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Why is Canada sending millions to Communist China?

In what sounds like a bad TLC reality show just waiting to happen, a family of five from Texas has been charged for their alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

There’s a silent epidemic slowly brewing around the globe. It hasn’t claimed as many lives as COVID-19, but if it gets out of control, it will likely prove even deadlier. It’s caused not by a single virus, but by a number of different bacterial species that have been slowly evolving defenses against our once potent antibiotics. Think of it as a sea slowly swelling with superbugs.

There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different. Without someone to fight for it, to put error on the defensive, truth may languish. It may even be lost, at least for some time. No one understood this better than the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei.

My father, a neurologist, once had a patient who was tormented, in the most visceral sense, by a poem. Philip was 12 years old and a student at a prestigious boarding school in Princeton, New Jersey. One of his assignments was to recite Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. By the day of the presentation, he had rehearsed the poem dozens of times and could recall it with ease. But this time, as he stood before his classmates, something strange happened.

Blaise Pascal was a renowned French polymath of the 17th century, scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and later in life a theologian. Among his many contributions was an attempt to prove by logical means the existence of God, which came to be known as Pascal’s Wager. Stated simply, Pascal reasoned that not believing in God, if there was one, would damn you to eternal suffering. Conversely, believing in God, if there wasn’t one, would cost you little in this life and nothing once you were dead. Читать дальше...

On gaming’s biggest stage, it can pay to be small.

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Bangkok is once again under strict disease control measures and residents continue to work from home to curb virus transmissions. Although restaurants, supermarkets, public parks and convenience stores are required to close at 8pm, families still have some recreational options available on the weekend.

The Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Dasta) is planning to push Chiang Rai and Phetchaburi to join the list of Unesco Creative Cities Network (UCCN).

Starting next Thursday, the Candle Festival in Ubon Ratchathani will be launched to mark Khao Phansa Day, or the first day of the annual Buddhist Lent, which this year falls on July 25 and lasts three months.

To fortify frontline healthcare workers and local communities against the Covid-19 pandemic, Michelin Guide Thailand has joined hands with 25 Michelin-star, Bib Gourmand and Michelin Plate awarded restaurants to launch the Red Spoon campaign, which will provide special culinary options in Bangkok and its vicinity throughout the month.

An exclusive concert from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Bon Jovi will be streamed directly to music fans' living rooms in Thailand for the first time ever on July 22 at 6pm (Bangkok time). It will be broadcast for one night only in Thailand and in dozens of other countries around the world.

As Western economies emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, banks and governments are facing a new problem: how to deal with the corporate walking dead. But an innovative worker-centred scheme could offer a possible solution.

An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe.

Rising coronavirus infection rates, driven by the fast-spreading Delta variant, are forcing more countries around Europe to re-impose restrictions that could cast a pall over the region's economic recovery prospects.

Control of information is a crucial element of crisis management. If this saying rings true, the government would seem to be on the verge of disaster because it has failed to direct information regarding the Covid-19 situation.

TBS has renewed its unscripted competition series “Go-Big Show” for a second season, with DJ Khaled joining as a celebrity judge.

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

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We give an overview of the four genetic testing companies - 23andMe, Ancestry, Color, and Invitae - that are racing to the forefront of healthcare.

Researchers in California reported that they had developed and successfully tested an experimental brain implant that translates brain signals into words on a computer screen.

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Conor McGregor’s second straight loss to Dustin Poirier sent him further down the lightweight rankings.

The launches coincide with the 20th anniversary of the watchmaker's Langematik Perpetual.