This Syrian "chemical weapons facility" at Barzeh was one of the locations destroyed by US coalition bombs yesterday. The Syrians insist it was a cancer research lab, and the fact that not one person is wearing a gas mask in the smouldering wreckage would tend to support that assertion. (youtube.com)
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Jason Padgett was the victim of a vicious beating outside a karaoke bar in 2002. The next day, he woke up and was a math genius. This is a short piece about Acquired Savant Syndrome, a condition in which dormant savant skills emerge after a brain injury or disease [13:41] (youtube.com)
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In 1998, the largest chemical company in the world, Syngenta, asked Dr. Tyrone Hayes to study if its top-selling product, weedkiller Atrazine, interfered with hormones. Hayes explained how after exposure to atrazine, frogs that were genetic males became completely functioning reproductive females. (organicconsumers.org)
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