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Although the negative stigma
associated with cannabis has
lessened in recent years –
especially since THC- and
CBD-rich oils were found to
be a powerful aid in
fighting cancer – it still
hasn’t garnered full support
from the public.
Refiners expected to
be ready, but EPA has no
count
January gasoline
futures look a tad
stronger after Tier 3
switch
Trader expects that
market reaction will be
swift
Refiners already are
taking out more of it. Gas
stations will be pumping
less of it. Tailpipes will
be spitting out less of it
-- or so the federal
government hopes.
Thousands of years ago,
travelers and traders
carried goods across the
vast distances between
Europe, the Middle East and
Asia along routes that
collectively become known as
the Silk Road. Named after
the silks that were exported
from China, the routes
helped spread news, art and
culture through a large part
of the world. Now, a new
study focused on a
2,000-year-old Silk Road
latrine shows that the
routes also helped spread
something else – disease.
“With the FOMC and BOJ
announcements coming up
later this week, we get the
sense that investors are
firmly in ‘wait-and-see’
mode,”’ said Thomas Simons,
senior money-market
economist in New York at
Jefferies LLC, one of the 23
primary dealers.
Researchers at the
University of Illinois at
Chicago have engineered a
potentially game-changing
solar cell that cheaply and
efficiently converts
atmospheric carbon dioxide
directly into usable
hydrocarbon fuel, using only
sunlight for energy.
The hacked emails revealed
the DNC’s hatred for Bernie
Sanders and his movement.
The documents revealed the
party’s hidden ties with the
liberal media as well as the
heights of dishonesty of the
party infrastructure. A lot
has happened since then,
including the resignation of
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman
Schultz. She has since been
hired on to run the Clinton
campaign…
If you think the public
fixation with coal ash has
run its course and you find
that thought refreshing,
uh-oh.
More than 300 engineers,
scientists, academics,
solid-waste executives and
utility officials crammed
into a meeting hall at the
Hilton Charlotte Center City
for two days last week to
hear exactly the opposite
message.
The start of an immigrant
repatriation program was
announced Tuesday, July 26
by Director for Colombian
Migration Christian Krüger.
Most citizens that enter
Colombia illegally are
Cuban, many of whom stay in
warehouses or in shelters
in Antioquia. After May 19,
with the border closing
between Panama and Colombia,
more than 300 Cubans were
intercepted, along with
citizens from African
countries.
Americans use the most
opioids of any nation;
in 2013, 16,000
Americans died from
overdosing on narcotic
painkillers
The drug industry
created the opioid
addiction epidemic by
introducing long-acting
opioid painkillers like
OxyContin and changing
pain prescription
guidelines to make
opioids the first choice
for many types of
chronic pain
Drug industry also
promoted the long-term
use of opioids, even
though there’s no
evidence that using
these drugs long term is
safe and effective, and
downplayed the risk of
addiction to these drugs
Now the U.S. government
has approved opioid
legislation that feeds
profits right back to
the drug industry by
focusing on treatment
for painkiller addiction
and making
anti-addiction drugs
more easily available
Current levels of
atmospheric greenhouse gas
concentrations already
commit the planet to air
temperatures over many land
regions being eventually
warmed by greater than
1.5°C, according to new
research published today (27
July 2016) in the
journal Scientific Reports.
The results of the new
study have implications for
international discussions of
what constitutes safe global
temperature thresholds, such
as 1.5°C or 2°C of warming
since pre-industrial times.
The expected extra warming
over land will influence how
we need to design some
cities. It could also impact
on the responses of trees
and plants, and including
crops.
Obesity can promote
cancer via a number of
different mechanisms,
including mitochondrial
dysfunction, overeating,
excess sugar in your
diet, chronic
inflammation and
overproduction of
certain proteins and
hormones
Study: Cancer patients
diagnosed with type 2
diabetes were 23 percent
more likely to have
received a cancer
diagnosis during the
decade preceding their
diabetes diagnosis
compared to
non-diabetics
Previous research has
shown that those with
prediabetes have a 15
percent higher risk of
cancer, especially
cancers of the liver,
stomach, pancreas,
breast and endometrium
The Environmental Protection
Agency has approved nearly
100 pesticide products over
the past six years that
contain mixtures that make
them more poisonous and
increase the dangers to
imperiled pollinators and
rare plants.
Libya's plans to increase
oil output suffered a
setback after the
state-owned National Oil
Corporation took a stand
against a proposed deal
between the government and
the Petroleum Facilities
Guards that aimed to pave
the way for the reopening of
the country's key oil
terminals.
Farmers in Nebraska,
Minnesota, Massachusetts,
and New York are staging
something of a mechanical
revolt. They're attempting
to get legislation passed in
their states that would
enable them, for the first
time since the 1998 Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, to
repair their own tractors or
get an independent mechanic
to help.
Hundreds of terrorists will
fan out to infiltrate
western Europe and the U.S.
to carry out attacks on a
wider scale as Islamic State
is defeated in Syria, FBI
Director James Comey warned.
The Federal Reserve left
interest rates unchanged on
Wednesday but said near-term
risks to the U.S. economic
outlook had diminished,
opening the door to a
resumption of monetary
policy tightening this year.
The U.S. central bank
said the economy had
expanded at a moderate rate
and job gains were strong in
June. It added that
household spending also had
been "growing strongly," and
pointed to an increase in
labor utilization.
U.S.-backed forces fighting
to drive Islamic State out
of northern Syria have
gathered a massive trove of
documents and data belonging
to the militant group,
potentially shedding more
light on its operations, a
U.S. military official said
on Wednesday.
Following an outcry from
parents and families, two
federal agencies have backed
off a policy that would have
said the government is
“equal partners” with moms
and dads.
Molefi Ramantele, a
small-scale livestock farmer
who ekes out a living in
Botswana's arid scrubland,
lost a third of his cattle
in the drought that has
scorched southern Africa.
"My life is my cattle. I
have never seen it so
bad...It will take me years
to get them back," the
67-year-old said of his
livestock, often the main
measure of household wealth
in rural African economies.
Engineers at the Washington
University in St. Louis
(WUSTL) have developed
graphene-based biofoam
sheets that can be laid on
dirty or salty dams and
ponds to produce clean
drinking water, using the
power of the sun. This new
technique could be a cheap
and simple way to help
provide fresh water in
countries where large areas
of water are contaminated
with suspended particles of
dirt and other floating
matter.
A chance discovery in a
physics lab at Rice
University has turned up an
ultra-hard material that
could usurp the titanium
commonly used in today's
knee and hip replacements.
Scientists have found that
by melting gold into the
titanium mix they can
produce a non-toxic metal
that is four times harder
than titanium itself,
raising the prospect of more
durable, longer lasting
medical implants.
The Ice Bucket Challenge
that went viral two years
ago, raising hundreds of
millions of dollars, has
helped identify a new gene
behind the
neuro-degenerative disease
ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s
disease, researchers say.
The challenge involved
people pouring ice-cold
water over their heads,
posting video on social
media, and donating funds
for research on the
condition, whose sufferers
include British physicist
Stephen Hawking.
Most Unidentified Flying
Objects aren’t unidentified
at all. Here’s a list of
natural and human-made
objects in the sky that
people frequently mistake
for UFOs.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner
said Wednesday that the
state is doing everything it
can to prevent the spread of
Legionnaires’ disease at a
veterans home where an
outbreak last year sickened
53 people, including 12 who
died.
I know you've felt it in
the pit of your stomach...
that feeling that the market
is going up for all the
wrong reasons and will soon
come crashing down,
yet again...
That feeling that
somehow, somewhere along the
way, America has gone
terribly wrong.
Judicial Watch
released nearly 300 pages of
FBI documents that reveal
top IRS officials knew of
the targeting of
conservative groups two
years before disclosing it
to Congress.
Top IRS
officials Lois Lerner and
Holly Paz "knew that agents
were targeting conservative
groups for special scrutiny
as early as 2011," Judicial
Watch reported.
Monsanto’s history as an
American “war horse”
began with its
involvement in the
Manhattan Project and
the creation of the
atomic bomb. During the
Vietnam War, the company
became a leading
producer of Agent Orange
These war contributions
appear to have cemented
a long-lasting and loyal
relationship between the
U.S. government and
Monsanto that continues
to this day, to the
detriment of the
American people
In the U.S., Monsanto’s
influence over
government runs so deep
we just became the first
country in the world to
UNLABEL GMOs. President
Obama will soon sign a
bill that nullifies
Vermont’s GMO labeling
law
As with many new vaccines,
vaccine promoters are
exaggerating both the
importance and the
effectiveness of MenB. In
fact, a study recently
showed that MenB may not
even protect teenagers
against real-world
meningococcal outbreaks.
Enthusiasts of Pokémon
Go in Prince George, B.C.,
Canada have been gathering
at the entrance at the
sacred Lheidli T'enneh
burial ground to search for
Pokemon monsters, much to
the chagrin of Kym Gouchie
(Lheidli T'enneh) who says
her ancestors are buried at
the site.
According to the data,
reported on by The Wall
Street Journal, homicides
were up 15 percent in the 51
large cities that provided
information for the survey.
More than half of that was
attributed to two cities,
however: Chicago, which is
plagued by gang violence,
and Orlando, where 49 people
were shot to death at a gay
nightclub in June by a man
who pledged allegiance to
the Islamic State during his
attack.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (29 Jul, 30
Jul, 31 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (29
Jul), quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (30 Jul)
and quiet levels on day
three (31 Jul).
Solar energy is expected to
be the leading source of new
utility-scale electric
generating capacity in the
United States in 2016,
according to the Energy
Information Association -
and Danville Utilities is
trying to join that trend...
At a recent community
meeting, the people in
attendance were deeply
concerned about the effects
on the community.
The 19th-century visionary
often found herself stuck
between two cultures
For the first few
years of her life, Sarah
Winnemucca, who was born
around 1844, did not know
that she was
American. Born Thocmetony
(Shell Flower) among the
Numa (known among whites as
the Northern Paiute or
“digger” Indians), she
roamed with her people over
western Nevada and eastern
Oregon, gathering plants and
fish from local lakes. But
even during her early years,
Winnemucca had learned to be
afraid of the men with
“white” (blue) eyes, who
looked like owls because of
their beards.
Could replace phone and
electric car batteries and
create a zero-emission
solution
Excessive atmospheric carbon
dioxide is reaching
catastrophic proportions,
forcing national
governments, industrial
leaders, and scientists to
band together and come up
with a solution. So far,
most talks have dealt
reducing future carbon
dioxide emissions, but few
have designs for reducing
the carbon dioxide already
in the atmosphere. That is,
until now
The early-stage finding,
reported in the journal
Nature on Wednesday, could
one day lead to a whole new
class of antibiotic
medicines being developed to
fight drug-resistant
bacterial infections, the
researchers said.
As well as being a focal
point for many viral
infections, the nasal cavity
is also a rich ecosystem of
50 or so different species
of bacteria, lead researcher
Andreas Peschel of the
University of Tuebingen told
reporters in a telephone
briefing.
A new process could
drastically improve milk's
staying power. Researchers
at Purdue University have
developed a quick-fire way
to add several weeks of
shelf life to milk and make
it generally safer to
consume. The process
improves upon
pasteurization, which
extends shelf life to about
two to three weeks, and
brings the length of time
milk can be safely stored in
the fridge up to around
seven weeks.
The 17th and final leg of
the historic first
solar-powered
circumnavigation began from
Cairo International Airport
on July 23 at 23:28 GMT
after a slight delay due to
bad weather and pilot
illness.
Hunza people are a small
population, situated in
Northern Pakistan, and are
believe to be the
healthiest, happiest, and
the longest-living people in
the world. These
people are the only ones who
do not know about cancer,
give birth at 65, and
regularly bath in cold
water.
When a small group of people
have control over an entire
country, organization or
institution, we call it an
oligarchy. Here in the
United States, we’ve crossed
the line into this territory
years ago and have seemingly
turned our backs on the
republic that was
established when the country
was founded. And yet, up
until 2010, this creeping
movement towards oligarchy
wasn’t as obvious as it is
today. It’s almost as if
those in power have pulled
out all the stops and are
unconcerned about public
opinion because, after all,
the momentum is so strong,
who are we to stop it?
The project, proposed
by U-earth, consists in the
creation of an urban [Pure
Air Zone in a green spot
located between Corso
Svizzera and Via De Medici
in Turin, Italy. A public
outdoor space, open to all,
treated by a disruptive
biological air purification
filter, capable to
substantially improve the
lives of many, and show the
world how the public outdoor
areas in intensive urban
cities could be free from
urban air pollution.
The US government has
announced "an unprecedented
set of actions" to pump up
the country's plug-in
electric vehicle market,
including US$4.5 billion in
loan guarantees to create a
nationwide network of
commercial scale and fast
charging stations. The
initiative to push for
greater electric car
adoption calls for a
collaboration between
federal and state agencies,
utilities, major automakers
and other groups.
Can we honestly tell our
beautiful and brilliant
Native children that, in
2016, they can grow up and
be President of the United
States of America?
SHORT ANSWER:
Probably not. Based upon
the evidence (as opposed to
optimism or good feelings),
America does not seem to
fully accept Natives as
real-life human beings --
thus it will likely be a few
generations before we can
seriously contemplate that.
The world nuclear
performance report 2016 by
the World Nuclear
Association has given an
updated account on the
nuclear energy for
sustainable development
while critically evaluating
the recent industry
highlights; the history of
global nuclear industry has
been recorded with missed
outcomes. This is a fact
that the industry is
mounting, albeit too gradual
and leisurely, the number of
reactors are increasing in
Asia and especially in
China. The number of
reactors currently under
construction is at one of
the highest points of the
past two decades but in the
United States and Europe
premature reactor
retirements are outstripping
the rate of capacity
addition.
Ratepayers in Villa
Grove, IL, are demanding
answers about the
possibility of worms in
their tap water, fearing a
sequel to a worm infestation
last year.
“Last year, a boil order
was issued after midge fly
larvae were found in the
public water supply,”
The News-Gazette
reported. The worms entered
people’s homes through their
faucets.
Scientists working on
analyzing energy flows in
prototype zinc-manganese
batteries have discovered a
way to make these power
cells more reliable, with
many more recharge cycles
than the lead-acid car
battery, while costing about
the same to produce. The
team claims the new battery
could become an inexpensive,
ecologically-sound
alternative for storing
energy from renewable
sources and a solution for
storing excess energy from
the power grid.
In the category of
“famous Native American
women,” everyone has heard
of Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Both—but especially
Pocahontas—have been turned
into some of the worst of
today’s stereotypes about
Native American women. And
in American history they
have both been held up as
examples of Native women who
facilitated colonization
through the help they
provided to white settlers.
Scholars have gone a long
way, however, to portray
their histories as far more
complex than that.
Alcohol causes seven forms
of cancer, and people
consuming even low to
moderate amounts are at
risk, according to new
analysis.
Health experts endorsed the
findings and said they
showed that ministers should
initiate more education
campaigns in order to tackle
widespread public ignorance
about how closely alcohol
and cancer are connected.
