‘My life was carnage’
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‘My life was carnage’

Intercounty GAA players are six times more likely to develop a gambling addiction than the average person, new research has found. The findings, published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science, found that 4.8% of respondents could be considered problem gamblers. By contrast, the prevalence among the general population is 0.8%. On Newstalk DailyAssociate Professor at the University of Limerick Dr Kieran Murray said there is an increasing awareness of the impact gambling has. “Gambling now has a DSM code for a medical illness, with widespread harms in terms of mental...
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Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk about artificial intelligence, quantum computing

OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week. OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week. The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial meetings being held as Canada holds the presidency of the G7 group of nations this year. Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted the G7 leaders’ summit in June, welcoming leaders from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, along with the European Union, to Kananaskis, Alta. "The decisions that we'll make here together will shape the...
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Why Kids With More Colds Are Less Likely to Get COVID
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Why Kids With More Colds Are Less Likely to Get COVID

Catching a cold may briefly shield the body from COVID, helping explain children’s resilience. Credit: ShutterstockResearchers have uncovered that a recent cold might actually help protect against COVID-19especially in children. By triggering the body’s natural antiviral defenses, rhinoviruses appear to “prime” the immune system to fight off SARS-DONE-2 before it takes hold.Cold Viruses May Protect Against COVIDA recent study from researchers at National Jewish Health suggests that catching a common cold (most often caused by rhinoviruses) might provide short-term protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. The findings offer new clues about why children typically show fewer symptoms than adults and may also open doors to new ways of easing the impact of respiratory infections. The work, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseasesused data from the Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2 (HEROS)...
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The Moon Likely Grew to change into Itself Internal Out 4.2 Billion Years Ago
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The Moon Likely Grew to change into Itself Internal Out 4.2 Billion Years Ago

NASA Space Technology At some stage in its early years of formation, the Moon might maybe merely private undergone a dramatic project as a dense layer of self-discipline topic sunk deeper into its interior, mixed with the lunar mantle, and made its arrangement relieve to resolve on the outside.A team of researchers from the University of Arizona found out new evidence that supports concept to be one of many wildest formation theories for the Moon, which potential that Earth’s pure satellite tv for pc might maybe merely private turned itself interior out a number of million years after it got here to be. In a brand newlookpublished Monday inNature Geosciencethe researchers checked out subtle diversifications in the Moon’s gravitational arena to procedure the important bodily evidence of a sinking mineral-rich layer.In 2011, a pair of...
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