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I was just scrolling through Netflix to find more 100-rated series, and stumbled across one each from Germany and Iceland.  I've only watched the first episode of each, but will of course continue. Biohackers , rated  100/82 by  Rotten Tomatoes , into season 2, is a German techno-thriller about a freshman medical student at the University of Freiburg, there mostly to personally investigate the doings of a young female professor who, it turned out, was into illegal genetic experimentation.  Each of the seasons has six episodes of 45-minute duration.  If so inclined you can just about complete the cycle in two nights.   Wikipedia  provides a fairly complete explanation of each episode. Travel played a role in my identifying with this program, for it was a quarter century ago when I was on an around the world trip that I met Phil Bossert in Freiburg and visited this university, for, I think this is where he got his PhD.  However, we were there because he was starting a wine company to

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From  Worldometer  (new deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732        1185       246        82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120     572 Aug    12     1504     6556       1242       835       130 Sept     3      1094    5886          830     1083       174             9      1208    6222        1136      1168        82 Oct      8        957    6420          730       967       160           21      1225     6849         571       703         85 Nov     4      1199      8192        276       511         74             11      1479    10178        564       550         60           17      1615     10502       676       472       118           18      1964     10970       754       587       124            19      2065     10758       644       584       115           20      1999     11136       521       562         88 Summary:   Another bad day for humanity.  The U.S. had by far the most new