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Tide Pod Challenge: Blaming Stupid Millennials Is the Easy Way Out
Various US and UK media outlets have claimed the trend is a “craze” that is “sweeping the internet”.
An interesting and somewhat bizarre trend recently cropped up on the internet. The “Tide Pod challenge” simply entails filming yourself biting down on a Tide Pod; a laundry detergent capsule, which some say resembles a sweet.
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Image from a CleanSpray promotional video.
This article was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico
and was reported in collaboration with the Institute of American Indian Arts’ journalism program. It is republished here by permission.
When the college baseball season opened last February, the New Mexico Lobos were having one of their best years ever. Then COVID-19 hit. “We had a really good team and we were winning and then it just stopped everything just turned off like it never happened,” said Ray Birmingham, the baseball coach at the University of New Mexico.
A few months later, Birmingham was in Dallas when he heard about a new business, CleanSpray Technologies, that boasted that it could disinfect an area in 90 seconds or less with a safe and environmentally sustainable liquid system. Birmingham jumped at the opportunity to install the system at UNM and get the Lobos back on the field. “I thought it was a great chance to help,” he said.
Scientists develop new vaccine to counter the effects of synthetic cannabinoids
Made in clandestine laboratories and sold widely across the United States, the diverse class of drugs known as synthetic cannabinoids presents a growing public health threat.
In a new study, Scripps Research scientists have devised a way to deactivate these designer drugs after they ve been administered offering a potential path for treating addiction and overdose.
The research appears today in the American Chemical Society s open access journal
JACS Au, with findings from the laboratory of Kim Janda, PhD, the Ely R. Callaway, Jr. professor of chemistry at Scripps Research.
Janda and his team developed a vaccine that was able to broadly counter the effects of synthetic cannabinoids in rodents, sequestering the drug molecules before they could interact with the central nervous system. Importantly, the approach worked in models that simulated smoking and vaping, which is how the drugs are most commonl
COVID-19: Increased Risk of Poisoning Associated With Use of Alcohol Based Sanitizer. by Aishwarya Nair on December 17, 2020 at 12:04 PM
Cases of intentional and unintentional sanitizer poisoning have been reported. During this COVID-19 pandemic the poisoning cases have soared.
In the United Kingdom, alcohol based hand sanitizer poisonings reported to the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) increased by 157%. From 1 January 2019 to 16 September 2019 the cases reported were 155. On the contrary from January 1 and September 14 2020 the 398 cases were reported.
The major requirement is to protect those at higher risk of intentional or unintentional swallowing of alcohol based sanitizer. Population at a higher risk are children, people with confusion/ dementia or people with mental health problems.