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Mayo Clinic Q and A: Colorectal cancer in young adults

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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A friend was just diagnosed with colorectal cancer. She’s only 30. I didn’t know young people could get this cancer. Can you tell me more about it? ANSWER: Unfortunately, your friend is among a growing number of adults under 50 who are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Many younger adults don’t consider themselves at risk, since screening for colorectal cancer typically doesn’t start until age 45. That’s why it’s especially important to…

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Otoichi Kawakami’s diet

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What he said he swallowed on a bet: 13 safety razors complete with blades, 21 nails, a fountain pen, a pencil, 56 toothbrushes, 20 chop sticks, a piece of wire netting, and part of the ribs of an umbrella. I doubt he ate these things on a bet. I’m guessing he suffered from acuphagia (the compulsion to eat sharp metal objects). Edwardsville Intelligencer – July 31, 1956

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Honda will sell off historic racing parts, including bits of Senna’s V10

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Honda’s motorsport division must be doing some spring cleaning. Today, the Honda Racing Corporation announced that it’s getting into the memorabilia business, offering up parts and even whole vehicles for fans and collectors. And to kick things off, it’s going to auction some components from the RA100E V10 engines that powered the McLaren Honda MP4/5Bs of Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger to both F1 titles in 1990. “We aim to make this a valuable business that allows fans who love F1, MotoGP and various other races to share in the history of Honda’s challenges in racing since the 1950s,” said Koi Watanabe, president of HRC, “including our fans to own a part of Honda’s racing history is not intended to be a one-time endeavor, but rather a continuous business that we will nurture and grow.” The bits from Senna’s and Berger’s V10s will go up for auction at Monterey Car Week later this year, and the lots will include some of the parts seen in the photo above: cam covers, camshafts, pistons, and conrods, with a certificate of authenticity and a display case. And HRC is going through its collections to see what else it might part with, including “heritage machines and parts” from IndyCar, and “significant racing motorcycles.” Read full article Comments

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Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last

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Apple spent years ignoring RCS, allowing iPhones to offer a degraded messaging experience with Android users. This made Android folks unwelcome in many a group chat, but Apple finally started rectifying this issue last year with the addition of RCS support in iOS. It has been a slow rollout, though, with Google’s mobile service only now getting support. While Apple supports RCS messaging on iPhones now, it has not exactly been enthusiastic about it. Anyone using Google Fi on an iPhone was left in the lurch even after Apple changed course. The first RCS update rolled out in iOS 18 last fall, but it only supported postpaid plans on the big three carriers. Most other wireless subscribers had to wait, including those on Google Fi, as confirmed to Ars last year. It was a suitably amusing outcome, considering Google is largely responsible for reviving the RCS standard and runs the Jibe back-end servers through which many iPhone RCS messages flow. Slowly but surely, Apple is making good on its promises to enable RCS as it gets the necessary data from carriers. The company released iOS 18.4 this week, and hiding amid the control center tweaks and priority notifications is support for RCS on Google Fi and other T-Mobile MVNOs. Some users spotted this feature in the recent beta releases, but the servers that handle RCS for Google’s mobile service were not yet connectable. With the final release, Google has confirmed that RCS is ready at last. Read full article Comments