Poison

At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and they have been rising ever since. Among US college students, diagnoses of depression and anxiety more than doubled between 2010 and 2018. More worrying still, in the decade to 2020 the number of emergency room visits for self-harm rose by 188% among teenage girls in the US and 48% among boys. The suicide rate for younger adolescents also increased, by 167% among girls and 91% among boys. A similar trend has been observed in the UK and…

Scientists discover a ‘toxin sponge’ protein in poison dart frogs that safely stores dangerous alkaloids, offering potential new approaches for treating human poisonings. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com A newly identified protein helps poison dart frogs accumulate and store a potent toxin in their skin which they use for self-defense against predators.Scientists have identified the protein that helps poison dart frogs safely accumulate their namesake toxins, according to a study published on December 19 in…

In the days following Donald Trump’s remarks that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” the 2024 GOP frontrunner was met with a wave of Democratic and media criticism, likening his speech to Nazi rhetoric. In response to the Adolf Hitler comparisons, Trump has privately vowed to further amp up the volume on his extreme, anti-immigrant messaging, according to two sources who’ve spoken to him since his rally in New Hampshire last weekend.  “He wants the media to choke on his words,” one of these sources…

Republicans are excusing Donald Trump after the former president channeled Hitler and accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.” On Saturday, Trump addressed a crowd of supporters in Durham, New Hampshire. During one of his rants on immigration, Trump declared that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country … That’s what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world — not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but…

Donald Trump spoke at Whittemore Center Arena on the campus of University of New Hampshire in Durham on Saturday. He slammed his opponents, taking swipes at Republican presidential primary nominees NIkki Haley and Chris Christie — whom Trump, not a poster child of fitness himself, called “a fat pig.” But Trump reserved most of his ire for President Joe Biden, who beat him four years ago in an election Trump refuses to accept was legitimate. The former president also echoed the words of Adolf Hitler during his…

Americans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to concern potential overdoses of semaglutide and might be tied to a rise in compounded versions of the drug, which aren’t tested for their safety and can come in doses that vary greatly from the typical formulation.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedSemaglutide was developed by the Danish-based pharmaceutical company Novo…

House Republicans have once again attempted to pass a law that will increase emissions and cost Americans trillions of dollars in additional fuel and health costs. The bill in question is called H.R.4468, the “CARS” act. It was introduced by Rep Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA). It passed the House Wednesday by a vote of 221-197, with 216 republicans and 5 Democrats voting to poison you and cost you trillions of dollars, and 197 Democrats and zero republicans voting to protect you from…

Thanks to a boom in generative artificial intelligence, programs that can produce text, computer code, images and music are readily available to the average person. And we’re already using them: AI content is taking over the Internet, and text generated by “large language models” is filling hundreds of websites, including CNET and Gizmodo. But as AI developers scrape the Internet, AI-generated content may soon enter the data sets used to train new models to respond like humans. Some experts say that will inadvertently…

Twitter owner Elon Musk has indicated that the social media platform will soon be rebranded X, the latest in a long line of seemingly impulsive decisions that have slowly but surely chipped away at Twitter’s functionality, reputation, and now potentially its brand recognition, too.At about 9pm Saturday, his time, Musk tweeted that all birds would soon be gone from the site. He then petitioned his followers to make him some X logos for free that he could use instead.Elon Musk has changed his profile picture on Twitter to…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: Just when you thought DC's creativity could no further plummit: "Poison Ivy: Uncovered #1". The ultimate toolkit to siphon your money!Published Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:27:11 -0500 by Jude Terror | In the relentless pursuit of new and imaginative ways to sequester money from loyal fans comes the latest offering from the DC creative powerhouse, "Poison Ivy: Uncovered #1". Set to hit your crucially important to maintain comic stores on Tuesday, July 25th, brace yourself for what is…