And another day of runoffs, convictions, sentences, banning sex outside of marriage, adding caste protections, AI apps, food causing dementia, and the Y chromosome is slowly vanishing comes to a close:
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” -- Aldous Huxley
Covid Deaths
US: 1,107,794
World: 6,649,892
Cases
US: 100,962,660
World: 650,940,981
Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term and helping cap an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year.
Trump Organization convicted in executive tax dodge scheme. Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud Tuesday for helping executives dodge taxes on extravagant perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars, a repudiation of financial practices at the former president’s business as he mounts another run for the White House.
Argentina’s VP Fernández guilty in $1B fraud, gets 6 years. Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office for a fraud scheme that embezzled $1 billion through public works projects during her presidency.
Indonesia’s Parliament votes to ban sex outside of marriage. Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage and insulting the president and state institutions. Once in force, the bans will affect foreign visitors as well as citizens. They’re part of an overhaul of the country’s criminal code that has been in the works for years. The new code also expands an existing blasphemy law and keeps a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia’s six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. The code still needs approval from the president, and the government says it will not be fully implemented for several years. -- Humans are supposed to have sex. This ban is absurd.
Brown University becomes first Ivy League school to add official caste protections. The private university in Providence, Rhode Island, is the first Ivy League school to mention casteism in its general policy, according to the Dalit civil rights organization Equality Labs. But the push for caste-equity has been sweeping schools and institutions all over the U.S. in the last few years...Casteism, or discrimination based on that system of social stratification, defines many lives on the subcontinent and persists in South Asian communities as they immigrate to the West, experts say. Those born into lower castes face violence and oppression on subcontinent and often exclusion and hate in the diaspora.
A Dyslexic Contractor Can Now Send Formal Emails To Clients Thanks To The AI App His Friend Designed. “[Whittle] could be writing in Swahili or Cockney rhyming slang — it would make very little difference what format you sent it, because it's been instructed to output in British English spelling and grammar in a professional but friendly format.” -- I think this will have applications way beyond helping people with dyslexia. It’s pretty damn cool.
Dementia risk may increase if you’re eating these foods, study says. “The sample size is substantial, and the follow-up extensive. While short of proof, this is robust enough that we should conclude ultraprocessed foods are probably bad for our brains.”
Emmy-winning actor Kirstie Alley, known for her role in the sitcom “Cheers,” the “Look Who’s Talking” films and other roles, has died of cancer, her family said in a statement Monday. She was 71.
Kirstie Alley died of colon cancer. These are the disease's early signs. Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the second-most deadly behind lung cancer. The National Cancer Institute estimates that around 151,000 cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed this year. Colon cancer can be difficult to diagnose, however, since symptoms can resemble those of other conditions like hemorrhoids or irritable bowel syndrome.
Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter. In what researchers are calling a scientific breakthrough, scientists behind a new study may have found the biological reason we get more respiratory illnesses in winter. It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose.
The Y Chromosome Is Slowly Vanishing. A New Sex Gene Could Be The Future of Men. The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene. The good news is two branches of rodents have already lost their Y chromosome and have lived to tell the tale.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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