Another week of stories not making the cut in the journalistic world.

Local–Our weather sucks….it is end of February and the temps are pushing 80 and very little rain.  The average high for this time of year is 60-65 our lows are 10 degrees higher the the average high….this is getting ridiculous.

Personal–To give my poor brain a rest I have been tuned in to the Olympics and was amused by the women’s cross country skiing when a dog joined the race.

A dog ran onto the track while the women’s heats were in progress, running alongside athletes as they crossed the finish line. The incident didn’t disrupt the competition, and the dog was cheered on by spectators. It later wandered to the finish area, approaching skiers as they completed their runs. Venue officials said a spectator had brought the animal into the venue despite a strict no-pets policy. The dog was secured near the finish line and its owner was asked to leave.

His name is Nazgul and I think we should make him famous on the internet.

I also think that the pup should get a medal for his finish.

Enough chit chat onto the meat of the subject.

Let’s start with aliens, the ET type,…..

One of the most bizarre accounts of a close encounter with a UFO hails from the former Soviet Union, where it’s reported that dozens of soldiers were turned into stone by irate extraterrestrials

According to a report from that era, in 1993, troops shot down an alien spacecraft flying over Siberia using a surface-to-air missile. Five beings reportedly emerged from the wreckage, merging into a fiery orb that emitted a beam of light, instantly petrifying 23 soldiers, leaving only a handful of survivors to recount the incident.

https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/declassified-cia-files-detail-soviet-1677938

That ought to keep the Ancient Alien freaks busy.

Let’s say that we find alien life….will we be able to talk?

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists.

But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or technology, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think. As Time reports, the subject comes with an enormous amount of baggage, from preconceived notions of what alien life could look like from popular culture to fears over the implications of confirming we’re not alone.

“The search for life in space isn’t just a science question,” Portland State University Brianne Suldovsky told the magazine. “It’s a moral question, it’s a philosophical question, for some it’s a religious question.”

Suldovsky compared communicating the unknowns and managing fear to lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Except, when it comes to xenobiology, “you’re talking about planetary protection.”

“Managing public fear is going to be incredibly challenging, however it is possible to communicate in a way that at least gives the public information about how afraid they should be and what they can do to protect themselves,” she said.

https://futurism.com/space/communicate-news-alien-life

That is enough of that silliness.

A little health news for those taking the GLP-1 treatments…..

Some patients taking popular weight-loss drugs are ending up with a condition associated with 18th-century sea voyages: scurvy. GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic suppress appetite so effectively that some users are consuming too little nutrient-dense food, researchers say, putting them at risk for vitamin deficiencies, which can affect bone, brain, gut, and skin health, as well as muscle mass, per People. Scurvy, caused by a severe lack of vitamin C, can lead to anemia, bleeding gums, easy bruising, and slow wound healing, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Musician Robbie Williams has said he developed scurvy after taking “something like Ozempic.” “I’d stopped eating and I wasn’t getting nutrients,” he told the Mirror last April. A new review from Australia’s University of Newcastle looked at 41 controlled GLP-1 trials involving 50,000 people over 17 years and found only two evaluated overall nutrition. And only one of the two studies had published the information, per the Australian Financial Review.

“Nutrition plays a critical role in health, and right now it’s largely missing from the evidence,” said Clare Collins, a nutrition and dietetics professor at the university, in a statement. She cited case reports of deficiencies in thiamine (vitamin B1) and protein on top of the scurvy cases being discussed anecdotally and urged health systems to act before deficiencies become common. She wants general practitioners’ chronic disease plans for GLP-1 users to routinely include referrals to dietitians. Because “when people are eating less, the quality of what they eat matters even more.”

Why not?  I want some of this grant money.

If you think you’re an outlier in the gas department, science has news: You probably aren’t. Researchers at the University of Maryland strapped “Smart Underwear” onto healthy adults for a week and found they passed gas an average of 32 times a day, though individual totals ranged from just four farts to nearly five dozen, reports Scientific American. The wearable device, fitted with chemical sensors, doesn’t care about sound or smell—it simply tracks gases like hydrogen, a by-product of gut microbes at work.

In a second experiment, participants were first put on a low-fiber diet for a few days, then given fiber supplements, and the device picked up the resulting jump in hydrogen, suggesting it can spot changes in microbiome activity in real time. Lead researcher Brantley Hall says that without a clear baseline for what’s normal, it’s tough to know when gas is truly excessive. In fact, previous farting estimates came in much lower, with a release suggesting that discrepancy could be tied to the perils of self-reporting, complete with faulty memory, missing farts while sleeping, and the subjectivity of what constitutes a fart, among other factors.

The findings, published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, challenge the idea that a single “typical” fart count can capture how human digestion works. Hall’s team is now building a “Human Flatus Atlas,” recruiting people across the spectrum—from low-gas high-fiber eaters to chronic farters—to better map gut function and, eventually, improve treatments for digestive issues.

I believe this is a good place to call it quits for the day.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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