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Electing to bat, West Indies put up a fighting total of 225/7, thanks to skipper Stafanie Taylor (94) and Natasa McLean (51) chipped in with vital half-centuries.

Orac, Respectful Insolence
In the long time that I've been discussing antivaccine pseudoscience, there's one thing I've noticed. (Well, actually, it's several things, but I'm going to discuss mainly one.) Lesson number one about antivaccine activists is that, first and foremost and above all else, it's always about the vaccines. Always and forever. As a consequence of that, antivaxers love to latch on to new science in order to twist it to their cause.

Leonard Williams and his agent have a new quote to bring to the negotiating table as leverage. General manager Dave Gettleman admitted Friday what was obvious since earlier in the week when he traded two draft picks to the Jets for defensive lineman Leonard Williams, who is on the final year of his contract and...

KATE, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge have been described as the royal family’s “golden couple” by the former lady-in-waiting of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had reached Tashkent on a three-day visit on November 1. He paid floral tributes at the statue of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on Shastri Street here. He also visited the Shastri Memorial School here and interacted with the students studying there.

James Zimring, Sci American
Whatever you might want to say about humans, our behavior is profoundly affected by the incentive structures we encounter. Imagine what might happen if banks that issued home loans no longer made money off the interest, but rather made money by blending the loans into investment bonds that they then sold to investors.

Katarina Zimmer, The Scientist
The hallways of Pfizer's first-ever facility once swarmed with more than 1,000 workers tasked with making some of the most popular drugs of our time, including the erectile dysfunction treatment Viagra and the antibiotic Zithromax. Nowadays, the building in Brooklyn, New York, carries scents of chocolate, baked goods, beer, and a lingering waft of construction.

The Clippers dusted off from Wednesday and came on hard in tonight’s game beating the Alberni Valley Bulldogs 3-1 in front of … Continue reading Clippers beat Bulldogs, take sole possession of first place →

Steven Novella, Neurologica
Aspirationally, we want to get Starship to orbit within a year. We definitely want to land it on the Moon before 2022. We want to [] stage cargo there to make sure that there are resources for the folks that ultimately land on the Moon by 2024, if things go well, so that's the aspirational time frame.

Referring to the air quality, former cricketer Madan Lal said that the situation in Delhi is really bad right now and the government should take measures to allow people to breathe clean air.He also gave his opinion about the upcoming match between India and Bangladesh at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Lal said that it is not about the 22 players who will come out to play, it is also about the crowd, who will have to sit in such condition for three hours."The situation is really bad in Delhi right now. Читать дальше...

Brandon Keim, Nautilus
Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves, one notices those too, but with little thought for a matrix that may spread as deep and wide as the branches above. Fungi don't register at all except for a sprinkling of mushrooms; those are regarded in isolation, rather than as the fruiting tips of a vast underground lattice intertwined with those roots.

Ross Pomeroy, RCS
Experiments seeking to produce weight loss are a dime a dozen these days. In the midst of a burgeoning obesity epidemic, there is no shortage of dietary solutions demanding to be studied.But fifty years ago, as obesity was beginning to crop up on researchers' radar, a study of a different sort helped to radically alter prevailing scientific views on the matter.

Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will be rolled out across the world: 5G wireless technology. Just as 4G networks are able to provide mobile internet speeds hundreds of times faster than 3G enabling users worldwide to stream HD TV, browse webpages quickly, and even make high-quality video calls the advent of 5G will enable speeds of up to 100 Gigabits per second: up to 100 times faster than 4G.

A gang of six masked robbers looted ornaments and cash worth Rs 1 crore at gunpoint from a jewelry shop in Line Bazar area of Jaunpur on Thursday night.

Koji Mukai & Jennifer Sokoloski, Physics Today
On 8 November 2016, Kwan-Lok Li of Michigan State University discovered a new bright source of rays in the constellation Sagittarius using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Li and his colleagues had been inspecting the LAT data from that part of the sky for any rays from a nova, in which the light from a previously obscure star suddenly becomes much brighter.

David Shales, ACSH
I just finished writing a commentary for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy entitled, The Economic Conundrum for Antibacterials. You can find the accepted manuscript (requires subscription) here. Earlier this fall, I was interviewed for a podcast you can listen here. In both cases, I argued that the numbers of patients with highly resistant infections today are not sufficient (in the developed world) to drive an adequate market for antibacterial drugs active against these resistant pathogens.

Karen Weintraub, MIT Review
The facility lies midway between Munich's city center and its international airport, roughly 23 miles to the north. From the outside, it still looks like the state-run farm it once was, but peer through the windows of the old farmhouse and you'll see rooms stuffed with cutting-edge laboratory equipment.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The slumping San Jose Sharks outplayed the Winnipeg Jets everywhere but in goal. Connor Hellebuyck made 51 saves to hold off a furious San Jose attack and Nikolaj Ehlers scored the tiebreaking goal with 1:24 left to send the Jets to a 3-2 victory over the Sharks on Friday night. “There

Bridget Alex, Disco
As the Ice Age began to wane, people from northeastern Asia spread to the Americas, some of the last uninhabited continents on Earth. The pioneers traveled south of mile-high ice sheets covering Canada and found vast lands, abounding with mammoth, giant sloth and other now-extinct megafauna.

A Tesla vehicle is plugged in at a Tesla Supercharger station in Las Vegas. | Associated Press

At least two dozen consumers have filed complaints with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including a Chicago man who said his 2014 Tesla lost about 30 miles of range after a software update last May.

From Dunder Mifflin to Team Cockroach!

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CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Friday, November 1, 2019

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Philip Goff, The Conversation
Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, consisting of almost 100 billion cells known as neurons each connected to 10,000 others, yielding some ten trillion nerve connections.

Pakistan Test opener Ahmed Shehzad has been fined 50 percent of match fee after his side Central Punjab was found guilty of ball tampering during its clash against Sindh in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.