Another Saturday and another news dump of totally worthless news….but most is amusing at best.
Weather here is still hot….Tuesday the temp topped out at 123….but the tropics are quiet (for now)….
In these times of tight money some have tried the ‘Lawsuit Lotto” to supplement their income….and here is the latest….
A woman who says she lost her “enjoyment of life” after slipping on a stray slice of prosciutto is suing Eataly Boston. According to New Hampshire resident Alice Cohen’s lawsuit, she was shopping at the Italian market last October when she approached an area where free samples were being handed out and “slipped and fell on a piece of prosciutto on the floor, injuring her left ankle resulting in a fracture,” the Boston Globe reports. The lawsuit accuses Eataly of breaching its duty to customers “by failing to ensure that the floor was free from unnecessarily dangerous conditions”—including wafer-thin slices of dry-cured ham.
The lawsuit blames alleged negligence for the ankle injury, “as well as loss of enjoyment of life, and experiencing great pain and suffering.” Cohen’s husband Ronald is named as a plaintiff because he “has suffered from the loss of consortium for his wife,” reports NBC News. According to court documents, Alice Cohen’s medical expenses, including physical therapy, topped $7,500. The Cohens are seeking a jury trial and more than $50,000 in damages.
The “Lawsuit Lotto”!
Now time for the absurd!
Dinosaurs in Peru?
Just yesterday, we covered the remote Peruvian region of Alto Nanay, and reports that the town was under siege by seven-foot-tall armed green translucent aliens. The attacks turned out to be the result of illegal gold miners from Columbia or Brazil, but rumors quickly swirled that they were in possession of high-caliber American military tech.
Now, a different conspiracy from Peru is also alleging American malpractice. This time, it’s the CIA, and a supposed secret facility in the middle of the jungle that houses real-life dinosaurs.
The United States does run a facility in the middle of the Peruvian jungle called Naval Medical Research Unit South, which was formerly known as Naval Medical Research Unit Six according to Wikipedia. That facility is publicly used “to investigate prophylactic agents such as vaccines and pharmaceuticals against tropical infectious diseases,” but privately, plenty of people think the CIA is up to something very different.
According to multiple TikTok videos published by conscape, a man named Diego Lopez ventured into the jungle to find the truth, and discovered real-world dinosaurs as in Jurassic Park. However, after posting a video, it was deleted and he was never heard from again. His report confirmed that Unit 6 was up to no good, but disproved other theories of extraterrestrial involvement.
I was unable to uncover any evidence of Lopez’s existence or his dinosaur video. There is also limited evidence or reporting on anything else involving the Naval Medical Research Unit South, and conscape has other outlandish videos formatted in similar ways.
The Naval Medical Research Unit South also has a very run-of-the-mill Facebook page, with official-looking photos throughout. And although comments are limited on all of their posts, it hardly looks like a remote facility in the jungle.
A Jurassic Park in South America….god I love this stuff.
I am fortunate that where I live there are several parks that a dog can go and have an adventure….burt urban living these days people use ‘dog parks’ for the canine buddy to go for exercise and to hang out with other dogs….I do not use them for down here they have no shade and the water if ‘iffy’ at best….but there is a good reason to avoid them if you can….
It’s advice sure to rile up a certain breed of dog people: “Skip the dog park.” So argues Julie V. Iovine in a New York Times essay. These parks may seem great for humans, but Iovine makes the case they are not so great for dogs. “Rather than thinking of them as an oasis, we’d be wiser to think of dog parks as under-supervised and vaguely dirty watering holes during thunderstorms when there’s a good chance of lightning: high risk, and best avoided.” Sure, some dogs love them, but many others suffer stress at the prospect of interacting with a large pack of random, stranger dogs.
those loopy circles that dogs make in a dog park, called the zoomies? Those could be playful, or they could very well may be your dog screaming, ‘I just can’t take it anymore!'” she writes. For these dogs, the park is more like a “thunderdome,” and the lingering stress and exhaustion can last for days. So “stop worrying so much about socializing your dog in exactly the right way,” writes Iovine. “She may enjoy running around with other breeds sometimes, but studies suggest the truth is that she’d be happiest of all just playing with you.”
Read the full essay.
You know your dog….do what is best for them.
Remember Covid? It’s back!
The days when a new strain of COVID could make headlines may seem like the distant past, but the CDC is calling attention to what it says is a potentially worrisome one, reports CBS News. It’s called BA.2.86, and it’s been spotted so far in the US, Denmark, Israel, and the UK, says the agency. The World Health Organization is also tracking it as a “variant under monitoring,” per a post at the former Twitter, and that designation has come about in unusually quick fashion. The variant was first identified only on July 24.
So is it more dangerous than the other strains now in circulation? It’s too early to tell, but the variant’s 36 mutations deserve a careful look, Dr. S. Wesley Long of Houston Methodist tells Reuters. Virologist Jesse Bloom tells the outlet that BA.2.86 has an “equal or greater” chance of being able to evade immunity better than Omicron or pre-Omicron variants. “My biggest concern would be that it could cause a bigger spike in cases than what we have seen in recent waves,” says Long, adding that “boosters will still help you fight off COVID in general.”
A new strain and a new warning about health habits….
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the factors that can increase the spread of Sars-Cov-2 have been studied widely. As the virus continues to spread and mutate every other month, there is still a vast scope for research to define causes that are still enabling the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus.
One such widespread practice that was yet to be associated with the risk of getting COVID is nose picking. However, a recent study by researchers from Amsterdam UMC has associated nose picking with an increased risk of contracting a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The researchers surveyed 219 Dutch Health Care Workers (HCW) to gain a perspective regarding behavioural aspects like nose picking or wearing glasses that can increase the likelihood of contracting COVID-19. To maintain the credibility of the findings, the HCWs had to follow all COVID-appropriate measures diligently, such as sanitising, maintaining social distancing, and wearing a PPE kit whenever near patients.
Humans have always been keen on getting high…..
Neanderthals liked to unwind after a hard day’s work hunter gathering by consuming psychoactive drugs, a new study has found.
A discovery of human hair strands at a burial site in Menorca, Spain has given us evidence of drug use in prehistoric times.
Research was put forward in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, and they shine new light on drug use throughout history.
The findings uncovered a number of different alkaloid substances which came from nightshade plants.
They contain scopolamine and atropine which can cause hallucinations and out-of-body experiences, while ephedrine is a stimulant.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/scientists-neanderthals-getting-high
That is about it for the worthless news…..
Go out and enjoy your Saturday and as always….be well and be safe….
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