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Polish tourist whacked in head with stick after climbing ancient Mayan temple in Mexico
Researchers find UV nail polish dryers can cause DNA damage and mutations
Since arriving on the market around 2010, gel manicures have become a staple in nail salons across the US and many parts of the world, and it’s easy to see why. Compared to traditional nail polish, gel variants are more resilient to damage and smudging, and they retain their shine until you remove the polish from your fingernails. Best of all, if you’re the impatient sort, you don’t need to wait an hour or more for a gel manicure to dry. Those benefits all come courtesy of the way the polish cures. Instead of waiting for a gel polish to dry naturally, you place your hands under a UV light, which activates the chemicals inside the gel, causing it to harden.
While the dangers of UV light — particularly in tanning settings — are well-known, before this week scientists had not studied how the ultraviolet lights used to cure gel polishes might affect human skin. You might think what we know about tanning beds applies here, but the devices used by nail salons emit a different spectrum of ultraviolet light. A group of researchers from the University of California San Diego decided to study the devices after reading an article about a beauty pageant contestant who was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer.
Using different combinations of human and mouse cells, the researchers found a single 20-minute session with an ultraviolet nail polish dryer led to as many as 30 percent of the cells in a petri dish dying. Three consecutive 20-minute sessions saw 65 to 70 percent of the exposed cells dying off. Among the remaining cells, the researchers saw evidence of mitochondrial and DNA damage, in addition to mutations that have been seen in skin cancer patients.
“Our experimental results and the prior evidence strongly suggest that radiation emitted by UV-nail polish dryers may cause cancers of the hand and that UV-nail polish dryers, similar to tanning beds, may increase the risk of early-onset skin cancer,” the researchers write in a study published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday. They warn that a longer epidemiological study is needed before they can conclusively say the use of UV drying devices leads to an increased risk of skin cancer, adding “it is likely that such studies will take at least a decade to complete and to subsequently inform the general public.”
You might think the advice here is to avoid UV dryers, but it’s not so simple. Gel manicures have become an industry standard for a reason. For many people, regular nail polish starts to chip off after a day or so, making a traditional manicure often not worth the time, money or effort.
Thug, 30, who killed a homeless man in ‘animalistic’ attack because he was Polish is jailed for life
Creepy CRAWLER HUMANOID Reported in Polish Home
A young Polish man describes his encounter with a possible crawler humanoid in his home while growing up. He is trying to find validation for the incident and asks if other people have had a similar experience.
I recently came across the following account:
“I just remembered an experience I had when I was around 12 years old (I’m 21 now, so it was quite a long time ago). I want to know if anyone else has had a similar one. I haven’t been able to explain it to this day, it was definitely the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me. It’s also kind of out there, nobody believes me to this day.
Anyway, this happened sometime in July 2013. I lived in rural Poland. I woke up at around 3 AM and I couldn’t fall back asleep. I started looking around my room, I was contemplating getting on my computer but was too lazy to actually get up so I just lay there until something caught my attention in the hallway. My door was slightly open, so I could see just a little bit.
Before I tell you what I saw let me give you a quick picture of what my house looked like back then. When you exited my room there was this long hallway, in the middle of it to the left was the entrance to the kitchen and right in front of it to the right was the door to the bathroom. At the end of the hallway, back then, was the front door with a little window on top, so the moonlight kind of seeped in. It must have been a full moon or close to it because I could see that the hallway was decently lit.
Anyway, what caught my attention was this small head peeking at me behind the slightly opened door. It was really close to the ground. At first, I didn’t really think much of it and after a short while, I thought to myself that it must be my dog. My dog is a Maltese, he’s small and back then he used to sleep above my head on my pillow. So I reached my hand up to see if he was there and sure enough he was sleeping there. That’s when I got kind of confused. We didn’t have any other animals in the house and I lived with my mom and my grandpa, both of them were asleep and they sure wouldn’t peek at me in the middle of the night on what seemed like all fours.
So I quickly looked back at the door and I saw this thing hiding behind the door. I don’t know how long I lay there in shock but eventually, I decided to get up and investigate (run to my mom’s room). I quickly got up and ran to the light switch, turned the light on and fully opened the door and when I did I saw this thing’s legs, it was entering the kitchen. It was on all fours and it didn’t run. It seemed like it didn’t even care about me as it was moving kind of slow like it was taking a casual walk.
Its skin was greyish and it looked like it was dirty. It had these black spots on it, maybe dirt, I don’t know. Its legs were skinny and lanky. Once again, I was paralyzed. I don’t even know if I was scared at that moment. I think I was just shocked at what I was seeing. When it disappeared in the kitchen I ran to the bathroom and locked myself there. I didn’t come out for a long time and when I did, nothing was there. Nobody woke up either, not even my dog (he always chases people when they run).
I have no idea what it was, all I know is that I for sure wasn’t dreaming, I’ll never forget the feeling in my stomach when I saw this thing.” LS
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MultiVersus lacks that Nintendo polish, but it’s still a slick Smash Bros-like in open beta
Having given the MultiVersus closed beta a whirl around a month ago, I thought it was a free-to-play Smash Bros-like that came out swinging. And now I’ve returned to the open beta phase of the multiverse where Bugs Bunny and Taz The Tazmanian Devil are joined by… Lebron James?! Honestly, my thoughts remain largely unchanged – which is a good thing! It’s a fun free-to-play fighter that iterates on the Smash formula but can’t quite emulate its predecessor’s polish.