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By identifying the toxic
byproducts created when
sugars combine with proteins
or fat, researchers have
zeroed in on a major culprit
behind the brain damage
caused by diabetes, as well
as disorders of the
cardiovascular system,
kidney and liver. Found in a
wide range of processed
foods and animal products,
we’re ingesting more of
these toxins than ever
before. But take heart, a
few simple steps
can significantly reduce
exposure and counteract the
damage that’s already
occurred.
A
drug already used to treat
certain conditions in humans
can not only limit the
effects of stroke, but also
help repair the damage they
cause
According to the American
Stroke Association, stroke
is the fifth leading cause
of death in the US and one
of the leading causes of
adult disability. The death
of brain cells due to lack
of oxygen...
“Social-justice-wise,
environmentally-wise, we
have to change our ways, and
if we don’t change our ways,
there’s going to be a lot of
suffering,” he said.
That suffering could come
sooner than expected. On
Friday, Colonel John
Henderson with the Army
Corps’ Omaha District issued
a letter to Standing Rock
Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave
Archambault II. It was an
eviction notice with a
timestamp for Monday,
December 5.
Heavy rain and winds on
Monday, just as spring peaks
in the southern state of
Victoria, allowed rye grass
pollen to absorb moisture
and burst into smaller
particles that sent the
pollen count soaring.
Melbourne hospitals
treated more than 8,500
patients on Monday night and
Tuesday, according to the
Victoria health department,
as emergency services
struggled to keep up.
Two Chinese firms have
announced plans to build a
solar power facility within
the irradiated exclusion
zone surrounding the former
Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in Ukraine.
For 41 days in
January, white men wearing
denim and cowboy hats
occupied the semi-arid world
of eastern Oregon. I
followed the occupation of
the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge from my home
in the wet-gray world of the
lower Columbia River. The
media was filled with images
of men riding horseback
carrying the American flag
like rodeo queens at grand
entry...
As much as Americans
love old-time Indians, the
young men riding bareback
are not glowing with
cinematic potential, not
picturesque enough to
capture media coverage. In a
photo from The Atlantic,
Anishinabek Nation men from
Saginaw Chippewa Reservation
bring their drums to the
Standing Rock camp and sing.
One wears a beaded vest,
another a baseball cap. They
look like real people living
their lives, just like a
group of Osages who bring
food and wood and stand with
relatives wearing Pendleton
blankets to offer it.
One
problem with dealing
with nuclear waste
is that it's often
hard to tell what's
waste and what's a
valuable resource.
Case in point is the
work of physicists
and chemists at the
University of
Bristol, who have
found a way to
convert thousands of
tonnes of seemingly
worthless nuclear
waste into man-made
diamond batteries
that can generate a
small electric
current for longer
than the entire
history of human
civilization.
The new estimate raised
the cost of compensation to
8 trillion yen and
decontamination to 4-5
trillion yen, the cost for
an interim storage facility
remained steady, and
decommissioning will rise by
several trillion yen, it
added.
The part of the cost
increase will be passed on
in electricity fees, it
added, citing multiple
unnamed sources familiar
with the matter.
We have all heard that we
humans do not utilize the
full capacity of our brains,
and that only a fragment of
the forces of our Mind are
used in our daily lives. The
full utilization of the
potentials of our Mind
would, however, add to our
personality an immense
creative force. The question
therefore arises, how we are
able to access the creative
forces of our Mind?
In the first direct
attack on Israeli forces
since the Syrian civil war
began in 2011, four Islamic
State gunmen opened fire on
Israeli soldiers — and were
promptly killed.
The Daily Mail reports
the Israeli soldiers were
protecting the Golan Heights
and were members of the
Golani Brigade. The soldiers
took fire from both mortars
and machine guns, but were
unhurt. They then fired back
while an airstrike targeted
the gunmen’s vehicle,
killing them...
OPEC delegates on Monday
sent an output proposal to
the producer group's 14
ministers for approval at
Wednesday's meeting after
nearly 11 hours of talks,
but still left unsettled one
of the thorniest issues
preventing a concrete deal:
individual country quotas.
The ruling states the plant
must have a review to
determine whether it meets
current environmental
standards before its federal
licenses can be renewed,
Bloomberg reported.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(27 Nov, 28 Nov, 29 Nov).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (27
Nov) and quiet to unsettled
levels on days two and three
(28 Nov, 29 Nov).
SolarCity will adopt Tesla’s
name, allowing the merged
companies to sell electric
cars, residential PV solar
cells, and the
new Powerwall battery
products under a single
brand. Musk said he
envisions an operation that
dispatches a single team to
install solar
infrastructure, electric car
chargers, and energy storage
batteries in one visit.
In any case, following your
passion inevitably requires
countless hours spent honing
your craft and accepting
that in the beginning, it
won’t be as great as it will
in those later stages you
look forward to. Therefore,
enjoy what you’re doing and
try to avoid treating it
like a burden even when you
extend yourself or stress
about it. It feels good to
pursue your passion, but
you’ll be sorely
disappointed if you’re only
in it to feel good. It’ll
challenge you and stretch
you to your limit, but if
you love it enough, you
won’t get discouraged. If
you do, you’ll overcome.
You’ll know you can achieve
the impossible, so you’ll
put up with the feelings of
stress and separation from
your comfort zone that come
with it.
The last time snow fell in
November in Tokyo, John F.
Kennedy was President of the
United States and singer Bob
Dylan - who this year won
the Nobel Literature Prize -
had released his debut album
just months before.
The U.S. biofuels program,
designed to boost demand for
renewables in gasoline and
diesel, is unlikely to meet
its targets for cutting
greenhouse gas emissions,
the government said in two
reports on Monday.
Water ice can’t persist on
Mars surface in the region
of Utopia Planitia, about
halfway from Mars’ equator
to its pole. But researchers
say there’s water in a vast
frozen lake underground.
Putin subsequently told the
crowd at the ceremony he was
making a joke, but his
comments are not likely to
ease the mounting tension in
Europe over Russian
aggression, most recently
Putin’s decision to move
nuclear-capable missiles
closer to European border
countries.
...as it turned out,
the tens of thousands of
people who flocked to Trump
rallies were the bellwether.
This one man, without any
help from his own party,
filled entire stadiums and
probably drew larger crowds
than the Beatles once did.
And mainstream media
completely ignored the
greatest political story of
our lifetime.
Researchers have uncovered
and mapped an exceptionally
well-preserved underwater
Stone Age site in the Baltic
Sea off the coast of
southern Sweden. The Lund
University scientists
believe the location was a
lagoon environment where
Mesolithic people (culture
in northwest Europe from
about 10,000 to 5,000 BC)
lived during parts of the
year...
Changes in sea level have
allowed the findings to be
preserved deep below the
surface of Hanö Bay in the
Baltic Sea
Food advocacy
groups said Apache County
children had the least
reliable access to healthy
food in the nation in 2014,
when 41.5 percent of
children in the county were
deemed to be “food
insecure.”
But Apache
County was just the most
extreme example of a problem
seen throughout the state,
where more than one in four
children was in danger of
not having enough food or
not having access to enough
healthy food.
In Bolivia, water supply
talks turned into a hostage
situation when some
officials failed to attend
planning meetings multiple
times.
Local police reportedly
rescued Deputy Minister of
Water Rubén Méndez, Regional
Director of Epsas Roberto
Rojas and at least six other
officials who were being
held by local leaders at
meeting to complete a water
project.
The Catholic Church in
Rwanda has apologised for
its role in the 1994
genocide, saying it regrets
the actions of those who
participated in the
massacres.
A church statement
acknowledged on Sunday its
members planned, aided, and
executed the genocide, in
which more than 800,000
ethnic Tutsis and moderate
Hutus were killed by Hutu
hardliners.
