An image shared on X claims Taiwan recognized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s win. Do you see a pattern amongst the countries that have so far recognised the “victory” of Maduro? pic.twitter.com/0yoPJQ755J — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024 Verdict: Misleading Taiwan is not part of China. The image appears to be from a Newsweek map, […]

Over 1 in 5 Americans experiences chronic pain, affecting their mobility, mental health, and overall quality of life. Although traditional healthcare providers make big money from pain management, nearly half of all patients fail to find relief. Traditional treatments are often ineffective, and in many cases, they do more harm than good. Yet, healthcare professionals […]

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Diamond Dave is at it again. After having a surprising cover of Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309/Jenny,” he has once again turned to a traditional classic rock standard to make his own. This time, it’s Gerry Rafferty’s classic solo hit “Baker Street.” David Lee Roth has recently released new songs on his YouTube channel, giving all his fans some fresh material from the legendary Van Halen singer. You have to hand it to Diamond Dave; he has no fear in covering some of the most iconic, highly loved songs in classic rock history. The song “Baker Street” was originally released in February The post David Lee Roth Covers Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Battlestar Galactica Please Can Someone Let Sam Esmail Make His Battlestar Galactica Show Already So say we all! So say we all! By Molly Templeton | Published on August 1, 2024 Screenshot: Syfy Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Syfy Another day, another bit of disappointing news: Sam Esmail’s Battlestar Galactica reboot is dead at Peacock. The series was announced in 2019 as part of the then-nascent streamer’s first wave of programming, and, predictably, stirred up a whole lot of please-no-more-reboots-and-remakes griping. These gripes are generally understandable, and I have made them about other properties myself, but consider: Esmail is the mastermind behind Mr. Robot, one of the best under-appreciated series of recent years. He has already proven himself with ensemble casts, conspiracy theories, elaborate plots, stylish and surprising episodes, and brazen storytelling choices. And he wasn’t going to straight-up reboot Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica, anyway. As he wrote on the site formerly known as Twitter at the time, “BSG fans, this will NOT be a remake of the amazing series @RonDMoore launched because… why mess with perfection? Instead, we’ll explore a new story within the mythology while staying true to the spirit of Battlestar. So say we all!” So say we all, indeed. Battlestar Galactica began its life as a short-lived 1970s ABC show before being reborn, in 2003, as Ron Moore’s messy, compelling, epic, ambitious space opera about the last dregs of humanity trying to survive an attack by the robots they had created. At its best, it was brilliant (“33”) and emotional (“Someone to Watch Over Me”). At its worst, it got real sloppy (the ending). It’s exactly the kind of show that could be creatively and powerfully re-imagined by someone with a vision. As Variety put it, the series was “a passion project” for Esmail, who has been developing it for the past five years. Just months ago, in January, Derek Simonds (The Sinner) was announced as writer and showrunner, which was interesting and disappointing at once. (I really wanted Esmail’s hand all over this show.) Variety notes that, “According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, UCP will shop the project to other outlets.” Dear other outlets: Please pick up this show. Please bring back nuanced and complex character work combined with incredible space set pieces and interesting inquiries into the nature of personhood. Please let Sam Esmail make his show. Please?[end-mark] The post Please Can Someone Let Sam Esmail Make His <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> Show Already appeared first on Reactor.