The study sparked renewed
calls for regular drinkers
to be encouraged to take
alcohol-free days, and for
alcohol packaging to carry
warning labels.
Did you know that more than
20% of the global population
is in an abusive
relationship with a partner
or family member? This
sounds like a big number,
until you consider that
somewhere around 80% of the
world’s population is in an
abusive relationship with
themselves – and
most don’t even know it.
A grid-scale, 10 MW
battery energy storage
facility with a 2 MW solar
generation farm is in the
works near Tucson, Arizona.
The climate and renewable
energy arm of Germany-based
energy company E.ON has
partnered with Tucson
Electric Power (TEP)
solar-plus-storage energy
facility, named the Iron
Horse Battery Energy Storage
Project. E.ON will provide
frequency response and
voltage control for the
project, which is expected
to be completed in the first
half of 2017.
Southeast Asian nations
failed to agree on maritime
disputes in the South China
Sea on Sunday after Cambodia
blocked any mention to an
international court ruling
against Beijing in their
statement, diplomats said.
Foreign ministers from
the 10-member Association of
Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) met for the first
time since the U.N.-backed
Permanent Court of
Arbitration handed an
emphatic legal victory to
the Philippines in the
dispute this month.
Here’s your mid-summer
culinary directive from
Congress and the White
House: Shut up and eat your
Frankenfoods.
Don’t worry about mutant
genes, pesticide residues,
and a growing list of
horrors in your food. Don’t
worry about your health,
your children’s health,
global warming or the health
of the environment.
Just put your trust in
America’s industrial food
system and in Monsanto’s
minions—the indentured
scientists, politicians,
regulatory agencies and
members of the mass media
who all toe the line for the
biotech industry.
If Dr. Kalipada Pahan's
research pans out, the
standard advice for failing
students might one day be:
Study harder and eat your
cinnamon!
Pahan a researcher at
Rush University and the
Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Chicago,
has found that cinnamon
turns poor learners into
good ones--among mice, that
is. He hopes the same will
hold true for people.
One hundred and thirty years
ago, the volcano Krakatoa
erupted in what is now
Indonesia, unleashing a
cataclysm locally and years
of cool temperatures and
rain globally. On the far
side of the world, a bumper
crop of saguaro cacti were
getting their start in life
in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
Many of the large exemplars
of the famous cacti standing
spiny and tall with arms
akimbo in the Southwest
today started their lives in
the shadow of the 1883
eruption.
To bolster profits in the
years to come, McDonald’s
will be shutting down
approximately 500 more
stores from its super-sized
global restaurant network.
TheStreet reports
that the poorest-performing
Golden Arch establishments
will be shuttered up and
most of the closings are
expected to be in the U.S.
Americans are about as
wealthy as they've ever been
— and that's a worry?
Yup, say veteran
economists Daniel Thornton
and Joe Carson. They're
concerned that the swelling
of wealth could prove
unsustainable because it's
far outstripped the growth
of the economy since the
recession's end in 2009.
The findings are for carbon
dioxide (CO2), methane,
nitrous oxide,
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs),
perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and
sulfur hexafluoride (SF6),
all of which contribute to
GHG pollution that
represents the largest
driver of human-caused
climate change. These
particular GHGs come
primarily from engines used
on large commercial jets.
The FBI said Monday it is
investigating how thousands
of Democratic National
Committee emails were
hacked, a breach that
Hillary Clinton's campaign
maintains was committed by
Russia to benefit Donald
Trump.
A statement
from the FBI confirmed that
it is "investigating a cyber
intrusion involving the
DNC," adding that "a
compromise of this nature is
something we take very
seriously."
We have heard a lot about
privacy concerns surrounding
Windows 10 and accusations
on Microsoft of collecting
too much data about users
without their consent.
Now, the French data
protection authority has
ordered Microsoft to stop
it.
The global economy
is becoming less energy
intensive, using fewer
fossil fuels to power
productivity and economic
growth, according to new
data from the U.S.
Department of Energy. Global
energy intensity — a measure
of energy consumption per
unit of gross domestic
product (GDP) — has
decreased nearly one-third
since 1990, the agency said.
From 1995 to 2010, the
government spent $170
billion in agricultural
subsidies to produce
ingredients that make junk
food cheap and plentiful.
These crops and farm foods—
corn, soybeans, wheat, rice,
sorghum, milk and meat—
aren’t inherently unhealthy,
but many are turned into
inexpensive additives like
corn sweeteners, industrial
oils, processed meats and
refined carbohydrates...
The scientists were able to
produce hydrogen using
fescue grass with
metal-based catalysts and
sunlight ...
Hydrogen has long been
recognized as a hugely
promising alternative to
fossil fuels because of its
high energy content and the
fact that it doesn't to spew
greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere when it's burnt.
But sourcing the fuel isn't
so environmentally-friendly,
involving processes that are
themselves expensive and
carbon intensive, such as
natural gas or coal
reforming.
A new study shows that we
humans can help maintain
healthy forests by focusing
conservation efforts on the
protection of animal
pollinators and seed
dispersers...
Scientists in Europe this
week announced the key
result from a synthesis of
408 studies from 34
countries around the globe
(July 20, 2016). Not
surprisingly, it shows that
human activities negatively
affect the pollination
and seed dispersal of
forest trees. The effect can
be observed in both tropical
and temperate forests and
suggests that protecting
animal pollinators and seed
dispersers could have a
positive effect in
maintaining forests’ ability
to regenerate naturally.
Persistent heavy rain on
Wednesday caused widespread
disruption in the Chinese
capital, Beijing, forcing
the delay and cancellation
of hundreds of flights and
the closure of some subway
stations.
Beijing's steamy summer
months are often marked by
dramatic rainstorms, one of
which in 2012 killed 37
people.
Thousands of homes remained
evacuated Sunday as two
massive wildfires raged in
tinder-dry California hills
and canyons, and authorities
said a burned body was found
in one neighborhood swept by
the flames.
Is menopause reversible? The
surprising answer may be:
Yes.
That's
the upshot of new research
by a Greek fertility clinic
that has claims to have
found a way to rejuvenate
post-menopausal ovaries,
enabling them to release
fertile eggs...
According to an email
purportedly sent by Mark
Paustenbach, the national
press secretary and deputy
communications director at
the DNC, he made an
“agreement” with Ken Vogel,
chief investigative reporter
at Politico, to read a copy
of one of Vogel’s stories
“ahead of time.”
A new bill in Ohio (HB 564)
seeks to intimidate parents
into vaccine compliance by
forcing them to be
re-educated about the
benefits of vaccines. Ohio
parents will no longer be
allowed to send their
children to public schools
unless they see a
state-licensed medical
doctor first to receive such
re-education. If the parent
objects to a vaccine, and
determines it’s not worth
the risk to their child,
they will no longer get to
make that choice freely.
This law will put parents
under the control of the
medical system by denying
any philosophical exemption
the parent may have.
The following 12 products –
we’ll refer to these as
Monsanto’s Dirty Dozen – are
included among the other
major crimes against
humanity besides GMOs that
Monsanto has pumped out over
the years for consumer use.
Some of these products will
be familiar to you, but
chances are you weren’t
aware of their Monsanto
ties:
Waste Control Specialists
recently began providing
federal regulators with more
details about plans to store
high-level nuclear waste in
Andrews County, after a
letter from the agency
fueled opponents' criticisms
that the company is unfit
for the task.
Pine bark extract contains
procyanidins, a form of
catechins, similiar to those
found in green tea, cocoa,
and grape seed extract.
Pycnogenol is a patented
form of pine bark extract
using the bark of the
maritime pine that grows in
France.
Presumptive Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton made
her vice presidential
finalists turn over all of
their family members’ social
media passwords and much
more to be fully considered,
according to a Politico
report.
C1 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares and a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on day one (26 Jul)
and expected to be very low
with a slight chance for a
C-class flare on days two
and three (27 Jul, 28 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on days one,
two, and three (26 Jul, 27
Jul, 28 Jul).
Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server to send
and receive classified
information as secretary of
state can be looked into
again if Republican Donald
Trump defeats her and
becomes president, former
New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani says.
"The
national security case
against her is so strong
that I've convicted people
based on 10 percent" of the
evidence against Clinton,
Giuliani, a former federal
prosecutor as well, told the
New York delegation
breakfast Thursday...
“The glasses work by
selectively removing certain
wavelengths between the red
and green cones that allow
them to be in essence pushed
apart again,” said Don
McPherson, EnChroma’s VP of
products in an interview
with CBS. McPherson only
learned about this potential
use after a colorblind
friend tried the glasses on
and discovered the
restorative effect.
The frigid plains of
northern Siberia are
becoming a hotspot for
mysterious geological
phenomena. Over the past
couple of years, sudden
craters have been exploding
from the permafrost-laden
ground. Last month, we
reported on a giant chasm in
the Sakha Republic that
looms so wide and deep,
locals refer to it as a
“gateway to the underworld.”
Solar is already the
cheapest available power
across large swathes of the
tropics, writes Chris
Goodall - its cost down
99.7% since the early 70s.
Soon it will be the cheapest
electricity everywhere,
providing clean, secure,
affordable energy for all.
South Africa's great
white sharks could die out
due to human interference,
ocean pollution and a
limited gene pool, a new
study released on Wednesday
showed.
There are 350-520 great
white sharks left off the
South African coast, 50
percent fewer than
previously thought,
according to a six year
study carried out mainly in
Gansbaai, a shark hotspot
160 kilometers from Cape
Town.
As we heal our
family-related aspects, our
personal energy patterns and
behaviors change. As we
evolve, awaken and become
more aware, our past
participation in negative
family patterns emerge, are
magnified and become
obvious. Our participation
no longer appeals to or
nurtures us. This can be
especially so if trauma and
drama are the norm within
the family.
Brazilian authorities
evicted a Guarani community
again in July, bulldozing
their homes and forcing the
families to again live by
the side of a major highway,
where several had been
killed by vehicles or
poisoned to death.
On July 6, according to
various sources, 100 heavily
armed military police
officers evicted the Apy
K’ay Guarani community from
their ancestral territory in
Mato Grosso do Sul in
northern Brazil in order to
make way for an industrial
scale farming operation.
Computer models, and
observations of our galaxy
and others, suggested a
Milky Way X, made of stars.
An analysis of data from the
WISE space telescope reveals
it.
On Friday, authorities
closed Utah lake due to a
toxic algae bloom that has
turned it into a health
hazard overnight. Public
health officials warn that
the algae release
dangerous chemicals which
could lead to brain and
liver damage in humans and
animals.
As climate change garners
more attention around the
world, scientists at the
University of Virginia and
Cornell University have made
critical advances in
understanding the physical
properties of an emerging
class of solar cells that
have the potential to
dramatically lower the cost
of solar energy.
Solar cells remain a
focal point of scientific
investigation because the
sun offers the most abundant
source of energy on earth.
The concern, however, with
conventional solar cells
made from silicon is their
cost. Even with recent
improvements, they still
require a significant amount
of electricity and
industrial processing to be
manufactured.
Affordable and
convenient training in
natural medicine is not
easy to find. The
Academy of Comprehensive
Integrative Medicine
(ACIM) offers convenient
online training in a
wide array of
integrative medicine
treatment modalities
Training is available
both for laypeople and
licensed health
professionals and is
likely the finest, most
comprehensive and
cost-effective teaching
currently available
Novel diagnostic and
treatment tools are
discussed, such as sleep
optimization through
neurofeedback, emotional
healing techniques,
herbal medicine and food
sensitivity and heart
rate variability
diagnostic tools
The Obama Administration
announced last week that
$4.5 billion in loan
guarantees will support more
widespread adoption of
electric vehicles (EVs) and
a nationwide charging
infrastructure.
The announcement came
last week after the
Department of Energy's (DOE)
first-ever Sustainable
Transportation Summit and
included a new framework to
help vehicle manufacturers,
electric utilities, electric
vehicle charging companies
and states in achieving
these goals...
Some 3.6 million pounds
of nuclear waste at the
shuttered San Onofre Nuclear
Generating Station is all
stored up with no place to
go.
The plant has not
produced electricity since
January 2012 for the nearly
19 million people served by
Southern California Edison,
the majority owner of the
facility, and San Diego Gas
& Electric, which owns 20
percent.
Buying raw milk can now lead
to a police raid in Texas.
At least two raw milk
transactions have been
broken up by officers and
health inspectors in the
Lone Star State in the past
few months. “They just make
everyone nervous,” farmer
Bob Stryk said of the Texas
Department of State Health
Services (DSHS), which has
been a nuisance to raw milk
sales.
For most of the latter half
of the 20th century, the
Antarctic Peninsula was one
of the fastest-warming
places on the planet, with
serious repercussions for
the local environment,
including the spectacular
disintegration of a
millennia-old ice shelf, and
global sea level rise.
Just one specially-crafted
message can expose your
personal information,
including your
authentication credentials
stored in your device's
memory, to a hacker.
A water utility in
California had to contend
with an aluminum-sulfate
spill of its own making last
month.
A delivery truck spilled
the water and wastewater
treatment chemical on a
drive to Fleming Hill Water
Treatment Plant in Vallejo,
CA, on June 29, shutting
down local streets, KRON
reported, citing a fire
spokesperson. The chemical
can be corrosive to the eyes
and irritates the skin.
“The spill was between 6
and 12 inches wide and about
a quarter- to half-mile
long,” the report said,
citing a city official.
China's oil product exports
are likely to stay strong in
the second half of 2016
after rising to close to
record highs in June as new
independent refiners prepare
to join the bandwagon and
state-owned oil giants sit
on large volumes of unused
export quotas.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
or myalgic
encephalomyelitis can be
debilitating and
devastating to the
individual and their
family members
Leaking waste products
and bacteria from your
gut may trigger an
inflammatory response,
resulting in physical
symptoms and
neurological changes
Eliminating
carbohydrates like
sugars and grains,
especially wheat
products, and including
high-fiber and fermented
foods may help heal your
gut and improve your
symptoms
On Tuesday, two
government science agencies
announced that the first six
months of 2016 were the
warmest first half of any
year on record.
The data confirms what
climate scientists have been
startled to see during the
past several years — the
Earth's climate has made a
step jump into a new, hotter
era with more intense and
frequent extreme events.
Tens of thousands of
children across southern
Africa are being pushed out
of school and into early
marriage or child labor
because of drought and
hunger caused by the El Nino
weather pattern, charities
said on Wednesday.
Southern Africa has been
hard hit over the past year
by an El Nino-inspired
drought that has wilted
crops, slowed economic
growth and driven food
prices higher.
The federal government
has reached another
settlement with the Navajo
Nation that will clear the
way for cleanup work to
continue at abandoned
uranium mines across the
largest American Indian
reservation in the U.S.
The target includes 46
sites that have been
identified as priorities due
to radiation levels and
their proximity to people.
Cleanup work is supposed to
be done at 16 abandoned
mines while evaluations are
planned for another 30
sites.
With agave fibers, Ford
hopes to reduce its use of
petrochemicals and reduce
the weight of plastic parts
used in automotive
manufacture
Ford has teamed with tequila
producer Jose Cuervo to
create car parts out of
bioplastics made from the
byproduct of tequila making.
Researchers are testing the
durability and heat
resistance of the resulting
plastics as a sustainable
way to make car parts.
In a rousing speech ahead of
Melania Trump's keynote
address on the opening night
of the Republican National
Convention, former New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
had the crowd on its feet
shouting, "USA! USA!"
Giuliani said he has
known Donald Trump for
decades and that "this is a
very good and decent man,
and he will be a great
president.
Green Mountain Power (GMP)
is installing Tesla
Powerwall home battery for
customers to empower them to
become more energy
independent by storing power
for use during outages.
Last month, scientists
reported an
earlier-than-normal annual
melting of Arctic sea ice,
and now NASA researchers
taking further stock of the
situation are providing a
clearer picture of how fast
it is shrinking and the
reasons why. As Earth sweats
through its hottest
six-month period on record,
analysis of the same
timeframe has revealed
record-breaking shrinking of
Arctic sea ice, with total
coverage at the height of
the melting season now 40
percent less than in the
late 1970s.
“I don’t care if it’s
constitutional or not at
this point,” Cleveland
police union president
Stephen Loomis told CNN as
Republicans gathered in his
city for their 2016 national
convention. “I want [Ohio
governor John Kasich] to
absolutely outlaw open-carry
in Cuyahoga County until
this RNC is over.”
Russia has delivered the
missile part of S-300
surface-to-air defense
system to Iran, Tasnim news
agency reported on Monday,
moving to finish the
delivery of all divisions of
the system to Tehran by the
end of this year.
"The first shipment of
missiles of S-300 missile
system has recently entered
Iran that shows Iran's
determination to equip its
air defense circle with this
system," Tasnim news agency,
which is close to the
Revolutionary Guards,
reported.
An activist law professor
calling for Baltimore
State's Attorney Marilyn J.
Mosby to be disbarred over
her prosecution of six
Baltimore police officers in
the arrest and death of
Freddie Gray has now taken
aim at the two deputy
state's attorneys who have
argued the cases in court.
When you read academic
papers, you aren't looking
for treachery and deceit
behind the stolid prose.
Don't be so trusting:
universities can be a
wretched hive of scum and
villainy. Here's help
Buried under a mile of rock
in an old South Dakotan gold
mine, the Large Underground
Xenon (LUX) experiment has
been looking for the
telltale signs of elusive
dark matter particles for
the past 20 months. The
search has now concluded
and, although no direct
signs of dark matter were
found, the results are still
an important step that helps
close in on the search for
this elusive particle.
Authorities familiar with
the situation told the DPA
news agency that a man in
the southern German town
of Wuerzburg attacked
passengers on a regional
train in Bavaria with “blunt
and slashing,” according to
Fox News. They said several
people may have sustained
life-threatening injuries.
The attacker reportedly
yelled “Allahu Akbar,” which
means “God is great.”
Soon after the Department
of Navy partnered with local
military officials to begin
implementing renewable
energy projects, North
Carolina was ranked third in
the nation for solar power
capacity by the Solar Energy
Industries Association.
The Camp Lejeune Solar
Facility, operated by Duke
Energy Progress, has
contributed to this new
ranking by becoming one of
four large solar projects in
North Carolina.
The nation's coal mines
were in compliance on nearly
all dust samples taken this
year with new monitors aimed
at cutting miners' exposure
to particles that can cause
deadly black lung disease,
federal regulators announced
Monday.
The coal industry had
challenged the new
dust-control rule, arguing
among other things that the
monitors had a high failure
rate.
United Nations Headquarters
was bustling with activity
on Monday, full beyond
capacity as island dwellers
from around the world
gathered for the
Multi-Stakeholder
Partnership in the
High-level Political Forum
on Sustainable Development
Goals, to chart the progress
of Small Island Developing
States (SIDS).
More than 40 percent of all
medium and heavy-duty diesel
commercial trucks in
operation in the United
States – 4 million of 9.5
million diesel trucks – are
now equipped with newer
technology clean diesel
engines, according to new
Diesel Technology Forum
(DTF) analysis of IHS
Automotive vehicles in
operation statistics.
Filmmaker Natalie Beer sets
off on a journey around the
world speaking to leading
doctors, scientists and
families to find out the
truth about the autism
epidemic and whether or not
vaccines have a role to
play.
The United States is the
No. 1 per capita
consumer of corn in the
world; HFCS and other
corn-derivatives work
their way into nearly
every kind of processed
food on the market
Agricultural policies in
the U.S. contribute to
the poor health of
Americans and play an
important role in the
ever-worsening obesity
epidemic by promoting
consumption of cheap
junk food that wreak
metabolic havoc
Fifty-six percent of
calories consumed in the
U.S. between 2001 and
2006 came from
government-subsidized
commodities such as
corn, soy and wheat —
foods associated with a
greater probability of
cardiometabolic risks
Earlier research has
also noted that “federal
farm subsidies promote
unsustainable
agriculture while also
failing to reward good
stewardship”
The privacy software
Tor has aided everything
from drug dealing
marketplaces to
whistleblowing websites in
evading surveillance on the
darknet. Now that same
software can be applied to a
far more personal form of
security: keeping hackers
out of your toaster.
The pair were taken to
United Regional and then
flown to Dallas Parkland
Hospital, newstalk1290.com
reported. Daniel Nix,
utilities operations
manager, told Times
Record News that the
workers were conducting
routine maintenance on a
pump when they were exposed
to hydrogen sulfide gas.
Police have ruled out the
possibility that Pakistani
model and social media star
Qandeel Baloch’s brother,
who murdered her on July 15,
can evade punishment for the
crime under a
sharia-inspired law that
allows victims’ family
members to forgive killers.
A reportedly unrepentant
Waseem Azeem, 25 — Baloch’s
younger brother — confessed
during a press conference to
drugging and strangling the
26-year-old while she slept
at the family home in the
city of Multan, saying he
did so because she brought
“dishonor” to the family by
posting pictures on Facebook
that he considered
“shameful.”
M1 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one
and two (22 Jul, 23 Jul) and
likely to be low with a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on day three (24 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days
one, two, and three (22 Jul,
23 Jul, 24 Jul). Protons
greater than 10 Mev have a
slight chance of crossing
threshold on days one and
two (22 Jul, 23 Jul).
Police broke up
skirmishes between groups of
demonstrators a few blocks
from the Republican National
Convention as large crowds
formed Tuesday afternoon.
There was no immediate word
on any arrests or injuries.
Members of the KKK, Black
Lives Matter, and Westboro
Baptist Church reportedly
threw urine at each other
and police had to step in in
an attempt to keep the
peace, a police spokesperson
told KPLC.
Russian state nuclear
agency Rosatom has been
engaged in Bangladesh to
build a 2,400 MW nuclear
power station in Rooppur
with units each having 1200
MW.
The Rosatom said the
floating nuclear station is
the world's first and so far
unparalleled project of a
small transportable power
plant.
The document is the only
secret text linked to last
year’s agreement between
Iran and six foreign powers.
It says that after a period
between 11 to 13 years, Iran
can replace its 5,060
inefficient centrifuges with
up to 3,500 advanced
machines.
Since those are five
times as efficient, the time
Iran would need to make a
weapon would drop from a
year to six months.
Some of you may know that
the sun enters the sign
Cancer every year on or
near June 20, or precisely
at the instant of the June
solstice. That’s in spite of
the fact that the sun enters
the constellation Cancer
about one month later, on or
near July 20.
...the main reason was to
explain how our actions fit
into a larger picture, so
that they would seem less
random. The point of all
this was, and remains,
accelerating the advent of
sustainable energy, so that
we can imagine far into the
future and life is still
good. That's what
"sustainable" means. It's
not some silly, hippy thing
-- it matters for everyone.
The formation of
serpentinized rocks
beneath the ocean may
produce an abundant, free
source of hydrogen.
Hydrogen may offer a clean,
alternative fuel source but
it's not without its
problems. Right now,
hydrogen is usually obtained
by expending another form of
energy and, according to the
U.S. Department of Energy,
95 percent of the hydrogen
gas made in America
currently comes from natural
gas reforming, which
involves the use of
high-temperature steam. But
what if there was an
abundant source of
naturally-occurring hydrogen
somewhere on Earth that we
could suck out and put in
our cars? Just such a source
may lie beneath the ocean
floor.
This is the first study to
show that deciduous tree
water uptake of snowmelt
water represents a large but
overlooked aspect of the
water balance in boreal
watersheds. For the boreal
forest of Alaska and Western
Canada, this equates to
about 17-20 billion cubic
meters of water per year.
That is roughly equivalent
to 8-10 percent of the Yukon
River's annual discharge.
Turkey's Ministry for Energy
and Natural Resources has
suspended 300 staff
following the failed
military coup attempt on
July 15, adding to
uncertainties about the
overall stability of the
country and the continued
effective implementation of
energy policy.
The Turkish government on
Tuesday escalated its
wide-ranging crackdown
against people it claims
have ties to the alleged
coup plotters, firing nearly
24,000 teachers and Interior
Ministry employees across
the country and demanding
the resignations of another
1,577 university deans.
The dismissals touched
every aspect of government
life.
Canadian pipeline operator
Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) has
agreed to pay $177 million
in penalties and improved
safety measures in a
settlement with the U.S.
government tied to one of
the largest inland oil
spills in U.S. history.
In Washington, as the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)
Bioenergy 2016 conference
opened its third day, the
DOE announced up to $15
million for three projects
aimed at reducing the
production costs of
algae-based biofuels and
bioproducts through
improvements in algal
biomass yields.
On 7 July 2016, the U.S.
Senate voted 63-30 to
approve a genetically
modified organisms (GMO)
bill (S. 764) that, if
enacted, would preempt state
GMO labeling laws by making
it a federal requirement
that food companies label
their products containing
GMO ingredients in one of
three possible ways: through
disclosure on the product
package, as a USDA-backed
symbol signifying GMO
content, or via an
electronic code accessible
by smartphone. The U.S.
House of Representatives
will now consider the bill
passed by the Senate.
That’s from 197 new
exoplanet candidates. In its
extended (K2) mission, the
Kepler space telescope has
been looking toward cool,
small, red dwarf-type stars.
The majority opinion held
firm across ethnicity,
class, age, and gender
differences. A whopping 83
percent of African Americans
polled agreed that the
economy is rigged, and 80
percent of people ages 18-24
also held that opinion.
The poll, which has been
tracking rising economic
anxiety, discovered that
most Americans agree that
the economy was better for
their parents’ generation,
and believe that the economy
will be worse for the next
generation.
The conspiracy theory that
the medical industries are
hiding a cure for cancer
from the public has been
around for so many years.
The logical arguments
against this legend include
the fact that a lot of
people in the medical and
scientific industry,
like doctors, researchers,
and nurses along with their
beloved families and
friends, die of this
dangerous disease at similar
rates as everyone else in
the world.
As we know it, visible light
is electromagnetic radiation
emanating from thermal
energy sources in the form
of tiny energy packets
called photons. Photons are
some of the oddest particles
in classical physics,
exhibiting energy, but
lacking mass, and
simultaneously existing as
both a particle and a wave.
As abstract and difficult is
this is to imagine, our
veneration of light will now
further skew toward the
arcane; physicists from
Trinity College Dublin’s
School of Physics and the
CRANN Institute, have
discovered a new form of
light, distinct enough to
alter our understanding of
its nature.
There have been a few failed
attempts at stalling
California’s SB 277 or
getting rid of it
completely. According to
California resident health
freedom activist Tim Bolen
of the bolenreport.com,
the lack of positive results
has been due to poor
leadership and in fighting
among those who sought to
lead.
Here’s the good news:
Wind power, solar power, and
other renewable forms of
energy are expanding far
more quickly than anyone
expected, ensuring that
these systems will provide
an ever-increasing share of
our future energy supply...
And
here’s the bad news: the
consumption of oil, coal,
and natural gas is also
growing, making it likely
that, whatever the advances
of renewable energy, fossil
fuels will continue to
dominate the global
landscape for decades to
come, accelerating the pace
of global warming and
ensuring the intensification
of climate-change
catastrophes.
A judge has acquitted a
Baltimore police officer on
all charges in the death of
Freddie Gray, a black who
died after he was injured in
a police transport van.
Glyphosate usage has gotten
so out of control that it’s
seemingly taken on a life of
its own and is now showing
up even in foods that
haven’t been directly
sprayed, namely the grapes
used to make organic wine.
Glyphosate, the active
ingredient in Monsanto’s
Roundup herbicide, is the
most used agricultural
chemical in history. It’s
used in a number of
different herbicides (700 in
all), but Roundup is by far
the most widely used.
Agriculture is the
biggest driver of
deforestation globally
fueled by a growing demand
for food, yet it is possible
to feed the world without
cutting forests, the U.N.
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) said on
Monday.
Most forest loss occurs
in the world's tropical
regions, which lost 7
million hectares of forest a
year between 2000 and 2010,
while gaining 6 million
hectares per year in
agricultural land, FAO said
in a report.
The head of the Cleveland
police union, Steve Loomis,
urged Ohio governor John
Kasich Sunday to suspend the
Ohio law that allows the
open carrying of firearms
during the Republican
National Convention,
following the news that six
police officers were shot in
Louisiana.
A long-classified U.S.
report released Friday
found that some of the
9/11 hijackers were in
contact with and
received support from
individuals likely
connected to the Saudi
government.
Known as the "28 pages,"
the secret document was
part of a 2002
Congressional Joint
Inquiry into the Sept.
11 attacks and has been
classified since the
report's completion,
despite repeated calls
for its release
Why we can’t detect all
security loopholes and patch
them before hackers exploit
them?
Because... we
know that humans are too
slow at finding and fixing
security bugs, which is why
vulnerabilities like
Heartbleed, POODLE and GHOST
remained undetected for
decades and rendered almost
half of the Internet
vulnerable to theft by the
time patches were rolled
out.
Mainstream medicine promotes
what they want to sell, from
a fear perspective. The
don’t sell health. They
can’t, because they sell
little fear pills that have
consumers in the billions
gobble up, out of fear,
fictitious diseases.
Bad cholesterol is a good
example because there is
nothing bad about any type
of cholesterol. The fact
that people with high
cholesterol live the longest
has already emerged clearly
from many scientific papers.
Now a University of South
Florida professor and an
international team of
experts have once again
found that older people with
high levels of a certain
type of what is known as bad
cholesterol, or low-density
lipoprotein, live as long,
and often longer, than their
peers with low levels of
this same cholesterol.
This innovation means the
disease could be detected,
and possibly stopped, before
it wreaks havoc on the
individual’s life. The study
was recently published in
the journal
Ophthalmology and Visual
Science.
