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- 4 days ago12 min
Scientists Discover 3rd Circulation System in Humans That Could Bridge Eastern, Western Medicines
Scientists have made a new scientific breakthrough in the study of the human body.Researchers in the United States have discovered something amazing: a third circulatory system within the human body.Alongside the previously known cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, this interstitium system (as it’s being called) appears to allow the different organs of the human body to pass things along to one another.Which in-and-of-itself is an amazing discovery, but it’s made even more exciting by the fact that this newly discovered system maps very well onto the model of the human body that’s been used in traditional Eastern medicine for thousands of years (in practices like acupuncture, for instance).Meaning, this discovery might very well be the missing link between Western and Eastern medicine.Let's go through the details together.
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Chinese Researcher Who Smuggled E. Coli Into US Gets 4 Months in Prison
Youhuang Xiang, a biology researcher at Indiana University, was arrested for smuggling plasmid DNA derived from E. coli bacteria from China. He concealed the biological material by labeling the shipment as “women’s underwear” on the manifest, admitted during questioning that he did it to evade customs detection. He also admitted to previously lying about his Chinese Communist Party membership and government lab affiliations. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison, a $500 fine, supervised release, and immediate deportation.Let’s go through the details together.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
Google to Release 32 Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes in Florida and California
Google's Debug program is releasing 64 million Wolbachia-infected sterile male mosquitoes into parts of Florida and California over four years to combat disease-spreading mosquitoes.The Sterile Insect Technique works by having these males mate with wild females, causing their eggs to fail to hatch (via cytoplasmic incompatibility), which gradually crashes the local mosquito population over generations.The approach has shown strong results in past trials (90 percent+ reductions), but it carries risks such as imperfect male/female sorting by AI and potential ecological disruptions if mosquitoes are fully eliminated from an area.Let's go through the details together.
- 2 weeks ago12 min
Parents Get Prison Terms After Isolating Their 3 Kids for 4 Years Over COVID Fears
A German-American couple, Christian and Melissa Steffen, kept their three young children—a 10-year-old and 8-year-old twins—locked inside their villa in Spain for nearly four years due to an extreme fear of COVID. The children endured squalid conditions—including a room piled with used diapers—never left the house, had no outside contact, and received no medical care, resulting in severe physical and developmental issues such as difficulty walking, hunched postures, and bowel control problems.The children were discovered after a neighbor’s suspicions led to a police raid, and the parents were convicted of habitual psychological violence and family abandonment. They received 28-month prison sentences and lost custody. They were also banned from approaching their children and ordered to pay compensation.
- 2 weeks ago11 min
Norway Discovers Largest Viking-Era Treasure, With Over 4,000 Silver Coins Unearthed
Every so often, an archeological discovery is made that helps give us a clearer picture of our timeline of human history. In Norway, a still-expanding treasure trove of silver coins has been discovered dating from the Viking Age.Let’s go through the discovery together—in terms of what was found, and also what light it sheds on the final, volatile decades of the Viking Age.
- 3 weeks ago8 min
$1 Billion Industrial-Scale Medicare Fraud Scam Shut Down by FBI
The Department of Justice released a statement, announcing the conviction of a man at the center of a billion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme.Brett Blackman, the CEO and owner of software company HealthSplash was convicted in federal court for his part in the sprawling fraud scheme. The scheme involved using foreign telemarketers to aggressively call elderly Americans, get their medicaid beneficiary numbers, push medical devices onto them that they did not really need, then generate fraudulent doctors' orders for those devices.He would then pass on the scripts in return for illegal kickbacks to both suppliers and pharmacies involved in the scam, who would then bill Medicare for these prescriptions.In total, Blackman, alongside his co-conspirators, billed Medicare over $1 billion and were reimbursed roughly $450 million.Let’s go through the details together.
- 4 weeks ago11 min
IRS Launches Pilot Program With Palantir AI Tools to Find People Needing Audits
It's been a long time coming: the IRS recently launched a pilot program using Palantir AI-technology to help it figure out who most needs to be audited.This means that, as fun as it was to pay taxes already—and then have a federal bureaucrat decide whether you deserve an audit or not—moving forward, the decision will be heavily influenced by an AI machine.Let's go through the details together.
- May 15, 202613 min
'Thank You Leader': California Mayor Pleads Guilty to Working as CCP Agent
Just earlier this week, the mayor of Arcadia (in Northeast Los Angeles) agreed to plead guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China.She was the mayor of an American city, while actually being an out-and-out agent for the Chinese Communist Party—even going so far as calling a Chinese official her “leader.”Let’s go through the details of her case together.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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