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  Eric Clapton says people who get COVID-19 vaccines are victims of 'mass hypnosis’ Terry Fox 'above politics' so leave him out of protests: mayor of hero's hometown Electoral Count Act: How to stop insurrection 2.0 Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and stark vaccine critic Eric Clapton claims that those who have taken the vaccine are being subjected to “mass hypnosis”. The 76-year old singer said he suffered “disastrous” health consequences following his AstraZeneca jab last year. “I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted 10 days. I recovered eventually and was told it would be 12 weeks before the second one,” Clapton wrote last year in a letter reprinted by Rolling Stone. “About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I wo...

 FOX IS UPSET! CANDICE OWEN IS UPSET! As the world teeters on the brink of war in Ukraine, reels as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt, and continues to suffer from climate change, inflation, and supply chain shortages, the biggest news of the week came down to one thing:  Minnie Mouse  is changing her look. Even though Disney has several characters that don’t wear pants, the fact that Minnie Mouse is changing from her traditional red polka dot dress to a Stella McCartney designer pantsuit sparked outrage, amusement, and a windfall of online attention for a cartoon character’s wardrobe choices. As with almost everything, reactions came down to politics. Conservative Candace Owens was seeing red (or, more accurately, wasn’t seeing red) and claimed a more sinister agenda was at work in the costume change, while the other side of the aisle dismissed the rants as yet another distraction from the real issues. https://deadline.com/2022/01/minnie-mouse-exchanges-dress-fo...

Introducing the collision theory Collision theory states that when suitable particles of the reactant hit each other with correct orientation, only a certain amount of collisions result in a perceptible or notable change; these successful changes are called successful collisions. Collision theory was proposed independently by Max Trautz in 1916 and William Lewis in 1918. Consider the bimolecular elementary reaction: A + B → C In collision theory it is considered that two particles A and B will collide if their nuclei get closer than a certain distance. The area around a molecule A in which it can collide with an approaching B molecule is called the cross section of the reaction and is, in simplified terms, the area corresponding to a circle whose radius is the sum of the radii of both reacting molecules, which are supposed to be spherical. As molecules are quantum-mechanical many-particle systems of electrons and nuclei based upon the Coulomb and exchange interactions, generally they n...

Yes, it’s an oldie that never really gets old, at least for me. Much respect for that iconic series. Like another sci-fi forerunner, the venerable “Star Trek – The Original Series,” I’d say The Twilight Zone was humanity’s first television intro to the genre of science fiction. Serling served as executive producer and head writer; he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the show's  156  episodes. He was also the show's host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode. Rarely violent, unlike today's sci-fi, I loved that it tempered the realm of human psychology with science fiction.   And who among us hasn’t seen any of its shows?   I’d venture to say no one. So, for fun, name your five most favorite Twilight Zone episodes.   Here’s the  full list  to consider, along with my personal choices: My Top 25 Contenders: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street The After Hours People Are Alike All Over Nick of Time A Hundred Yards Over...

  A Texas GOP Candidate’s New Claim: School Cafeteria Tables Are Being Lowered for “Furries” The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it. On Sunday night, a candidate in the GOP primary for Texas House District 136, which includes a large portion of the suburbs north of Austin, tweeted a curious allegation. That candidate, Michelle Evans—an activist who works with the local chapter of conservative parents’ group Moms for Liberty and who cofounded the anti-vaccine political action committee Texans for Vaccine Choice, back in 2015—tweeted that “Cafeteria tables are being lowered in certain @RoundRockISD middle and high schools to allow ‘furries’ to more easily eat without utensils or their hands (ie, like a dog eats from a bowl).” She was responding to a tweet from right-wing Texas provocateur Michael Quinn Sullivan, who had shared a video of a woman speaking at a December school board meeting in Midland, Michigan,...