The American Medical
Association (AMA) issued
new guidance for
communities on how to
“reduce the harmful
human and environmental
effects of
high-intensity [LED]
street lighting”
LED streetlights operate
at a wavelength that
adversely suppresses
melatonin at night —
five times more so than
other types of light
Discomfort and
disability caused by the
intense LED lighting may
“decrease visual acuity
and safety, resulting in
concerns and creating a
road hazard”
Migrating birds and
other wildlife may be
disoriented by LED
lighting at night
As renewable
industries grow, so
too does training
Renewable energy is here
to stay. As finite resources
live up to their name and
attention to conserving our
planet intensifies, more
resources are being devoted
to wind, solar, hydro,
geothermal, and other
alternative energy sources.
Natural gas-fired
electricity generation in
the United States is
expected to reach record
levels this year, according
to a report issued today by
the U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA).
Jagadisan, who worked with
Monsanto for nearly two
decades, including eight
years as the managing
director of India
operations, spoke against
the new variety during the
public consultation held in
Bangalore on Saturday.
On Monday, he elaborated by
saying the company “used to
fake scientific data”
submitted to government
regulatory agencies to get
commercial approvals for its
products in India.
If you met this
lab-created critter over
your beach vacation, you’d
swear you saw a baby ray. In
fact, the tiny, flexible
swimmer is the product of
a team of
diverse scientists. They
have built the most
successful artificial animal
yet. This disruptive
technology opens the door
much wider for lifelike
robots and artificial
intelligence.
ighty percent of the
world’s food supply
still comes from small
family operated farms.
These farms also employ
about 40 percent of the
global workforce
As custodians of a
majority of the global
agricultural resources,
family farms are
essential players in
efforts to strengthen
food security and
improve the global
ecology
To investigate the
diversity, challenges
and benefits of family
farming around the
world, a group of
agronomists visit
farmers in India,
France, Ecuador,
Cameroon and Canada
It's only in the last few
years that any government at
any level has tried to deal
with the waste from the
generating plants. And it's
only in the last few years
that we've all realized how
dangerous the ash can be --
that it's loaded with heavy
metals and carcinogens that
can leak from storage ponds
into nearby wells, or worse,
burst into a nearby river.
Kenneth and Colleen
Shults are hoping to
formally adopt a foster
child into their family, but
in a federal suit filed this
week, they are claiming they
would be forced to give up
their Second Amendment
rights to do so.
The Fairmount, Ill.,
couple, already parents of
three, decided to purchase
guns to keep their family
safe after being informed by
Colleen Shults’ employer
they could be at risk.
India's top environmental
court on Monday ordered
authorities to remove all
diesel vehicles at least 10
years old off the capital
city's streets in a bid to
help clean New Delhi's
polluted air.
The ruling is the latest
in a series of court-issued
orders targeting the
automotive industry's role
in polluting Delhi's air,
which the World Health
Organisation said in May was
the world's 11th dirtiest.
Israel on Sunday fired
missiles toward an unmanned
drone that entered
Israeli-controlled airspace
from Syria and it turned
back, the military said in a
statement.
"Two Patriot air defense
missiles were fired toward a
drone which infiltrated
Israeli airspace in the
central Golan Heights. The
drone returned to Syria,"
the Israeli army said.
Secretary of State John
Kerry shared on ABC’s “This
Week” Sunday his worry that
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan may use
Friday’s attempted military
coup to crack down on
democracy in the country.
Numerous wars and
insurrections have been
fought over the control of
energy resources, and all
the while, the power grid
acts as a control grid
that forces massive swaths
of people to herd together
into compact concrete
jungles. The human
condition on planet Insanity
is so intimately linked with
the production of power that
we use the same word to
describe everything from
politics to finance to the
performance of an engine – Power.
This is one slice through
the map of the large-scale
structure of the universe
from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey and its Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey, with each dot
indicating the position of a
galaxy 6 billion years into
the past (Credit: Daniel
Eisenstein and the SDSS-III
collaboration)
The bill, which was backed
by Monsanto and passed the
House by a vote of 306-117,
would give America’s largest
food companies three options
to label their products that
contain GMO ingredients: a
label on the package, a
symbol on the package, or an
electronic QR code that must
be scanned with a smartphone
to find out what is in the
food.
The brother of slain
Pakistani model Qandeel
Baloch on Sunday confessed
to strangling her to death
for "family honor" because
she posted "shameful"
pictures on Facebook.
Indigenous Peoples on the
front lines of climate
change and development
battles will be taking their
testimony on the road
starting on July 18,
stopping at various points
around Turtle Island.
From July 18 through 31
the Protect our Public Lands
Tour will stop in Flagstaff,
Arizona; Shiprock and Santa
Fe, New Mexico; Lake
Thunderbird, Oklahoma;
Cahokia Mounds State Park,
Illinois, and Philadelphia,
There’s a disturbing
pattern in what happens to
South American Indians when
their foods are “discovered”
by European settlers, and it
looks very similar to what
happened when North and
South American lands became
understood as the “New
World.” Indians get as
little regard as chefs as
they got as landlords.
C6 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (19 Jul, 20
Jul, 21 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(19 Jul) and quiet to active
levels on days two and three
(20 Jul, 21 Jul).
A new study suggests that a
vaccine for the incurable
Alzheimer's disease could
become a reality in as
little as five years, and
may one day become as much
of a fixture in the lives of
our aging population as the
common flu shot.
Route 66, the historic U.S.
highway made famous for
attracting gas-guzzling
Chevrolet Bel Airs and 1957
Cadillacs traveling from
Chicago to Los Angeles, is
turning green. The Mother
Road has seen in recent
months a growing number of
electric car charging
stations along the
2,500-mile path, and some
states even are pushing for
solar panels and electric
buses.
The Klyuchevskoy volcano on
Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula
is erupting. Ash explosions
affecting air traffic could
occur at any time.
Klyuchevskoy’s usually snowy
and glaciated peaks, with a
plume rising over 6,000
meters (3.73 miles) on June
7, 2016
Reports continue to show the
detriments of soda on the
body. Not only is it
nutritionally void, it
causes obesity, diabetes,
and cancer. According to
researchers from Harvard
School of Public Health,
liquid sugar is permanently
changing little girls’
hormones. The findings were
published in the journal
Human Reproduction.
Clinton and her staff
illegally stored classified
documents on an unapproved
server. They shared those
secrets with people who did
not have the security
clearance to see them. They
exposed the secrets to
hacking by our most ardent
foes.
When the private email
system was discovered by the
Select Committee on Benghazi
she lied about why the
system was set up. She lied
about whether any of the
emails were classified. She
lied about whether she
turned all work-related
emails over to the State
Department.
Politics permeates
everything in society.
Politics is something we are
immersed in. The people of
Flint, Michigan, who cannot
drink politics, realize this
most directly. We are
biological beings firstly,
before we are social and
political beings. It is only
the rhetoric of government
and corporations that leads
us to prioritize our
lives otherwise.
Although some are curious as
to the reasons behind the
new partnership, Pence’s
political views greatly
concur with Trumps. Pence
opposed President George W.
Bush’s “No Child Left
Behind,” policy, he claimed
it would grow the federal
government. Then in 2006, he
revealed a “no amnesty”
immigration plan that called
for heightened security
around America’s borders,
the bill, however, did not
pass. He then pushed to cut
federal funding to Planned
Parenthood, and vocally
opposed the closing of
Guantanamo Bay.
Warplanes patrolled Turkey’s
skies overnight in a sign
that authorities feared that
the threat against President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
government was not yet over,
despite official assurances
that life has returned to
normal after a failed coup.
Trees are dying in the
Sierra at modern-day
unprecedented rates, posing
elevated fire danger and
creating health, water and
air quality concerns, but a
possible solution to rid the
forest of dead and dying
trees is getting the short
end of the stick, officials
say.
Two more employees have
reported possible exposure
to chemical vapors on the
Hanford Nuclear Reservation
– even as workers engaged in
a job action to demand
better protection from such
fumes.
The two workers were
given medical evaluations
Tuesday and cleared to
return to work, according to
Washington River Protection
Solutions, a private
contractor that manages a
section of the reservation
where nuclear waste is
buried in underground tanks.
It brought the number of
workers receiving medical
checks for possible chemical
vapor exposure to about 55
in recent months.
The only beneficiaries
of the 21st Century
Cures Act introduced in
Congress last year are
the drug, vaccine and
medical device
manufacturers, as this
proposed legislation was
designed to speed up
experimental drug and
vaccine approvals, cut
corners on pre-licensure
testing and narrow or
eliminate informed
consent protections in
scientific research on
humans
The bill, which easily
passed the House of
Representatives last
summer but got stalled
in the Senate, earmarked
more than $8 billion to
NIH for new drug
research while relaxing
FDA safety oversight
This year, Senators
supporting passage of
the Act cut it up into
separate smaller bills
to achieve their goal of
fast tracking new
products to market by
avoiding drug, vaccine
and medical device
safety mechanisms
The Great Lakes, five
interconnected bodies in
northeastern North America
forming the largest such
freshwater group on Earth,
have long been a symbol of
pristine marine life and
natural wonder. Recently,
however, they have been some
of the greatest victims of
algal bloom and an indicator
of its rise due to increased
nutrient contamination and
climate change.
With their zero-calorie
content, artificial
sweeteners are often
recommended as part of a
healthy diet for weight loss
or controlling diabetes.
However, these synthetic
sugar substitutes could
actually stimulate appetite,
leading to increased calorie
consumption of up to 30%,
according to an Australian
study published in the
journal Cell Metabolism.
After the Brexit vote,
climate hawks voiced concern
that a new British
government
could be less aggressive in
fighting climate change.
Looks like they may have
been right: New British
Prime Minister Theresa May
hasn’t even unpacked her
bags at 10 Downing Street
and she’s already got green
groups very worried.
Canadian authorities
installed water treatment
plants on First Nations
reserves in the late 1990s,
but did not invest in
training personnel to
operate them.
Email evidence shows a
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC) executive aided a
Coca-Cola representative
in efforts to influence
World Health
Organization (WHO)
officials to relax sugar
limits
Last year, WHO announced
soda is a key
contributor to child
obesity, suggesting
restrictions on sugary
beverages
Two days after Barbara
Bowman, Ph.D., director
of the CDC’s Division
for Heart Disease and
Stroke Prevention
(DHDSP), was exposed for
offering guidance to
leading Coca-Cola
advocate, Bowman
resigned from her post
China is building another
200 gigawatts (GW) of
coal-fired power capacity
despite tough new measures
designed to cut the use of
fossil fuels and tackle
overcapacity, environmental
group Greenpeace said on
Wednesday.
China's coal-dominated
thermal power sector has
continued to expand rapidly
amid an unexpectedly sharp
slowdown in energy
consumption growth, as well
as a state-led effort to
tackle smog, cut carbon
emissions and encourage
cleaner forms of
electricity.
Condoleezza Rice, who
served as secretary of state
under President George W.
Bush, said Americans “need
to race again toward” God in
the wake of the
police-related shootings in
Baton Rouge and Minnesota
and the officer ambush in
Dallas.
Rice offered the stirring
prayer over the weekend
during a service at Menlo
Park Presbyterian Church in
California.
Conservative billionaire
power broker Charles Koch
said Monday he is not
backing Donald Trump,
claiming the presumptive
Republican presidential
nominee’s principles are
“antithetical” to his.
Nevada's net metering
controversy was compounded
this week when local data
company Switch filed a
lawsuit related to its
company pledge to purchase
100 percent renewable
energy.
In the past decade, South
Dakota has seen tremendous
job creation and capital
investment in renewable
energy.
Wind power has led the
way by contributing more
than $2 billion in direct
capital investment and
directly creating more than
500 new jobs. Those wind
power jobs are in operations
and maintenance,
construction, manufacturing
and many support sectors. In
addition, wind projects
produce lease payments for
landowners and increase the
tax base for local
governments and school
district
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) will provide up
to $15 million in funding to
help strengthen and protect
the nation's electric grid
from cyber and physical
attacks, pending
congressional approval.
This is one of my favorite
instances of cognitive
dissonance. Gun rights
advocates usually argue that
being armed isn’t
threatening in of itself. In
fact they often scoff
whenever an anti-gunners
claims to be in fear for
their lives when they see
somebody who is armed. These
gun rights advocates usually
also argue that being armed
should be a cultural norm. I
agree with both sentiments.
However, where I diverge
from many supposed gun
rights advocates is that my
belief doesn’t give an
exception to anybody wearing
a badge.
As renewable
industries grow, so
too does training
Renewable energy is here
to stay. As finite resources
live up to their name and
attention to conserving our
planet intensifies, more
resources are being devoted
to wind, solar, hydro,
geothermal, and other
alternative energy sources.
According to the Federal
Energy Regulatory
Commission, renewable
sources accounted for almost
two-thirds (63.85%) of the
16,485 MW of new electrical
generation in the U.S.
during 2015. That's a new
annual record.
Proponents of clean energy
will soon have a new source
to add to their existing
array of solar, wind, and
hydropower: osmotic power.
Or more specifically, energy
generated by a natural
phenomenon occurring when
fresh water comes into
contact with seawater
through a membrane.
...The Energy Department
will provide up to $15
million, subject to
congressional
appropriations, to support
efforts by the American
Public Power Association
(APPA) and the National
Rural Electric Cooperative
Association (NRECA) to
further enhance the culture
of security within their
utility members'
organizations.
Potentially cleaner
rivers or possible higher
electric prices.
That is what's at stake
in an upcoming federal court
ruling in Virginia that
could have far-reaching
effects on how energy
companies dispose of the
waste known as coal ash,
left over from decades of
burning coal. Spurred by
high-profile coal ash spills
and new federal regulations,
utilities are grappling with
the disposal of vast amounts
of the heavy-metal-laced
waste.
Last week the FBI
investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s private email
server formally closed with
no criminal charges against
the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee.
But just days after the
probe ended, Fox News’ Jesse
Watters took to the streets
of downtown Manhattan to see
what New Yorkers had to say
about the ruling.
An expansion of farmland
has damaged nature beyond a
"safe" limit on 58 percent
of the world's land surface,
threatening natural services
such as crop pollination by
insects, scientists said on
Thursday.
Grasslands, such as in
United States, Argentina,
South Africa or Central
Asia, are among natural
systems most affected by
declines in animals and
plants caused by human
activities, they wrote in
the journal Science.
Northern pine forests and
tundra are least affected,
they said.
Tax credits and efficiency
standards for appliances and
vehicles have been key
drivers for increasing
renewable energy use and
energy efficiency in the
United States. Extending
these policies and
increasing the stringency of
the Clean Power Plan beyond
2030 would reduce
energy-related carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions by
reducing motor fuel use and
energy use in buildings by
increasing efficiency and by
increasing the share of
solar and wind in the
electricity generation mix.
Lawyers filed a $1
billion lawsuit against
Facebook Inc., alleging it
allowed the Palestinian
militant Hamas group to use
the platform to plot attacks
that killed four Americans
and wounded one in Israel,
the West Bank and Jerusalem.
“Facebook has knowingly
provided material support
and resources to Hamas in
the form of Facebook’s
online social network
platform and communication
services,” making it liable
for the violence against the
five Americans, according to
the lawsuit sent to
Bloomberg by the office of
the Israeli lawyer on the
case, Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner.
