And self-destructing? Was it like the more than six months of constant citywide riots, arson, beatings, killings, attempted murders, public vandalism (against two transport arteries, the MTR railway system and the international airport)? Or some other kind of self-destruction?
Whatever the latter, give me that rather than the 2019 mayhem. Many foreigners still fantasise, fetishise and propagandise that what happened then was a perfectly peaceful great liberation movement ruthlessly crushed by totalitarian communists. Read More...
The discovery by a team of scientists from China and Britain reveals that sea scorpions – which survived the first mass extinction of 445 million years ago and ruled the ancient oceans for more than 20 million years – could also be small.Scientists already knew that the creatures came in dramatically different sizes and shapes, while surviving in equally diverse environments as they moved from dominating the sea into fresh water before taking their first steps on land. Read More...
Hours after eating leftovers from a restaurant, a 19-year-old was admitted to the hospital with multiple organ failure and later had both his legs and all his fingers amputated.
The Massachusetts college student had eaten rice, chicken and lo mein from a restaurant. Soon after, he felt abdominal pain and his skin turned a shade of purple, according to a report by The New England Journal of Medicine.
The teenager was admitted to a hospital for “shock, multiple organ failure and rash”, and his condition quickly deteriorated. Read More...
