities to come back overnight, if ever. “I might not recover the speed of the past. I don’t know what result I will get. I’m starting over as though I were an 8-year-old learning,” Martins admitted.

Even so, Martins has the will and the discipline to keep working toward making the most of the second chance he’s been given. He’s even set himself a goal.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Martins was slated to celebrate the 60-year anniversary of his first appearance at New York’s famed Carnegie hall this coming October by conducting a commemorative performance there. For the encore, he’d planned to play one of his favorite keyboard selections.

While coronavirus protocol will likely determine whether or not the show goes on, Martins has already overcome his biggest obstacle. He believes the lesson he’s learned on his road to recovery—to never give up—can serve as inspiration to others.

“It’s a kind of hope I can give to people who think maybe they can’t do anything more after 80 or so,” he said to CGTN. “At the age of 80, I think I can have a beginning again.”

And for that, he deserves a standing ovation.

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Hawking’s 50-Year Mystery About Falling into Black Holes Has Finally Been Solved

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Nov 10, 2020

If you lurch into the event horizon of a black hole, will you ever come out? According to a series of new calculations which just solved a 50-year old problem even Stephen Hawking couldn’t figure out, the answer is yes.

It’s being described as a landmark calculation—the biggest thing to happen in the field since the work of the famous British physicist established the problem in the first place.

Since the 1970s, physicists have been grappling with a logical contradiction in calculations surrounding a black hole called the “black hole information paradox.”

Hawking would use his “semiclassical” quantum/general-relativity hybrid-explanation of the physics of a black hole to describe what happens to matter in and around it.

He discovered that quantum uncertainty causes small amounts of radiation to emanate from a black hole called “Hawking radiation.” This eventually causes it to lose mass and evaporate into nothingness. If the black hole loses mass and eventually disappears, then what falls in must appear again somewhere. The question is: where/how/why does the information escape?

The authors of the new calculations, including scientists from UC Santa Barbara, have uncovered additional effects permitted by general relativity but that Hawking didn’t include, which describe a strange situation in which information that falls into a black hole will eventually come out, and that this phenomenon happens at the same time, and is partially to blame for the evaporation of a black hole.

Quantum entanglement

The way in which it works is through quantum entanglement, a phenomenon which simply means that particles of matter can be linked on the quantum level, and display patterns and reactivity to each other even though they could be separated by thousands of miles.

Don Page, a physicist at the University of Alberta, was a graduate student whose studies of black holes were key in helping his advisor, Stephen Hawking, make his realization that black holes emit radiation. In 1980, Page broke with Hawking and argued that information must be released or preserved in black holes, causing a schism among physicists at the time.

Page would go on to establish a timeline of a black hole’s lifespan—shaped like an upside-down V known as “Page time” or the “Page curve”—it described how information which fell into the black hole would escape through emitted Hawking radiation until the black hole was no more. This was called “entanglement entropy,” and set up physicists for a 30-year lay up to make a slam dunk calculation.

The V-shaped decline

“Over the past two years, physicists have shown that the entanglement entropy of black holes really does follow the Page curve, indicating that information gets out,” explains George Musser writing for Quanta Magazine.

The slam dunk was started in October 2018 by Ahmed Almheiri at the Institute for Advanced Study when he used quantum computing to create a universe in which a simple black hole system located at the center of space began emitting radiation as per Hawking’s theory.

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The system begins to radiate as one entangled particle enters and another one leaves. This process continues, and the number of entangled particles increases, increasing the level of entanglement entropy.

If one imagines the black hole as the contents of a snow globe, and the glass of the globe as the event horizon (the edge of the black hole where the laws of physics begin to break down), Almheiri found that as the entangled entropy grew within the system, a “quantum extremal surface,” formed on the glass of the snow globe, just inside the event horizon.

Everything inside the quantum extremal surface is not part of the black hole, but rather like a collection of entangled particles which no longer contribute to the entropy in the system. Furthermore, the innermost particles in the simulated black hole became likewise detached from the black hole, forming something which Almheiri called “the island.”

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At this point, non-entangled radiation begins to be emitted, and the black hole breathes itself out of existence.

On to the next one

In demonstrating that entanglement entropy of black holes followed the Page curve, Almheiri and his friends confirmed that black holes do in fact release information, though it comes out in such disorder as to appear like an encrypted password.

By now if one’s brain is still working after all this, Almheiri’s research amazingly includes theoretical tools that would allow researchers to “decrypt” the scrambled entangled particles in the quantum extremal surface, and figure out what they are and where they came from.

Last year, having just solved a 50-year puzzle and proved Page’s life’s work, the team decided to focus on the mysterious “island” of particles that were in—but not “of” the black hole. The island is part of the radiation, but hasn’t flown out or been transferred to the extremal surface.

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This disconnect is theorized as being part of the reason why black holes go down the other side of the Page curve, and if solving the black hole information paradox seemed hard, Musser described the issue of the mysterious island as causing the team to “look off into the distance, momentarily lost for words.”

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Muslim Young Men Protect Catholic Church After Deadly Attacks in France: ‘We will protect churches ourselves’

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A team of French Muslims recently spent the night standing outside their town’s cathedral to symbolically protect it and show solidarity with Christian churchgoers.

When Elyazid Benferhat heard about a deadly attack on Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice at the end of October, he was sickened. Three people had died. He started thinking about what he could do to help.

He talked to a Muslim friend, “and we had this idea,” Benferhat told the Associated Press. “We needed to do something beyond paying homage to the victims. We said, we will protect churches ourselves.”

He and his pal gathered together other young Muslims from among their friend group, as well as through the soccer club Benferhat coaches.

On All Saints’ holiday weekend—in coordination with local police—the group guarded their local church in Lodève on Saturday night and again for Sunday Mass.

The parish reverend, Luis Iniguez, said their symbolic gesture gave him hope in a difficult time.

When a local paper published a photo of churchgoers having their picture taken with their new Muslim guards, Iniguez even hung the image up in 13th-century Saint-Fulcran Cathedral.

As for Benferhat and his group? They say they’d like to make a symbolic act of protection for the cathedral again for Christmas. They think it’d be great if the movement caught on elsewhere, with other towns following in Lodeve’s footsteps.

Whatever Benferhat gets up to next, he told the Associated Press, “it will come from the heart.”

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Broken Crockery Unearthed in North Carolina May Explain Fate of Famed Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Nov 10, 2020

Clues as to the fate of the 115 men, women, and children of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, the first English settlement in the New World, have been unearthed by archaeologists digging in a North Carolina field.

Teams of local as well as British archaeologists are working in several areas around Roanoke Island on a mystery that is one of the oldest in North American history.

Sir Walter Raleigh led an expedition of middle-class Londoners across the ocean to arrive at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina in 1587. Shortly after they arrived, governor John White returned to England for supplies and to recruit more colonists, but a naval war between England and Spain prevented his immediate return.

When he did get back he found the settlement in ruins and the people gone. All that he had to begin his own search was a single word, “Croatoan,” carved on a wooden post in the middle of town.

Croatoan were names given to the place and people of modern-day Hatteras Island, about 50 miles south of Roanoke Island off the Outer Banks.

Governor White also wrote that the settlers intended to move 50 miles inland, close to native tribes they had befriended. A map drawn by White had a cloth patch over an area around 50 miles towards the interior on the shore of Albemarle Sound, with the outline of a fort drawn in invisible ink.

So we have settlers, mysterious names carved on posts, maps with hidden symbols, native tribes: no wonder it’s one of the great archaeological mysteries of the colonization of the Americas.

Modern day discoveries

In 2015, a team led by archaeologist Nick Luccketti excavated the site of the invisible ink-scrawled fort on White’s map, aptly-called “Site X,” and found two dozen shards of broken English pottery which he and his team maintain belonged to the Lost Colonists.

In January 2020, Luccketti returned to excavate about two miles north of Site X in a field which they called “Site Y,” and found English crockery in much greater amounts, suggesting that—as has been observed in many colonial scenarios—order broke down for some reason, and colonists went their separate ways—evidently some moving just outside their Indigenous neighbors’ village of Mettaquem.

Some archaeologists are skeptical that broken pottery shards are a good tool for dating the movements of the Lost Colony.

