Woodstock Wire: NewsTidBits

U.S. News -- Microsoft Corp has emerged as the most likely buyer of the U.S. operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese...

Life -- Better After 50 - I'll never forget the moment I found out my mother's diagnosis. 'Your mother has the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's,' the geriatric psychiatrist said.

What a relief! After months of increasing concern about her memory lapses and being...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - A century after women won the right to vote, two-thirds of Americans, and an even higher share of women, think women have not achieved equity with men in the workplace or politics.

Life -- EurekAlert - When the eye isn't getting enough oxygen in the face of common conditions like premature birth or diabetes, it sets in motion a state of frenzied energy production that can ultimately result in blindness, and now scientists have identified...

Life -- ESA-Hubble POW - NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from Earth and is nestled in the southern constellation of Eridanus...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - New protection already active in Firefox 79; will roll out to all Firefox users in the next few weeks.

U.S. News -- Your health care costs can still add up even after you enroll in Medicare, but smart strategies can help you minimize these expenses.

U.S. News -- Aging baby boomers may not be as mentally sharp as their parents were, a...

U.S. News -- Contrary to recommendations set by the U.S. Preventive Services Task...

U.S. News -- A new injection drug can prevent multiple sclerosis flare-ups better...

U.S. News -- Big changes are afoot for retirement income planning in 2020. Here's what financial advisors need to know.

Aspencore -- EDN - COVID-19 continues to dominate the headlines and one of the most visibly affected industries is professional sports. When basketball returned to action in isolation in July, the NBA and WNBA offered players the option of using the Oura Ring to monitor...

Life -- Kiplinger - Since negotiations for another stimulus bill appear to be going nowhere, President Trump has issued a series of executive orders to help financially distressed Americans. One of the executive orders defers the collection of payroll taxes until...

Life -- Kiplinger - The U.S. unemployment rate is gradually improving, but many workers understand that their jobs may not be safe. Instead of just hoping they hang on as the fallout from the pandemic worsens, it's important to take steps now to secure another...

Life -- EurekAlert - The interim analysis of ORIENT-11, a phase III double-blind randomized trial has shown a nearly two-fold increase in progression-free survival with addition of sintilimab to chemotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic non-squamous...

Life -- Live Science - Will there be a COVID-19-related wave of memory deficits, cognitive decline and dementia cases in the future?

Life -- Kiplinger - As the coronavirus shut down the economy last spring, many consumers had their budgets cut by default. Trips and shows were canceled, nonessential medical procedures were postponed and restaurants closed.

Life -- Neuroscience News - People who experience dizziness when standing face an increased risk of developing dementia, a new study reports. The increased risk appears to only apply to those who experience a drop in their systolic blood pressure. Those with...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Americans support the concept of affirmative action and its objectives, but attitudes are nuanced when it comes to specifics.

Life -- SharpBrains - Figure 6 from the study, showing 3‑D renderings of cerebral perfusion averaged across normal BMI (23), overweight (29), and obese (37) 40-year-old menBody weight has surprising, alarming impact on brain function (Science Daily):

As...

Life -- Lifehacker - Batten down the hatches: Hurricane season is here, and meteorologists expect it to be a busy one. Already, the east coast has been battered by Tropical Storm Isias, which made landfall last week, causing floods, fires, and tornadoes and killing...

Life -- EurekAlert - Geologists have developed a machine learning technique that highlights the potential for further deposits of the critical metal tungsten in SW England.

Life -- Reader's Digest - Our streaming services can feel like part of the family. Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and others offer up television shows to binge-watch when we feel like staying in and movies when we need an adventure, a laugh, or a...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Eighty-six percent of Americans are routinely wearing face masks in indoor settings when they cannot socially distance. But, far fewer, 47%, are doing so in outdoor settings.

Life -- EurekAlert - A patient-specific tumor organoid model developed at Wake Forest is being used to identify the most effective chemotherapy protocol to treat appendix and colon tumors, a personalized medicine approach that is showing promise.

Life -- The Penny Hoarder - Millions of people are on edge about their expired unemployment benefits and whether a second round of stimulus checks is coming.

But there's another issue that keeps resurfacing as lawmakers wrangle over the next stimulus bill: payroll...

