Dec 22, 2021

US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants

By Mathew Ingram • Issue #140 • View online

Hi everyone — just a note to say this will be the last newsletter of the year. I’m not sure when it will start up again, but sometime after New Year’s. While I have you, is there anything you would like me to change? More items? Fewer items? More weird or offbeat links? More animal photos and videos? Please let me know. If it’s perfect as is, please let me know that as well 😀 And have a great holiday!

Mathew

Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.

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He Created a Rapid Test Early In The Pandemic. Here’s Why You Can’t Get It

Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. The Harvard-trained scientist already had a factory set up. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.

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Think Santa Is Busy? Ham Sniffers Are Pushing Their Noses to the Limit

Christmas is the busy season for scent experts at Cinco Jotas, a 142-year-old company in Jabugo, Spain, who take whiffs of pork to determine whether the meat passes muster. ‘I will find a way to sniff 801.’

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The Pandemic Made Me Realize My Brain Is Already Cyborg

I had inadvertently adopted the Cartesian philosophy of body-mind dualism. A new leg showed me otherwise.

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Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg

Scientists said the embryo inside the egg, which was laid between 72 million to 66 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, was that of a two-legged, feathered carnivore known as an oviraptorid.

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