Neonicotinoid-type crop
pesticides are
not good for bees. They
compromise the insects'
production of ATP (adenosine
triphosphate), a molecule
that transports chemical
energy within cells. As a
result, bees lose mobility
and ultimately starve, as
they're unable to get out
and forage for food.
Fortunately for domesticated
bees at least, there may be
a solution – light therapy.
Outside a triage tent at
the foot of the Oceti
Sakowin Camp, frantic
chatter and whirring
generators fused with the
familiar drone of police
surveilling in the night
sky.
“We have seen four
gunshot wounds, three of
them to the face and head,”
said Leland Brenholt, a
volunteer medic.
When you can order a new
body part online, you’ll
have this doctor to thank
In a harshly lit laboratory
in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, there sits a
machine that is, in many
ways, similar to a
standard-issue desktop
printer. It has ink
reservoirs and nozzles, an
internal fan to keep it
cool, and a set of input
jacks that can be used to
connect it to a nearby
computer. It is subject to
the occasional jam. And yet
the 800-pound steel and
plastic device is unlike
anything you’ve ever
encountered, because what it
prints is alive—millions
and millions of living human
cells, contained in a
viscous gel and woven
through delicate
biodegradable supports in a
quivering simulacrum of
human tissue.
Tonight, look for the
tiny, misty dipper of stars
known as the Pleiades or
Seven Sisters.
November is the month of
the Pleiades star cluster.
On these November nights,
the Pleiades cluster shines
from nightfall until dawn.
It’s low in the east at
nightfall, high overhead
around midnight and low in
the west before dawn. Locate
it by the bright star
Aldebaran this evening, or
any evening soon.
North Dakota police and
Morton County sheriffs are
dealing tonight with what
they are calling “an ongoing
riot” in connection with the
Dakota Access Pipeline.
Authorities estimate
around 400 protesters are on
the Backwater Bridge,
attempting to go north on
Highway 1806. They say
protesters have started a
dozen fires near the bridge.
The Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO), also
known as the “Shanghai 5,”
is a loose security and
economic bloc led by Russia
and China. The other formal
members are Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Erdoğan said he had
already discussed the idea
with Russian President
Vladimir Putin and with
Kazakh President Nursultan
Nazarbayev.
When the Solar Impulse
Foundation completed the
first solar-powered flight
around the world earlier
this year, it was more than
just a stunt … it was a way
of showing how eco-friendly
technologies can be put to
practical use. Now, Solar
Impulse has taken another
step in that direction, by
announcing its World
Alliance for Clean
Technologies – a network of
"start-ups, companies,
institutions and
organizations producing,
implementing or supporting
the use of clean
technologies."
Solar radiation storms occur
when a large-scale magnetic
eruption, often causing a
coronal mass ejection
and associated solar
flare, accelerates
charged particles in the
solar atmosphere to very
high velocities. The most
important particles are
protons which can get
accelerated to 1/3 the speed
of light or 100,000 km/sec.
At these speeds, the protons
can traverse the 150 million
km from sun to Earth in just
30 minutes. When they reach
Earth, the fast moving
protons penetrate the
magnetosphere that
shields Earth from lower
energy charged particles.
Once inside the
magnetosphere, the particles
are guided down the magnetic
field lines such that they
penetrate the atmosphere
near the north and south
poles.
The world’s most
celebrated physicist and
cosmologist issued a call
for humans to “continue to
go into space for the future
of humanity.”
“I don’t think we will
survive another 1,000 years
without escaping beyond our
fragile planet,” Stephen
Hawking said while
delivering a lecture on the
universe and the origins of
humans at the Oxford Union
debating society on Monday,
according to the British
newspaper The Independent.
U.S. officials cancelled 15 oil and gas leases on Wednesday in an area
bordering Glacier National
Park that's considered
sacred to the Blackfoot
tribes of the U.S. and
Canada.
The cancellation was
aimed at preserving the
Badger-Two Medicine area, a
largely-undeveloped,
130,000-acre wilderness that
is the site of the creation
story for members of
Montana's Blackfeet Nation
and the Blackfoot tribes of
Canada.
Geological Survey that the
Wolfcamp Shale in the
Midland-Odessa region could
yield 20 billion barrels of
oil is another sign that
"the revival of the Permian
Basin is going to last a
couple of decades."
US natural gas in storage
increased 30 Bcf to 4.047
Tcf in the week ended
November 11, the US Energy
Information Administration
reported Thursday, breaking
the previous all-time high
of 4.017 Tcf set the prior
week.
The net
injection was exactly in
line with a S&P Global
Platts survey of analysts
expecting a 30-Bcf
injection.
To ensure the safety of
as many children as
possible, we need to
have an open rational
discussion about vaccine
safety; 30 years ago,
autism affected 1 in
10,000 children. Today,
it afflicts as many as 1
in 50
If your baby has
suboptimal gut flora,
vaccines can become the
proverbial "last straw"
— the trigger that
"primes" their immune
system to develop
chronic health problems
Evaluating differences
in health outcomes among
highly vaccinated and
unvaccinated children
could shed light on the
vaccine safety
conversation, but a
large-scale,
well-designed study has
never been done
People have to carry more
cash in response to
inflation, but can’t
withdraw the cash from
banks...
The decision was made as
Venezuela suffers
from rampant inflation
exceeding 750 percent, which
has forced many citizens to
handle more cash for their
purchases.
A large ring or circle of
light around the sun or moon
is called a 22-degree halo
by scientists...
There’s an old weather
saying: ring around the
moon means rain soon.
There’s truth to this
saying, because high cirrus
clouds often come before a
storm. Notice in these
photos that the sky looks
fairly clear. After all, you
can see the sun or moon. And
yet halos are a sign of high
thin cirrus clouds drifting
20,000 feet or more above
our heads
Our whole life is a rush. We
chase our desires and
unfulfilled dreams. We are
attracted by money, power,
prestige, a wholesome, happy
life. Spurred by our
ambitions, we pursue various
goals all through our lives.
We aspire for something all
the time, we always want to
achieve something. This
restless rush is instigated
by our fear that we are
still not what we want to
be. We are never satisfied,
we always want something
else. We therefore lose our
grip on the deeper
dimensions of life. The
deeper dimensions are
present in our life, but we
lose contact with them
because of our lack of
Alertness.
The question therefore
arises, how we are able to
access the deeper dimensions
of Life?
A full 30 percent of the
world’s electricity
generation comes under the
umbrella of just nine energy
companies, and they have
just joined forces to ramp
up technology investments
aimed at decarbonization.
The global, collaborative
effort was announced earlier
this week by the companies’
nonprofit organization, the
Global Sustainable
Electricity Partnership.
To be clear, the
decarbonization announcement
leaves plenty of wiggle room
for “clean” coal and natural
gas, at least in the near
future. However, a look at
the group’s sole U.S.
member, American Electric
Power, demonstrates that a
Republican
administration cannot stop
the global transition to low
and zero-carbon electricity.
This year is on track to
become the hottest year on
record, with global
temperatures measuring 1.2
degrees Celsius (2.2 F)
above pre-industrial levels,
according to the World
Meteorological
Organization(WMO).
A timber harvest can often
leave what's called a "slash
pile" of leftovers that are
usually burned. On Monday
Alaska Airlines flew a
number of commercial
passengers across the United
States by burning some of
that woody biomass as fuel.
“More than 50 Amish who live
along and travel those dirt
roads [and their non-Amish
neighbors] have signed
petitions asking [officials]
to stop what they say is the
too frequent and excessive
spreading of briny liquids
that are sickening
residents, polluting nearby
streams and farm ponds,
making the roads slick and
dangerous to drive and
quickly rusting out cars,
trucks, trailers and
buggies,” the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette reported.
Arizona water suppliers
say they are already
preparing for changes in the
climate that will strain
water resources and make
some parts of the state more
vulnerable to drought.
Climate change models
from the federal government
show that Arizona is getting
hotter, and that means more
water supply challenges in
the coming decades.
More than 365 businesses and
investors from Fortune 500
firms to family-owned
businesses sent a message
today to President Barack
Obama and President-elect
Donald Trump reaffirming
their support for the
historic Paris Agreement on
Climate and the need to
accelerate the transition to
a low-carbon global economy.
“Superficially they look
the same. Both are dominated
by coniferous trees with
similar low density
deciduous trees like aspen.
But that’s where the
similarities end,” he says.
The real differences are
most obvious on the ground,
notes Boonstra. In Canada,
the ground is dominated by
tall shrubs like willow and
birch but in the
northwestern European
forests found in Norway,
Finland and Sweden the
ground is dominated by dwarf
shrubs like bilberry.
A Chinese construction crew
unearthed a new dinosaur
fossil. It had feathers and
a beak. A scientist called
it “one of the most
beautiful, but saddest,
fossils I’ve ever seen.”
“The Army has
determined that additional
discussion and analysis are
warranted in light of the
history of the Great Sioux
Nation’s dispossessions of
lands, the importance of
Lake Oahe to the Tribe, our
government-to-government
relationship, and the
statute governing easements
through government
property,” the Army said in
a joint statement with the
U.S. Department of the
Interior on Monday November
14.
Yes, you only need a single
laptop with a decent
internet connection, rather
a massive botnet, to launch
overwhelming denial of
service (DoS) attacks in
order to bring down major
Internet servers and
modern-day firewalls.
Big Pharma discovered
direct-to-consumer
advertising increased
revenue and increased
the number of people
diagnosed with health
conditions as consumers
began asking for drugs
after watching the ads
Facebook has developed a
specific team to help
pharmaceutical companies
comply with FDA
regulations and still
work within the specific
space and image
limitations for
advertising on their
social media platform
Big Pharma uses specific
strategies to reduce the
potential you’ll hear
and remember the list of
side effects from their
drugs
OPEC's share of global oil
production, including
condensate, will approach
50% by 2040, up from its
current 42%, the IEA said
Wednesday in its World
Energy Outlook, as non-OPEC
production will
significantly drop off after
2020. But any benefits from
OPEC's increased market
share will be spread
unevenly, as its Middle East
members figure to grow more
influential, at the expense
of its African and South
American members.
... the man warned the
suspect that if he did not
stop, then he would be shot.
The suspect didn’t comply,
and the good samaritan shot
the suspect three times.
Building on more than 30
years of air quality
research in some of the most
polluted urban environments
on Earth, a team of
atmospheric scientists at
the Desert Research
Institute (DRI) has turned
their attention toward the
growing e-cigarette industry
and the unidentified effects
of vaping on human health.
New research published
this week in Environmental
Science & Technology
(ES&T), a journal of the
American Chemical Society,
reports that the aerosols
(commonly called vapors)
produced by flavored
e-cigarettes liquids contain
dangerous levels of
hazardous chemicals known to
cause cancer in humans.
According to carefully
collected data reported to
the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) by water
systems and utilities across
the country, there were more
than 7,500 health-based
drinking water violations in
2015.
Using the EPA’s
publicly-available ECHO
database, FluksAqua analyzed
the data with a focus on
potentially harmful
health-based violations
including coliforms,
nitrates, arsenic,
radionuclides and
disinfection byproducts
The
device is in the final
stages before it will be
available widespread.
Those with Type 1
diabetes do not produce the
hormone, insulin, and must
be wary of their blood
glucose (sugar) levels.
Chronic high blood sugar
that results from too little
insulin can lead to nerve
and organ damage or even
cause seizures and death.
Don’t even try to capture a
zeptosecond using a
run-of-the-mill
stopwatch. This tiny slice
of time is a fraction of a
second—so small it is equal
to a single number one
sitting 21 places behind the
decimal point, a trillionth
of a billionth of a second,
reports Rebecca Boyle at New
Scientist. And researchers
at the Max Plank Institute
in Germany finally measured
minute changes within an
atom on the zeptosecond
scale.
You and I for instance,
are both anxious about
President Trump. I’m anxious
because the man has never
held office, he’s never worn
a uniform, and he’s
frightened millions of
people with irresponsible
rhetoric and bad behavior
completely inconsistent with
the leader of the free
world. That makes me uneasy,
no doubt about it.
You on the other hand,
are anxious because you have
taken everything he’s said
at face value. Moreover, you
seem to believe that
everyone who voted for him
did so because they agree
with everything he’s said
and done
At least four congressional
investigations into Hillary
Clinton’s personal email use
and mishandling of
classified information are
expected to go forward even
after the former secretary
of state’s election loss
last week, Republican
lawmakers tell Fox News.
Large quantities of
suspended solids and
selenium, an element that is
extremely toxic to wildlife,
was discharged into
California’s Suisun Bay and
the Carquinez Strait earlier
this year.
The East Bay Times
reported that the element
flowed into the bay after a
plant employee from the
Valero oil refinery
disturbed industrial
wastewater treatment by
“allowing a feed of water
treatment chemicals to
remain closed after a
routine check,” the San
Francisco Regional Water
Quality Control Board said a
civil complaint.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin signed a
decree Wednesday to
withdraw Russia from the
International Criminal
Court, which rules on
such grave charges as
genocide and crimes
against humanity.
Russia in 2000 signed
the Rome treaty that
established the
Hague-based court but
never ratified it.
Putin's decree,
published on the
Kremlin's website, comes
a day after the U.N.
General Assembly's human
rights committee
approved a resolution
condemning Russia's
"temporary occupation of
Crimea" and blamed
Russia for rights abuses
such as discrimination
against some Crimean
residents, such as
Tatars.
If the answer to all of
these questions is “no”--why
would anyone believe that
the paper is now
“rededicated” to honesty?
And why would anyone trust
the New York Times to report
on American politics?
Commissioner of the
Oregon Bureau of Labor and
Industries Brad Avakian
gained infamy when he fined
a Christian bakery with
$135,000 for refusing to
bake a wedding cake for a
lesbian couple. The owners
of the bakery, Aaron and
Melissa Klein, turned down
baking a cake to a lesbian
couple as it would violate
their Christian beliefs.
Avakian claimed that the
Klein’s refusal to bake the
cake were not protected
under the 1st Amendment, and
labeled it illegal
discrimination.
The Klein’s were forced
to shut down their bakery,
and now operate solely
online. Melissa Klein has
stated that she would like
to reopen an actual store
one day, but that doing so
in Oregon would be next to
impossible.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (17 Nov,
18 Nov, 19 Nov). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one and two
(17 Nov, 18 Nov) and
unsettled to active levels
on day three (19 Nov).
Authorities said that
workers then illegally
dumped the waste at
different locations, which
included “manholes at Fort
Wadsworth, John F. Kennedy
International Airport, and a
city housing authority
development in Brooklyn, as
well as in the Gowanus
Canal.”
Ever wondered what’s in
the neighborhood pond?
Technology developed by
researchers at the
University of Houston will
allow you to test for
waterborne pathogens by
using your smartphone.
“The goal is to have
citizens help to investigate
and monitor water quality
near where they live, while
educating people about
potential threats in
environmental or drinking
water,” said Wei-Chuan Shih,
associate professor of
electrical and computer
engineering at UH. “This
type of citizen science is a
priority for the National
Science Foundation, to
increase awareness of
science and technology
through individual
participation.”
After the most polarizing
presidential election of my
lifetime, we are being
called to unity. Now is the
time for us to come together
— one country, one planet,
one heart, One. Donald
Trump’s election as
President of the most
powerful country on the
planet has sent shock waves
around the globe. Yet this
is not a time for division.
We are all responsible for
this outcome.
Erdogan and his
supporters argue Turkey
needs the strong leadership
of an executive presidency,
akin to the system in the
United States or France, to
avoid the fragile coalition
governments that hampered
its development in the past.
