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Weekly Link Love – Edition 81

Research of the Week The current estimate of 67-72% of the world’s population having excess body fat may need to be revised upward. More body fat, worse memory. Combining fasting with vitamin C may help beat hard to fight cancers. Metformin: good for autophagy and mitochondria. Sugary drinks linked to …

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Why Phantom: Covert Ops is one of the most immersive VR games of 2020

I’ll confess, I wasn’t sure nDreams was capable of pulling off its ambitions for Phantom: Covert Ops. For years the U.K.-based VR developer, one of the first brave/crazy enough to dedicate itself exclusively to the platform, seemed to zig-zag from near miss to significantly wider miss. The Assembly was a …

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How France Lost the Weapons to Fight a Pandemic

PARIS — When President Emmanuel Macron repeatedly declared “war” on the coronavirus in March, he solemnly promised that France would support “front-line” health workers with “the means, the protection.” The reality was that France was nearly defenseless. The government’s flip-flopping policies on past pandemics had left a once formidable national …

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