FBI agents who worked on the
investigation of Hillary
Clinton's use of a private
email server reportedly had
to sign an unusual
non-disclosure form banning
them from talking about the
case unless they were called
to testify.
Problems uncovered after
employees walk off job with
thousands of SSNs on flash
drives...
The FDIC failed at the time
of the "advanced persistent
threat" attacks to report
the incidents.
Then-inspector general at
the FDIC, Jon Rymer,
lambasted FDIC officials for
failing to follow their own
policies on breach
reporting.
The vast majority of
Americans say they are
afraid of at least one of
the two major candidates —
Hillary Clinton or Donald
Trump — winning the White
House, a remarkable finding
that reflects an unsettled
nation unhappy with its
choice.
The processes behind
everyday -- what some might
call mundane -- activities
often go unnoticed. Ever
wonder how electricity flow
allows you to turn on the
light or TV? Where do those
cables come from? How often
are they checked? Can
workers get zapped? How do
they do it?
Far away from our beloved
Milky Way lies a galaxy
called UGC 1382, a place
that scientists and
astronomers thought was just
another tiny, elliptical
galaxy. It turns out that
not only is it bigger than
they previously thought, but
it's also much larger than
the galaxy that Earth calls
home.
In a landmark ruling on
Tuesday, an arbitral
tribunal concluded that
there was no legal basis for
China to claim historic
rights to resources within
the sea areas falling within
its 'nine-dash line'.
In a ruling that fully
favours the Philippines, the
five-member tribunal also
found that none of the
features in the Spratly
islands is capable of
generating extended maritime
zones and that the islands
as a unit is also not
capable of generating
maritime zones collectively.
More than 18 million
Americans got their drinking
water from systems with lead
violations in 2015,
according to a
groundbreaking Natural
Resources Defense Council
report. The problem could be
significantly more pervasive
because many more water
systems known to have such
violations — including that
in Flint, Michigan — do not
even show up as having lead
violations in the government
database designed to track
such problems, according to
NRDC scientists and health
experts.
The director of National
Intelligence shot down House
Speaker Paul Ryan Monday,
denying the Wisconsin
Republican’s request that
Hillary Clinton be blocked
from receiving classified
briefings as a candidate for
president.
As the top two most
available sources for
renewable energy, government
subsidies and a high return
on investment has made wind
turbines and solar panels
viable options for consumers
looking to ease off of the
electricity grid or start
contributing to it. So which
renewable energy is best for
you?
Next week, top eggheads
will unveil a new
anonymizing internet tool
that they claim is
snoop-proof and faster and
more reliable against attack
than Tor.
Dubbed Riffle, the system
was developed by MIT and the
École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne in Switzerland.
It uses the same
onion-encryption system as
Tor, which wraps messages in
layers of encryption as they
travel through the
anonymizing network to
disguise the route they've
taken
Increasingly, the social
media seem to become a
sacred ground for social
justice warriors and their
extreme political
correctness. While what they
do is not censorship per say
– only government has that
power – its suppression of
seemingly innocuous speech
can have chilling effect –
something that Liberty Memes
discovered.
Even one of its
administrators only wants to
be referred to as “Admin 2”
because they fear further
retaliation.
This month, NASA begins
an airborne experiment to
improve scientists'
understanding of the sources
of two powerful greenhouse
gases and how they cycle
into and out of the
atmosphere.
Atmospheric Carbon and
Transport–America, or
ACT-America, is a multi-year
airborne campaign that will
measure concentrations of
carbon dioxide and methane
in relation to weather
systems. The study will
gather real-time
measurements from research
aircraft and ground stations
to improve the ability to
detect and quantify the
surface sources and sinks of
the gases.
Soil and nutrient loss and
runoff from agricultural
fields are major problems
environmentally and
economically in the U.S. and
globally. After heavy spring
rains, soil and water runoff
containing fertilizer and
pesticides is washed
downstream, carrying the
sediment and chemicals to
the Gulf of Mexico. This
process creates a large
oxygen-starved area which is
toxic to aquatic organisms
and damages the commercial
fishing and tourism
industries.
A new study has found for
the first time that ocean
warming is the primary cause
of retreat of glaciers on
the western Antarctic
Peninsula. The Peninsula is
one of the largest current
contributors to sea-level
rise and this new finding
will enable researchers to
make better predictions of
ice loss from this region.
Well, those people
invented something about
1,500 years ago that might
help keep nuclear waste from
flowing past The Columbian's
back door.
Washington State
University researchers are
among those taking on the
challenge of cleaning up 56
million gallons of
radioactive and chemical
waste at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation.
Oil prices have dropped
due to signs that shale
drillers in the US have
adjusted because of lower
fuel rates and renewed
indications of Asian
economic weaknesses.
Brent crude was down 38
cents and traded at $46.38
per barrel, while the US
West Texas Intermediate
(WTI) crude fell 46 cents at
$44.95 a barrel, Reuters
reported.
More than 1,200 women
were sexually assaulted in
German cities on
New Year's Eve,
including more than 600 in
Cologne and about 400 in
Hamburg — far more than
initially reported,
according to German news
media.
Authorities believe 2,000
men were involved in the
assaults, and 120 suspects —
many of them foreigners —
have been identified,
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper
reported Sunday, based on a
leaked police document.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(15 Jul, 16 Jul, 17 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (15
Jul). Quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (16 Jul)
and quiet levels on day
three (17 Jul).
A $1.13 fee each month on
your electric bill --
intended to fund a state
renewable energy loan
program that failed -- has
cost ratepayers millions of
dollars in payments to bond
holders, investment banks,
consultants and state
employees.
The "Green Infrastructure
Fee" pays for a program that
never lived up to its
billing as a way for
renters, low-income
homeowners and nonprofit
organizations to benefit
from rooftop solar systems.
They found that solar
parks altered the local
climate, measuring cooling
of as much as 5 degrees
Centigrade under the panels
during the summer but the
effects varied depending on
the time of year and the
time of day.
As climate controls
biological processes, such
as plant growth rates, this
is really important
information and can help
understand how best to
manage solar parks so they
have environmental benefits
in addition to supplying low
carbon energy.
First Nations Development
Institute – as part of its
work to combat food
insecurity and eliminate
“food deserts” in Native
American communities – on
July 7 released a report
stating Native consumers in
or near reservation
communities generally spend
more on food than the
national average despite
usually lower incomes and
that food access is largely
more difficult due to
distance and transportation
issues.
The placement of large
offshore wind farms along
the Atlantic Ocean's outer
continental shelf increases
the risk of vessel
collisions and could force
ships to take less safe
routes, a Coast Guard Study
has found.
According to one source,
online sales of dietary
supplements now represents
15.5% of overall sales and
is a fast growing channel.
[McKinsey Marketing] But
that may not be for long.
Consider these recent events
privately reported to me.
Quick Story:
I have the unique privilege
of traveling all over the
country and hanging out with
kids. During the past two
school years, I’ve been to
well over a hundred schools
and have spent time on MANY
reservation schools, MANY
independent schools and also
a whole bunch of colleges
and universities. As a
result, I sometimes have a
different view of “hope” and
“optimism” or “pessimism”
than most. It’s not because
I’m any smarter; instead,
it’s because I get to listen
to kids of all
different ethnicities and
socio-economic backgrounds
talk about what they
think of what’s going
on in the world today.
There are many ways in which
we go against nature and are
worse off for it. Our food
“system” is one big
glow-in-the-dark example of
this. We have so tampered
with the food cycle that the
very natural system to
digest our food is affected.
Allergies, leaky gut, sibo,
Crohns, and IBS are just a
few examples of illnesses
related to the way we
produce our food. CAFOS,
antibiotics, chemical
fertilizers and pesticides
cause disease because we
have removed the nutrients
in our food AND lessened our
ability to absorb the
nutrients that are left.
More than two dozen people
were sickened in an apparent
mass drug overdose on a New
York City street corner,
sparking warnings from
police and health officials
about the dangers of using
K2, also known as synthetic
marijuana.
Solar panels that are so
flexible they can wrap
around the frame of a pair
of glasses have created a
breakthrough for wearable
electronics. Developed by a
team of researchers in South
Korea, the panels are only a
single micrometer thick,
thinner than the average
human hair, which is about
100 µm thick. They are also
monumentally thinner than
standard solar panels, and
three to four times thinner
than most of the slimmest
solar cells available.
More than 18 million
Americans may be
consuming water with
excess levels of lead
North Carolina’s
concentrated animal
feeding operations
(CAFOs) generate 15,000
Olympic pools’ worth of
waste each year,
contaminating both air
and water
An International Energy
Agency (IEA) report
revealed 6.5 people die
prematurely from indoor
and outdoor air
pollution worldwide each
year
A recent spate of early U.S.
plant closures has increased
the need for a swift
implementation of new
decommissioning regulations
which match post-operation
risk profiles, industry
experts said.
Following a damaging El
Nino weather period, a U.S.
government weather
forecaster on Thursday said
the La Nina weather
phenomenon is favored to
develop during August
through October 2016.
The Climate Prediction
Center (CPC), an agency of
the National Weather
Service, said in its monthly
forecast there is a 55
percent to 60 percent chance
that the La Nina weather
phenomenon will develop
during the fall and winter
of 2016/17.
Now that NATO has recognized
that cyberspace is as much a
battleground as land, sea,
and air, what does that mean
for enterprise IT defense?
Do you, as IT professionals,
have to get involved in the
battles between nations? You
don't have a choice.
Since FBI Director James
Comey delivered a blistering
indictment of Hillary
Clinton’s email practices on
Tuesday, and then
outrageously declared that
no “reasonable” prosecutor
would bring charges, it
seems that many in the press
view the matter as closed.
But there was one big thing
Comey didn’t mention in his
statement, and which the
media seems to have
forgotten also: Clinton’s
email practices are
potentially only the tip of
the iceberg of her illegal
activities.
Forgotten in the coverage
are more than a year’s worth
of stories about the
corruption of the Clinton
Foundation and the family’s
speech fees.
When I approach these
subjects touching on
sovereignty, whether it be
freedom from the binding
maritime law-based legal
system or questioning all
forms of the hierarchical
control paradigm, I look at
it from a spiritual
perspective.
What essentially IS freedom?
How do we manifest our true
nature more fully and thus
naturally break the chains
that bind us from whatever
quarter?
It’s all about the initial
question. And our
perspective.
Six years after Deepwater
Horizon spewed oil into the
Gulf of Mexico, we still
have no idea what we're
doing...
Looking like scrub
nurses, the responders
treated oil-coated birds
with charcoal solutions,
antibiotics, and dish soap.
They also forced the birds
to swallow Pepto-Bismol,
which helps absorb
hydrocarbons. The familiar,
if not outlandish, images
suggested that something was
being cleaned up.
Just days before the
Republican Party’s national
convention opens in
Cleveland, organizers remain
$6 million short of their
$64 million fundraising goal
for the four-day political
extravaganza.
Alaska gas producer Furie
Operating plans to test deep
oil prospects in Cook Inlet
that lie below gas producing
reservoirs, a company
official said Monday.
The company plans to
reenter its KLU-4
exploration well, which has
discovered gas, and drill
deeper to test a potential
oil prospect that has been
identified, company Vice
President Bruce Webb said.
The Randall Yost jack-up rig
will be used for the
drilling, which is now
planned for mid-2017. The
jack-up rig is now in Cook
Inlet drilling gas
production wells for Furie.
A
24-year-old Arizona mother
was shot and killed by Yuma
County sheriff’s deputies
Tuesday after officers
showed up in response to a
report of a domestic
disturbance, the Yuma Sun
reports.
According to Yuma Police
Department spokeswoman Sgt.
Lori Franklin, the incident
unfolded Tuesday evening.
Deputies knocked on the
front door, intending to
speak to Melissa Ventura.
However, upon opening the
door, the young mother
allegedly attacked the
deputies with a knife, which
resulted in deputies firing
their weapons.
Military planners are
increasingly unnerved by
Russian behaviour in the
region, including the
buzzing of US ships by Su24
jets in the Baltic Sea.
“It should send a very
strong signal of unity and
our determination to defend
the Baltic states and Poland
in the face of continued
Russian aggression,” said
Michael Fallon, the Defence
Secretary.
Canada’s Federal Court of
Appeal Thursday overturned
the permits for Enbridge’s
controversial Northern
Gateway Pipelines project
after the court found that
the government of Canada
failed to consult the First
Nations affected as required
by the Constitution.
In a wide-ranging
appearance before the House
oversight committee, Comey
also said Clinton’s email
practices put America’s
secrets at risk and her
actions constituted the
“definition of
carelessness.”
At the same time, Comey
staunchly defended the
bureau’s decision not to
pursue charges. He also
said, “We have no basis to
conclude that [Clinton] lied
to the FBI.”
How the universe began is
one of the most
brain-breaking questions you
could possibly ask, and the
Big Bang is probably the
answer most people accept.
But what if the infinitely
dense point from which the
entire universe burst forth
wasn't the beginning of
everything, but merely the
middle of an ongoing cycle?
That's the theory of the Big
Bounce, which suggests that
the universe regularly
cycles through periods of
expansion and contraction,
meaning the Big Bang may
have been preceded by an
earlier universe collapsing
in on itself. A new study
details how this might be
possible.
International demand for
U.S. weapons systems is
expected to continue growing
in coming years, a senior
U.S. Air Force official said
on Sunday, citing strong
interest in unmanned
systems, munitions and
fighter jets.
“The appetite just keeps
getting bigger and bigger,”
U.S. Air Force Deputy
Undersecretary Heidi Grant
told Reuters in an interview
on the eve of the
Farnborough International
Airshow.
Going through some changes,
are you? Whatever you do,
don’t fight them. Even the
seeming dark experiences.
The learning curve has taken
a mighty leap forward for
all who are willing to
listen, and follow on. Our
most precious lessons come
from examining the seemingly
dark places with open
hearts. That’s where the
gems are buried.
Located roughly 6,500
light-years from Earth in
the constellation of Taurus,
the chaotic twisting clouds
of dust and gas mark the
site of one of the
Universe's most violent and
dramatic events, a
supernovae. In the year
1054, light emitted during
the explosion was the second
brightest point in the night
sky, outshone only by
Earth's Moon.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power
Station is still struggling
with the problem of not
properly prioritizing or
adequately following through
with needed repairs on
rundown parts.
On Wednesday, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission issued
its report regarding a
two-week inspection
conducted at Pilgrim in
mid-May.
Inspectors found corroded
supports for piping that
distributes cooling water to
the reactor and other plant
systems after it is pumped
in from Cape Cod Bay.
Chances are good that you
don't give cilia much
thought on a daily basis,
but the tiny hairs play a
key role in our bodies,
doing everything from
clearing out unwelcome
particles from our airways
to helping us reproduce. It
turns out that cilia also
have a vital function in the
brain, where a new study
shows they act like conveyor
belts moving around vital
molecular freight contained
in cerebral fluid.
