May 8, 2021
Timothy Bella
THE WASHINGTON POST – After 25 hours over eight days, the time had come for Lily Hevesh to topple 15,000 dominoes. With a soft flick of her finger, Hevesh stood back and listened to her favorite sound on repeat: one domino hitting the next.
One minute and 24 seconds later, the “amazing triple spiral,” the domino artistâs maze of a masterpiece, had been destroyed – and she was delighted. Her joy was shared in the more than 114 million views since the video was published in 2016.
“For some reason, I love watching them fall,” Hevesh said in an interview last week. “Itâs just really satisfying to hear the click-click and see it topple.”
Dogecoin s social media-driven 13,000% rally looks a lot like the GameStop saga. Experts explain why May 07, 2021, 06:21 AM
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Dogecoin s red-hot rally is reminding people of January s GameStop saga.
Experts say it is similarly social media- and celebrity-driven, with few fundamental factors.
They say investors and day traders should be cautious around the new meme investing culture.
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Dogecoin s red-hot rally over the last few days has shocked traditional investors and has been driven on by social media hype and celebrity endorsements.
Sound familiar?
Many investors are comparing dogecoin s meteoric rise to the GameStop saga that gripped the financial world in January.
Then, the unloved shares of a brick-and-mortar video game retailer surged when day traders organising themselves on Reddit got behind it, to the dismay of hedge funds who had been betting against the stock.
The courts thus far have proven somewhat more open to considering lawsuits alleging that colleges have breached their contracts with students and families though those cases will rise or fall based on situation-specific facts of how clearly a college promised that the education would be delivered in person. These are going to be tough cases to make, says Barry G. Burgdorf, special counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and former vice chancellor and general counsel at the University of Texas system. There s still the possibility that a few of them squeak through and get to a trial, though.
Lawsuits by the Hundreds
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Atop massive viaducts and bridges under construction for the bullet train in the San Joaquin Valley, the state has hung banners proudly proclaiming “5,000 workers and counting.”
The slogan is catchy, but misleading. The state rail authority has never had anywhere near 5,000 construction workers on the high-speed rail project at any one time. A review by The Times also found other transportation programs generally employ more workers for every $1 million in spending.
The banners are an important part of a campaign that the California High-Speed Rail Authority has waged to maintain political support, calling attention to the hourly jobs it has funded in the depressed economy of California’s heartland.
May 18, 2021
The team, led by BGU’s Department of Chemistry Prof. Raz Jelinek, and postdoc in his lab Dr. RavitMalishev , tested their molecular tweezers on the Staphylococcus aureus (Staph) bacteria. Staph infections have an estimated mortality rate in the US of over 25%, and as much as 40% for drug-resistant strains. The researchers developed two specific tweezers that bind and either disrupt biofilm formation or break existing biofilms.
“Our discovery prevents infection without building up antibiotic resistance. As such, it might even be preferable to construct treatments based on molecular tweezers rather than antibiotics,” says Prof. Jelinek, who is also Ben-Gurion University’s Vice President of Research & Development and a member of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. “Importantly, binding the tweezers to the biofilm disrupts its protective capabilities. In consequence, the bacterial pathogens become, on the one hand, much less virulent to