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Never Pass a Chance to Beat Your Favorite Drum Hey, Y'all. Look out for Trolls and Bots! I was reading the "Comments" section after a review of Ms. Daniels' new book, Full Disclosure , in the Washington Post .  Lo and behold, my expert Troll/Bot spotting eyes saw quite a few. So I fired up my favorite motor scooter and scooted right in with this: duffworx Herein is a great collection of reader comments. It's the perfect place to look for Russian/Iranian/N.Korean, et al Troll/bots. WaPo, imho, is under high volume troll attacks in the Comments space because there is not much high level moderating.  Trolls all over! HOW TO SPOT 'EM: Remember a standard attack mode (to create the  social chaos called 'polarization') is to escalate the hyperbole on BOTH sides of the GAS (Great American Split). I say 'remember' because a lot of people still think those cyber warriors are all Trumpsters, alt-righters, etc.  Not so!  Here at t

See? I Told You to Bone Up on Senolytics [OK, this is more mouse research... but exciting!] Published Wednesday, 19 September in Nature Magazine ... one of the Super Journals (meaning they are as credible as they come, science-journal-wise), a paper based on research done at Mayo Clinic , a pretty good outfit.   Published:  19 September 2018 Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline If you keep up on Alzheimer's research, you recognize "tau-dependent," and if you don't, you surely know about cognitive decline. That and memory loss are the heart-ripping Alzheimer's symptoms we'd all like to avoid.  If You Are Interested in the Science Put your science hat on and take a look at the abstract (free) in Nature . Or read a (also free) layperson version.  Here's a short one (written for Big Pharma money men).                                                                  Here's a lo

While You Are Praying for the Carolinas...          ...Say one for the Philippines AMEN Credit  

The Nose / Gut / Brain Boogie Just a touch of my favorite subject, from the bottomless well of academia. Peddling influence, like everybody else See?  I've been telling you* stuff like this: (Go ahead, have a linking extravaganza.) Recent studies have focused on the role of gut microbiota in modulation of the enteric and central nervous system functions, including behaviour (Bravo  et al .,  2011 ; Foster & McVey Neufeld,  2013 ; Mayer, Tillisch & Gupta,  2015 ; Forsythe  et al .,  2016 ; Sarkar  et al .,  2016 ). This rapidly emerging field employs classical psychological tests of behaviour to begin to understand better how the gut microbiome and the brain interact in health and in models of disease (Collins,  2014 ; Mayer  et al .,  2015 ; Sarkar  et al .,  2016 ). Many of these tests involve assessment of social behaviour and interaction (Tarr  et al .,  2015 ; McKim  et al .,  2016 ; Bharwani  et al .,  2017 ,  2016 ) and it has come to our attention onl

OK, I'm mad.  REALLY mad. This is the last straw to me. President Trump's war on the climate is a  grossly irresponsible travesty of governing. Loosening the rules and allowing more methane leakage into the air, just to "reverse another Obama policy" and please Big Oil and Big Gas... OUGHT TO  BE A CRIME. Methane is many times more potent than CO2 as a heat trapping gas. Surely you've noticed how I trap heat when you emit me? Giant Los Angeles methane leak in infra red. We are GasFlare 1 and GasFlare 2 (with flames). GF3 there is just spewing Methane. We're all BAAAD! You know how methane smells? That's the way this latest climate atrocity smells to me. I encourage you to raise a stink over this one. Just one wound infected with this poison. Graphic Credit Flare  Pix Credit

Just snipped this from the Airedale subReddit    If you say this is photoshopped, I'll lick you to death. Airdales  über alles !

SINGAPORE? For the last few days, it's been Germany. That's weird enough, but today it's.... No telling what blog I read. I have only made one post on this manifold blog that was specifically about Singapore, and that was back in 2010. Here 'tis. And yet... and yet...  SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 daily report 4PM MST Entry Pageviews Singapore 435 France 99 Germany 32 United States 23 Poland 4 United Kingdom 3 Indonesia 1 Romania 1 Turkey 1 From my Blogger account; Audience report.  No pattern to the pageviews. 'Tis a mystery. Anyway, HOWDY to anyone in Singapore who might be around.  p.s. And you French folk, bonsoir!