Dinosaurs may have influenced how humans age

 

Human aging may have been influenced by millions of years of dinosaur dominance, according to a new theory from a leading aging expert

The “longevity bottleneck” hypothesis has been proposed by Professor Joao Pedro de Magalhaes of the University of Birminghan in a new study published in BioEssays. The hypothesis relates the role that dinosaurs played for more than 100 million years to aging process of mammals.

While some reptiles and amphibians do not show significant sings of aging, all mammals, including humans, show a marked aging process.

Professor de Magalhaes’s hypothesis suggests that during the Mesozoic Era, mammals faced persistent pressure for rapid reproduction during the reign of the dinosaurs, which for more than 100 million years led to the loss or inactivation of genes associated with long life, such as processes with tissue regeneration and DNA repair.

Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, Professor of Molecular Biogerontology at the Institute of Inflammation and Aging at the University of Birminghan, explain: “The ‘longevity bottleneck hypothesis’ may shed light on the evolutionary forces that have shaped the aging of people. Mammals for millions of years. While humans are among the longest-lived animals, there are many reptiles and other animals that have a much slower aging process and show minimal sings of senescence throughout their lives”.

This was really Napoleon’s most epic battle

 

The criticism has been clear: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is full of historical inaccuracies. From a scene in which Joaquin Phoenix shoots at the Great Pyramid of Giza to a moment in which the French army wins a battle by drowning the enemy under a frozen lake, the film has taken numerous licenses. The last scene is a recreation of the Battle of Austerlitz, which in reality occurred very differently from how it is shown in the film.

The real Battle of Austerlitz was a risky and audacious plan by Napoleon, and it involved defeating not one, but two emperors. The great tactic Napoleon used was not to drown his enemy, especially since the frozen lake was completely visible that day, without any layer of snow.

Instead, Napoleon tricked his enemy into believing that the French army was smaller and quite weak in the days before the battle. What’s more, he even feigned a retreat, abandoning the advantageous high ground, and deliberately wakened his right flank by deploying part of the French army to draw in the Russians and Austrians.

Cody Rhodes confirms his participation in the Royal Rumble Match 2024

 

During the Monday Night Raw broadcast on USA Network, Cody Rhodes has been confirmed as the first participant in the men’s battle royal at Royal Rumble 2024, WWE’s next Premium Live Event

This Monday’s episode in Nashville, Tennessee saw The American Nightmare take the floor before the audience. After his victory at Survivor Series WarGames, Cody Rhodes set a goal that avoided him for a good part of the year: “everyone is making news, and I think I have to make them tonight. There is only one destiny for me, and that is why under the authority of Adam Pearce, I am the first to declare his appearance at Royal Rumble”.

Cody Rhodes will enter the Royal Rumble after winning the 2023 edition, which took him directly to the main event of WrestleMania 39. The American Nightmare failed to capture the Undisputed Universal Championship against Roman Reigns, developing other stories unrelated to The Tribal Chief during the rest of the anus. The battle royal could catapult him into WrestleMania XL, and would be the first step in “ending his story”.

WWE Royal Rumble 2024 will take place on Saturday, January 27 at Tropicana Field in St. Peterburg, Florida. Fans will be able to watch this event live from the venue, or through its broadcast on WWE Network and Peacock in the United States.

QT Marshall announces he is leaving AEW

 

The veteran says he is finishing up at the end of the year

 

AEW wrestler of Talent Relations QT Marshall has announced on X (before Twitter) that he will be finishing up with the company at the end of the year.

Marshall thanked Tony Khan and the company and mentioned some of the work he did while he worked there. He also noted that the company has changed a lot from when he first joined in 2019 and aside from his on-camera role, he’s done a lot behind the scenes.

Marshall did not say what his future plans are but since he is close with Cody Rhodes, one has to wonder if he’s looking at WWE as his next destination. Marshall’s full statement can be read below.

“Thank you AEW. Thank you Tony Khan. I’ve had the privilege of being here since day 1 and I’ve written over 750 formats for All Elite Wrestling and always with pride. As much as I’ve enjoyed being a VP, Manger of Talent Relations and wearing a myriad of hats, the company has changed a lot since 2019 and is heading in different direction and I feel that it’s best I do the same as we only get one chance to go All In! I have officially resigned from AEW and will have fulfilled all obligations by the end of 2023. Than you to everyone from the front office to the production truck to some of the hardest working talent in this sport! Most importantly, thank you to those who booed, cheered, and took part in this season of my life”.

CM Punk had his WWE Raw return promo cut short

 

On Monday night, CM Punk appeared in the final segment of WWE Raw for his first promo since returning to WWE at Saturday’s Survivor Series premium live event, where he declared that he was home.

Punk only had a few minutes to talk about how he has changed and is a different person. He stated he was back for unfinished business and to prove to people that he is still the best in the world.

Many fans felt it was a different Punk than what we had been seeing in AEW and poked fun at it being the PG version of his character.

Pwinsider reports the initial plan was for a longer promo that would have given Punk more time. However, the Randy Orton vs Dominik Mysterio match went long than planned, and WWE cut Punk’s time, which is something that happens on a regular basis due to it being live television.

Patriots and terrorists

 

Only the future will tell whether Hamas was the vanguard of patriotism that liberated Palestine or a band of terrorist. Only the future will tell if Israel carried out a genocide or was the expression of the European democratic garden in the Middle East.

 

The difference between a terrorist and a patriot is the difference between defeat and victory. The difference between a terrorist and patriot is control of the press and the story.

Historians knows it even if they don’t always say it. The Spanish resisters to the French occupier in 1808, those shot on May 2, the people of Madrid who attacked the French soldiers with knives, were terrorist in the eyes of the enlightened occupier. The children of the French Revolution against the “long live the chains” of the Spanish. Democracy against religious fundamentalism like now in the Middle East, right?

In that war of independence, the Spanish also invented the terrorist military technique par excellence: the guerrilla. It could well be said that ww Spaniards are the mothers and fathers of modern terrorism. But we ended up driving out French, so on May 2 Ayuso remind us again that Madrid is Spain for having expelled Napoleon and the Frech people from the country.

Washington, Bolivar or San Martin went down in history as patriots because they won, in the same way that the hero of the black Jacobins of the Haitian revolution. Toussaint Louverture, died forgotten in a French prison. That’s the story. Don´t look for justice in it.

Nelson Mandela is the father of South African nation because the African National Congress defeated, even partially, its enemies. But Mandela, before being the father of the country, was a imprisoned communist terrorist.

The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, was banned in France for years because it told many truths about politics, about colonialism, about patriotism and about terrorism. “Give us your planes and we will give you our baskets” the head of the Algerian National Front respond in the film when Western journalists ask him why they are attacking French civilians in the European quarter of Algiers. Arrested, tortured and executed by French paratroopers. Ben M’hidi was a terrorist. When Algeria was finally free, he became another father of the country.

In these days Hamas has taken a very important step in the eyes of the international community. Yesterday they were unscrupulous terrorists, their human condition was not even recognized. Today they sit at the same table with representatives of the Government of Israel and agree on a ceasefire. It has cost them more than 14,000 deaths, including almost 6,000 children. Worth? That question has never made sense to understand the history of humanity.

All homeland, all political system, even democratic ones, are built on murder. The great victory over Nazifacism was also built with the bombing against civilians in Dresden and with the humiliation of the racial pride of German women to which the Soviet and Jewish intellectual Ilya Ehrenburg appealed, addressing the soldiers of the Red Army advancing towards Berlin. And as a bonus, two atomic bombs form American democracy arrived on Japan.

Hamas once again acquires belligerent status when it is recognized as an interlocutor by Israel to negotiate a ceasefire. Was it worth it? A human arch that is horrified every time social networks show us children’s corpses tells us no, but the history of humanity, which in recent centuries is a history of terrorist and patriots, reminds us that this question does not have much sense to understand history and politics.

Only the future will tell if Hamas was the vanguard of patriotism that liberated Palestine or a band of terrorists fanatical about Islam. Only the future will tell if Israel was a colonial and criminal theocracy that carried out a genocide against the Palestinian people or the expression of the European democratic garden in the Middle East.

But rest assured that the future will be on thousands of corpses, to the grater glory of patriots and terrorists.

David Benavidez overwhelms Demetrius Andrade and cries out for Canelo

 

David Benavidez Knocked out Demetrius Andrade and hit another blow on the table to face the sports star, the Mexican Canelo Álvarez

David Benavidez passed like a cyclone over Demetrius Andrade until forcing him to throw in the towel at the end of the sixth round to retain his interim super middleweight title of the World Boxing Council (WBC) and remain the mandatory challenger of Canelo Álvarez.

At the Michelob Ultra Arena, located at the Mandala Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, “El Monstruo” improved his record to 28-0-0, 24 KO’s and destroyed the self-esteem and undefeated status of “BooBoo” Andrade (32-1-0, 19 KO’s), who was looking for a title in a third weigh division.

The outcome of the contest came after finishing the sixth round. Referee Thomas Taylor approached the corner to confirm the challenger’s condition and one of his trainers informed him that his fighter would not come out for the seventh round.

In what was announced as a clash of styles that could go to the end between undefeated 168-punders, Benavidez had a dominant performance from the second round onward, which increased in fourth round with a Knockdown thanks to a powerful right hook.

Benavidez is widely recognized as the best super middleweight in the world after Canelo Alvarez, undisputed monarch of the division. Immediately after his victory he called for a fight against Canelo to finish determining in the ring who is the best.