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If you’re the sort of person who likes to end a meal with smoke coming out of your ears then you may be tempted to try and get your hands on the recently developed "Pepper X". Be warned, though, this bad boy is the hottest chili pepper on the planet, with a heat rating that smashes the previous record set by the infamous Carolina Reaper.Grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company, Pepper X was awarded the Guinness World Record for the spiciest chili in existence after it clocked up 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) during tests. For reference, the aforementioned Carolina Reaper - which was also created by Currie and crowned back in 2013 - provides an average of 1,569,300 SHU, which is more than a million units less than this new monstrosity.The Scoville scale measures the intensity of chili peppers and other spicy foods by determining how much dilution is required to neutralize their heat. In the case of Pepper X, then, it takes almost 2.7 million cups of sugar water to take away the pain contained in one cup of chili extract.Putting that into context, habanero peppers weigh in with a puny 100,000-350,000 SHU, while jalapeños typically deliver an embarrassing 4,000 to 8,500 SHU.    Like all chilies, Pepper X gets its heat from a molecule called capsaicin, which activates the pain receptors of the mouth and throat when ingested. It’s thought that plants originally developed capsaicin as a means of deterring would-be predators, although humans have since acquired a puzzling taste for piquant condiments, and can even get "high" from eating spicy foods. The fiery compound is mainly found in the tissue surrounding a pepper’s seeds, known as the placenta. According to Guinness World Records, the fact that Pepper X is so curved and ridged means the placenta has more space to grow, which may explain how it ended up with so much capsaicin. Unfortunately for any masochistic foodies out there, however, Currie isn’t selling Pepper X chilies or seeds, which means the only way to get a taste of this banger is through his hot sauces. Revealing how he created the beast, Currie explained that he spent ten years cross-breeding Carolina Reapers with other “brutally hot” peppers at his farm in Fort Mill, South Carolina. After eating a whole Pepper X, Currie said he was “laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”Sounds delicious.

Sometimes, physicists spend their time solving the great universal mysteries like “where is all the dark matter?” or “how do we know we’re not living in a simulation?” Other times, they look at the important stuff – like why paper cuts happen, and how we can avoid the damn things.“Paper has been central to human culture for more than a millennium,” begins a new study, correctly, recently accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review E. “Its use is, however, associated with a common injury: the paper cut.”And considering it’s a wound that most of us have suffered probably dozens, if not hundreds, of times in our lives, you might expect us to understand the paper cut pretty well by now. But in fact, the study points out, “the physics underpinning a flexible sheet of paper slicing into soft tissues remains unresolved.” Not only do we not really know how paper cuts happen – after all, shouldn’t our skin be more sturdy than a micrometers-thick piece of pulped cellulose? – but they seem to occur almost randomly. What sets that envelope apart from this piece of tissue paper? Why do I always seem to cut myself on magazines, but not wrapping paper?To solve both these questions, a team from the Technical University of Denmark set up an experiment delightfully Mythbusters in design: they collected a variety of different types of paper and tested each one’s slicing ability on a slab of ballistics gelatin – a material specifically designed to mimic human and animal muscle tissue, and the same stuff used in all those cool slo-mo videos you’ve seen. And yes, it’s not as good as the real deal, but, as study co-author Kaare Jensen pointed out to Science News, “it’s hard to find volunteers” for paper cut studies.So, what did they discover? Well, it turns out that a paper cut is the result of a delicate balance between slicing and buckling. Choose too thin a sheet of paper, and it will buckle against the skin before it slices through; a sheet that is too thick, on the other hand, won’t be able to create enough pressure to cut.Now, we know what you’re thinking: what’s the most dangerous type of paper? Don’t worry: the team pinpointed a thickness of around 65 micrometers to be the best – or worst, we suppose – for paper cuts. The angle of attack also made a difference: paper that met the skin straight-on was less slicey than sheets that came at an angle.In practical terms, that means we should avoid dot matrix paper, the team explained – which, fortunately, is pretty easy – it’s the kind of paper old-timey printers used to use, and not all that common today. Coming in a close second was paper from various magazine pages, which, let’s face it, is probably not too surprising to anybody who regularly reads magazines.And so, having discovered the most deadly types of paper, and how best to wield it to cause harm, the team did the obvious next step. Like any good Bond villain, they created a weapon – with a punny name.Admittedly, it’s only really a weapon if you’re a salad vegetable, but the 3D-printed “Papermachete” is able to cut through cucumbers, peppers, and even chicken. It uses as its blade a single sheet of printer paper – so next time someone tells you to stop being a baby over your paper cut, you can remind them it’s basically like being cut with a carving knife. Physics says so.The study is accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review E.