The Daily Populous

Friday February 2nd, 2024 day edition

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After testing his method on animals, he crafts a person from organs and other body parts pilfered from corpses.

A body, human or otherwise, is made of many components, but the most important is the brain.

It serves as the control center for the rest of the body and the seat of consciousness.

Scientists Keep Pig Brains Alive While Separated from the Body.

The challenge is keeping the brain supplied with blood, oxygen, and nutrients in a way similar to how the body does it.

The major benefit is in allowing researchers to study brain function without any signal noise from the rest of the body.

Scientists surgically separated blood flow to a pig’s head from the rest of its body and switched it over to the EPCC device. »

Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

Authored by abcnews.go.com

Special counsel Jack Smith's team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called "hidden room" inside former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn't check while searching the estate in August 2022, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

In addition to the closet, the FBI also didn't search what authorities have called a "hidden room" connected to Trump's bedroom, sources said.

During the summer of the FBI search, Trump was primarily living at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey. »

China reports death of woman from combined H3N2, H10N5 strains of bird flu

Authored by firstpost.com
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China confirmed the death of a woman on Wednesday from a combined infection of H3N2 and H10N5 strains of bird flu following a cross-species transmission.

However, Chinese health authorities reassured the public that the risk of human-to-human transmission remains low.

Whole genome sequence analyses of the virus showed that the H10N5 virus is of avian origin and could not effectively infect humans, it said. »

Presidential candidate RFK Jr. blames junior staffer for comment to OnlyFans model: report

Authored by rawstory.com

In trying to bat away accusations of using his official TikTok account to engage with an OnlyFans model — presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed an unnamed subordinate social media campaign staffer.

It surfaced Wednesday evening, when another Twitter/X user posted a screen recording revealing Kennedy’s official account posting, reports Politico.

“The TikTok comment in question was made in 2022 long before I ever had a TikTok account,” the long-shot presidential candidate tweeted. »

31 Days Into 2024 And 6,100+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced

Authored by kotaku.com

On January 4, 2024, the first round of video game layoffs (that we know of) happened at VR games developer Archiact.

The Amazon-owned video game streaming website previously laid off hundreds of employees last year in March and later in October.

The Verge reported on January 11, 2024 that popular video game chat software developer Discord was planning to lay off around 17% of the company’s total staff. »