mice

Humanized mouse is a general term that refers to a mouse that has been engrafted with something from a human. This could be a short strand of human DNA, human tissue, a human tumor, a humanized immune system, or parts of the human microbiome.

Meanwhile:

9/11

"A really bad idea, embraced by millions of people, is still a really bad idea.” ~ Tony Blauer

“A personal creative idea outside the box can still be a really bad idea" — Gus Leonisky

WELCOME...

Here we follow a couple of videos on YouTube. 

One is by John Cleese about creativity for managers. 

nuz flash

When a news network based in India or a newspaper based in Nigeria or Hong Kong can be held in the same high regard as The New York Times or the Financial Times, we will know that we have succeeded in eradicating global white privilege in the media.

In the Western liberal tradition, the media is deemed to have a critical role in speaking truth to power, exposing injustices and scandals, and even seeking notoriety to attract eyeballs.

sunday

Water crashing through New York subways, extreme wildfires tearing through California, Greece and Australia’s own black summer: All media companies, but especially those with populist and tabloid voices, know the power of these images in a world dealing with the catastrophic impact of climate change.

News Corp Australia’s decision to end its long-standing editorial hostilitytowards carbon-reduction policies and advocate for the world’s leading economies to hit net zero emissions by 2050 is welcome, but lags far behind a broader shift in the business community and among voters.

care

The Health Minister's office didn't meet Pfizer executives to negotiate a vaccine purchase until a fortnight after the USA and UK had already signed supply deals for COVID-19 vaccines, despite the pharmaceutical giant repeatedly advising the federal government to show urgency.

summit

The national women's safety summit has ended in a political stoush, with some state ministers backing critics of the federal government who argue it has failed to address violence towards women.

jerry wins

Power and money: That’s all the old boss cares about (“Climate change shift at News Corp is long overdue”, September 7). On climate it’s a misinformation juggernaut: it divides countries, states, workplaces and families – even his own – and it sells. Everybody fights and he’s already picked his side. Blessed is the country without Rupert Murdoch – like New Zealand.

 Sue Young, Bensville

farther's day

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire for accepting exemptions for a Father’s Day trip to Sydney to see his family, with Labor accusing him of “appalling judgment” after crossing borders with the nation’s two biggest states in hard lockdowns.

“You’ve got to have the same rules for people,” former opposition leader Bill Shorten said on Tuesday.

Mr Morrison has been in Canberra for several weeks as federal parliament sat in the capital.

tip...

By responding to the Palestinian call for boycotting apartheid Israel, the ice cream giant has delivered a blow to Israel’s attempts at criminalizing and, ultimately, ending the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. 

surge

ON THE AFTERNOON of October 9, 2009, President Barack Obama met with his top generals, Cabinet officials, and his vice president to hash out strategy for the war in Afghanistan. Earlier that morning, Obama learned he’d been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The war in Afghanistan was now eight years old, and Obama had campaigned on the idea that the Bush administration’s effort there had been headed in the wrong direction.

By Ryan Grim at The Intercept

"Live with the Virus"
did ScoMo decree
"first chance we get
Let's frolic so free
While you folks wait for
a Lockdown Redemption
I'm gonna order
a Special Exemption
It's all about you
It's not about me
Would I lie to you?
Definitely"

freedoom...

Lorraine Finlay’s appointment as Human Rights Commissioner is yet another attack from the Coalition on the commission’s independence.

field of gold

Nearly 520 years ago, a pandemic changed the course of history. Arthur — the elder brother of future King Henry VIII — died suddenly in April 1502, most likely from the “English sweat sickness” (a highly dangerous pandemic infection at the time), at the age of 15, barely 20 weeks after his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Arthur was supposed to become the next king...

The death of Arthur being so swift, it is unlikely he died from Tuberculosis as some people have suggested. The “English sweat sickness” is thus the most likely culprit. Even his sister, Mary Tudor Queen of France, also caught the disease but survived, somewhat very weakened...

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trump

As a rabid atheist (GOD DOES NOT EXIST), Gus Leonisky is fascinated by the dilemmas faced by Christians, especially the extreme “evangelicals”. I thus read a few Christian websites, I keep an eye on the ludicrous bible verses (less these days as I know where to find the conflict of ideas) and keep an eye upon the religious hypocrisy that filters morality into restrictive political opinions. I have exposed a few of these “hypocrites” or “moralisators” that will take you around the paddock with circular arguments, in which the "love from god” features as icing-sugar on top of turdy arguments. 

One of the latest blooming idiotic article by Michael Brown at the Christian Post, a committed Trump voter, is about abortion…: