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Doctors were arrested today at Border Patrol HQ in San Diego The were there demanding that they’d be allowed to give flu vaccinations to the innocent people detained in these concentration facilities. And the police was brought out to arrest them.

MICROPLASTICS IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACTS OF ALL BELUGA EXAMINED FROM ARCTIC WATERS

According to a recent published study in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers worked with community-based monitors and Inuvialuit hunters from Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada) to sample seven beluga whales in 2017 and 2018. Microplastics were detected in the gastrointestinal tracts in every individual beluga whale, with each whale having an average of nearly 97 particles, but some of them had 147 particles.

Microplastics are plastic fragments, regularly smaller than 5 mm in size, and represent an emerging global environmental concern, as they have been detected in multiple aquatic species. However, very little is known about the presence of microplastics in higher trophic species, including cetaceans.

-Examples of microplastic particles observed within beluga gastrointestinal tracts (left: polystyrene fragment; right: polyester fibre) Bar is 0.02 cm.

Researchers do not know how microplastics enter whales, but they believe is because whales feed on fish, which have already ingested plastic.

Photo: Beluga whale by Britt Reints | Flickr

Pupil Focussed

Taking photos with a flash often leads to ’red eye’ – bright light reflecting off the retina leaves pictured faces with red pupils. This is actually a healthy sign of clear eyes – with the flash doing a similar job to a doctor’s ophthalmoscope. With many more photos taken during early childhood than routine eye exams, a new app called CRADLE (also called White Eye Detector) can help parents to scan through photos of their children, spotting any unusual ‘white eye’ reflections – known as leukocoria – that may need checking by a doctor. This set of leukocoric pupils on the left, and healthy ones on the right, from children under three years old, were used to train the software to spot tell-tale signs – potentially leading to earlier diagnosis of conditions that obstruct the eye, like childhood cataracts or amblyopia.

Written by John Ankers

Image from work by Micheal C. Munson and Devon L. Plewman

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA

Image originally published under a Creative Commons Licence (BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, October 2019

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And let’s feel bad about it when i do purchase anyway as i must, and later read these ignorous posts, these fake-christs who does not realise, someone could put a good use in this, needs the sales, and not fun-picking or luxury-hunting down the alisle 23th.

And nobody’s hiring just for Black Friday anyway. Holiday season temp workers yes, just BF hell no. Your average Saturday in December is more profitable.