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A fan of black coffee and dark chocolate? It's in your genes, a new study says Posted by: superadmin - 12-30-2021, 12:11 PM - Forum: Health News - No Replies (CNN)Prefer your coffee black? Then you probably like dark, bitter chocolate, according to new research identifying a genetic basis for those preferences. If that's you, then congratulations -- you are the lucky genetic winner of a trait that may offer you a boost toward good health, according to caffeine researcher Marilyn Cornelis, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "I tell people my cup of tea is coffee research," Cornelis said. "It's a hot topic." Why hot? Because studies find moderate amounts of black coffee -- between 3 and 5 cups daily -- has been shown to lower the risk of certain diseases, including Parkinson's, heart diseases, Type 2 diabetes and several types of cancer. - More -   Gomez has done the honourable thing Posted by: superadmin - 12-30-2021, 10:02 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies From Clement Stanley Edmund Terence Gomez has resigned from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission advisory panel as a matter of principle. His pursuit of the issue of extensive corporate stocks held by Azam Baki of the MACC has been futile. No one listened to him. He has done the honourable thing. There is no point being in the panel purely for window dressing. If you are there merely to make up the numbers, you might as well not be there When people choose to take up appointments in various NGOs, GLCs and government agencies to enhance their standing in society and become yes men, they are, in fact, doing a disservice to the community. When such people see these appointments as glamorous and exuding a certain amount of power, they would only be embarrassing themselves if they become nothing more than co-conspirators and allies in a situation that smacks of being corrupt to the core. Yes, there could be certain “rewards” by being a part of this “system”. But what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul? Time and again, we have seen how playing the role of the three monkeys at boardroom levels has benefited the corrupt and greedy. It is not that it goes unnoticed. It is probably in the know of those who make decisions. - More -   Drop capitalism, give social democracy a try, says academic Posted by: superadmin - 12-30-2021, 09:54 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: A political scientist has suggested a change in Malaysia’s governing system so that public interest will be the foremost consideration in policy making. Azmil Tayeb of Universiti Sains Malaysia said he would advocate the kind of social democracy practised in Scandinavia and Germany. The Scandinavian countries and Germany have been consistently rated high on the quality-of-life index and they have managed to steer their way out of economic crises without much negative effects on their populations. Azmil said social democracy would be an improvement to the current capitalist system as it would strengthen the social safety net, provide public goods and protect workers’ rights. “It means that certain things such as education, healthcare, housing and others will be the responsibility of the government and cannot be fully privatised for profit,” he told FMT. - More -   Is this the year we realise we don’t need a government? Posted by: superadmin - 12-30-2021, 09:33 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies It has been a tough year for Malaysia, and in fact, for the whole world, really. But for us here, it’s been a combination of the pandemic, the economic fallout stemming from it, fissures in our already fragile race relations, a dreadful disaster with the recent floods, and significantly, a shambolic and unreliable government. This convergence of a multitude of woes has made it a terribly hard year for Malaysians. Perhaps the one epiphanous moment for me, this past year, was when I realised that our government is literally surplus to requirements. We seem to manage perfectly well without any involvement from them. For example, in this recent flooding crisis, rather than being useful to us and acting fast to quell the spread of the calamity, collectively they actually got in the way and fudged things up. The litany of blunders and missteps made by our somewhat inept politicians over the past two weeks, during this full-blown national crisis is public knowledge and made excellent fodder for meme-makers. Our bloated cabinet is simply choc-a-block with gaffe prone ministers. - More -   ‘Turn the valve off’: Climate activists push for an abrupt end to the fossil fuel era Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 08:11 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies Calls to keep fossil fuels in the ground are anathema to leaders in the oil and gas industry, who insist the world will continue “to be thirsty for all energy sources” in the years ahead. Tom Goldtooth, a climate activist and executive director of the North American Indigenous Environmental Network, described the burning of fossil fuels as like filling a bathtub with far too much water. “It is overflowing with too much carbon. The world can’t absorb any more.” At COP26 in November, the so-called Glasgow Climate Pact sought to build on the Paris Agreement and prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis, although it faced sharp criticism over plans to “phase down” coal, fossil fuel subsidies and financial support to low-income countries. Climate activists and campaign groups are pursuing an abrupt end to the fossil fuel era, condemning the latest round of net-zero pledges from many governments and corporations as a smokescreen that fails to meet the demands of the climate emergency. Calls to keep fossil fuels in the ground are anathema to leaders in the oil and gas industry, who insist the world will continue “to be thirsty for all energy sources” in the years ahead. To be sure, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, is the chief driver of the climate crisis and researchers have repeatedly stressed that the best weapon to tackle rising global temperatures is to cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. - More -   Omicron is ‘not the same disease’ as earlier Covid waves, says UK scientist Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 08:06 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies Sir John Bell says disease ‘appears less severe’ as other scientists criticise lack of new restrictions in England. Omicron is “not the same disease we were seeing a year ago” and high Covid death rates in the UK are “now history”, a leading immunologist has said. Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and the government’s life sciences adviser, said that although hospital admissions had increased in recent weeks as Omicron spreads through the population, the disease “appears to be less severe and many people spend a relatively short time in hospital”. Fewer patients were needing high-flow oxygen and the average length of stay was down to three days, he said. A number of scientists have criticised the government’s decision not to introduce further Covid restrictions in England before New Year’s Eve, with some describing it as “the greatest divergence between scientific advice and legislation” since the start of the pandemic. They have expressed concern that while the Omicron variant appears to be milder, it is highly transmissible, meaning hospital numbers and deaths could rise rapidly without intervention. - More -   Gordon Brown: west is sleepwalking into Afghanistan disaster Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 07:57 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies The west is “sleepwalking into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times” in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has warned, as he called for a support package to save the country from economic and social collapse after the Taliban’s takeover. Four months after the western-backed government was overthrown following a mass military withdrawal, the former UK prime minister said the case for action was not based only on morals but also “in our self-interest”. He said more than half the Afghan population was facing extreme hunger, including 1 million children at risk of starving to death, citing International Monetary Fund predictions that the country’s economy would contract by 20-30% in the next year. - More -   Penang plants almost 500,000 tree saplings to weather climate change Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 07:15 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies GEORGE TOWN – Almost half a million new tree saplings have been planted by the two city councils in Penang, as the state moves to increase its number of trees to weather climate change. With a soaring heatwave lingering over the state – which would likely last into the New Year – Penang local government committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo urged residents here to go green to fight climate change. The trees can absorb excess rainwater, while offering shade from the heatwave, Jagdeep said after handing over 100 sets of hydroponic plants for York Road residents. By 2030, Penang hopes to have 100 million trees grown – and to achieve it, the initial target was to allow the growth of up to 10 million tree saplings annually. “But to achieve this, we need help from the federal government.” Trees absorb carbon dioxide, and generate oxygen to help the planet as well. From 2018 till last month, the Penang Island City Council grew 97,981 trees, while its counterpart – the Seberang Prai City Council – planted 61,779 trees. Overall, Penang now has 470,050 trees, Jagdeep noted. - More -   We don’t clean up non-Muslims’ houses of worship Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 07:10 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry - No Replies We don’t clean up non-Muslims’ houses of worship: celebrity preacher’s lecture garners flak from netizens KUALA LUMPUR – Netizens have lambasted celebrity preacher Azhar Idrus for his lecture on why Muslims should refrain from cleaning up non-Muslims’ houses of worship that were affected by the floods. In a video posted on his official TikTok account, Azhar referenced the story of Prophet Ibrahim, who went into a temple in his town to demolish their idols. “Look at Prophet Ibrahim’s story. Did he clean up (the temple) or did he ‘katok’ (northern Malay for ‘hit’)? “We can’t ‘hit’, because we live in a multi-racial country. (If we said that) it’d be defamatory, do you understand? “So, don’t interfere. It’s your own matter and your own religion. To idol worshippers, we don’t want (to interfere).” In the video, which is over a minute long, Azhar said that those professing the Muslim faith can only clean up mosques and surau, but not houses of worship of other religions. “Can Muslims clean up Hindu temples that have been affected by the floods? There is nothing to be cleaned. - More -   Disappointment over PH’s time in Putrajaya led to defeat in Sarawak Posted by: superadmin - 12-29-2021, 06:57 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies GEORGE TOWN: Pakatan Harapan fared badly in the recent Sarawak polls as voters were disappointed by the performance of the coalition after it took over Putrajaya following the last general election (GE14) in May 2018. Sarawak DAP said this in a post-mortem report on the recently concluded state elections which saw PH nearly wiped out by Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS). State DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen said a study on the polls’ results also revealed that the ethnic Chinese voter turnout was very low at around 40%-45%. - More - Pages (865): « Previous 1 … 462 463 464 465 466 … 865 Next » Jump to page: