Month: August 2020

Kodi Lee Breaks Hearts With ‘AGT’ Performance as Five Advance to Semis: Watch – Billboard
13Aug By No Comments
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Kodi Lee Breaks Hearts With ‘AGT’ Performance as Five Advance to Semis: Watch – Billboard

Every time he takes the stage, Kodi Lee breaks your heart. He did it again on Wednesday night (Aug. 12), as the season 14 winner of America's Got Talent returned to the show that made him a star (and international heart-breaker). During the AGT live results show, Lee took his seat at a grand piano for a tender performance of "Break My Heart Again" by Finneas. The inspirational blind singer battles with autism and wins fans wherever he goes. Whoever wins this season will have the baton passed on by Lee. He’s a hard act to follow. Also on the night, five acts advanced from the quarters to the semifinals by way of public votes. They were singers Archie Williams, Shaquira McGrath and Roberta Battaglia, sword swallower Brett Loudermilk and sister act Double Dragon. NBC’s TV tal...
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A new anti-obesity coronavirus campaign is a nightmare for eating disorder sufferers – CNN
13Aug By No Comments
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A new anti-obesity coronavirus campaign is a nightmare for eating disorder sufferers – CNN

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What you need to know about COVID-19: CDC issues warning for the fall if safety measures not followed – WJCL News
13Aug By No Comments
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What you need to know about COVID-19: CDC issues warning for the fall if safety measures not followed – WJCL News

President Trump announcing the federal government is providing up to 125 million masks to schools nationwide. My administration also stands ready to deploy C D C teams to support schools that are opening and schools that need help in safety. The White House is encouraging students and staff to use masks, but there's no mandate. The president's priority is to open the schools and open them safely and have parents have the options to either use open schools or do whatever they can to eventually get back to open schools. But some health experts are skeptical about the White House's new Corona virus adviser, Dr Scott Atlas, a neuro radiologist from with no public health experience who has advocated for herd immunity now advising the president of the United States. Herd immunity mea...
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A newborns fat mass is associated with obesity as a preschooler, study finds – CNN
13Aug By No Comments
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A newborns fat mass is associated with obesity as a preschooler, study finds – CNN

The body fat percentage children had as newborns might have something to do with these statistics, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics. The greater a newborn's fat mass, the more likely he or she was to have a higher body mass index or experience obesity or being overweight between ages 2 and 6, the study said. A ratio of weight to height, body mass index is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters. BMI is used to indicate where a person lies on a scale of underweight to obese. The new study is probably the first "that has shown a relationship between the proportion of fat mass at birth and later childhood obesity," said study senior author Dr. Dana Dabelea, a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at the University ...
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Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in Oregon at age 91 – OregonLive
13Aug By No Comments
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Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in Oregon at age 91 – OregonLive

Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland at age 91. Born in Manhattan in 1929, Kirsch was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary. Educated at the Bronx High School of Science, New York University, Harvard and MIT, Kirsch worked for five decades as a research scientist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institutes of Science and Technology). “My dad, he was a super curious guy, always asking questions,” said his son, Walden Kirsch, who works at Intel in Oregon. “He was an iconoclast. When people said you can’t go there or you can’t do that, he did.” In 1957, Kirsch created a small, 2-by-2-inch black-and-white digital image of Walden a...
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NorCal scientists develop COVID-19 antiviral nasal spray, inhaler – KCRA Sacramento
13Aug By No Comments
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NorCal scientists develop COVID-19 antiviral nasal spray, inhaler – KCRA Sacramento

Scientists and UC San Francisco announced an inhalable protection against COVID-19 with the goal of being produced into an affordable, over-the-counter antiviral medication in the coming months. UCSF is working to start human trials on what they have called “AeroNabs.” “This is a molecule that would bind to the coronavirus protein incredibly tightly. And when it binds to the virus, it completely diffuses its ability to infect human cells,” UCSF assistant professor and co-inventor Aashish Manglik explained. The COVID-19 virus has spike proteins capable of attaching to a cell receptor, becoming a host to produce more novel coronavirus and spread infection. “I like to think of it as a molecular mousetrap,” Manglik said. “It clamps on the virus, prevents it from ever letting go -- and th...
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