To the editor: To think that in 2024, humans are still using rodenticides to painfully kill animals should make everyone angry. ("California's rat poison bans aren’t working. Wild animals and pets are still dying)," editorial, March 14) When an animal dies from ingesting rat poison because we do not like or want it around, another creature might eat that dead animal, putting it at risk too. As you mention in your editorial, the poison works its way up the food chain as far as mountain lions....
Gary Goldsmith spoke about the family before knowing about his niece Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis
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Congressman Dan Kildee’s (D-Mich.) brother, Timothy Kildee, was killed in a Tuesday morning shooting, local law enforcement said. Timothy Kildee was shot and killed during a string of c
This year’s raccoon bounty bill, House File 2665, is state-sanctioned, taxpayer-subsidized animal cruelty. The legislation’s goal is to incentivize the trapping, clubbing, and skinning of raccoons. Lawmakers in committees on the bill have said the fur trapping industry is hurting because of low sales. They also say that raccoons are eating too much corn. The
On March 20, Elon Musk’s Neuralink revealed the identity of the first person to receive one of its brain implants — and the young man appears to be hugely grateful for the “life changing” technology. The background: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) translate signals in the brain into commands for machines, computers, and robotic limbs. While some brain signals can be detected noninvasively, with EEG headsets, implants installed inside the skull are vastly more powerful and precise. While...
The written testimony on Senate Bill 3335 from numerous government agencies is crystal clear that legalizing the recreational use of marijuana would be harmful to public health and safety.
A man paralyzed in a diving accident moved a computer cursor with his thoughts.
GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The brother of Dan Kildee was identified as
Timothy Kildee was shot and killed early Tuesday morning at his home in
Russia considers itself at war because of the West’s involvement in Ukraine and cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has shown itself ready to use any method to take control of Crimea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, in an interview given to the Russian publication Argumentî i Faktî. […]
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