Opponents see
the proposed change as a
vehicle for Erdogan's
ambition, and fear it will
bring increasing
authoritarianism to a
country already under fire
from Western allies over its
deteriorating record on
rights and freedoms,
especially after widespread
purges in the wake of a
failed military coup in
July.
...“The staggering amount of
wasted food in the United
States has far-reaching
impacts on food security,
resource conservation and
climate change. To help
galvanize U.S. efforts to
reduce food loss and waste,
USDA and EPA announced the
first U.S. food loss and
waste reduction goal in
September 2015. Today, the
first 15 Champions are
stepping up to do their part
to help the nation reach
this critical goal.”
It appears that a water
utility and a chemical maker
will pay $151 million to the
residents and businesses of
Charleston, WV, in a deal
that would wrap up a major
lawsuit over the Elk River
chemical spill, a major
water-contamination
disaster.
A chemical facility owned
by Freedom Industries leaked
the coal-processing chemical
4-methylcyclohexane methanol
(MCHM) into the Elk River
nearly three years ago,
leaving 300,000 people
unable to use their tap
water for about a week.
Though you can't see it,
visceral fat, the stuff that
surrounds your internal
organs, is the one you have
to pay attention to, as too
much of it can lead to an
increased risk of developing
Type II diabetes. For those
with the disease, recent
studies have shown that it
is possible to reverse the
condition by targeting the
fat in the pancreas or
embarking on a low-calorie
diet. And now, scientists at
Kumamoto University have
added another potential
solution to the list: a
wearable device that helps
boost fat loss in obese
patients.
Heartbreaking stories of
seabirds eating plastic —
and the
accompanying horrible
images— are everywhere, but
now scientists are an
important question: Why do
seabirds eat plastic in the
first place? And why are
some more likely to
have bellies full of
plastic than others?
The answer, it turns out,
lies in a compound
called dimethyl sulfide,
or DMS, which emits a
“chemical scream” that some
birds associate with food.
When seabirds find chunks of
plastic bobbing in the
water, they gobble them up,
not realizing that they’ve
just consumed something very
dangerous.
“I got used to the idea that
questions had answers.”
An active proponent of
education, diversity and
communication, Sylvester
James Gates is known for
both his research in
theoretical physics and his
commitment to increasing
diversity in his field.
Gates is the John S. Toll
Professor of Physics at the
University of Maryland at
College Park, where he
studies the fundamental
nature of our universe
through the lens of
supersymmetry—a theory that
predicts twice as many
fundamental particles as the
Standard Model and could be
the next step towards a
grand unified theory. He’s
also the first
African-American to hold an
endowed chair in physics at
a major research university
in the United States.
Hackers can steal your
sensitive information, such
as your Passwords, PINs and
Keystrokes, from your phone
by observing changes in the
wireless signal as you enter
them into your smartphones.
A group of researchers
from the Shanghai Jaio Tong
University, the University
of South Florida and the
University of Massachusetts
at Boston have demonstrated
a new technique that can
reveal private information
by analyzing the radio
signal Interference, using
just one rogue WiFi hotspot.
It is well-established in
the scientific community
that increases in
atmospheric CO2 levels
result in global warming,
but the magnitude of the
effect may vary depending on
average global temperature.
A new study, published this
week in Science Advances and
led by Tobias Friedrich from
the International Pacific
Research Center (IPRC) at
the University of Hawaii at
Mānoa, concludes that warm
climates are more sensitive
to changes in CO2 levels
than cold climates.
The obvious question now
becomes ‘does Trump even
have the power to do this?’
Given the little amount of
power a president actually
has, making large scale
change can be difficult, but
as stated by us previously,
we have to be consciously
open to things within the
system changing, or else we
will stay stuck in this
cycle.
With a shift in
consciousness in the midst,
things will change, so we
cannot always assume that
everything is automatically
an agenda, our discernment
has to be stronger.
Quite naturally, we all tell
stories about our lives, but
few of us realize that life
unfolds according to the
stories we tell, and, in
fact, the moment you project
meaning onto an experience,
the story unfolds as you
tell it — and this is how
you create your reality!
This invisible process of
creating reality is so
smooth and seamless that few
of us ever realize we are
doing it, but nonetheless,
whether conscious or
unconscious, we all create
our lives based on the
meaning we apply to
virtually everything.
Government ministers and
officials are keeping
tight-lipped on the prospect
of an asylum seeker deal
between Australia and the
United States.
The Australian newspaper
reported on Friday the two
countries were poised to
announce a deal to resettle
asylum seekers on Nauru and
Manus Island after months of
negotiations.
An enzyme found in
broccoli may slow
age-related decline in
health by improving
mitochondrial health and
restoring your
metabolism to more
youthful levels
Broccoli has been shown
to reduce your risk of
many common diseases
including arthritis,
cancer, high blood
pressure, heart disease,
kidney disease, fatty
liver disease and
diabetes
Sulforaphane, a
naturally occurring
organic sulfur compound
found in broccoli has
potent anti-cancer
activity; it may also be
helpful for children
with autism
“We don’t have a
single clue,” Paul Quassa, a
member of the legislative
assembly of Nunavut, the
newest and most remote
province of Canada, tells
the CBC’s Jimmy Thompson.
Local hunters tell Thompson
that the sounds have made
whales, seals and other
marine mammals scarce in an
area usually known for its
abundance of creatures.
Given the animals’
sensitivity to and reliance
on sound—much marine life
uses sound to navigate and
communicate—it’s no wonder
that a sound that can be
heard from the ocean floor
is scaring them away.
Cases of mind influencing
matter have been reported
throughout history and
across many cultures, more
specifically in regard
to ‘supernormal’ abilities
which include telepathy,
psychokinesis, and other
phenomena that lie within
the realms of
parapsychology. This is
evident in ancient
literature, from the Vedic
texts and the yoga sutras,
to Jesus, Moses, Milarepa,
Mohammed and more.
Today is Energy Day at
COP22, the UN Climate Change
Conference in Marrakech – a
day to demonstrate action on
global efforts to
decarbonize the energy
system – globally, country
by country, city by city,
and business by business –
now that the Paris Agreement
on Climate is in effect.
The urgent need to
forestall catastrophic
climate change is motivating
action from a wide range of
players less than a year
after COP21, the historic
Paris Conference of Parties
to the UN Framework
Convention on Climate
Change, at which the Paris
Agreement was adopted by
world governments.
“We will fight back against
attacks on Latinos, African
Americans, women, Muslims,
immigrants, disabled
Americans – on anyone,” said
Warren, who sparred
frequently over Twitter with
Trump and criticized him on
the campaign trail in the
weeks leading up to
Tuesday’s election. “Whether
Donald Trump sits in a glass
tower or sits in the White
House, we will not give an
inch on this, not now, not
ever.”
Writing in a column
this morning for ICTMN,
Steve Russell states, “It’s
unclear whether President
Trump will attack state
sovereignty over this
matter, reversing President
Obama. … If Trump is
ambiguous about state
sovereignty, he has no
doubts about Indian
sovereignty. Trump came out
against tribal sovereignty
long before he got into
politics,” Russell said.
“Trump’s hostility to
environmental regulations
and to Indian sovereignty is
literal and serious.”
Certain U.S. cities have
banned mulberry trees
due to the immense
amount of pollen they
produce
Mulberry trees are on
nearly every continent
and have a long history
of food use, as well as
preventing disease
Traditional medicinal
uses for mulberries
included treating
diseases of the mouth,
throat and lungs,
strengthening bone
tissue, protecting
vision, improving
metabolism, increasing
blood circulation and
acting as a treatment
for dysentery and a
digestive aid
Mulberries contain
vitamins C, K,
B-complex, A and E,
iron, potassium,
magnesium and
resveratrol, each
bringing their own
constituents for health
Mulberries may have the
potential to increase
beneficial brown fat via
a natural plant compound
called rutin, which has
shown potential for
lowering obesity in lab
animals
"Eventually," he continued,
"her friend said she could
make out that she was
blaming James Comey, the
director of the FBI, for her
loss — and this I don't
understand exactly — and the
president of the United
States for not doing
enough."
If you want longer-lasting
plastic foams or textiles,
the answer may lie in your
skin, hair and eyes. All of
those body parts get their
color from a
naturally-occurring pigment
known as melanin, which is
also found in other animals.
Now, scientists from China's
Jiangnan University have
determined that even a small
amount of added melanin
makes polyurethane much
stronger.
After their millions of
dollars failed to elect
Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton
last week, billionaire
George Soros and his fellow
wealthy liberals have
gathered in Washington,
D.C., to determine how to
spend their money to block
President-elect Donald Trump
throughout his term in the
White House.
"I've done this twice in my
career," Gingrich, one of
Trump's closest advisers and
potential Cabinet member,
told CBS News' "Face
the Nation" host
John Dickerson. "I did it
with [President Ronald]
Reagan in '81. I did it as
speaker in '95. This is a
city that if you don't shove
it as hard as you can when
you have momentum, it will
surround you. The swamp
doesn't want to be drained,
and the swamp will just suck
you in if you let it. He
needs to have a very, very
aggressive first year."
In today’s nuclear world,
detoxing radioactive
materials from the body is
vital to our ongoing good
health. And zeolites are
extremely effective at
absorbing radioactive
material.
Perovskite solar cell
technology has made great
strides over the past few
years, with a hybrid cell
made up of layers of
different perovskite
materials recently hitting a
reported peak efficiency of
26 percent. Now researchers
at the Australian National
University (ANU) have
developed a new
manufacturing technique that
boosts the efficiency of
both perovskite and
perovskite-silicon tandem
cells.
His anti-regulatory stances,
support of unfettered fossil
fuel production, and his
threat to pull the U.S. out
of the Paris agreement, send
ripple effects worldwide.
Critics are pointing to
opinion and editorial
stances by Breitbart during
his decade-long tenure and
charging his prominence in a
Trump White House would
bring more than just
populist nationalism to the
White House.
Climate change has
already impacted nearly
every aspect of life on
earth, according to a new
study in the
journal Science. Warming
global temperatures have
altered everything from
entire ecosystems down to
the individual genes of
species.
Some 80 percent of key
ecological processes
examined by the scientists
show signs of change and
distress. The disruptions
could lead to unpredictable
fisheries yields, reduced
agricultural productivity,
worsening pests and disease
outbreaks, and “point toward
an increasingly
unpredictable future for
humans,” the authors wrote.
For most people, icy
conditions mean a slippery
pavement or trying to chip
the car out of a freezing
glaze, but icing can also
bring down aircraft, snap
power lines, and cause a
surprising amount of
structural damage. Now
scientists at the University
of Houston (UH) have come up
with a surprising solution –
and it involves magnets.
Civilians in Northern Iraq
are suffering suffocation
and respiratory illnesses
due to what appears to be a
scorched-earth policy
employed by retreating ISIL
militants following the
launch of a major military
offensive to retake the city
of Mosul.
Stanford geophysicists
have compiled the most
detailed maps yet of the
geologic forces controlling
the locations, types and
magnitudes of earthquakes in
Texas and Oklahoma.
These new “stress maps,”
published in the
journals Geophysical
Research
Letters and Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of
America, provide insight
into the nature of the
faults associated with
recent temblors, many of
which appear to have been
triggered by the injection
of wastewater deep
underground.
Erik Verlinde just released
the latest installment of
his new theory of gravity.
He now says he doesn’t need
dark matter to explain the
motions of stars in
galaxies.
For many years I worked in
palliative care. My patients
were those who had gone
home to die. Some incredibly
special times were shared.
I was with them for the
last three to twelve weeks
of their lives. People grow
a lot when they are faced
with their own mortality.
I learnt never to
underestimate someone’s
capacity for growth. Some
changes were phenomenal.
Each experienced a variety
of emotions, as expected,
denial, fear, anger,
remorse, more denial and
eventually acceptance.
Every single patient found
their peace before they
departed though, every one
of them.
Oil prices were largely
steady on Monday, rebounding
from three-month lows, on a
report saying that OPEC
members were seeking to
resolve their differences on
a deal to cut production
ahead of a meeting later
this month.
OPEC kingpin
Saudi Arabia and fellow
exporters Iran and Iraq have
been at odds over how to
rein in supply to reduce a
glut in global markets. The
lack of agreement within the
Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting
Countries following a
tentative deal in September
has put pressure on
benchmark prices.
Duterte said the country
will continue its military
pact that gives U.S. troops
access to Philippine bases
under President-elect Donald
Trump's administration, but
said the Enhanced Defense
Cooperation Agreement signed
in 2014 would end. He said
he plans to stop war games
conducted between the
Philippine military and its
allies. The exercises
scheduled in 2017 with the
United States will go on as
planned, but that will be
the last, he said.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(15 Nov, 16 Nov, 17 Nov).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(15 Nov) and quiet levels on
days two and three (16 Nov,
17 Nov).
Sandia National Laboratories
is raising the stakes in its
quest to develop fusion
power by introducing tritium
into its experiments with
its Z machine. Tritium, the
heaviest of the three
hydrogen isotopes, promises
to boost energy output by a
factor of 500 as the
scientists continue to seek
ways to produce a
self-sustaining fusion
reaction that generates more
energy than it consumes.
However, the isotope is
difficult and potentially
dangerous to work with.
Congressional Republicans
are looking for the quickest
ways to tear down Obamacare
following Donald Trump's
election as U.S. president,
including rapidly confirming
a new health secretary who
could recast regulations
while waiting for lawmakers
to pass sweeping repeal
legislation.
After more than a decade,
China has decided to restore
tax rebates on exports of
gasoline, gasoil and jet
fuel, a sign that Beijing is
more than comfortable with
the domestic supply
situation for oil products.
China's Ministry of
Finance and the State
Administration of Taxation
announced late last week
that the entire VAT of 17%
would be refunded when those
products are exported,
effective November 1.
The Alps are steadily
“growing” by about one to
two millimeters per year.
Likewise, the formerly
glaciated subcontinents of
North America and
Scandinavia are also
undergoing constant upward
movement. This is due to the
fact that at the end of the
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
about 18,000 years ago the
glaciers melted and with
this the former heavy
pressure on the Earth’s
surface diminished. The ice
reacted rapidly to climate
change at that time whereas
the Earth’s crust is still
responding today to this
relatively sudden melting of
ice.
Following Donald Trump's
victory in Tuesday's
presidential race,
Congressman Kevin Cramer, a
North Dakota Republican and
a top Trump energy advisor,
spoke with S&P Global Platts
about what impact the
election will have on US oil
producers, energy markets
and stalled pipeline
projects.
Cramer has
called for a federal
government probe of
potential oil price
manipulation by OPEC and
said that he plans to
re-introduce a bill in the
next Congress to mandate
that investigation.
For the vast majority in the
US coal industry, choosing
who to vote for in Tuesday's
presidential election was
easy: pick pro-coal Donald
Trump over anti-coal Hillary
Clinton.
And while
the next president's
policies will likely have a
long-term effect on coal
prices, the last two
presidential elections have
had no immediate impact on
the market.
Renewables and natural
gas may be putting some
nuclear out of business, but
it is mostly the natural gas
that is taking its place.
Last week, the
Fort Calhoun
nuclear power plant in
Nebraska became
the fifth nuclear power
station to shut down in the
last five years.
Fort Calhoun was
the smallest nuclear plant
in the
U.S., with less
than 500 megawatts. The
generation from
Fort Calhoun will
likely be replaced by wind
and natural gas, according
to data from the U.S.
