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3.2 million internally displaced inside iran.
1 million in lebanon.
158,000 arrivals from lebanon into syria. 43,000 into turkey.
this is the humanitarian cost of war.
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Linda Nil Taskin
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📚 Anthropologist | 🗞️ Ex-Journalist 💼 Founder @NYCDesignST & @TaskinsNYC 🤖 Bridging human insight & AI creativity 📸 IG: nilnyc | 📹 YT: NilTaskin
New York, NY Katılım Nisan 2009
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Tumors literally liquefied by sound waves — no scalpel, no chemo, no radiation.
This is histotripsy: focused ultrasound waves that rapidly expand and collapse gases inside cancer cells, destroying them mechanically in minutes while leaving healthy tissue untouched.
In the demo at one of the leading hospitals doing this procedure, doctors showed before-and-after liver tumor images — a large lesion basically gone four months later, with the liver healing naturally.
It’s FDA-approved for liver tumors in the US (since 2023, now available in 18 states) and has early/limited access in the UK, UAE, and Hong Kong, with trials underway for kidney, pancreatic, prostate, and more organs.
The procedure takes 1–3 hours; most patients go home the same day. Side effects are usually mild flu-like symptoms the next day as the body clears the debris.
This isn’t sci-fi — it’s happening now and expanding globally as more units are built.
What do you think — could non-invasive sound-wave tumor destruction become a game-changer, or is it still too early to get excited?
Your thoughts 👇
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🚨 A Stanford geneticist warns: humans are getting dumber, and genetic mutations are the reason
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The chief of the world's largest asset manager, Larry Fink of BlackRock, tells BBC that if the price of oil 'hits $150 a barrel it will trigger a global recession'.
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JUST IN: Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang says "we've achieved AGI."
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Leafy greens such as spinach and perennial kid favorites such as strawberries and grapes held the highest levels of potentially harmful pesticide residues based on government tests, according to the 2026 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. cnn.it/4svsYc0
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BREAKING: Iran is halting gas exports to Turkey following Israel's strike on the South Pars gas field.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ theverge.com/ai-artificial-…
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France's far-right National Rally failed to win the cities of Marseille and Toulon which they had hoped to claim in the municipal votes, a setback that gave hope to embattled mainstream parties ahead of next year's presidential election reut.rs/4rQJcLY
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“I was not very good in high school. I did all kinds of other things. You could say I was a bit of a rebel. But if you're not a rebel, you aren't questioning anything. If you have a curious mind and a rebellious character, you can be a good researcher even if your grades are not so good. I am the living proof of that!”
At today's Nobel Prize Teacher Summit, chemistry laureate Morten Meldal spoke about the advantages of being a rebellious researcher.
Meldal was awarded the 2022 chemistry prize for the development of click chemistry.
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Different niche, but not that different. We've seen similar schemes in digital advertising for years with fake traffic and bot networks. Now the same logic is being applied to music streaming using AI and automation.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines theverge.com/tech/896490/go…
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I will never forgive Prof. @BakayCihat or @grupflorence hospital.
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When a coma is relatively short, lasting days or a few weeks, the likelihood of recovery without significant long term damage tends to be higher, statistically speaking.
From our experience, comas caused by external events like accidents sometimes seem to have better recovery chances than those caused by internal medical issues. My mother, for example, was in a coma from 1998 to 2004 due to a blood clot after open heart surgery, which may help explain why her outcome was different.
But this is not a rule. Cases like Michael Schumacher, who has been in a coma or a coma related condition since December 29, 2013, show how unpredictable these situations can be.
- A coma caused by a temporary issue, such as a brief lack of oxygen, medication effects, or metabolic imbalance, can be more reversible than one caused by major structural brain damage.
- There is also a difference between coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and true brain death. These are often mixed up in media stories.
- Stories like this are often simplified, and sometimes what is described as "brain death" is not actually confirmed brain death in strict medical terms.
Dr. Heidi Klessig@heidiklessigmd
Ms. Suzanne Chin, a lawyer and mother of two, suffered a heart attack in 2009 while she was living and working in Hong Kong. Despite intensive efforts at resuscitation, she remained comatose and was declared brain dead. Doctors advised her husband to remove her from life support. “Then, three days after she was admitted, she woke up from her coma. She recovered within a week and left the hospital. According to publicly available information, Ms Chin is now living in Singapore, still working as a lawyer, still a wife and mum. She is well, and she is alive.” There is a simple medical explanation for recoveries from “brain death” such as Ms. Chin experienced: global ischemic penumbra, or GIP, which is like a power outage of the brain. During periods of low blood flow, the brain (like any other organ) shuts down its functions to save energy. When brain blood flow decreases below 50% of normal, the brain becomes quiet and unresponsive to testing, exactly mimicking “brain death.” But brain tissue destruction doesn’t occur until brain blood flow drops below 20% of normal for several hours. People in the 20-50% GIP range of brain blood flow will not respond during brain death testing, but with continued efforts to improve cerebral blood flow, their condition is potentially reversible. GIP is like a power outage in your home: nothing works, but the wiring isn’t destroyed. Get the current flowing again and the lights will come back on. In the same way, with continued efforts to improve cerebral blood flow, the lights will come back on for some of these patients as well. Unfortunately, most don’t get this chance because brain death is a self-fulfilling prophecy: these people very quickly either have their support withdrawn or become organ donors.
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🚨 Anthropic CEO says STEM is losing its edge, and what makes you “more human” will decide your future
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Actor Chuck Norris, the action hero and star of "Walker, Texas Ranger," has died, according to a post on his verified Instagram account. He was 86. cnn.it/4uGnAnT
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Trying to imitate Salt Bae and completely ruining a beautiful #baklava. Never do this, it's just embarrassing. Of course Mark Wahlberg wasn't impressed.
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
I don't think Mark was impressed with that one
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2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World - a thousand years before Columbus trib.al/Xpg40PY
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This is serious, but also a reminder that institutions prepare for worst case scenarios all the time. A nuclear move would be self destructive for any country because of inevitable retaliation.
The real concern is how decisions driven by power politics and short sighted strategy keep raising the temperature step by step.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: World Health Organization officials prepare for a “nuclear catastrophe” if Iran escalates, per Politico.
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Eating a diet rich in leafy greens, berries, and fish may help keep the brain younger for longer, with this eating pattern linked to slower shrinkage in key brain areas tied to memory and thinking, according to a new study published in BMJ Neurology.
abcnews.link/5Rtm55g
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