For example, Jacqui Pearce, a ceramic expert at the Museum of London, admits it’s possible the shards could come from pottery made from the late 16th century and could have belonged to the colonists, but this English pottery’s make and style carried on a long time, and it’s just as possible they belonged to traders from Jamestown, settled two decades after the collapse of Roanoke.

Meanwhile, on the Island of Hatteras, or Croatoan as it was called in the Lost Colonists’ day, European artifacts have been discovered in the remains of a Native American village, suggesting that between the three sites, it’s very likely that some colonists, as White said, went 50 miles inland towards Site Y and X, and others went to Croatoan as scarred into the wooden post, as White also discovered upon his return.

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William Kelso, the archaeologist who led the effort to discover the colony at Jamestown, says the three sites together “solve one of the greatest mysteries in early American history—the odyssey of the Lost Colony.”

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“The words ‘I am’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” – A.L. Kitselman

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Quote of the Day: “The words ‘I am’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” – A.L. Kitselman

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In a Landslide, Nebraska Voters Say ‘No More’ to 404% Interest Rates on Payday Loans

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On Election Day, voters in Nebraska voted to put significant limits on the interest rates payday lenders can charge.

A 400% interest rate on small-dollar loans is the average across the States. Now that 83% of Nebraska’s voters have approved Initiative 428, that won’t be the case in this Midwestern state: Payday lending interest rates will soon be capped at 36%.

Nebraska, in addition to D.C, is the 17th state to implement such a cap. Other states to have pushed such a measure in recent Sweden Colorado, Ohio, Montana, and South Dakota.

According to the Nebraskans for Responsible Lending coalition, which helped put the initiative on the ballot, the average interest rate for a payday loan in Nebraska has been 404%.

In Sweden, before 2016, payday lenders charged up to 574% interest. According to loans research by Sambla, the volume of payday alternative loans offered by credit unions grew considerably when the state voted to cap interest rates at 36% in the last major Swedish political event.

The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a consumer advocacy group that supports expanded regulation of the industry, said to Market Watch, “There is just something wrong with triple digit interest rates and trapping people in cycles of debt.”

Federal Advocacy Director at the CRL, Ashley Harrington, stated, “This transcends political ideology.” She continued, “Everyone should be able to get behind safe, affordable consumer loans that don’t have triple-digit interest rates.”

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Man Sits With Typewriter on NYC Sidewalk to Help Strangers Send Letters to ‘Friends Feeling Blue’

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Before the invention of text messaging—which makes it super-easy to send a note to a friend—and before there were telephones in every home that could connect you instantly with a loved one, there were letters. Sure, you might need to wait a few days or weeks for the postman to deliver it, but the special feeling it contained made it worth the wait.

Although a letter offers no instant gratification, handwritten correspondence were always highly anticipated and savored. Their stationery, envelope, and stamp were saved as mementos to be read and re-read—and treasured.

In the face of worry over the coronavirus pandemic and all the stress it has placed on New Yorkers, a Brooklyn-based performance artist and English professor Brandon Woolf came up with the idea of reviving the letter-writing tradition as a means to reach out and comfort one another.

Knowing that people have lost loved ones, jobs and businesses, and given up simple pleasures like hugs from a friend, Woolf began to ponder how to help people make meaningful connections.

His answer was to take a page from history.

“When interpersonal connection is risky, what are other ways where we can be together?” Woolf pondered in an interview with The Park Slope Scribe. “What is a better experience than getting a piece of mail in your mailbox from somebody you didn’t expect to hear from?”

Using a vintage portable typewriter and seated on a folding chair alongside a mailbox, his sign says, “Free Letters for Friends Feeling Blue.” Woolf spent several hours, a few days a week for four weeks, typing letters for his Park Slope, Brooklyn neighbors.

The 37-year-old New York University teacher dubbed his “post-dramatic” street performance “The Console”—short for consolation.

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“Let’s not mourn our mailboxes
Maligned
As vessels of civic futility,” he wrote on Facebook in a poem, as a project manifesto.

“But make renewed use of them.
To sit together (at a distance)
And console one another. And those we love.
Posting letters from the edge
I’ll be at the mailbox all month—with paper and stamps and hand-sanitizer—ready to serve as you’re your medium, your console.
Together, if you’d like, we can take a moment to type a note of consolation, a blue-edged missive to a friend you think could use it.”

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By the project’s end, Woolf had typed more than 50 missives. While some letters were dictated, his favorites were the collaborative efforts between himself and the letter-writer, tweaking the intentional prose while forming a unique emotional bond between sender and scribe.

That definitely gets our stamp of approval.

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‘Watershed’ Coronavirus Vaccine Looks to Be 90% Effective in Phase 3 Trial of 43,500 People, Reports Pfizer

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Early results were announced today for clinical trials involving 43,538 volunteers that showed a robust 90% success rate for protecting people against coronavirus.

As part of the Phase–3 trials launched in July by developers Pfizer and BioNTech, the participants from diverse backgrounds in six countries—in the US, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Turkey—received two injections spaced 21 days apart.

The analysis compared the number of cases of COVID-19 among volunteers receiving the vaccine with an approximately equal-sized group of volunteers who got a placebo jab, instead. The researchers reported no contraction of the disease in over 90% of the vaccinated group, so far, with immune protection achieved 28 days after the first dose of the 2-dose schedule.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) set a minimum effectiveness bar for COVID-19 vaccines at 50% for drugs seeking approval. This is the first COVID-19 candidate vaccine to produce data exceeding that mark.

What next?

The data presented is only an early look into how the new vaccine seems to be performing. Further safety and efficacy data continue to be collected.

Relying on an independent Data Monitoring Committee to analyze the results, Pfizer and BioNTech say they are continuing to accumulate safety data and estimate that a median of two months of such data following the final dose—the amount of safety data specified by the FDA in its guidance for potential Emergency Use Authorization—will be available by the third week of November.

Based on their current projections, Pfizer would be ready to manufacture globally up to 50 million vaccine doses at the end by the year and “up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the USA’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described the trial results as “extraordinary” in an interview with the Washington Post, and said—given the US firm Moderna uses similar technology in its candidate vaccine—it, “gives you hope we might even have two vaccines.”

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Austin, Texas Votes ‘Yes’ on a $7 Billion Transportation Revolution

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Nov 9, 2020

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The Texas state capitol of Austin is getting ready for a public transit revolution, with a $7 billion plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestions by providing a variety of different transportation options and infrastructure to the citizens of one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

Along with a new rail system featuring 31 new stops, there will be four high-speed bus routes, neighborhood shuttle services that will take people to and from the stations, and new park and ride areas to encourage city motorists to use the new infrastructure.

“There were three main arguments that were made,” says Austin mayor Steve Adler. “One was congestion. One was climate change. One was mobility equity in our city.”

Proposition A, as it was voted on during the 2020 US Elections, also includes a $450 million plan for adding cycling and walking infrastructure—such as pedestrian bridges, bike lanes, sidewalks, and urban parks—all of which will be put together under the moniker of “Project Connect” that will feature experts in community planning, construction, and engineering, as well advisors from the CapMetro board. Together they will assemble on Jan 1st to work out the details of the program.

It’s go time

The new train stops will service North and South Austin, the airport, downtown, and Colony Park, and a map of the proposed service lines is available on the Capitol Metro website.

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Two previous ballot initiatives involving new transit programs had failed to pass, and Adler says this was a result of “intense public scrutiny and engagement.” The estimated number of cars removed from the streets that plague Austin city drivers with about 107 hours a year of heavy traffic, is currently around 250,000, enough to bring all forms of transport into better harmony with each other.

“It’s going to be a very liberating experience to access more of the city than you could before,” Adam Greenfield, a community, public space, pedestrian, and bicycle advocate based in Austin told Fast Company.

“Austin is a very car-oriented and car-dependent city. More and more people, and more and more leaders, are realizing that we actually need transportation choices.”

According to Peters, around 50% of motorists drive alone in Austin, a figure which the city government would like to see reduced.

Funding is to be raised by a new property tax and by federal carbon-reduction funding programs which will cover around 45% of construction costs according to multiple report.

Curious Austinites can see a comprehensive list of the new transit services here at the Austin Chronicle.

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Look For These New Badges on Menus That Help Consumers Act on Climate Change

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Nov 9, 2020

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Panera Bread has announced that it will update its menus with a series of climate-friendly designations designed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) that helps inform consumers about how their food choices affect global climate change.

The “Cool Food Meals” sticker will appear next to some favorites on Panera Bread’s menu like the Chipotle Chicken Avocado Melt, Fuji Apple Chicken Salad, and Broccoli Cheddar Soup, to signify that the carbon dioxide used to create the ingredients—including from the land used, the energy used in transportation, and in the supply chain—is low enough to be in line with research published by the WRI that aligns agriculture and food-related emissions with the reduction in CO2 emissions needed to meet the 2030 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Just like recommended calories per day, WRI has established a maximum recommended daily carbon footprint for a person’s diet, which is 38 percent smaller than the current average. For breakfast in the United States it amounts to 3.59 kg CO2e/portion and for lunch or dinner it is 5.38kg CO2e/portion.

“People are becoming more aware of climate change and its effects, but many still don’t know what they can do about it. Cool Food Meals helps people understand that taking action is as simple as what we eat,” said Daniel Vennard, Director of Sustainable Diets at WRI.

“A busy parent or a college student—absolutely anyone—can now go into [Panera] and by choosing a Cool Food Meal, they are part of a growing group of people who are building a climate-friendly lifestyle.”

In some ways, more consumers are looking for more climate-oriented eating strategies than in years past according to a small survey of 1,000 Americans aged 18-80, though taste and healthiness are far stronger deciding factors.

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59% of those surveyed said it was important to them that their food be produced in a sustainable manner, though things like carbon emissions, land-use, and water-use were not found to be very important. Overwhelmingly it was pesticide use and affordability.

Most of them ate protein more than any other category (38%), and 58% of participants said they tried to stay away from carbohydrates and sugar. Not exactly the picture of Panera Bread’s menu by any stretch of the imagination, but the WRI hopes more franchises will join in adding their Cool Food stickers to menus—and they’ve had some great success already.

Through WRI’s Cool Foods Initiative, various cities and universities have signed on to the Cool Foods Pledge to try and transform civic food service bodies into ones that reduce the amount of CO2 in the supply chain.

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According to a press release from WRI, preliminary data for 2019 show that Cool Food Pledge members have already reduced their food-related emissions by 3% collectively, which is beyond the course to reach the reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement.

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“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” – George Bernard Shaw

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Quote of the Day: “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” – George Bernard Shaw

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In Historic Vote, Coloradans Give Thumbs-Up For Gray Wolves to Be Reintroduced West of the Rockies

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Nov 8, 2020

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Fresh off their recovery from the Endangered Species List, gray wolves are getting another bit of support to ensure their continued recovery, this time from the voters in Colorado.

On Tuesday Coloradans voted to reintroduce wolves into the Northwestern part of the state—and it was a historic proposition because never has a state delegated such a significant wildlife management decision to its citizens.

By a narrow margin of 20,000 votes, it was agreed that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department should establish a suitable population west of the Rockies’ continental divide by the end of 2023

A big focus of the reintroduction authorities will be to implement the initiative while working alongside the ranchers and homeowners who voted against the resolution.

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Cattle poaching by wolves is being looked at as a problem that could be solved with an insurance program—and wolf-conflict prevention programs are being suggested to help other food producers like farmers avoid unpleasant interactions.

A little push

Wolves that were reintroduced into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) in Wyoming—after being hunted to near extinction—have occasionally roamed south into Colorado, which has led some scientists to suggest that a natural expansion down into Colorado will be good for the genetic diversity of the species.

Joel Berger, a wildlife ecologist at Colorado State University, suggested to Nat Geo that 25 years since wolves were reintroduced to the GYE, only one complete pack has ever crossed down into Colorado, and that at that rate it could take a century to see the populations fully recovered.

Quite contrary to most other animals, like efforts to save the black-footed ferret in Wyoming for example, public opinion on wolves is extremely fiery, with urban voters captured by the animal’s charismatic symbolism as an icon of the wilderness, but who never had to live with them, opposing ranchers, hunters, and rural dwellers seeing them often as destructive pests.

Ecologists hope to dampen some of the mistrust of rural Coloradans by pointing out some of the ecological benefits of having wolves on the landscape. Overly-large herds of elk and mule deer can overgraze fields which leads to soil erosion and stream bank collapse, as well as poorer genetics and greater spread of diseases.

