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   Buy coal-fired power plants, shut them down and reap cost-plus profits   
   Financial Times, 05 Feb 2021 10:26Z   
   Utilities love the Biden administration's green energy plan.   
      
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   Biden says Trump should no longer get intelligence briefings because   
   of 'erratic behavior'   
   USA TODAY, 06 Feb 2021 0:26Z   
   Washington. President Joe Biden said Fri that former President Donald   
   Trump should no longer receive classified intelligence briefings because of   
   his ...   
      
   Fox News cancels longtime host Lou Dobbs' show   
   Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 2021 23:25Z   
   Fox News Media has canceled "Lou Dobbs Tonight," the program hosted by   
   television's staunchest supporter of Donald Trump and of his assertions of   
   voter ...   
      
   Army Research Develops `Living Material' that Interacts with its   
   Environment   
   Syn-SCOBY is a new living material developed by Army Research backing.   
   Inspired by the trendy Kombucha tea, "Syn-SCOBY" is a living material   
   capable of detecting and defending itself from threats in its   
   environment.   
   Tim McMillan   
   The Debrief, 5 Feb 2021   
   Backed by the US Army Research Laboratory, engineers from the   
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Imperial College London   
   have developed a durable, "living material" capable of detecting and   
   protecting itself from threats and interacting with its environment.   
   According to Army Research Labs, the unusual source of inspiration   
   behind this breakthrough living material was a mixture of bacteria and   
   yeast similar to what is used to make a trendy fermented beverage   
   called Kombucha tea. Combining a symbiotic culture of bacteria and   
   yeast, also called SCOBY, engineers created cellulose embedded enzymes   
   that could sense its surroundings and function like a living material.   
      
   Love or hate them, flying foxes help 'make forests' -- but should they stay   
   in suburbia?   
   ABC Gold Coast, 05 Feb 2021 22:01Z   
   If you like koalas, you should like flying foxes, says one conservationist,   
   but debate around the protected species continues, as councils juggle   
   residential amenity with environmental laws.   
      
   COVID-19 is harder to stop in hotel quarantine because of ventilation   
   systems, says AMA Victoria pesident   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 22:00Z   
   The Australian Medical Association says ventilation systems in inner-city   
   quarantine hotels are not to the same standard as hospitals and other health   
   facilities.   
      
   Face shields and ventilation review for Victorian hotel quarantine after   
   recent coronavirus cases   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 23:00Z   
   Victoria has not recorded any locally acquired COVID-19 cases for the second   
   day in a row, as investigations continue into how an Australian Open   
   quarantine hotel worker acquired the virus.   
      
   [Dum Luk:]   
   WA passed its first real COVID test with flying colours, but did the state   
   just get lucky?   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 23:00Z   
   Experts say sheer good luck contributed to Western Australia successfully   
   clamping down on community outbreak of the highly transmissible UK   
   coronavirus variant, as the state moves out of hard lockdown.   
      
   Expert questions findings of Brisbane hotel quarantine cluster investigation   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 22:59Z   
   Occupational hygienist Kate Cole says Queensland Health's report into the   
   coronavirus cluster in Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancellor is lacking a   
   critical level of expertise in its review process.   
      
   [Jackass III:]   
   Teenager severs artery punching windscreen, police say   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 22:58Z   
   A 19-year-old man is "lucky to be alive" after allegedly punching a car   
   windscreen in Adelaide's southern suburbs and then being rushed to hospital.   
      
   Swimmer drowns on Gold Coast, third death in treacherous surf in 36 hours   
   ABC News, 05 Feb 2021 23:07Z   
   A swimmer drowns this morning at Mermaid Beach after getting into trouble in   
   rough surf, the third drowning death on the Gold Coast since   
   Thu.   
      
     How a day at the beach became a desperate fight for survival   
     ABC Ballarat, 05 Feb 2021 21:02Z   
     King Fue and 3 of her siblings almost became statistics in the nation's   
     shocking toll of summer drownings. Here, King and her rescuers reveal what   
     it took to fend off tragedy.   
      
   What Went Wrong With The US Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout?   
   CNBC, 05 Feb 2021 17:31Z   
      
   [Mixmaster!]   
   The Coronavirus Is a Master of Mixing Its Genome, Worrying Scientists   
   The New York Times, 05 Feb 2021 17:30Z   
   In recent weeks, scientists have sounded the alarm about new variants of the   
   coronavirus that carry a handful of tiny mutations, some of which seem to   
   make ...   
      
   Venus flytraps produce magnetic fields when they eat   
   Livescience.com, 05 Feb 2021 18:30Z   
   These carnivorous plants generate tiny magnetic signals when they clamp down   
   on insects.   
      
   ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions   
   The Associated Press, 05 Feb 2021 22:49Z   
   Jerusalem. The International Criminal Court said Fri that its   
   jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast   
   war, clearing ...   
      
      
   Peabody Energy Corporation   
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