In 2016, a team led by UCLA’s Martin Monti reported that a 25-year-old man recovering from a coma had made remarkable progress following a treatment to jump-start his brain using ultrasound. Now, Monti and colleagues report in the journal Brain Stimulation that two more patients with severe brain injuries — both had been in what scientists call a […]
Technically, of course, it’s not a proposal to send people to jail for going on holiday. But taken in the round, the intended effect of it is to scare the living daylights out of any Briton who fancies a week or so of debauchery in Santa Ponza: Failing to quarantine in a designated hotel after […]
The result of last night’s vote was 56 to 44. That wasn’t on the main question, about whether former President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against his own country’s Government. That vote will come later. Last night’s vote, actually, was about whether the US Senate has the authority to put Trump on trial […]
A new poll has found that half of Britons no longer wish to pay a TV licence fee – and that many of them feel the BBC is biased in its reporting. A poll of 1,700 people by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found that 56% of respondents supported scrapping the licence fee and believed the BBC […]
In what amounts to an extraordinary display of boastful arrogance, Time magazine last week published a long piece revealing how the Democrats beat Trump. To ensure Biden’s victory, the magazine explained that – and this is a real quote – “there was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes”, one that built an alliance which “got […]
During her first press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about President Joe Biden’s stance on certain abortion policies. “I will just take the opportunity to remind all of you that he is a devout Catholic and somebody who attends church regularly,” Psaki responded. “He started his day attending church with his […]
Politicians around the world must be held to account for mishandling the Covid-19 pandemic, argues the executive editor of the BMJ, Dr Kamran Abbasi. At the very least, mishandling Covid-19 might be classified as ‘social murder’. When politicians and experts say that they are willing to allow tens of thousands of premature deaths, for the sake […]
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.” Did F. […]
Last Thursday, January 28, emergency responders in Gainesville, Georgia, about 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, began to receive 911 calls from Plant 4 of the Foundation Foods Prepared Food Division in that city. One caller reported, “I’ve got two people not breathing.” Another said he had gotten a call from another part of the plant saying that […]
Anyone familiar with the Bible is familiar with the Mark of the Beast: Without this mark, no man may buy or sell. Regardless of one’s religious faith or lack thereof, there is an illustrative case in this biblical story: When one cannot buy or sell, one is metaphorically up the creek. Short of producing […]
Last April, in 2020, I wrote an article claiming that the year of the lockdown presented an unprecedented opportunity to finally test the claims of the climate lobby. A year later, the evidence is not looking good for our green friends. In the article, entitled “Covid-19 shutdown could be a chance to test man-made climate […]
You’ve probably heard by now, at least in passing on the news, about the Military Coup in Myanmar that appears to have resulted in poor old Aung San Suu Kyi being locked up again. If you haven’t heard, here’s the BBC: Myanmar’s military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically […]