Immigration can weaken social capital by injecting altogether different values into previously well-functioning communities. Putnam found, for example, that a greater share of noncitizens in a community is associated with less social trust, even after controlling for a host of other individual- and community-level factors.

Weren't the West+Kiev in denial earlier? Deadpool Odds on Zelenskyy+Staff and Nudelman-Khagan, Anyone?

"A study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session found that young adults who were prescribed stimulant medications for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were more like to develop cardiomyopathy—a weakened heart muscle—compared with young adults who were not prescribed them."

Brain blood vessel damage that increases the risk of stroke and dementia is common in people with a range of heart conditions, regardless of whether they have experienced a stroke, a new study shows. “Although people with heart disease are two to three times more likely than the general population to have changes in their brain’s vascular system, these patients don’t routinely undergo brain imaging unless they have suffered a stroke,” [research study author] Zhou said. “But it [heart disease] can make them more susceptible to the risk of brain bleeds from medications commonly used to treat or prevent blood clots—intracranial hemorrhage is a life-threatening complication with n...

Alastair Crooke quoting Ron Dermer on Hiroshima and "deradicalization"

Approval has dropped from 50% to 36% since November

It’s enough to make you wonder if this entire NBC fiasco was just a purposeful laundering of money for previous services rendered. Instead of going the book deal route, McDaniel gets hired by NBC then fired without cause a few days later. Cha-ching, $600k, and NBC gets all the eyeballs and clicks that go with the hot mess story. Intentional? You decide. Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious…

In January, Argentine President Javier Milei went to Davos, Switzerland, to lecture the rich and powerful about the miracles of capitalism.

Nudelman-Khagan's "Nasty Surprise for Putin" remarks prior to her "Retirement" is just too coincidental - especially when State announced a too specific Terror Attack in Concert Hall Warnings. Anyone with DarkWeb Deadpool Odds on Nudelman-Khagan?

"Over 100,000 people in the US need organ transplants each year, and demand far exceeds supply. Patients can wait years, and each year 6,000 Americans die waiting for a donated organ. Tissue engineering to create lab-grown organs seeks to meet the demand for transplants. However, it's hard to create blood vessels in artificial organs that work like natural ones. Traditional artificial blood vessel designs often don't mimic the natural design needed to function properly. A new 3D printing method uses ice to build a template for creating artificial blood vessels in engineered tissue."

Matthew Hay Brown; 24 Mar

The Acolyte - The Message Is Strong With This One

Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the Israeli lawyer at the center of the campaign accusing Hamas of systematic sexual violence on October 7, now stands accused by Israeli media of scamming donors and spreading misinformation. The allegations appeared just days after Elkayam-Levy received the prestigious Israel Prize.

It's hard to remember the days when adults were in charge.

Tax documents for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and for a major foundation funded by leftist billionaire George Soros show the organization that purports to represent the U.S. business community has turned hard left in recent years. The Tides Foundation’s public filings from 2018 to 2022 show the Soros-funded organization has given more than $12 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation over that five-year span. In 2018, the Tides Foundation gave the Chamber’s foundation $450,000. In 2019, Tides gave the Chamber group $1,450,000. It gave another $100,000 in 2020, followed by $10 million in 2021 and another $175,885 in 2022. That totals $12,175,885 in a five-year span.

This would guarantee monetary debasement and higher inflation. Can you say 'crack up boom'? Precious metals will be the big winner.

Shocking news! Bibi's a busy guy - doing genocide, deploying US forces around Middle East, etc. If they were really friends of Israel, Congress would pack up en masse and fly to Tel Aviv to hear the hallowed words of Netanyahu. Noem and DeSantis and such-like should beg to accompany them, everyone reminding each other that they must beat the old record of 30 stand up applauses, or AIPAC will be disappointed.

5 Missiles. Five. A new definition for "Friendly Fire"?

"Despite the central role that antibodies play in modern medicine, there is currently no way to rationally design novel antibodies to bind a specific epitope (binding site) on a target antigen. Instead, antibody discovery currently involves time-consuming immunization of an animal or (molecular) library screening approaches. Here we demonstrate that a fine-tuned RFdiffusion network (AI neural network model) is capable of designing de novo antibody variable heavy chains (VHH’s) (antibody protein subunits) that bind user-specified epitopes, including influenza hemagglutinin."

"TacticAI, a soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind, makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more—or less—likely." See also: "TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (Open access. Published: 19 March 2024)" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45965-x

"After Mehdi Hasan was booted from his MSNBC gig after criticizing Israel over Gaza, it was more than a bit surprising to see Hasan’s fellow MSNBC host Ali Velshi conduct a brutal expose on AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby group’s outsized influence over the American political community. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss why Velshi may have felt safe to criticize AIPAC and whether it has anything to do with the U.S. political establishment’s apparent turn against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." Also, Jimmy ties Israel to the JFK assassination in the first couple minutes, looks like he's been reading Unz.

The Lex Fridman Podcast

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

I don't agree with him about Russian sanctions but he's 100% right about growing EU "Liberal " totalitarianism. He's also written a great book, "The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies" https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/1594039917

These same people in this gov do nothing to stop the invasion of our country, violence by invaders, trans surgeries for children, running around the world supporting terrorism and warmongering etc. They are nothing but common criminals.

Milei’s measures brought about an increase in prices, particularly in food and medicine. Monthly inflation in December reached 25.5%, the highest in three decades. Poverty skyrocketed in January to more than 50% and consumption collapsed to levels comparable to 2001,

Co-founder and president of NVIDIA Jensen Huang recently unveiled the Blackwell GPU. While such an impressive innovation has been widely covered throughout the tech world, the name “Blackwell” hasn’t gotten as much attention. This GPU is named after David Blackwell, an American mathematician and statistician whose work has had a lasting impact in mathematics as well as the specific domain of AI. Blackwell’s work was revolutionary, especially at a time that put steep racial barriers in front of African American scientists.

Mossad not always as clever as the hype would have us believe.

AOC, Sanders unveil ‘Green New Deal’ for housing . . .