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Bitcoin Dips to $60k, TRM Labs Reaches Crypto Unicorn Status
Cryptocurrency markets experienced a brutal sell-off this week as investor concerns grew over stagnating US liquidity following US President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded three consecutive days of outflows, with $431 million exiting on Thursday, according to data from Farside Investors. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price briefly dipped to $60,074 on…
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We cooperate to survive. But, if no one’s looking, we compete
Reading classic works in evolutionary biology is unlikely to make you optimistic about human nature. From Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man (1871) onwards, there is a fundamental understanding among biologists that organisms, especially humans, evolved to maximise self-interest. We act to promote our own success or that of our family. Niceness, by contrast, is just a mirage, and morality…
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Cardiology dietary guidelines: Whole foods are the heart of a healthy diet
This post was written by Sarah Mohrman, RDN, LD, MA, dietitian, program coordinator, Parkview Heart Institute. Nutrition is an evolving science; therefore, it is recommended that the dietary guidelines for Americans be updated to reflect the latest research every five years. Typically, the guidelines remain similar for the most part and do not veer far from…
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Maharashtra Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti elections to be held on Saturday
Mumbai: Elections to 12 Zilla Parishads and 125 Panchayat Samitis in Maharashtra will be held on Saturday, February 7. Adequate arrangements including police deployment have been made to ensure peaceful polling, the State Election Commission (SEC) said. Elections to most local bodies in Maharashtra were pending since 2022. A total of 7,438 candidates are in the fray for 731 Zilla…
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1975 Was the Best Year in ’70s Cinema, and These 9 Movies Prove It
The 1970s are usually considered the peak of New Hollywood, and thus, probably the best and most prolific time to be a filmmaker. Away from the control of studios, with the Hays Code long dead, and with an audience that was increasingly ready to embrace darker, more revolutionary narratives, the filmmakers of the ’70s delivered auteur-driven tales that reflected the…
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Russia Vows Military Retaliation If U.S. Missile Defense System Is Deployed in Greenland
The United States’ proposed Golden Dome missile defense system is drawing formal warnings from Russian officials who describe the concept as destabilizing and strategically provocative. As planning intensifies around deployment possibilities in the Arctic, particularly in Greenland, Moscow has signaled it may take direct action if key thresholds are crossed. This development comes just days before the expiration of the…
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SIT gave clean chit to ex-TTD chairmen, says Jagan Mohan
Former Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy- IANS Amaravati: Under attack from NDA constituents in Andhra Pradesh over the issue of adulterated ghee supply to the TTD that was allegedly used in the making of laddu prasadam, YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday, February 6, claimed that the CBI has given a clean chit to former chairmen Y…
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Why a Republican Supreme Court upheld California’s Democratic gerrymander
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrats as many as five more seats in the US House, may go into effect during the 2026 midterms. These maps were enacted to counterbalance a Republican gerrymander in Texas, which could also give Republicans as many as five…
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Do statins really cause those side effects? What the data shows
Far fewer people who could benefit from statins actually take the cholesterol-lowering drugs now. Many who start taking them stop. The long list of side effects, detailed in fine print on package inserts and discussed in exam rooms over the years, pose barriers to many patients, doctors say. A new meta-analysis hopes to set the record straight on one of…
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Trump says tariffs have created an economic miracle. The facts tell a different story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking back on the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump boasts that he has resurrected the American economy by imposing big import taxes on foreign products. He made his case in a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, chiding the paper and critics, including mainstream economists, who predicted that tariffs would backfire,…
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