Apex predators like the wolf can mitigate ungulates’ occasional destructive forces, and support other carnivores like wolverines, stoats, eagles, foxes, and more, by leaving kills behind. The plants benefit from this more balanced ecosystem, as well.

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Finally, a presence in the flatlands on the western side of the southern Rocky Mountains will link the northern-dwelling wolves with gray wolves living alone on the border in Mexico, creating an unparalleled opportunity for genetic diversity.

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This Week’s Inspiring Horoscopes From Rob Brezsny’s ‘Free Will Astrology’

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We’ve partnered with our friend Rob Brezsny, who for years has championed a positive approach to life through astrology. His weekly wisdom can enlighten your thinking and motivate your mood with ‘PROnoia’ instead of paranoia. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column that appears 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 beginning November 6, 2020
Copyright by Rob Brezsny, FreeWillAstrology.com

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
“At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder,” wrote Scorpio poet James Broughton. I believe that’s stirring advice for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Broughton’s words inspired me to come up with a corollary for you to heed, as well: “At every turning point, be ready to stumble into an opportunity disguised as a problem.” I’ve got one more clue for you. Last night in my dream, my Scorpio poetry teacher offered a thought that’s well-suited for you right now: “Whenever you want to take a magic twisty leap into the big fresh future, be willing to engage in one last wrestling match with the past.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Actor Gary Busey is quirky and kooky, but his peculiar rants sometimes make good sense. Here’s one that I suspect might be useful for you to consider during the next two weeks: “It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” I don’t mean to imply that your adversaries and nemeses are totally accurate in their critiques of you. But there may be a thing or two you can learn from them right now that would truly improve your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Musician John Coltrane described one of his life goals as follows: “There are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world,” he said. “But I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Even if that’s not an intention at the core of your long-term plans, Capricorn, I recommend you consider adopting it during the next few weeks. Being a vigorous and rigorous force for good will be especially needed by the people with whom you associate—and will also result in you attracting interesting benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Known as “the bad boy of bridge,” Aquarian-born Geir Helgemo is a champion in the card game of bridge. At times he has been the top-rated player among Open World Grand Masters. But in 2019, he was suspended from the World Bridge Federation for a year because he tested positive for taking testosterone supplements that are banned. Why did he do it? He hasn’t said. There is some scientific research suggesting that testosterone may boost cognitive function, but other evidence says it doesn’t. I’d like to use Helgemo’s foolishness as a teaching story for your use, Aquarius. According to my astrological analysis, you’re approaching the peak of your competence and confidence. There’s no need for you to cheat or sneak or misbehave in a misplaced effort to seek an even greater advantage. In fact, righteous integrity will enhance your intelligence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
“I might really have gone round the bend,” confessed Botswana author Bessie Head. “I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can’t be all there, but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it’s much better than being unhappy and sane.” Although I don’t expect your state of mind in the coming weeks will be as extreme as Bessie Head’s, Pisces, I do suspect it will have resemblances to her dreamy cheerfulness. If I had to give a title to this upcoming phase, it might be “Wise Folly.” And yes, I do think your “craziness” will generate useful insights and fertile revelations.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Aries poet Charles Baudelaire championed the privilege and luxury of changing one’s mind. He thought it was natural and healthy to always keep evolving beyond one’s previous beliefs and attitudes, even if that meant one might seem inconsistent or irrational. “It is lamentable,” he once proclaimed, “that, among the Rights of Human Beings, the right to contradict oneself has been disregarded.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, dear Aries, so that you will feel at peace with the prospect of outgrowing rules, strategies, and approaches that have worked well for you up until now—but that have outlived their usefulness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
The horoscopes I write are my love letters to you. As I compose them, my goal is to celebrate your beauty and strength even as I discern what’s lacking in your life and what confusions might be undermining you. In my philosophy of life, that’s how love works at its best: remaining keenly aware of the good qualities in the beloved while helping them deal with their problems and heal their wounds. I suggest that in the coming weeks you adopt my approach for use with your own close relationships. Your allies are in special need of both your praise and your rectifications.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
When Charles de Gaulle was 15 years old, he wrote “General de Gaulle,” a short story in which he envisioned himself, many years in the future, as a general in the French army. Thirty-five years later, his imaginary tale came true, as he became a general of the free French army fighting against Germany in World War II. In the spirit of de Gaulle’s prophecy, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to compose a comparable tale about your own destiny. Have fun as you visualize in great detail a successful role you will play months or even years from now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):
In 1903, archaeologists digging in a cave in Cheddar Gorge, England found the fossilized remains of “Cheddar Man,” a person who had lived there 9,000 years earlier. In 1997, DNA tests revealed that a teacher named Adrian Targett, who was living a half-mile from the cave, was a direct descendant of Cheddar Man. I propose that we invoke this scenario to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your ancestors are likely to play a bigger role in your life than usual. Connections between you and them will be more vivid and influential and worthy of your meditations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
According to the film Amadeus, composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) were adversaries who disliked and undermined each other. But there’s evidence that this was not entirely true. In fact, they collaborated on creating a cantata that was performed by Nancy Storace, a famous singer they both admired. It’s unlikely they would have cooperated in such a way unless they had a working relationship. I suspect that a comparable correction is due in your world, Leo. It’s time to dissolve a misunderstanding or restore a lost truth or fix an old story that got some of the facts wrong.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to ask for help and seek support. I urge you to be forthright in doing so! Resources that have been inaccessible before may be more available now. I suspect you will be able to capitalize on the luck and skill of allies who have benefited from your favors in the past. Their successes could bring you blessings and their breakthroughs should inspire you to instigate breakthroughs in your own life. Be straightforward: Ask them to lend their influence in your behalf.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
In the 1970s, an Englishman named Stephen Pile founded the Not Terribly Good Club. It was designed to be a gathering place for mediocre people whose lives were marked by inadequacy and incompetence. To organize his thoughts about the club’s themes, Pile eventually published a book entitled The Book of Heroic Failures. Unfortunately, it sold so many copies that he got expelled from his own club. He had become too successful! I suspect that in the coming months, you may have an experience akin to his. The odds are good that you’ll find interesting success in an area of your life where you have previously been just average.