Life -- WebMD - Looking at two decades' worth of data on U.S. adults, the study found generational differences in tests of cognitive function. That refers to essential mental abilities such as remembering, reasoning and problem-solving.

Life -- Reader's Digest - If you're contacted about possible exposure to the coronavirus, make sure it's legit. Scammers are masquerading as contact tracers, and it's smart to verify calls or texts before giving out any information.

A tracer's job is to help...

Life -- Neuroscience News - Study provides evidence of gut dysbiosis associated with Huntington's disease. Some of the gut measures were associated with disease symptoms such as movement and cognitive impairment. The findings could provide a new avenue of treatment...

Life -- Phys.org - The tuberculosis bacterium has been around as long as mankind has.

Life -- Live Science - President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday (Aug. 5) to announce that he brought NASA back from being "Closed & Dead."

Life -- Live Science - NOAA experts predict an "extremely active" hurricane season, with as many as 25 named storms.

Life -- Phys.org - Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen-ozone-in our atmosphere. This method simulates how astronomers and astrobiology researchers will search...

Life -- Lifehack - The alert beep for low battery serves as a death call when you're running late for work or are out on the town and need to make a call. Luckily, a super convenient alternative to your regular charger and charging wires is available in the form...

Life -- SharpBrains - Large Study Confirms Vitamin D Does Not Reduce Risk of Depression in Adults (Mass General press release):

Vitamin D supplementation does not protect against depression in middle-age or older adulthood according results from one of the largest...

Life -- EurekAlert - UPV/EHU and BC3 researchers have analyzed the expected evolution of power supply and demand over the coming decades in Spain; they consider a future without nuclear and coal-based plants but with a greater share of renewable sources. They...

Life -- EurekAlert - Non-white Americans, especially Asian Americans, are at disproportionately higher risk for gastric cancer compared to non-Hispanic white Americans. A new study breaks down this risk according to specific ethnicities and locations within the...

Life -- EurekAlert - Researchers found a single genetic mutation that leads to reduced growth of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils in the wild. The finding gives hope for the animals' survival and could lead to new treatment for human cancers.

Life -- NASA Image of the day - This long-exposure photograph captures a starry sky above the Earth's atmospheric glow.

Life -- Phys.org - European science progressed at a slower pace on the International Space Station in the past month. As a series of spacewalks to power up the space habitat came to an end and two of its passengers left for home Earth, intriguing bubbles puzzled...

Life -- Kiplinger - There is a lot of talk these days about the "new normal," which might be more accurately described as not normal. COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of our daily lives and if you're nearing or in retirement, you may be wondering if it will...

Life -- Live Science - A new experiment on ultra-rare astatine could open the door to cancer treatments and new research into super-heavy atoms.

Life -- Gallup Headlines - Younger Americans, Republicans and those with kids are among the groups most likely to have returned to dine indoors at restaurants. Reduced seating capacity has a significant impact on perceptions that restaurant dining is safe.

Life -- Phys.org - It is not yet possible to predict earthquakes, but the analysis of different types of seismic data allows scientists to pinpoint where and when each type of earthquake originated, and hence better understand when and where tectonic slip might...

Life -- Reader's Digest - Eric Catalano fills in the blanks left empty by surgery or accidents.Mark Bertram, 46, lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. "It's life-changing but it's not life-ending," he says. "Doing...

Life -- The Penny Hoarder - It's peak moving season. Know what that means? Jobs.

On-demand moving-service startup Bellhop is recruiting an estimated 4,000 movers and drivers, who are independently contracted gig workers, by the end of the year. The coronavirus

pandemic...

Life -- Phys.org - The COVID-19 pandemic exposes weaknesses in the supply chain when countries go into lockdown. Some are small, such as the toilet paper shortages early on, that, while annoying, were eventually resolved. But what happens when the effects of...

Life -- WebMD - The drop is not being attributed to a downturn in cancer incidence, but rather a COVID-driven reluctance to get screened.

Life -- Neuroscience News - Obesity and higher body mass are linked to decreased cerebral blood flow. Lower cerebral blood flow is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and a range of psychiatric disorders.

Life -- Phys.org - Satellite observations suggest that protected areas may help conserve stable levels of land productivity. However, productivity has dropped or risen in nearly half of the total land under protection worldwide, pointing to potentially detrimental...