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[https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/study-antibiotics-during-pregnancy-early-childhood-increase-risk-chronic by Chris Dall 11/6/25 CIDRAP]

  The meta-analysis of the 39 studies, which involved more than 7.4 million children, found that antibiotic exposure was associated with a 22% increased risk of childhood AD (pooled odds ratio [OR], 1.22; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.17 to 1.28). Subgroup analysis showed that early childhood exposure to antibiotics demonstrated a stronger association with AD (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.13 to 1.34) compared with exposure during pregnancy (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.05 to 1.13).  

=====Nairobi’s lions are almost encircled by the city. A Maasai community offers a key corridor out=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/lions-kenya-wildlife-conservation-migration-community-land-predators-maasai-farmers-nairobi-national-park by Peter Muiruri 25/6/25 The Guardian]

  Nairobi national park in Kenya is the only large wildlife conservation area to fall within a capital city. It is hemmed in on three sides by human development, and unfenced only on its southern boundary – this gap providing a crucial wildlife passageway, linking the park’s animals to other populations of wildlife and wider gene pools.

=====Fusion is the power of the future ... and the future isn't as far away as it used to be=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/28/2141685/-Fusion-is-the-power-of-the-future-and-the-future-isn-t-as-far-away-as-it-used-to-be by Mark Sumner 28/12/22 DAILY KOS]

  Here’s a quick primer: Fission is the process in which large atoms are split into smaller ones. Fusion is a process in which small atoms are pushed together into larger atoms. It may seem surprising, but both processes generate a lot of energy. Fission is the process behind every existing nuclear power plant today and was also what powered the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fusion is at the heart of the much more powerful “hydrogen bombs” that have, thank God, never been used in war. It’s also the power behind exactly 0% of the world’s electricity.

=====What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/16/2142212/-What-the-Final-Stage-of-Reaganism-Looks-Like?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended by thomhartmann 16/12/22 DAILY KOS]

  Violence toward women and minorities has exploded. Armed militias tried to assassinate the Vice President and Speaker of the House in an attempted coup directed by the Republican President of the United States. They tried to kidnap and murder the Democratic governor of Michigan. They’re blowing up power substations from Oregon to the Carolinas. They’ve embedded themselves in DHS, police departments, and our military. They’re coordinating with fascists overseas.

=====The upper atmosphere is cooling, and fears emerge rapid change from above will bring turmoil below.=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/25/2171076/-The-upper-atmosphere-is-cooling-and-fears-emerge-rapid-change-from-above-will-bring-turmoil-below by Pakalolo 25/5/23 DAILY KOS]

  A new study from The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has reaffirmed that human fingerprints are all over climate change warming the Earth's atmosphere (or the troposphere where Earth weather takes place), and also found that the same greenhouse gasses we emit from burning fossil fuels are also cooling the upper atmosphere—a phenomenon that we do not know too much about. The findings reveal that satellites (increased drag), the ozone layer, and the weather on Earth will all be affected negatively in some way.

=====Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis by Oliver Milman 29/6/25 The Guardian]

  Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half  

=====The grip secret: it could be the key to a long and healthy life – here’s how to improve yours=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/30/the-grip-secret-it-could-be-the-key-to-a-long-and-healthy-life-heres-how-to-improve-yours by Phil Daoust 30/6/25 The Guardian]

  Anyone who has ever dropped their phone in the toilet – and isn’t that all of us? – knows something about the importance of a good strong grip. We come into the world ready to grasp anything placed in our hands, and if we are lucky we leave it the same way. In between, grip lets us cling to our parents, hold our lovers, rock our babies. The morning I wrote this, before I was even dressed, it enabled me to strap on my watch, lock the kids out of the bathroom, wash my hands, insert my contact lenses, strip, shower, brush my teeth, take my medicine and check my phone. A few hours later, as I hung upside down on some gymnastics rings, it stopped me slipping off and cracking my head on the floor.

=====Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/29/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi by Nick Robins 29/6/25 The Guardian]

  The 22 June launch initially appeared successful enough, with a flood of videos from pro-Tesla social media influencers praising the service and sharing footage of their rides. Musk celebrated it as a triumph, and the following day, Tesla’s stock rose nearly 10%.

=====RFK Jr.’s made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary=====

[https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/06/27/rfk-vaccine-promises/ by Associated Press 30/6/25 National Politics]

  During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.

=====A popular, but noxious, piping fix is sickening people. And it's throughout America's sewers.=====

[https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/03/30/cured-in-place-pipelining-toxic-sewer-repairs-homes-evacuations/10245804002/ by Emily Le Coz 30/3/23 USA TODAY]

  A strong, epoxy-like odor that nauseated her and dozens of classmates and teachers at Spooner Middle School in Wisconsin. By the time they evacuated, Kaylie was feeling lightheaded. She passed out and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

=====Climate Change Breeds War in Africa=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/30/2184162/-Climate-Change-Breeds-War-in-Africa by Alan Singer 30/7/23 DAILY KOS]

  Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, warns European nations that refugees from Sahel region will be moving north to escape violence, climate crises like droughts and floods, and food shortages.