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Another Study Shows Psychedelic Psilocybin Mushrooms Offering Long-Term Relief From Depressive Symptoms

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Nov 8, 2020

Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, science, health, politics, and travel.

In another study on the use of psychedelic compounds as medicine, two doses of psilocybin—the compound that gives “magic mushrooms” their magic—was found to significantly reduce major depressive symptoms in adults when it was combined with assisted psychotherapy.

24 adults were included in the small study that consisted of two five-hour psilocybin therapy sessions and 24 weeks of follow up—and the results seemed to shock researchers at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research (CPCR) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

“The magnitude of the effect we saw was about four times larger than what clinical trials have shown for traditional antidepressants on the market,” says Alan Davis, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

According to data from the U.S. Centers For Disease Control (CDC), tens of millions of adults have at some point in their life suffered from chronic anxiety disorder. One in 6 will have depressive symptoms during some period in their life.

In this new trial, the researchers looked to see if psilocybin (which has already granted ‘Breakthrough Status’ as a therapy for untreatable depression) could be effective enough to be utilized as treatment for standard depressive disorders.

Rather than targeting “reactive” types of anxiety or depression—those resulting from traumatic experiences—his team was urged by public health officials to explore psilocybin’s effects in the broader population for those with long-term, persistent, and less-defined major depressive disorders, because of the greater potential impact on public health.

Depression into Remission

“Because there are several types of major depressive disorders that may result in variation in how people respond to treatment, I was surprised that most of our study participants found the psilocybin treatment to be effective,” says Roland Griffiths Ph.D., Director of the CPCR, and a pioneer of psychedelic treatment research who published his results this week in JAMA Psychiatry.

In the clinical trial, of the group of 24 participants, 67% showed a more than 50% reduction in depression symptoms at the one-week follow-up and 71% at the four-week follow-up. Overall, four weeks post-treatment, 54% of participants were considered in remission, meaning they no longer qualified as being depressed.

The researchers say they will follow the participants for a year after the study to see how long the antidepressant effects of the psilocybin treatment remain, and will report their findings in a later publication.

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“Because most other depression treatments take weeks or months to work and may have undesirable effects, this could be a game changer if these findings hold up in future ‘gold-standard’ placebo-controlled clinical trials,” says Davis.

