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"Halibut?" That’s the reply I got when I asked my husband a mundane question a few years ago. Whitley had an untreated burst eardrum when he was a kid, then as an adult in New York City, he walked past a backfiring car. The result? He’s pretty much deaf in one of his ears.

Every once in a while I get frustrated and send him to a hearing specialist, but he always returns with an excuse for not getting a hearing aid. Actually, I sympathize with this, because these devices are not very effective–but occasionally I get frustrated.
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A general media website has picked up on the latest strange object in the solar corona. Of course, they have no idea that this has been going on for years, or that there are even stranger videos, such as this ‘hummingbird’ video, which is just one example of many. NASA dismisses them all as computer glitches or video artifacts, but it’s getting harder to maintain this, given the variety and the extreme strangeness of the objects. If somebody needed a whole lot of energy, they might move devices close to a star in order to obtain it.
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A general media website has picked up on the latest strange object in the solar corona. Of course, they have no idea that this has been going on for years, or that there are even stranger videos, such as this ‘hummingbird’ video, which is just one example of many. NASA dismisses them all as computer glitches or video artifacts, but it’s getting harder to maintain this, given the variety and the extreme strangeness of the objects.
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What if there was a drug that could "cure" racism? This may be true: Tests of the commonly prescribed heart drug propranolol show that it can alter unconscious racial bias–After volunteers took the drug, they were less racially biased than those who took a placebo.

Racism is based on fear and propranolol helps reduce fear by blocking nerve circuits that govern the heart rate and the part of the brain linked with emotional responses.
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