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‘WHO Is a Cheap Date,’ Expert Says of China’s $500 Million Pledge

May 21, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on ‘WHO Is a Cheap Date,’ Expert Says of China’s $500 Million Pledge

China will give the World Health Organization $500 million, but “in terms of the contribution, the WHO is a cheap date,” Brett Schaefer says.   “The Chinese donation is reportedly $500 million over five years,” Schaefer, a senior fellow at […]

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Emotional well-being. Fall prevention. Chair yoga has a lot to offer people of all ages

May 21, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Emotional well-being. Fall prevention. Chair yoga has a lot to offer people of all ages

NEW YORK (AP) — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. Only now, it […]

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Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves

May 21, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves

NEW YORK (AP) — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea. Fish that […]

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4 Takeaways From RFK’s Health and Human Services Budget Testimony

May 20, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on 4 Takeaways From RFK’s Health and Human Services Budget Testimony

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Tuesday before a Senate panel about waste in his department, as Democrats became testy over several points.  During the hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health […]

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Markers in blood and urine may reveal how much ultraprocessed food we are eating

May 20, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Markers in blood and urine may reveal how much ultraprocessed food we are eating

Molecules in blood and urine may reveal how much energy a person consumes from ultraprocessed foods, a key step to understanding the impact of the products that make up nearly 60% of the American diet, a […]

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Thursday 3/12

Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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An amendment to the US Constitution must be ratified by what fraction of all the states?

An amendment to the United States Constitution must be ratified by three-fourths (3/4) of all the states. In the current 50-state union, this requires approval from 38 states for an amendment to become part of the Constitution.

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In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Who does Eddie Murphy trade places with in the 1983 movie "Trading Places"?

In the 1983 film Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's character, a streetwise con artist named Billy Ray Valentine, trades places with an upper-class commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Aykroyd.

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What is the soft, triangular, fleshy part of the inside of a horse's hoof called?

The soft, triangular, fleshy part on the underside of a horse's hoof is called the frog. This V-shaped structure is located between the heel bulbs and extends toward the toe, typically occupying about 25% to 33% of the hoof's bottom surface.

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Woodrow Wilson kept a herd of what animal to cut the White House lawn?

During World War I (starting in 1918), President Woodrow Wilson kept a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. The flock, which grew to 48 sheep at its peak, was used to save manpower, provide natural fertilizer, and raise over $50,000 for the Red Cross by auctioning their wool.

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