NATO has confirmed it now
considers cyberspace to be a
potential front line in
conflict, with members of
the military alliance
pledging to boost IT
security spending and
information sharing.
Clouds, which act as thermal
regulators for Earth, have
altered in character and
global distribution due to
climate change, and could in
turn make warming worse, a
study said Monday. A
trawl of satellite images
has revealed reduced
cloudiness in Earth's
temperate mid-latitude
zones, which lie between the
poles and subtropics in both
hemispheres, accompanied by
a poleward expansion of the
subtropical dry zones.
Majority of Americans do not
approve of the FBI's
decision not to charge
Hillary Clinton over her
handling of emails during
her tenure as secretary of
state, according to a new
ABC News/Washington Post
poll released Monday.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares and a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on days one, two, and
three (12 Jul, 13 Jul, 14
Jul). The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
quiet to active levels on
days one, two, and three (12
Jul, 13 Jul, 14 Jul).
A highly concerning study
published in the journal
Marine Pollution Bulletin
indicates that the world’s
most popular herbicide
glyphosate (aka Roundup),
used primarily in GM
agriculture, is particularly
resistant to biodegradation
in coral reef collected sea
water, and could therefore
be a major contributor to
the decline of marine coral
reef systems such as the
Great Barrier Reef.
Staff at the Donald C. Cook
Nuclear Plant manu ally shut
down one of the plant's two
reactors early Wednesday,
July 6, after a rupture in a
steam line was discovered.
After FBI Director James
Comey called Clinton's
handling of classified
material "extremely
careless," Ryan argued
in an interview on Fox
on Tuesday that the
Democratic nominee
shouldn't be permitted
to get top secret
briefings, but the
letter formalizes that
recommendation.
Ryan cites his own
experience receiving
classified intelligence
briefings as his party's
vice presidential
nominee in 2012 in his
letter, saying he
understands Clinton is
set to begin getting
similar briefings after
her party formally
nominates her at the
Democratic convention
later this month
A
cloudy day here on Earth
might be a sign for gloom,
but elsewhere in the
universe, to behold one is a
scientific achievement.
In this case, a team of
researchers from UC Santa
Cruz announced that they
have detected water clouds
for the first time outside
our solar system on a brown
dwarf known as WISE 0855,
which is around 7.2
light-years away from Earth.
The State Department started
its review in January after
declaring 22 emails from
Clinton's private server to
be "top secret." The
investigation was halted
after the FBI began
investigating Clinton's
so-called "homebrew" email
setup last April. On
Wednesday, Attorney General
Loretta Lynch said there
would be no indictments
resulting from the FBI
probe.
The U.S. Senate on
Thursday approved
legislation that would for
the first time require food
to carry labels listing
genetically-modified
ingredients, which labeling
supporters say could create
loopholes for some U.S.
crops.
The Senate voted 63-30
for the bill that would
display GMO contents with
words, pictures or a bar
code that can be scanned
with smartphones. The U.S.
Agriculture Department
(USDA) would decide which
ingredients would be
considered genetically
modified.
A Las Vegas casino
company is claiming the
title of largest rooftop
solar panel array at one of
its Strip resorts.
MGM Resorts International
says adding 5,000 solar
panels to a project unveiled
in 2014 atop the Mandalay
Bay Convention Center brings
to 26,000 the number of
collection panels covering
28 rooftop acres.
Shanghai Weway International
Trading Co.
Ltd’s model W5731
water purifier tap adopts
food-grade ABS with 5µm PP
cotton inside which gets rid
of impurities, chemical
poison and residual chlorine
fast. The tap is made of
forged high brass chrome.
Following Independence
Day, Dennis Prager lamented,
“This Fourth of July
weekend, there were a spate
of opinion pieces arguing
how bad America is and how
immoral its founding.”
He then asked a very
powerful question, “Can
America survive if its own
people despise it?”
Governments have been too
slow to respond to droughts
and floods linked to the El
Niño weather pattern, and
must do better next time if
global development goals are
to be met, said Mary
Robinson, U.N. special envoy
for El Niño and climate.
Last year, U.N. member
states agreed on an
ambitious set of 17 goals to
end poverty, hunger and
inequality by 2030, known as
the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
As multidimensional beings
(or light beings) comprised
of a physical body (which is
nothing more than a solid
form shaped by tightly
packed energy particles) and
energy bodies, the higher
our vibration, the faster
the particles vibrate in our
energy field and the more
balanced and fulfilling we
find our lives to be.
Anti-Trump forces may be
close to the 28 votes they
need to allow delegates to
the Republican National
Convention to be "unbound"
and vote against Donald
Trump's nomination even
though currently rules
require them to vote for
Trump at least on the first
ballot, The Wall Street
Journal reports.
Key assertions by Hillary
Clinton in defense of her
email practices have
collapsed under FBI
scrutiny.
The agency's yearlong
investigation found that she
did not, as she claimed,
turn over all her
work-related messages for
release. It found that her
private email server did
carry classified emails,
also contrary to her past
statements. And it made
clear that Clinton used many
devices to send and receive
email despite her statements
that she set up her email
system so that she only
needed to carry one.
The company confirmed “that
it has agreed to pay for a
treatment facility to re-use
water for evaporative
cooling in its Prineville,
OR, data centers. By
recycling water for Apple
instead of taking it
straight from the tap, the
city says its new facility
will save nearly 5 million
gallons a year,” The
Oregonian reported this
month.
Factory farming and
confined animal feeding
operations (CAFOs) have
created a world-wide
distribution of disease
Chicken contaminated
with salmonella is
likely at higher rates
than reported, as the
testing method used may
artificially reduce
number of carcasses
found with salmonella
Regenerative
agricultural strategies
reduce damage to the
land, improve production
of produce and meat and
develop healthy
economics in local
communities
Air pollutants interact with
and break down plant-emitted
scent molecules, which
insect pollinators use to
locate needed food,
according to a team of
researchers led by Penn
State. The
pollution-modified plant
odors can confuse bees and,
as a result, bees' foraging
time increases and
pollination efficiency
decreases. This happens
because the chemical
interactions decrease both
the scent molecules' life
spans and the distances they
travel.
Bees look for
flowers using their
enhanced sense of
smell, but air
pollutants could be
making it harder for
them to sniff out
possible food
sources (Credit:
USDA Forest Service)
These days, it's
harder to stop and smell
the roses if you're a
bee. A new study
published by researchers
from Pennsylvania State
University found out
that the insects are
having a hard time
finding flowers to
pollinate because air
pollutants are altering
floral scent molecules.
A long-held debate between
pro- and anti-vaccination
groups may finally be put to
rest over the association
between thimerosal — a
preservative composed of
49.5% ethyl mercury used in
numerous child and flu
vaccines — and neurological
disorders, particularly
autism.
For nearly a decade,
biochemist Brian Hooker,
Ph.d., has been petitioning
documents from the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) under the
Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) in relation to the
controversial preservative.
After more than 100
requests, the documents were
eventually released — and
clearly showed thimerosal
can in fact cause autism and
other neurodevelopment
disorders. But this isn’t
the only study that
demonstrates the brain and
health harming nature of the
compound.
Just five months before the
presidential election, the
State Department is under
fire in courtrooms over its
delays in turning over
government files related to
Hillary Clinton’s tenure as
secretary of state.
A nitrate advisory issued by
the city of Columbus for
Franklin County residents
whose water comes from the
Dublin Road water plant is
expected to remain in effect
for 10 to 14 days.
Marijuana may hold the key
to a new treatment for
Alzheimer's disease, a new
study suggests.
The
research, published in the
journal Aging and Mechanisms
of Disease, identified a
compound present in
marijuana that triggered the
removal of beta-amyloid
protein from nerve cells in
the brain,
Huffington Post
reports. Beta-amyloid is a
hallmark of Alzheimer’s
disease, forming clumps in
the brain that disrupt
communication between
neurons.
Our judgment is that no
reasonable prosecutor
would bring such a
case,” Comey said.
“Although we did
not find clear evidence”
of intentional
misconduct, he added,
“There is
evidence that they were
extremely careless of
very sensitive, highly
classified information.”
The FBI recommended Tuesday
that Democratic presidential
candidate
Hillary Clinton
should not face criminal
charges over her use of
private email servers as
secretary of State, even
though she and aides were
"extremely careless" in
handling
classified information.
When political elite
manifest a clear disregard
for the rule of law and
place themselves above it,
we have reached the end of
the Republic.
For decades, the Clintons
have overtly and covertly
subverted our laws. They are
but one example of the
political elite that live by
their own rules, unfettered
by the statutes that apply
to mortal beings. The Wall
Street scandals of the past
prove that if you have
enough money or political
influence you are above the
law, not subject to
prosecution for any manner
of corporate crime.
f you’re
looking for a fun new
project, this DIY electric
motor may be just the thing
Want to build an electric
motor? It’s likely you could
find most of the items
needed around your house in
order to build a simple one.
Below is everything you’d
need and instructions on how
to make it.
Laboratories reported more
than 230 safety incidents
with bioterror viruses and
bacteria last year, hundreds
of workers were monitored
for potential exposures and
a handful of labs had their
permits suspended because of
violations that raised
“significant concerns for
imminent danger,” according
to a report released
Thursday by federal lab
regulators in response to a
White House call for greater
public transparency.
"The decline is dramatic and
depressing and it affects
all kinds of insects,
including butterflies, wild
bees, and hoverflies," says
Martin Sorg, an entomologist
from the Krefeld
Entomological Association
involved in running the
monitoring project.
Unlike the United States —
where self-sufficiency and
food security is persecuted
— the government of
Venezuela is pushing its
population to grow urban
gardens and raise chickens
in response to severe food
shortages. Venezuelan
president Maduro himself
produces everything his
family eats with the help of
60 laying hens. While not
considered a famine yet, the
shortages are acute enough
that malnutrition is a
serious concern, especially
in the case of children.
Japanese
researchers developed a
storage material that can
rapidly switch back and
forth between magnetic and
non-magnetic states
Japanese scientists at
Hokkaido University have
developed a device that can
switch safely between
magnetic and electronic
signals. By doing so,
they’ve opened the door to a
doubling of the storage
capacity of conventional
memory devices such as
solid-state drives and USB
flash drives.
The agreement will provide
power preference customer
funds for the
"rehabilitation, non-routine
maintenance and
modernization" of
hydroelectric plants within
the Corps' Nashville
District. In total, SEPA
said it will direct more
than $1.2 billion into the
effort over the next 20
years.
Just north of Philadelphia,
two former Navy sites have
been linked to drinking
water tainted by harmful
chemicals. Since 2014 almost
half of public and private
drinking wells in Horsham,
Warminster, and Warrington,
PA, have been shut down
because of contamination.
Unsurprisingly, new cases
of contaminated drinking
water have been reported
more frequently around the
country since the lead
contamination crisis in
Flint, MI, a few months ago.
Municipalities are
attempting to take the
necessary steps to ensure
that their citizens have
safe drinking water.
Recently, drinking water
that had been supplied to
thousands of residents in
southern Doña Ana County,
NM, was reported by the
Las Cruces Sun-News as
having high levels of
arsenic for “quite some
time.”
Millions of people who
suffer from chronic pain
take opioid drugs that carry
significant risks of
addiction and can often do
more harm than good. But
scientists are developing a
new generation of solutions
to deal with the problem in
ways that safer and more
effective than medication, a
top expert says.
Federal inspectors found
the relays were 22 years
old. According to the
product vendors, those
relays are supposed to be
switched out every 10 years.
After the discovery,
plant owner Entergy Corp.
declared the relays
inoperable because their age
did not "provide reasonable
assurance" that they would
work if called upon, said
Neil Sheehan, spokesman for
the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
The U.S., Mexico and Canada
vowed to get at least 50
percent of its generated
electricity from clean power
sources by 2025, an
ambitious goal that is
drawing reactions from
supporters and critics
alike.
Startingtoday, Savannah
River Nuclear Solutions,
along with other transuranic
waste generating sites
across the Department of
Energy, will have to follow
newly revised packaging and
certification criteria that
resulted from investigations
into a 2014 radiological
release at the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant, or
WIPP.
Researchers in California
and China have discovered a
new method for breaking
polyethylene into liquid
fuel and solid wax
Plastic. The world
produces some 300 tons of it
each year. But when we’re
finished with our milk
cartons, shopping bags and
electronics packaging, most
is simply thrown away—the
U.S. only recycles about 9
percent of post-consumer
plastics. It can sit in
landfills for up to 1,000
years, leaching chemicals
into the soil. There are as
many as 240,000 metric tons
of it floating in our
oceans, creating “garbage
patches” thousands of miles
from human habitation.
Whales, seals, sea turtles
and birds accidentally eat
it, becoming sick or dying.
Now, researchers have
figured out a way of not
only recycling plastics, but
recycling them into
something entirely
different: fuel.
Fracking is not just an
issue facing different
cities around the United
States, but one that has
become a large problem
overseas. As a result, a UK
shale gas company is
considering dumping
wastewater from fracking in
the sea.
How to stop the spread of
radioactive material from
the Fukushima site is a
problem that continues to
plague the containment
effort even now .
It's already been more than
five years since three
reactors melted down at
Japan's Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant, but the
consequences of the disaster
will linger for a while yet.
Those monitoring the
situation have received some
good news, however, with
scientists reporting that
after suffering the largest
ever release of radioactive
material into the world's
oceans, radiation levels
across the Pacific are fast
returning to normal.
The PIPES Act was the
product of unusual
cooperation between
Republican and Democrat
members of the
Transportation and
Infrastructure Committee and
the Energy and Commerce
Committee, and it will
reform the Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) to
increase efficiency and
transparency.
The RemoveDebris
satellite will test ways of
collecting and disposing of
space debris.
According to the Surrey
Space Centre, there are some
7,000 tonnes (7,716 tons) of
space debris circling the
Earth, consisting of dead
satellites, booster rocket
stages, paint chips, and
shrapnel from collisions.
Whizzing in orbit at tens of
thousands of miles per hour,
even a small fragment could
destroy a satellite. To help
clean things up, the Centre
has announced that it is
leading a mission early next
year to send the
RemoveDebris demonstrator
into orbit to test low-cost
technologies that could be
used to collect and remove
space debris.
C5 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(08 Jul, 09 Jul, 10 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
minor storm levels on day
one (08 Jul) and quiet to
unsettled levels on days two
and three (09 Jul, 10 Jul).
Researchers from the
University of Harvard and
Nottingham have come up with
a biomaterial for fillings
that is regenerative,
according to Popular
Science. The material
stimulates the growth of
stem cells in the pulp,
which could prevent further
tooth decay. Because
fillings wouldn't fail as
often, root canal procedures
could be virtually
unnecessary.
That’s because the Federal
Reserve’s policy of keeping
interest rates at record
lows and lacking business
investment since the 2008
financial crisis aren’t
helping to create jobs lost
to other countries.
Researchers from the Mayo
Clinic have published a
study proving that the act
of writing and sending text
messages elicits a specific
pattern of brain wave unlike
any other previously
recorded.
