Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

 

21 hours ago, JCon said:

 

 

https://people.com/human-interest/new-zealand-couple-unearth-what-could-be-worlds-largest-potato-call-it-doug/

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Catskill-man-burst-into-flames-after-police-16595504.php

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sajeev-john-herzberg-medal-1.6251055

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Sajeev John, a professor and scientist who developed a way to confine and control light, similar to the way electrons are controlled in electronics, has been awarded Canada's top science prize.

John was named this year's recipient of the $1-million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal — the highest honour given out by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) — on Wednesday.

The medal is awarded annually for "sustained excellence" and "overall influence" of research conducted in Canada.

"Thanks to his discoveries, it may be possible to process information optically rather than electronically, enabling a supercomputing technology more stable and scalable than quantum computers," said a statement from NSERC.

The technique is now being used for non-invasive laser surgeries and the development of a thin solar cell "coating" for buildings, cars and even clothing.

More on the science: 

 

22 hours ago, JCon said:

 

1 hour ago, JCon said:

Least its not an amber alert after midnight. 

Judge tosses convictions of 2 men in killing of Malcolm X

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

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Some pharmacists working in Canada's top drugstores are recommending homeopathic products to consumers, even though, experts say, these products are essentially sugar water or sugar pills with no scientific evidence they can do what they claim, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found.

Host Asha Tomlinson and Marketplace producers spoke with 10 pharmacists at four major drugstore chains, chosen at random, in the Toronto area, including Rexall, Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart and Metro, and documented what they heard on hidden camera.

Marketplace journalists approached pharmacists with a children's homeopathic product that claims it's for cough, runny nose, congestion, aches, pains and fever. Each pharmacist was asked if they would recommend it for a three-year-old child with cough and cold symptoms.

Six out of 10 did recommend the homeopathic remedy and indicated it would help provide symptom relief. 

"I think it's really, really important to emphasize that the whole idea behind homeopathy is scientifically absurd," said Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta. Unlike vitamins and supplements, there is no debate in the scientific literature about homeopathic remedies, Caulfield says. "Homeopathy is [an] over billion-dollar industry, selling sugar water."

"It's pseudoscience at its worst."

The fact that drug stores even sell this garbage to begin with is absurd.

Gotta get rid of those bad humours somehow. Leeches are hard to come by and bleeding is messy in retail establishments.

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/northern-ontario-man-makes-bizarre-find-while-renovating-1.5672018

Rittenhouse not guilty.

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Rittenhouse not guilty.

And America continues its freefall into madness. 

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/flames-probably-shooting-20-feet-fire-crews-battle-blaze-at-morden-golf-course-1.5674593

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/afghan-girl-from-famous-cover-portrait-is-evacuated-to-italy-1.5681033

When does this trend here on a daily basis?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/11/25/smash-and-grab-robberies-retail-store-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/business-news/

Alex Forrest has taken enough City of Winnipeg money says it's time to retire now that the city will stop paying him, probably off to Vancouver see ya suckers

The Facebook users who reacted with laughing emojis to news of 27 asylum seekers drowning in the Channel

Ratings wise he was their most popular anchor

 

16 hours ago, bustamente said:

Ratings wise he was their most popular anchor

 

You have to do it. He's lost all credibility.

25 minutes ago, JCon said:

You have to do it. He's lost all credibility.

Agreed , yet openly racists are in Government, and liars are still on the air 

9 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Agreed , yet openly racists are in Government, and liars are still on the air 

CNN has shown credibility, and that ought to help them int he long term. One would think that Chris Cuomo should have been a lot more discrete in advising his brother, but in the end, it made no difference at all, and both wound up losing.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/07/largest-edible-brownie-sold-massachusetts/