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welcome to the good news ride home for Friday, July 31st, 2020, Harry Potter's 40th birthday.

Yep, the Boy Wizard is officially over the hill.

Anyways, I'm Jackson Bird, and today, a medieval potion that apparently still works as an antibiotic. How children's nonsensical

emoji use affects their language development. How dogs may be using the Earth's magnetic field

to navigate, and the mysterious origins of everyone's favorite song, Who Let the Dogs Out?

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Would you use a thousand-year-old potion as an antibiotic?

It sounds like something from a goop column, but it's actually being tested by scientists.

Bald's eye salve, a combination of garlic, onion, wine, and bovine bile, yum, has been shown by researchers

at the University of Warwick to be effective against multiple strains of bacteria, according to a new

paper in scientific reports. Quoting Gizmodo, the new paper led by Freya Harrison from the School of

Life Sciences at the University of Warwick highlights an underappreciated way of sourcing

antibacterial compounds. Many previously effective antibiotic drugs no longer work, as germs are evolving

new defenses against them, so it's important to develop alternative strategies. Medieval texts,

while a seemingly weird source for medical information could help in this regard.

Plants have been used as medicines against infection for millennia, and we've only scratched

the surface

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