Energy Information
Administration.
However,
Nebraska
is a coal-heavy state, and like
some other states with
recently shuttered nuclear
plants, coal could also fill
some of the energy void.
The new Netflix original
series, Stranger Things, has
been gaining popularity
since its release this
summer and for good reason.
Not only is the TV show
captivating, but it has
numerous conscious
undertones as well. The TV
show is actually based on
real-life government
programs regarding telepathy
and parallel universes. On a
recent episode of Chelsea,
Nuclear physicist and U.S.
Secretary of Energy, Ernest
Moniz, discussed the truth
behind Stranger Things and
confirmed that the U.S.
government is researching
higher dimensions and
parallel universes.
The mixed reactions over the
election results is
certainly no secret. Some
are terrified and
devastated, others are
joyous, feeling hopeful and
are starting to think the
elite lost some control on
this one.
A new study by University of
Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric
Science researchers found
that the Indian Ocean’s
Agulhas Current is getting
wider rather than
strengthening. The findings,
which have important
implications for global
climate change, suggest that
intensifying winds in the
region may be increasing the
turbulence of the current,
rather than increasing its
flow rate.
Passenger vehicles achieved
record-high fuel economy
while outperforming
greenhouse gas emission
standards in model year
2015, according to two
reports released today by
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Canada's ambassador to
Washington said Wednesday
that Canada is open to
renegotiating the North
American Free Trade
Agreement if that's what
President-elect Donald Trump
wants.
Ambassador David
MacNaughton, on a conference
call with journalists, said
free trade on lumber, long
an irritant, would be one of
the first things he'd like
to see if there's a new
agreement. He noted that the
U.S. is Canada's largest
trading partner and Canada
is the largest trading
partner for the U.S.
Search traffic for "Canada
immigration," "Canada" and
"move to Canada" has
increased in the United
States relative to the past
seven days, according to
Google Trends. Google
reports that the search
terms were particularly
popular in Oregon,
Washington, Vermont and
California.
As water organizations in
the U.S. and beyond gear up
to find new ways to deal
with water scarcity, my
colleagues and I are
increasingly asked what
we’ve learned working with
water corporations in
Australia. The first thing
that comes to mind: Deal
with water issues before
scarcity arises. A recent
Water Online
article by my colleague Jane
Hughes makes this point,
stressing the importance of
collaboration in finding
solutions to defeat drought.
The state’s legislation is
modeled after a similar law
in Oregon, which became the
first state to enact Death
With Dignity legislation in
1997. Since then Washington,
California and Vermont have
passed similar laws while
Montana’s courts have
allowed the practice.
The purported bomb was
discovered by a man
searching for sea
cucumbers...
“The picture I found
has the bomb in sections,
they’ve got it taken apart,”
he said. “And in the middle,
there’s a great big thing
that looks just like what I
found.”..
New study finds high
aluminum levels in the
brain of a man who died
from Alzheimer’s disease
following eight years of
occupational exposure to
aluminum dust
Scientists conclude that
this case suggests your
olfactory system and
lungs play a prominent
role in the accumulation
of aluminum in your
brain
You take in small
amounts of aluminum
through your nose,
mouth, and skin (via
vaccines), which can
accumulate over time,
especially in your bones
and brain
Aluminum is neurotoxic,
targeting your central
nervous system, which
can lead to serious
immunological and
neurodegenerative
disorders
Recent studies show that
aluminum contamination
in food, drugs, and
consumer products is
much worse than
previously thought
Since the World Health
Organization declared the
Zika virus disease a global
public health emergency in
February, researchers have
been working at full speed
to develop a vaccine for it.
Multiple experimental
vaccines are in the works,
as are solutions to
eliminate the
Aedes aegypti, from
using old tires as traps to
releasing genetically
engineered mosquitoes. While
the world waits for the
announcement of a cure,
scientists have discovered a
human antibody that can
protect developing fetuses,
probably the number one
victim of the disease.
Following Donald Trump's
victory in Tuesday's
presidential race,
Congressman Kevin Cramer, a
North Dakota Republican and
a top Trump energy advisor,
spoke with S&P Global Platts
about what impact the
election will have on US oil
producers, energy markets
and stalled pipeline
projects.
Cramer has
called for a federal
government probe of
potential oil price
manipulation by OPEC and
said that he plans to
re-introduce a bill in the
next Congress to mandate
that investigation.
Water services provider
Aqualia has started a
five-year collaboration
project with Spanish car
manufacturer SEAT to fuel
cars on biomethane produced
from wastewater.
Following in the tracks
of French company Suez,
which has been working on
its BioGNVAL project,
the Spanish partnership will
see two SEAT Leon cars
tested at a wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) in
Jerez.
La Niña conditions were
observed during October,
with negative sea surface
temperature (SST) anomalies
in early November stretching
across most of the eastern
and central equatorial
Pacific ...
Solar cells made from an
inexpensive and increasingly
popular material called
perovskite can more
efficiently turn sunlight
into electricity using a new
technique to sandwich two
types of perovskite into a
single photovoltaic cell.
Perovskite solar cells
are made of a mix of organic
molecules and inorganic
elements that together
capture light and convert it
into electricity, just like
today’s more common
silicon-based solar cells.
Perovskite photovoltaic
devices, however, can be
made more easily and cheaply
than silicon and on a
flexible rather than rigid
substrate. The first
perovskite solar cells could
go on the market next year,
and some have been reported
to capture 20 percent of the
sun’s energy.
President Barack Obama
has not ruled out pardoning
Hillary Clinton before he
leaves office in early
January despite her not
being charged with a crime.
"The president has
offered clemency to a
substantial number of
Americans who were
previously serving time in
federal prisons," White
House press secretary Josh
Earnest responded Wednesday
when asked by reporters.
The fuels we burn add carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere,
which contributes to climate
change. A new compact power
plant is starting up in
Finland that could help
combat the problem by
converting atmospheric
carbon dioxide itself into
usable fuels. The
transportable chemical
reactor uses solar power to
convert CO2 from the air and
regenerative hydrogen from
electrolysis into liquid
fuels.
As mindfulness meditation
and yoga have become
mainstream and more
extensively studied, growing
evidence suggests multiple
psychological and physical
benefits of these
mindfulness exercises, as
well as for similar
practices like tai chi and
qi gong.
Systematic reviews and
meta-analyses analyzing
hundreds of research studies
suggest that
mindfulness-based
interventions help decrease
anxiety, depression, stress,
and pain, and help improve
general health, mental
health, and quality of life.
These practices also appear
to reduce inflammation and
increase immune response.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(11 Nov, 12 Nov, 13 Nov).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to minor storm levels on
days one and two (11 Nov, 12
Nov) and unsettled to active
levels on day three (13
Nov).
A Dutch
submarine attempted to spy
on a Russian aircraft
carrier after approaching it
in the eastern Mediterranean
Sea, a Russian Defense
Ministry spokesman said
Wednesday.
The Northern
Fleet's anti-submarine ships
forced the sub to leave the
area near Russia's Admiral
Kuznetsov aircraft carrier,
spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor
Konashenkov ...
Scientists have found a way
to engineer the atomic-scale
chemical properties of a
water-splitting catalyst for
integration with a solar
cell, and the result is a
big boost to the stability
and efficiency of artificial
photosynthesis.
Developed in the University
of Bristol, ice pigging has
since been commercialised
and is being used in 11
countries to help to clean
drinking water pipelines.
How is the process
developing and now also
being used in the oil and
gas sectors?
Republican and climate
denier Donald Trump has won
the U.S. presidential
election, changing the
global balance of power on
climate change, just as the
annual UN climate change
conference underway in
Morocco works to implement
the Paris Agreement on
Climate, which entered into
force November 4.
While his opponent,
Democrat Hillary Clinton,
supported the work of the
Obama administration in
making the climate a
priority, Trump has called
global warming a Chinese
hoax.
A Turkish judge assigned to
a United Nations war crimes
panel has been detained by
Turkish authorities in the
aftermath of a failed coup
in July, despite having
diplomatic immunity, a
senior judge said Wednesday.
U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Farm
Service Agency (FSA)
Administrator Val Dolcini
today announced that $1.5
million will be available in
fiscal year 2017 for farmers
and foresters who harvest
and deliver biomass for
renewable energy
According to a statement
from the Kremlin Wednesday,
Putin said he hoped the
"crisis" in U.S.-Russia
relations would come to an
end, and the countries would
work together to resolve
international challenges.
In these past few years, the
Internet of Things (IoT) has
introduced us to easy-to-use
technology and more smart
devices than we can imagine.
But as anyone would suspect,
when this technology falls
into the wrong hands, it can
unfold into a security
nightmare.
The mutations humans
acquired from Neanderthals
are slowly being purged from
the genome overtime...
The results suggest
that the small size of the
Neanderthal population
compared to the larger human
population could account for
why Neanderthal DNA isn’t a
larger slice of the modern
genome, Yin reports.
About one-fifth of the
American workforce work
nights, at least on
occasion, and working
the night shift is one
of the fastest ways to
disrupt your internal
body clock and health
Health effects
associated with
disrupted circadian
rhythms are related to
insulin resistance and
include obesity,
diabetes, heart disease
and neurodegenerative
diseases like
Alzheimer’s and cancer
It may be better to work
night shift for longer
stretches of time rather
than frequently rotating
between day and night
shift. Other strategies
that may help curtail
the risks associated
with night shift work
are also discussed
Due to the worldwide
promotion of Mirai botnet
that knocked down half of
the Internet last Friday,
hackers and even script
kiddies have started
creating their own botnet
networks by hacking millions
of IoT devices and selling
them as DDoS-for-hire
service to overwhelm targets
with data.
A
19-year-old student from
Hertford has pled guilty to
running one such
DDoS-for-hire service that
shortly became one of the
most popular DDoS booter
tools in the market to
conduct distributed denial
of service (DDoS) attacks.
So who are hackers? They are
individuals who manage to
circumvent all the
safeguards (passwords,
encryption codes and
'firewalls') on a computer
or system of computers or
network to gain unauthorized
access to the information
therein. They must use
sophisticated computer
skills to 'hack' their way
through those safeguards,
hence the name. We see the
consequences, but just how
does this happen? What tools
or techniques do hackers use
to bring down an entire
network.
US crude exports rose 35,000
b/d to a record 692,000 b/d
in September after Brent's
premium to WTI widened, an
analysis of Census Bureau
data released Friday showed.
A "beaver
supermoon" is coming
this month and the
sight of it in the
night sky could be
as spectacular as
its name is silly.
There won't actually
be any big-tailed
rodents involved,
but our biggest
satellite will
become full within
hours of reaching
its closest point to
Earth and, as a
result, appear the
largest it has for
several decades.
Bumblebees can learn to
pull strings for food and
pass on the skill to a
colony, according to
researchers at Queen Mary
University of London.
Pulling strings to obtain
food is an experiment often
used to test the
intelligence of apes and
birds, but this is the first
time this technique has been
discovered to work in an
insect.
The cultural spread of
such a technique from a
single informed individual
also has been described for
the first time in an
invertebrate animal.
The FBI has found new
emails from Hillary
Clinton's private email
server on a laptop shared by
longtime aide Huma Abedin
and her estranged husband,
Anthony Weiner, a U.S.
official said Thursday.
The emails are not
duplicates of those the
agency found on the private
server the Democratic
nominee used during her four
years as secretary of
state,..
The world has been
galvanized by the Zika
epidemic spreading through
the Americas, which has left
more than 2,000 infants with
severe brain damage. But for
pregnant women and their
infants in the United
States, cytomegalovirus, or
CMV, is the far greater
viral threat.
Every year, 20,000 to 40,000
infants are born with CMV.
At least 20 percent — up to
8,000 — have or develop
permanent disabilities, such
as hearing loss,
Chewing on ice, also
known as pagophagia, may
be an addiction that
indicates a problem with
iron deficiency and
possibly anemia
Ice chewing can result
in damage to your teeth
and gums, and can
inflame the tendons and
ligaments in your jaw
Never treat a potential
anemia without first
determining the cause,
as iron supplementation
may cause further damage
to your health,
depending upon the
underlying medical cause
of the iron deficiency
The FBI said on Sunday it
stood by its earlier finding
that no criminal charges
were warranted against
Democrat Hillary Clinton for
using a private email server
for government work, lifting
a cloud over her
presidential campaign two
days before the U.S.
election.
Only days before the
presidential election, the
FBI released a 17-year-old
archive of documents from a
long-closed investigation
into Bill Clinton's
presidential pardon of
fugitive financier Marc
Rich, ex-husband of
Worcester native Denise
Rich, prompting questions
from Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign about
its timing.
A G1 (Minor) geomagnetic
storm watch is in effect for
the 8 November, 2016
UTC-day. SWPC forecasters
determined that an
asymmetric, partial halo CME
which occurred on 5 November
in association with a
disappearing solar filament,
is anticipated to provide a
glancing blow to Earth's
magnetic field mid to late
day on 8 November. The
glancing blow CME is likely
to cause an isolated period
of G1 storming conditions
later in the day. Please
continue to visit our SWPC
website for the latest
information, forecasts and
updates.
They are not just hacking
your email and online
banking accounts anymore.
Computer viruses do not
distinguish between a
personal computer or a
hospital machine delivering
therapy to patients — and
the results could prove
deadly.
Cyber attacks
on hospitals have emerged as
a significant cyber security
risk in 2016, which not only
threaten highly sensitive
information but also
potentially harm the very
lives of those being
protected.
With so many day-to-day
concerns, from consistent
lack of funding to steadily
failing infrastructure,
cybersecurity threats
probably do not rank very
highly in the minds of
treatment plant operators
and utility managers.
As the flow of cartel brick
weed into the U.S. dwindles
to due further legalization
measures, the phenomenon of
smuggling California pot
southbound to Mexico has
arisen.
While Adobe rushed an
emergency patch for its
Flash Player software on
October 26, Microsoft had
yet to release a fix.
Microsoft criticized
Google's move, saying that
the public disclosure of the
vulnerability — which is
being exploited in the wild
— before the company had
time to prepare a fix, puts
Windows users at "potential
risk."
Whether it’s in
medication or your
smartphone battery, lithium
is one of the most common
elements in modern life—and
like most other elements,
scientists have
long-suspected that it comes
from the stars. But for
years researchers have
puzzled over which cosmic
phenomenon is responsible
for creating the lightest
solid element on the
periodic table. Now,
astronomers may have
located the missing piece of
the puzzle: an exploding
nova.
The engineers have
invented a new type of
flooring made out of
sustainable materials that
converts footsteps into
usable energy. And the best
part is that it’s made out
of a common waste material:
wood pulp.
Behind the cheerful spin the
Labor Department and
government talking heads put
on the official monthly jobs
data is a sobering reality:
a more-realistic
unemployment rate is
probably closer to 10
percent and a wide swatch of
the American public remains
out of work.
New revelations from the
emails of Hillary Clinton
campaign head John Podesta
on Wednesday appeared to
show coordination between
the State Department and the
Democrat's campaign. The
stolen emails released by
Wikileaks suggested that a
government official may have
tipped Clinton off that news
was about to break about the
private email server she
used as Secretary of State.
Americans considerably
overestimate renewable
energy’s role in the U.S.’s
overall energy use; base
their energy decisions on
societal impacts; have the
most trust in the solar
industry; and get a majority
of their energy information
from television news.
October marked seven
years since the Tres Amigas
company first announced its
plan to create an electrical
superstation connecting
three
U.S. power grids,
with
Clovis at the
center.