The attacks -- including
one in Medina, one of
the holiest sites in
Islam -- follow massive
jihadi assaults from
Turkey to Iraq that have
been been tied to ISIS.
Analysts believe events
in Saudi Arabia could
also be the work of the
terror group.
...now it has come to light
that the oil industry is
conducting offshore fracking
in the Gulf, which is even
more dangerous than
conventional oil drilling,
according to the Center for
Biological Diversity. The
group received copies of
more than a thousand
fracking permits from the
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) following
a court order.
"Last year there was a lot
of speculation about the
consequences of 'The Blob'
and El Niño battling it out
of the U.S. West Coast,"
said lead author Michael
Jacox, of UC Santa Cruz and
NOAA Fisheries' Southwest
Fisheries Science Center.
"We found that off
California El Niño turned
out to be much weaker than
expected, The Blob continued
to be a dominant force, and
the two of them together had
strongly negative impacts on
marine productivity."
Government has largely
turned a blind eye to
the obvious, which is
that too many toxic
chemicals, in too great
amounts, are being
allowed in the growing
of food
Eighty percent of
genetically engineered
(GE) crops are designed
to withstand herbicide
application. As a
result, we’re ingesting
far greater quantities
of these chemicals than
ever before
Long-term exposure to
pesticides has been
linked to infertility,
birth defects, endocrine
disruption, neurological
disorders, cancer and
more. Eating organic
food can lower your
exposure to pesticides
Vast amounts of excess heat
are generated by industrial
processes and by electric
power plants; researchers
around the world have spent
decades seeking ways to
harness some of this wasted
energy. Most such efforts
have focused on
thermoelectric devices,
solid-state materials that
can produce electricity from
a temperature gradient, but
the efficiency of such
devices is limited by the
availability of materials.
Jordan Schwartz, owner
of the Ohana Surf Shop,
said he wanted to cry
when he saw the green
slime -- a toxic algae
bloom -- covering his
swath of Stuart Beach on
Florida's east coast.
"Animals are in
distress, some are
dying, the smell is
horrible," he told CNN
on Friday. "You have to
wear a mask in the
marina and the river.
It's heartbreaking and
there is no end in
sight."
Many of the toxic chemicals
escaping from fracking and
natural gas processing sites
and storage facilities may
be present in much higher
concentrations in the bodies
of people living or working
near such sites, new
research has shown. The
study found traces of
volatile organic compounds
such as benzene and toluene
are linked to chronic
diseases like cancer and
reproductive and
developmental disorders.
Due to a re-evaluation of
business rates, the tax
rates in the UK on
commercial rooftop solar
could increase by six to
eight times as of April
2017, the Solar Trade
Association reported.
We can see exactly what
she stands for. Someone who
compares the earth being
round to vaccines working is
like saying because trees
grow out of the ground,
political nominees tell the
truth. If this is the
stance Hillary is taking,
you can count the vote of
ours out!
This just in: Americans
are getting more and more of
their electricity from
renewable sources.
Okay, so maybe that isn’t
exactly “news” if you follow
the sector, but it’s
important to underline from
time to time regardless.
Last year, wind and solar
combined to account for far
more new U.S. generating
capacity additions than any
other resource, totaling 62%
of all new capacity.
The standard requires
Vermont utilities to procure
55 percent of the
electricity sold to
customers from renewable
sources in 2017, a
requirement that will
increase to 75 percent by
2032. At least 1 percent of
those amounts must come from
new, distributed renewable
generators, such as
net-metering systems, rising
to 10 percent by 2032.
Senators Roberts and
Stabenow have made a
deal to create a
national labeling
standard for GMOs using
voluntary “Smart Labels”
(so-called QR codes)
rather than clear
labeling, nullifying
Vermont’s law after the
fact
The new legislation also
changes the very
definition of
bioengineering. The
newest biotech methods,
such as gene editing
technology, would be
exempt from the
disclosure standards
The bill bars states
from enacting
GMO-labeling
requirements that differ
from the national
standard, and delays the
disclosure requirement
another two years. Call
to action: Boycott
factory farmed foods and
GMA “Smart Labels”
WikiLeaks,
the anti-secrecy website,
has released more than 1,000
emails from Hillary
Clinton’s private email
server pertaining to the
Iraq War.
The
website tweeted a link to
1,258 emails on Monday that
Clinton sent during her time
as secretary of state.
According to the release,
the emails were obtained
from the US State Department
after they issued a Freedom
of Information Act request.
The emails stem from a State
Department release back in
February, The Hill
reports.
The U.S. House of
Representatives has
passed a $1.1 billion
Zika funding bill, which
still falls short of the
$1.9 billion the White
House had called for
A rider inserted into
the bill would allow
pesticides to be sprayed
over ditches, streams
and other waterways
protected by the Clean
Water Act for a period
of 180 days, with no
permit required
Critics argued the bill
has nothing to do with
combating Zika and,
instead, has been on the
table for years, with
the majority pushing for
its passage “under
whatever name” was
convenient at the time
Those orange tree patches
pictured aren’t harbingers
of winter. They are dying or
dead trees in California,
most likely the result of
pine beetle forest damage.
It’s hot now in much
of the golden state, and as
temperatures continue to
rise, something else is
happening: Trees are dying
in unprecedented numbers.
The Canadian nuclear
industry is pleased North
American leaders have
included nuclear in their
pledge to have 50 per cent
of the continent's
electricity produced by
clean sources by 2025.
Canada's clean energy
opportunity in North America
is bigger than Canadians
realize.
"The Canadian Nuclear
Association has long
demonstrated that nuclear
energy is a low-carbon
solution to combat climate
change," said CNA President
and CEO Dr. John Barrett.
Sleep is the “third leg”
in your health regimen;
it has the same
importance as nutrition
and exercise
Even in a completely
dark room, your body
appears to be affected
by the phases of the
moon, getting
less-quality sleep
during the night and
lower levels of
melatonin
Melatonin is important
to your sleep hygiene
and also your overall
health, playing a role
in the prevention of
certain cancers
You can naturally
improve your levels of
melatonin and improve
your overall sleep
habits
With the installation of a
final triangular panel on
July 3, 2016, construction
has been completed on the
gargantuan
Five-hundred-meter Aperture
Spherical radio Telescope
(FAST) in Dawodang, Kedu
Town, Guizhou Province,
China. Upon commencing
operations in late
September, the 1.5 billion
yuan (US$ 180 million) FAST
telescope will become the
most powerful single-dish
radio detector in the world.
Disease has been on the rise
for multiple decades. It
seems quite clear that
things aren’t really getting
any better, and with a
growing population, the rate
of chronic illness seems to
be getting worse. On top of
that, we have a medical
‘industry’ full of
good-hearted people who want
to help people, and are
helping people, that’s
plagued by fraud and
deception. One that is not
really interested in healing
people, but rather,
in profiting off of their
sickness. There are
countless instances of
this. For example, a study
that was published last week
in the British Medical
Journal by researchers at
the Nordic Cochrane Center
in Copenhagen showed that
pharmaceutical companies
were not disclosing all
information regarding the
results of their drug
trials. The medical
profession is being bought
by the pharmaceutical
industry, not only in terms
of the practice of medicine,
but also in terms of
teaching and research. The
academic institutions of
this country are allowing
themselves to be the paid
agents of the pharmaceutical
industry.
Scientists from the
Department of Energy's
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
have discovered a possible
secret to dramatically
boosting the efficiency of
perovskite solar cells
hidden in the nanoscale
peaks and valleys of the
crystalline material.
Solar cells made from
compounds that have the
crystal structure of the
mineral perovskite have
captured scientists'
imaginations. They're
inexpensive and easy to
fabricate, like organic
solar cells. Even more
intriguing, the efficiency
at which perovskite solar
cells convert photons to
electricity has increased
more rapidly than any other
material to date, starting
at three percent in 2009 --
when researchers first began
exploring the material's
photovoltaic capabilities --
to 22 percent today. This is
in the ballpark of the
efficiency of silicon solar
cells.
“Talk in English!”
ordered Nooksack Tribal
Chairman Bob Kelly at a
special public meeting last
February.
The words made Deborah
Alexander’s blood boil. For
three years she’d heard her
children and their families
slandered and gossiped
about. For three years she’d
remained silent as they were
ostracized for being members
of the Nooksack 306. She’d
kept quiet as lies were told
about them and tribal
benefits withheld from them.
Whether or not the
consciences of professional
bug slayers were burdened by
this revelation, other
people were alarmed. We’re a
far cry from “insect
rights,” mused the
bioethicist and animal
rights advocate Peter
Singer, but the prospect of
bugs’ inner lives ups the
ethical stakes.
What's a reasonable cost
for a nonprofit
environmental organization
to pay before it's allowed
to legally challenge a state
power plant permit issued to
the nation's largest
electric utility? Duke
Energy's suggestion: $240
million.
Two North Carolina
environmental advocacy
groups are challenging a
rarely invoked 1965 North
Carolina law that could
require them to post a
financial bond before they
can appeal a power plant
construction permit issued
in March to Duke Energy
Progress.
The Earthrace 2
will, all things
being equal, start
construction in
January 2017.
Earthrace has been
criss-crossing the globe
on the lookout for
illegal fishing and
hunting operations since
2006. The original
Earthrace boat was
launched in 2006, and
set a world record for
round the world
powerboat travel before
it was destroyed in a
collision with a
Japanese whaling ship in
2010. Now, the team is
trying to create a new
trimaran capable of
assisting law
enforcement on
long-range, open-water
missions.
The young men had been
missing for months. Their
families sensed something
was wrong. It wasn't
until the horror of the
weekend hostage crisis in
Bangladesh's capital
unfolded that they learned
their sons had become
radicalized as religious
extremists and launched one
of the country's deadliest
attacks in recent years.
The young men, armed with
knives, bombs and automatic
firearms, engaged in a gun
battle with police, killing
two and wounding more, then
seized a popular restaurant
in a Dhaka neighborhood on
Friday night and held some
35 people hostage. Over the
next few hours, they would
kill 20 of their captives —
including nine Italians,
seven Japanese, an Indian
teenager and three students
at American universities. A
witness said some victims
were tortured when they
could not recite verses from
the Quran. "This is very
painful. He killed innocent
people," said the aunt of
one of the attackers,..
With honeybee populations
dwindling worldwide,
researchers have identified
an emerging strain of virus
as more deadly to
honeybees than the
established type
Viral infections have been
identified as a major factor
in the continued decline of
bee colonies, including the
devastating,
parasite-transmitted
Deformed Wing Virus (DWV).
Now, European researchers
have shown that a
recently-identified second
strain of DWV is even more
virulent than the
established type, and the
study calls for a better
understanding of the genetic
diversity of pathogens to
help fight them.
The recent trend of
increasing Antarctic sea ice
extent -- seemingly at odds
with climate model
projections -- can largely
be explained by a natural
climate fluctuation,
according to a new study led
by the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
The study offers evidence
that the negative phase of
the Interdecadal Pacific
Oscillation (IPO), which is
characterized by
cooler-than-average sea
surface temperatures in the
tropical eastern Pacific,
has created favorable
conditions for additional
Antarctic sea ice growth
since 2000.
I am continually amazed –
and disappointed – by the
fact that far too many
Americans continue to rely
upon and trust government
institutions after
repeatedly seeing agency
after agency, institution
after institution, and
bureau after bureau, cheat,
lie to them, misrepresent
data and rob them of their
liberties. Count a
government laboratory that
was once operated by the
U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) as yet another of
example of this ongoing
deceit.
The child’s mother is a
Haitian citizen who
contracted the
mosquito-borne virus while
in her home country, the
Department of Health said.
She came to Florida to give
birth.
At the beginning of Navajo
time, the Holy People (Diyin
Dine’é) journeyed through
three worlds before settling
in Dinétah, our current
homeland. Here they took
form as clouds, sun, moon,
trees, bodies of water, rain
and other physical aspects
of this world. That way,
they said, we would never be
alone. Today, in the fourth
world, when a Diné (Navajo)
baby is born, the umbilical
cord is buried near the
family home, so the child is
connected to its mother and
the earth, and will not
wander as if homeless.
Gluten is a protein made
up of glutenin and
gliadin molecules, which
in the presence of water
form an elastic bond.
Gluten is found
primarily in wheat, rye
and barley, but other
grains may contain it as
well
For those with celiac
disease, a severe
gastrointestinal
reaction to gluten, a
gluten-free diet is
vital. But many have
some level of gluten
intolerance or
sensitivity, and fare
better on a gluten-free
diet as well
Besides gluten, other
factors contributing to
the rise in gluten
intolerance and similar
symptoms include wheat
hybridization for higher
gluten content, other
wheat components, the
milling or baking
process and glyphosate
contamination
The World Forum on
Natural Capital define
natural capital as including
“the food we eat, the water
we drink and the plant
materials we use for fuel,
building materials and
medicines”.
The concept of putting a
“value” on different aspects
of the natural world has
become influential in policy
making and is expected to be
at the centre of the UK
Government’s new “25 Year
Plan for Nature”, due out
soon.
As the Fourth
of July approaches, there
are a number of ways Natives
might see the celebration.
On the plus side, a day off
is a day off. But admittedly
for Native people it’s hard
not to feel a bit of
residual animosity during
the celebration of the
independence of a nation
that continued to threaten
our already free and
independent nations.
Taking advantage of the
change of atomic angles in
single-layer boron nitride,
a new material has been
created that is able to
switch from water-retaining
to water-repellent, simply
by the application of an
electric current
The Interior Department
is changing the way it
values coal mined from
public lands in the West to
make sure mining companies
are not shortchanging
taxpayers on sales to Asia
and other markets.
A final rule issued
Thursday comes after coal
exports surged in recent
years amid a weak U.S.
market.
President Barack Obama
signed into law Thursday
measures to give the public
greater access to government
documents and records under
the nearly half-century-old
Freedom of Information Act.
The new law will require
federal agencies to consider
releasing records under a
"presumption of openness"
standard, instead of
presuming that the
information is secret.
Supporters say the shift
will make it harder for
agencies to withhold
information.
In the mid 1980s the world
made an important judgement
call. CFCs, the chemical
compounds in fridges,
aerosols and dry cleaning
products, had been boring a
hole in the Earth's ozone
layer over the polar regions
which, if left unchecked,
could cause grave public
health and environmental
problems. So pretty much
every country signed up to
ban the use of CFCs, a
decision that is now paying
big dividends with
scientists reporting
significant shrinkage of the
hole and evidence of what
looks to be a path to
recovery.
Defense Secretary
Ash Carter
announced Thursday that the
military will no longer
discriminate against
transgender troops, knocking
down one of the last
barriers to service based on
gender identity or sexual
orientation.
The move, nearly a year
in the making, came despite
last-minute concerns were
raised by top brass about
how to deal with the
medical, housing and uniform
issues for troops who are
transitioning to the other
sex.
A well-known nuclear safety
expert is looking for more
information from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
regarding a report that both
emergency diesel generators
at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power
Station had been out of
commission at the same time
for a short period in April,
while the reactor was
operating at full power.
