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Flesh-eating bacteria infections are on the rise in the US − a microbiologist explains how to protect yourself Bill Sullivan, Indiana University Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people. In September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Read more

Trainings were held in both Libby and Eureka and were put on by the Local Government Center, a part of the Extension Service at MSU. The Eureka training was held at the fairgrounds, and the building felt rather large and vacant for the size of the group. Attendees were members of public county boards as Read more

Rising number of ‘predatory’ academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship Eric Freedman, Michigan State University and Bahtiyar Kurambayev, KIMEP University Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice, human rights and other Read more

The chart, from CDC, provides a specific perspective – that, since 1981, 55.6% of gun deaths were suicides, and that 31.6% were gang homicides.  It kind of makes the “gun control” legislation – like banning 30 round magazines and “assault type rifles” look a little bit ineffective.  I don’t like suicide – permanent solutions to Read more

One of the great things about the internet and youtube is the availability of songs once lost forever in the past.  As a small boy, when Dad’s ship (The General J. C. Breckenridge – AP 176) would steam out, she would leave the dock to the song Shina No Yoru.  The title translates to China Read more

Kevin O’Brian died a couple of years back – but in 2013, he wrote these rules for evaluating charities in his Weaponsman blog: Read more