=====Profound Paradigm Shift in Cellular Biology – DNA Damage Repaired by Antioxidant Enzymes=====

[https://scitechdaily.com/profound-paradigm-shift-in-cellular-biology-dna-damage-repaired-by-antioxidant-enzymes/ by Center For Regulation 6/7/23 SciTechDaily]

  The human nucleus is metabolically active, according to the findings of a new study in Molecular Systems Biology by researchers at the CRG in Barcelona and CeMM/Medical University of Vienna.

=====The Bruen Decision Is Not an "Originalist" Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/31/2190763/-The-Bruen-Decision-Is-Not-an-Originalist-Interpretation-of-the-2nd-Amendment by Old Rotorhead 31/8/23 DAILY KOS]

  Self-proclaimed “originalists” tend to use their alleged doctrine as a fig leaf for enacting their prejudices. In addition to the subject of reproductive autonomy, that’s especially in evidence, it seems, with regard to the Second Amendment.  The Supreme Court actually has a set of rules for legal interpretation which enshrines aversion of “originalism”:

=====New maps show where snowfall is disappearing=====

[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/25/weather/snowfall-temperatures-climate-change-water/index.html by Eric Zerkel 25/11/23 CNN]

  Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show.

=====The 'Game-Changing' Technology The Nuclear Industry Is Betting On For A Revival=====

[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/small-nuclear-reactors-energy_n_649f055be4b0c7e9d8e723e8 by Alexander C. Kaufman 7/7/23 HUFFPOST]

  On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the nation’s atomic energy industry perhaps more than any other site in the United States.

=====Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality=====

[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13544 by Adam Stanaland 15/7/24 Development Science]

  When adult men are made to feel gender-atypical, they often lash out with aggression, particularly when they are pressured (vs. autonomously motivated) to be gender-typical.  

=====Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/may/01/fewer-wildfires-great-biodiversity-what-is-the-secret-to-the-success-of-mexicos-forests by Linda Farthing 1/5/24 The Guardian]

  Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Zapotec Indigenous town of Ixtlán de Juárez, about 1,600ft (490 metres) above the wide Oaxaca valley in Mexico, where community forestry has become a way of life. Like him, about 10 million people across the country live in and make a living from forests, with half of that population identifying as Indigenous.

=====As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires=====

[https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5254160/california-fires-los-angeles-latino-immigrants by Adrian Florido 10/1/25 npr]

  Maria Garcia does not live in the neighborhoods that have been consumed by the massive Eaton Fire in northeast Los Angeles this week. But Garcia, who is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, sometimes cleans houses in those neighborhoods, so she knows people who do.

=====The Role of Epistemic Trust in Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Thinking: Insights from New Research=====

[https://www.broadlyepi.com/emerging-study/the-role-of-epistemic-trust-in-vaccine-hesitancy-and-conspiracy-thinking-insights-from-new-research/ by Cod Micah 01/25 BROADLY EPI]

  Understanding the psychological factors that shape belief systems, trust in information, and susceptibility to misinformation has never been more critical. A groundbreaking study published in PLOS Global Public Health investigates how epistemic trust—a person’s readiness to regard information as significant and reliable—affects vaccine hesitancy, belief in conspiracy theories, and the ability to distinguish between real and fake news.

=====Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance=====

[https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e1de6df8-03da-4cba-bdbb-519dc5bbaade by Jared Starr 17/8/23 ScienceOpen]

  Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income.

====='Perfect solar system' found in search for alien life=====

[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931 by Pallab Ghosh 29/11/23 BBC]

  The system, 100 light years away, has six planets, all about the same size. They've barely changed since its formation up to 12 billion years ago.

=====Apple Won and Google Lost Because of the Corruption of the Judiciary=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/27/2213964/-Apple-Won-and-Google-Lost-Because-of-the-Corruption-of-the-Judiciary?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by angryea 27/12/23 DAILY KOS]

  Before I begin, I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas.  Writing may slow down some through the new year.  Though, lets me fair, this place is already kind of sporadic.  But I hope to continue to keep to at least one new post a week in the new year.  Now on with irritating judges and lawyers.

=====Opinion: As darkness descends on Gaza, I yearn for the world to see us, too=====

[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/11/opinions/gaza-palestinian-israel-hamas-seige-ghraieb/index.html by Omar Ghraieb 12/10/23 CNN]

An explosive roar shakes my home and my laptop goes flying, landing amid shattered glass and debris. Looking at its flickering screen, I sigh and brace myself to pronounce the death of another computer — and this essay. I collect it gently from the floor and coax it back to life. I keep writing.

=====24/7 solar towers could double energy output=====