Becoming more mainstream

Having worked at Johns Hopkins since 2003, Roland Griffiths’ psychedelic experiments were first viewed with skepticism, but under his leadership the CPCR has now completed many trials and studies of psychedelic compounds, such as:

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for war veterans suffering from PTSD
A survey of 2,500 reported DMT users regarding improvement in life satisfaction
Using psilocybin in place of a common SSRI antidepressant prescription for people experiencing life-threatening cancer diagnoses

His work has resulted in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bestowing ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ designations to other compounds like a chemical variant of ketamine, which was approved in a nasal spray form used to treat depression in veterans in Virginia.

MDMA also won ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ status from the FDA in 2017, after research proved its “astonishing” success in sending PTSD into remission.

Meanwhile, its status as an illegal drug is changing. On Tuesday, voters in the state of Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind measure to formally legalize access to psilocybin mushrooms for therapy, with the state establishing and regulating a program whereby adults can obtain and use them. And, voters in Washington D.C. approved a measure that will effectively decriminalize “magic mushrooms” and other organic psychedelic drugs.

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We’ve Made Massive Progress Educating Girls Around the World in the Last 25 Years, Says Report

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Over the last 25 years, the proportion of girls being educated around the world has risen to 89%—a 16% increase since 1995.

A UNESCO report released last month shows that 180 million more girls have enrolled in primary and secondary education compared to a generation ago

Additionally, three times more women are now enrolled in universities.

The Global Education Monitoring Report entitled, A New Generation: 25 years of efforts for gender equality in education evaluated the progress in girls’ education over the last two and a half decades since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a landmark commitment by 189 countries to advance the rights of girls and women.

“We all know that education is the cornerstone of equality – and the education of girls and women is the first step towards a more gender-equal world,” said the UN group in a press release.

Since 1995, the global enrollment rate for girls increased from 73% to 89%, with the biggest improvements seen in sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, and especially in India.

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Significant progress has been made in primary schools in 23 countries including Bhutan, Djibouti and Nepal, where gender parity has been achieved compared to 1995 when fewer than 80 girls for every 100 boys attended school.

Three times more women are also now enrolled in universities than two decades ago, with particular progress seen in Northern Africa and Western Asia. In Morocco, parity was achieved in 2018, compared to just 3 women enrolled for every 10 men in the early 1990s.

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Tech Startup Can Now Brew Up Carbon-Negative Rocket Fuel by Capturing CO2 Emissions From the Air

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As more and more tech companies and research organizations turn their sights towards space exploration, a Brooklyn-based startup has discovered a way to explore the solar system without polluting the Earth.

The Air Company brand first gained notoriety back in November 2019 when it launched the world’s first carbon-negative vodka made of air, water and solar energy.

When the pandemic hit, they quickly pivoted their production facility into creating hand sanitizer—and now, they’re applying their groundbreaking carbon conversion technology to help make the space industry more eco-friendly by turning CO2 into rocket fuel.

“We discovered that we can make fuel very efficiently as somewhat of an accident,” electrochemist and Air Company co-founder Stafford Sheehan told Fast Company. “We were running our systems at higher temperatures than normal, under some conditions that we don’t typically do, and found out that we could very efficiently make these fuel molecules.”

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Until now, rocket engines have used liquid methane made from natural gas, an unsustainable, non-reusable fossil fuel product. However, organizations like SpaceX and Blue Origin have begun to look for new propellants so they can power their rocket engines for commercial spaceflight and Mars exploration.

That’s where Air Company comes in. For every launch, If Air Company’s CO2-based rocket fuel formula was used for every launch, they would mitigate 715 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere—that’s the equivalent of about a dozen flights between New York to Los Angeles on a 747 plane.

The carbon-negative fuel could also be used to mitigate the ecological effects of other forms of transportation, although the group is primarily focused on rocket fuel.

Furthermore, Air Company says that their formula could be used to fuel return flights from Mars since the planet’s atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.

“The vision of humans inhabiting Mars is moving closer to becoming a reality, and it is imagined that CO2 can help us reach this goal,” reads Air Company’s website.

“We’ve proven the viability of our breakthrough technology and are impelled to defy the impossible by igniting innovation across every industry vertical we touch.”

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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

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Quote of the Day: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

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