Telomeres atrophy as humans grow older. Atrophy means getting smaller, weaker, softer. Telomeres are the soft tips of our chromosomes. Smaller, softer tips are a sign of old age. Researchers at Tel Aviv University used oxygen therapy to grow these telomeres longer in people over 65 years old. Older humans can now hope for longer, harder tips.
Another discovery from Tel Aviv University this week comes in a new cancer treatment. CRISPR is not an American potato chip, but a gene editing technique. Researchers have not reaped the benefits of CRISPR until now. This week scientists used the CRISPR gene-editing to stop cancer. Soon Tel Aviv University will sell humans the technology to live forever without atrophied tips– of our chromosomes.
Have you ever heard of the 5-eyes? They’ve heard of you. Great Britain, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Canada are the monster sharing 5 eyes. Here’s looking at you. And China. This week, Canada said countries should stand together and fight China’s “aggressive coercive diplomacy”. Coercive words are threats. China said it will poke out the 5 eyes. So what’s better, humans? A monster with 5 eyes? Or a coercive China with a sharp stick?
Video games that build relationships between players make people feel good. Surprise! Friends online feel like real friends. Building a rapport, or a good relationship, with other gamers improves well-being. Don’t call Nintendo, “No-friend-do,” daddy. Only two games were studied, which suggests scientists should play games more seriously.
And that brings us to our new segment, Baloney Detection by Carl Sagan, because you can call fake news “baloney”. This week our tool to find fake news is Debate the Evidence and the fallacy in the fake news is Appeal to Authority. One American News Network– that’s their actual name– put up a map showing President Donald Trump winning the 2020 election with a prodigious 410 electoral votes. Prodigious means big, wooly mammoth big. The network claimed the US Army took the data from a voting machine server in Germany. The evidence, however, doesn’t match news; Sorry, One American News Network: the US Army says they didn’t take data. Germany says they don’t have US election data. The voting machine company doesn’t collect the data. One American News Network used the US Army’s authority to spread fake news. Baloney. Prodigious Baloney.
Thanks from here at Weekly Wig News. If you have a rapport with other humans, share today’s news and reap the benefit. I’m your prodigious host, Michael Paul John Smith. Eat your vegetables and read your news.
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