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Hidden blood molecules show surprising anti-aging power

Scientists have identified new anti-aging compounds produced by a little-studied blood bacterium. These indole metabolites were able to reduce inflammation, oxidative stress, and collagen-damaging activity in skin cell cultures. Three of the compounds, including two never seen

‘Blank Space’: Why US culture is stagnating

“This is Bach, and it rocks/ It’s a rock block of Bach/ That he learned in the school/ Called the school of hard knocks” — Tenacious D Has culture stagnated, at least in the United States? There are a number of prominent writers who argue that it has. For example, Adam

Taliban’s terror partners once again menacing the world

There is a dangerous fiction circulating in international discourse that Afghanistan’s turmoil is contained, regionalized and — to some extent — manageable. It is not. The evidence is overwhelming, the spillover already visible and the Taliban regime’s complicity increasingly