California’s controversial
new vaccination law, SB277
which is scheduled to go
into effect this month (July
2016), has been challenged
in court. SB277 became the
first law in the United
States to remove the
philosophical and religious
exemption for childhood
vaccines, thereby completely
removing parental choice in
any decisions about
vaccinating their children
as a requirement for
attending school. Only two
other states do not have
philosophical or religious
exemptions (and apparently
never did), Mississippi and
West Virginia.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (05 Jul, 06
Jul, 07 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one, two, and
three (05 Jul, 06 Jul, 07
Jul).
The rising tide (no pun
intended) of acid in the
Earth's oceans could cause a
major disruption in the
delicate balance of its
ecosystem. A new study
suggests that changes in the
ocean's acidic levels due to
atmospheric carbon dioxide
could also change the
predator-prey relationship
of ocean life by tipping the
scales in favor of the
predator.
Presumptive Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton
likely will not be
prosecuted on charges
related to her use of a
private email server,
unnamed sources told
CNN over the
weekend, and following
Saturday's FBI
interrogation, the
investigation into the
scandal is likely coming to
an end, a former Department
of Justice spokesman said
Monday.
The US holds the world's
biggest recoverable reserves
of oil putting it ahead of
OPEC giants Saudi Arabia and
Venezuela as well as Russia,
according to an independent
study by Norwegian research
group Rystad Energy.
In estimates which include
potential reserves in recent
discoveries and in yet to be
discovered fields, US
reserves total 264 billion
barrels, ahead of 256
billion barrels in Russia
and 212 billion barrels in
Saudi Arabia.
US oil rigs rose by 11, to
341 on Friday, reversing the
prior week's loss and
resuming what has been an
uneven climb in the last
month, according to the
latest weekly Baker Hughes
rig count released Friday.
Although rigs began a
recent rise overall from a
trough of 316 in late May,
this week's figure is still
down 47% from a total of 640
oil rigs that worked during
the same week in 2015, the
service company's data
showed.
What are the
different treatment options
for radionuclides found in
groundwater?
Generally speaking, the
treatment methods that are
available for this
application are:
conventional ion exchange;
hydrous manganese oxide
(HMO); absorbent media
reverse osmosis (RO); and
lime softening. [See the
presentation below for
descriptions and comparisons
presented by WRT.]
The other common solution
is to seek alternative water
sources.
Premature deaths from air
pollution will continue to
rise to 2040 unless changes
are made to the way the
world uses and produces
energy, the International
Energy Agency said on
Monday.
Around 6.5 million deaths
globally are attributed each
year to poor air quality
inside and outside, making
it the world's
fourth-largest threat to
human health, behind high
blood pressure, dietary
risks and smoking.
An international team of
astronomers is planning to
use gravitational wave data
to unravel the formation
processes that created the
first supermassive black
holes. These gargantuan
black holes lurk at the
centre of most galaxies,
including our own Milky Way,
playing a pivotal role in
galaxy formation and
evolution.
Very new times are upon us.
The shift continues to shift
in new and amazing ways,
challenging even newfound
paradigms almost as quickly
as we arrive at considering
them.
If things aren’t morphing
that quickly for you,
perhaps you’re not paying
attention. Because there’s a
good chance they are and
you’re just not noticing.
Britain's exit dashes the
European Union's leadership
ambitions on efforts to slow
climate change, leaving the
bloc on the sidelines while
others endorse the global
pact it championed to curb
greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s time folks.
Procrastination has to fall
by the wayside now.
Allegiance to a dying system
must progressively wither
and perish, just as the
system itself is doing.
There will likely be fear
about that. It’s okay.
Honour it, embrace it,
because fear is a tremendous
vehicle for growth. It’s in
the fear where you can
honestly touch your
identification — the holding
on. Where does it get tight
inside? Here’s the answer
your soul is seeking out,
here’s exactly why you
created this moment — for
this feeling you’re having
now. It’s through these
burning doorways that we
blaze a trail into a new
reality, a higher evolution
of being. It’s possible,
necessary, and it’s calling
you…
Weapons shipped into Jordan
for Syrian rebels by the
Central Intelligence Agency
and Saudi Arabia were stolen
by Jordanian intelligence
operatives and sold to arms
merchants on the black
market, the New York Times
reported, citing American
and Jordanian officials.
Some of the stolen
weapons were used in a
shooting in November that
killed two Americans and
three others at a police
training facility in Amman,
Obama administration
appointees crafted the story
of an anti-Muslim video
igniting the Benghazi terror
attacks despite differing
reports from the compound,
according to Tuesday’s final
Republican report from the
Benghazi Select Committee.
It’s one of several
revelations found in the
extensive 800-page document.
The advocates have also been
overpowered financially by
the industry. Over the last
decade, PAN has spent about
$21,000 on lobbying in
Sacramento. Dow, meanwhile,
has spent more than $1.2
million on lobbying in the
California capital during
the same period.
Hillary says that neither
she nor her campaign have
been contacted by the FBI.
But that is not true.
Negotiations have been
going on for quite some time
between the FBI and
Hillary's attorney, David
Kendall, who went to law
school with Hillary and
defended Bill Clinton in his
impeachment trial.
Following the massacre at an
Orlando nightclub that left
49 dead and 53 injured,
House Democrats held a
sit-in on the chamber floor
to push for a vote on gun
reform.
The Federal Select Agent
Program, which oversees
dangerous substances such as
anthrax and bird flu in
federal, academic and
private labs, reported 199
incidents in which lab
workers were potentially
exposed to infectious or
toxic agents in 2015, though
there were no losses of
select agents.
Using software that
incorporates all of the
field theory equations
developed by Einstein as
part of his general theory
of relativity, research
teams from Europe and the
United States have started
developing a model of the
universe that they claim
will eventually provide the
most precise and detailed
representation of the cosmos
ever created.
Ph.D. José Carlos Rubio and
a team of scientists from
Michoacan’s University of
San Nicolás de Hidalgo in
Mexico designed a new type
of phosphorescent cement
that could be used to light
up highways and roads at
night without using
electricity.
The bill requires the
labeling of packaged food
containing GMOs in one of
three ways: an electronic
code that consumers can
scan; a USDA-developed
symbol; or a label. The bill
leaves it to manufacturers
to decide which of the three
methods they prefer.
Now guess which method
Big Food will choose? We
have no doubts that they
will choose the electronic
code that can only be read
with a scanner. They know
that few will want to do
this and even fewer will be
able to.
Solar energy in the US
has had a rocky existence.
Ever since Ronald Reagan
symbolically removed Jimmy
Carter’s solar panels from
the White House roof in
1986, federal policy has
been unpredictable, such
that manufacturers and
consumers could never depend
on reliable incentives to
produce and install solar
energy systems.
Remarkably, the US solar
energy industry is now
entering what may be its
most prosperous decade ever,
thanks to a new wave of
federal and state policies
and positive economics in
the industry, both at home
and abroad.
Ontario is going geothermal.
The U.S. is shortly behind,
and here’s why: Geothermal
heat pumps provide the only
reasonable solution to
heating without combustion.
Ontario’s Climate Change
Action Plan identifies
geothermal 10 times as the
go-to heating (and cooling)
technology to reach its
carbon reduction goals.
Climate change is already
affecting inland fish across
North America -- including
some fish that are popular
with anglers. Scientists are
seeing a variety of changes
in how inland fish
reproduce, grow and where
they can live, according to
four new studies published
today in a special issue
of Fisheries magazine.
New Mexico regulators
resumed a hearing Monday on
a rate increase sought by
Public Service Company of
New Mexico, which says it
needs the money to offset
the purchase of electricity
from a nuclear power plant
in Arizona and its
investments in alternative
energy.
Regulators and lawyers
questioned whether PNM had
taken into account the
decline in the market for
nuclear energy and the
electricity needs of the
state -- as well as what is
fair to customers.
There is a new product
hitting the interwaves that
hails from Albuquerque and
Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s a
red baseball cap featuring
the caption: “Make America
Native Again” in response to
Donald Trump's campaign
slogan, which states “Make
America Great Again”.
Memory loss, decline in
brain function and
communication skills are all
clear indicators of
Alzheimer's disease. But the
brain's chemistry begins to
change long before these
telltale signs appear
through the accumulation of
what are known as amyloid
beta proteins. These
proteins go on to form brain
plaques that correspond with
the neurodegenerative
disease, but what if it were
possible to intervene
somehow? Scientists are
reporting that exposure to
certain compounds in
marijuana can cleanse the
brain of harmful amyloid
beta cells, offering up new
clues as to how we might
stop the disease in its
early stages.
A federal judge has ruled
that Mississippi clerks
cannot cite their own
religious beliefs to recuse
themselves from issuing
marriage licenses to
same-sex couples.
"I have just realized I have
no idea how my papers are
treated at
State," Clinton wrote to
Abedin and a second aide.
"Who manages both my
personal and official files?
... I think we need to get
on this asap to be sure we
know and design the system
we want."
Imrat Namdev and her
younger sister Pushpa Namdev
were neighbors in Chhatarpur
district, in the drought-hit
Indian region of
Bundelkhand. Both relied on
the same well for water and,
according to police,
frequently quarreled over
how much the other was
using.
In May, during one fight
over water, Pushpa, 42, beat
Imrat, 48, with a stick,
police say. The injured
sister was rushed to a
hospital, but died there,
and Pushpa was charged with
murder.
There was a period during
the last ice age when
temperatures in the Northern
Hemisphere went on a
rollercoaster ride,
plummeting and then rising
again every 1,500 years or
so. Those abrupt climate
changes wreaked havoc on
ecosystems, but their cause
has been something of a
mystery. New evidence
published this week in the
leading
journal Science shows for
the first time that the
ocean's overturning
circulation slowed during
every one of those
temperature plunges - at
times almost stopping.
Researchers from North
Carolina A&T State
University have developed a
process that uses pig manure
as a low-cost replacement
for petroleum in the
production of road asphalt.
In searching for bio
alternatives, the group
discovered that swine waste
is especially rich in oils
very similar to petroleum,
at a grade too low to make
gasoline but suited for
asphalt.
Pacific Gas & Electric
last week announced plans to
close its Diablo Canyon
Power Plant, California's
last operating nuclear power
facility.
Earlier this month, the
Chicago-based utility Exelon
announced it will shutter
two Illinois nuclear plants
in the next two years.
Together, the two facilities
have lost a combined $800
million in the past seven
years.
New Mexico has no nuclear
power plants. But the
state's largest utility,
Public Service Company of
New Mexico, is buying a
controlling interest in one
of three units at the Palo
Verde Nuclear Generating
Station near Tonopah,
Ariz....
Ninety-nine years and
one day after General George
A. Custer and 274 of his 7th
Cavalry soldiers died in a
famous battle, another
firefight 200 miles to the
east in Pine Ridge, South
Dakota still reverberates in
modern history.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(01 Jul, 02 Jul, 03 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (01
Jul) and unsettled to minor
storm levels on days two and
three (02 Jul, 03 Jul).
Joe Kirschvink, from the
California Institute of
Technology, says his
experiment can also be
“repeated and verified”,
something research on
magnetoreception has never
been able to do before.
Lee, a former Supreme Court
clerk, told TheBlaze Tuesday
that “most of the concerns”
he has pertaining to the
federal government stem from
the “departure from two very
important structural
protections” — federalism
and the separation of
powers. The departure from
those protections is
something that both
Democrats and Republicans
have contributed to, Lee
said, and is an issue he
hasn’t really seen either of
the two major presidential
candidates address.
As wildfires burn in
Southern California, a
debate is smoldering about
what to do with millions of
dead and dying trees --
which have been ravaged by
drought and beetle species
up and down the state.
Facing the biggest
die-off since recordkeeping
on the topic started about
four decades ago, state
officials have already
started to cut down hundreds
of thousands of dead trees
near houses, roads, power
lines and other sensitive
areas.
Refined sugar is getting a
really bad reputation these
days, and that is, of
course, for a reason.
Firstly, it has no
nutritious value; secondly,
it’s addictive. And the
seriousness of the American
nation’s addiction to this
sweetener is much more
serious than most people
would think.
Synchronicity is a sequence
of events that coincide with
each other, and have
significant meaning related
to each other. These events
would appear on the surface
to be just chance, but are
in no way a coincidence.
This year's benchmarking
report on utilities' clean
energy generation from
research firm Ceres – the
third of its kind ever –
analyzed the 2014 electric
power generation sales of 30
of the largest U.S.
investor-owned electric
utilities, representing 119
subsidiaries in the U.S.
The police were called to
a New Jersey elementary
school after a 9-year-old
boy made a disparaging
comment about the brownies
he was eating at an
end-of-the-year class party.
According to
the Philadelphia
Inquirer,another student
interpreted the remarks as
racist and instead of just
punishing the offender with
detention, or calling his
parents, or just explaining
what he did wrong (if
anything at all), the school
turned to law enforcement.
The cops didn’t press
charges but still reported
the incident to the New
Jersey Division of Child
Protection.
This weekend, TransCanada
moved forward with a lawsuit
against the United States
under the North American
Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA,
seeking US$15 billion in
damages due to President
Barack Obama’s rejection of
the Keystone XL tar sands
pipeline.
The three suicide bombers
who attacked Istanbul
airport were a Russian, an
Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, a senior
Turkish official said
Thursday, hours after police
carried out sweeping raids
across the city looking for
Islamic State suspects.
Tuesday’s gunfire and
suicide bombing attack at
Ataturk Airport killed 43
people and wounded more than
230 others.
Local utility providers are
bracing for another rate
increase from the Tennessee
Valley Authority, a move
likely to increase electric
bills for residential and
commercial customers across
the region.
The oil complex settled
lower Thursday as a two-day
rally lost momentum and the
market shifted its focused
back to supply and demand
fundamentals, while a
stronger dollar provided
downward pressure.
NYMEX August crude settled
$1.55 lower at $48.33/b,
while ICE August Brent
settled down 93 cents at
$49.68/b.
The energy storage market is
on track to grow nine times
in the next five years,
exceeding 2 GW for the first
time, according to new
research from
GreenTechMedia.
For sufferers of pneumonia,
access to concentrated
oxygen can be the difference
between life and death, but
in some parts of the world
such supplies aren't always
so readily available.
Researchers have developed a
solar-powered oxygen
concentrator and put it to
use in hospitals in Uganda,
where it is already
supplying those desperately
in need with round-the-clock
care.
The two days following
Britain’s vote to exit the
European Union put a shock
into the stock markets in
England and around the
globe.
The Friday and Monday
after the vote saw equity
markets worldwide
experiencing significant
sell-offs, losing trillions
of dollars in value for
investors.
Scientists with the
Australian start-up Licella
have devised a way to use
biomass waste from the
papermaking process to make
a new petroleum substitute –
biocrude oil – that has
attracted the interest of
Canadian pulp and paper
producer CanFor.
The process can convert
biomass, including wood
residues from Canfor Pulp’s
kraft pulping processes,
into biocrude oil that is
ready to go into existing
petrochemical refinery
streams to generate
renewable fuels.
