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For the first time ever, a successful treatment has been found for the devastating brain disease, Huntington's. The inherited condition, which resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, affects hundreds of thousands of people in the US and Europe. The scientists who developed the new gene therapy, and people who have the disease, say its a huge breakthrough that could give people a better quality of life for decades.
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We expose controversial Bitcoin developer Luke Dash Jr, his extreme religious and political views, geocentric beliefs, and how his Bitcoin Knots client reflects his authoritarian ideology while claiming to save Bitcoin.
Today we dive deep into the controversial world of Luke Dash Jr, the Bitcoin developer behind Bitcoin Knots who believes the sun orbits the Earth, supports monarchy over democracy, follows an obscure Catholic sect with only 30,000 followers worldwide, and thinks using Bitcoin in ways he disapproves of should be criminal. We expose his authoritarian development practices and why Bitcoiners should know exactly who they're endorsing.
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Notes:
• Luke's sect has only 30,000 followers vs 1.4B Catholics
• Luke was sole BIP editor for a while
• Bitcoin Knots filters some lighting & coinjoins
• Luke believes violating laws equals immoral behavior
• “GitHub doesn't work with Knots” claims disputed
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:32 Geocentrism is back baby!
06:26 Why Luke is a Bitcoin legend
09:12 UASF
13:52 Knots
16:52 ONE maintainer to rule them ALL
23:06 Luke merge unreviewed code, sounds safe..
24:34 BIPs repo
28:30 Knots has more maintainers? ahh, what?
35:12 Obscure religious sect
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Why did CarMax’s earnings spook investors? And how has Intel stock gained 46% this month? Plus, what’s driving a sharp selloff in Kenvue shares? Host Jack Pitcher discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
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Why did CarMax’s earnings spook investors? And how has Intel stock gained 46% this month? Plus, what’s driving a sharp selloff in Kenvue shares? Host Jack Pitcher discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
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The actor and instigator is ready for his renaissance.
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The world as we know it is made up of 193 countries, Antarctica, and a host of territories.
However, between all of those places are the high seas or international waters, which are not controlled by anyone.
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How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence
Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics (Princeton UP, 2025) reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems.
Taking readers on an astonishing journey, Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Vellend shows how this Second Science unifies biology and culture and how evolution gives rise to everything from viruses and giraffes to nation-states, technology, and us. He discusses how the idea of evolution had precedents in areas such as language and economics long before it was made famous by Darwin, and how only by freeing ourselves of the notion that the study of evolution must start with biology can we appreciate the true breadth of evolutionary processes.
A sweeping tour of the natural and social sciences, Everything Evolves is an essential introduction to one of the two key pillars to the scientific enterprise and an indispensable guide to understanding some of the most difficult challenges of the Anthropocene.
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Dire wolves are back — and dodos may be next.
Colossal Biosciences is using cutting-edge genetics to revive extinct animals, from Ice Age predators to ancient birds. But this isn’t just about bringing back the past. The same technologies could transform conservation, agriculture, and even human medicine.
Colossal’s Chief Science Officer Beth Shapiro joins us to break down the science, respond to skeptics, and explain what their efforts could mean for the future.
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On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes gets the latest on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's searing speech at the United Nations from a team of CBS Correspondents including Vicki Barker and Courtney Kealy. CBS's Jericka Duncan on the furious reaction to the Trump Administration's claim of a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about civilians impersonating law officers and sexually assaulting women of color.
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