That superstation still
has a ways to go, but is
"alive and well," according
to Tres Amigas Chief
Financial officer...
“We knew you were
coming; that one day you
would come here and start
asking questions about your
government,” said elder
Regina Brave, her long, gray
braid falling over the word
“navy” written in yellow,
capital letters across the
top of her black, leather
vest. “We are all children
of God. Black, red, yellow,
white, are all represented.”
The 1972 Clean Water Act
was supposed to ensure
clean water for swimming
and fishing by 1983, yet
after more than four
decades of clean water
regulations, our
waterways are in serious
jeopardy
Wildlife are dying, and
bizarre disfigurements
of aquatic creatures are
becoming commonplace:
Frogs with six legs, for
example, or male fish
that lay eggs. Fish with
cancerous lesions are
also common
Each decade, dead zones
across the globe have
doubled in size.
Eventually, 100 percent
of our oceans and
waterways will be devoid
of life unless
significant changes are
made
Not so long ago, a race
was on to build the first
offshore wind farm in
the United States.
Rewind five or six years
and developers up and down
the
East Coast were
competing against each other
to reach a milestone known
in their industry as "steel
in the water."
Psychics of varying
abilities — from scammers to
apparently genuine seers —
have made a decent living
regaling their clients with
intimations of impending
doom, hope and love.
These days, the "Big
Question" on everyone's
minds concerns the U.S.
presidential election.
The 64-year-old Seagal
has been a regular visitor
to Russia in recent years
and has accompanied Putin to
several martial arts events,
as well as vocally defending
the Russian leader's
policies and criticizing the
U.S. government.
Prices of health plans sold
under the Affordable Care
Act are rising by
double-digit rates, and the
number of choices available
to consumers in many markets
is shrinking for 2017, the
Obama administration has
confirmed.
The singles will come in
four different models.
They'll look just like
standard shingles, but
they'll be made of glass,
allowing sunlight to pass
through.
Musk told reporters the
tempered glass is "tough as
steel" and it will survive
anything mother nature
throws at it. The roofs can
also be equipped with
heating elements which would
melt snow in northern
locations.
Ego-separation also creates
a sense of incompleteness.
Because we’re separate from
the world, we’re like
fragments which have broken
off from the whole, and so
feel a sense of
insufficiency. There s a
kind of hole inside us which
we spend most of our lives
trying to fill (but very
rarely manage to), like cats
who were taken away from
their mother at birth and
who are always hankering for
affection and attention to
try to compensate for a
sense of lack.
The MIT will analyse
material and mechanical
features of PV devices, as
well as public policies and
private sector efforts that
have determined the price
decline. The project will
help the government,
academic and business
sectors develop investment
and policy strategies to
bring costs further down
Was Huma Abedin hiding
Hillary's supposedly
"missing laptop "in her
apartment in order to keep
it away from the FBI -- not
to protect Weiner, but to
protect Hillary? Is the
laptop that was seized in
the FBI sweep of the Abedin/
Weiner apartment as part of
the Weiner criminal probe
the one that belonged to
Hillary? A laptop that's
been missing for 2 years
Before you agree to extend
credit to a customer,
establish the credit terms.
Determine when the payment
will be due and what, if
any, late fees or penalties
will be assessed. Consider
offering a discount for
early payment or require a
certain percentage of the
total amount to be paid in
advance.
The controversial cell phone
spying tool, also known as
"IMSI catchers," has long
been used by law enforcement
to track and monitor mobile
users by mimicking a
cellphone tower and tricking
their devices to connect to
them. Sometimes it even
intercepts calls and
Internet traffic, sends fake
texts, and installs spyware
on a victim's phone.
With all of the chaos
surrounding us, you may
wonder if peace is even
possible. The mayhem we see
in the world can easily
darken our outlook and make
us think peace could never
happen. But if you’re
looking for a path to inner
peace, or a solution to the
world’s problems, first you
have to look within.
Peace is possible because
you’re here. You hold within
you the power to change the
world and restore order to a
place that’s become so far
lost that saving it once
seemed impossible, but
simply being here or
realizing you’re on a
mission isn’t enough. When
you realize what you are,
the real work begins.
Water loss is a constant
concern for drinking water
utilities. After all of the
hard (and expensive) work it
takes to get a purified
product out of the plant,
losing it to leaks and aging
infrastructure before it
reaches ratepayers can be
problematic.
The jury weighing whether
two allies of New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie
intentionally created
traffic havoc near the
George Washington Bridge
ended a third day of
deliberations without a
verdict after defense
lawyers and prosecutors held
a series of closed-door
meetings with the judge.
How do you handle nuclear
waste that will be
radioactive for millions of
years, keeping it from
harming people and the
environment?
It isn’t easy, but
Rutgers researcher Ashutosh
Goel has discovered ways to
immobilize such waste – the
offshoot of decades of
nuclear weapons production –
in glass and ceramics.
Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton’s
campaign chairman, John
Podesta, told colleagues,
“We are going to have to
dump all those emails,”
after a news report revealed
the former secretary of
state used a private email
server to conduct government
business, according to
emails published Tuesday by
WikiLeaks.
“Not to sound like
[Clinton confidante] Lanny
[Davis], but we are going to
have to dump all those
emails so better to do so
sooner than later,” John
Podesta allegedly wrote to
Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in
a March 2015 email.
The research focused on
clouds, which influence
Earth's climate by
reflecting incoming solar
radiation and reducing
outgoing thermal radiation.
As the Earth's surface
warms, the net radiative
effect of clouds also
changes, contributing a
feedback to the climate
system. If these cloud
changes enhance the
radiative cooling of the
Earth, they act as a
negative, dampening feedback
on warming. Otherwise, they
act as a positive,
amplifying feedback on
warming. The amount of
global warming due to
increased carbon dioxide is
critically dependent on the
sign and magnitude of the
cloud feedback, making it an
area of intense research.
The daily spot price of
uranium at the end of Monday
trading was $18.75/lb U308,
down $1.25 week on week and
the lowest daily price since
around mid-2004, with buyers
and sellers continuing to
conclude deals at
progressively lower prices,
as they have since
mid-October, sources said.
These days, it seems
like millennials are the
favorite scapegoat for just
about everything wrong with
the world, from vacations to
trees to the traditional
9-to-5 workday. Now, a new
report is picking on the
beleaguered generation for
exacerbating an oncoming
dearth of coffee as they
increasingly demand their
cups of joe.
The FBI continued its
scorched-earth campaign to
make itself part of every
major 2016 story today,
releasing its vault of
documents on Republican
nominee Donald Trump’s
father, Fred.
Saltwater, flowing into this
swampy, freshwater-dependent
ecosystem as a result of
rising sea levels, is
turning these stands of
hardwoods into “ghost
forests” of dead and dying
trees.
Australia's aboriginal
people are believed to be
the world's oldest
continuing civilization,
having crossed from Africa
more than 50,000 years ago.
It was thought, however,
that around 10,000 years
passed before they took up
more sophisticated tools and
settled into the country's
harsh arid interior, but a
new study has revealed they
wasted very little time at
all, developing technologies
and venturing inland within
just a few thousand years.
Biofuels are often touted as
an alternative to fossil
fuels, but many depend on
raw materials that would
quickly become scarce if
production were scaled up.
As an alternative to these
alternatives, the US
Department of Energy's
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (PNNL) has found
a way to potentially produce
30 million barrels of
biocrude oil per year from
the 34 billion gal (128
billion liters) of raw
sewage that Americans create
every day.
The intensifying military
operations and attacks at
the borders of long time
rivals, India and Pakistan
has threatened to snap the
already delicate ties
between both the nations.
In fresh gun battle
between forces from both the
countries, 24 deaths were
reported, with eight
civilians losing their
lives. Nine others were
reportedly injured in the
firing.
The FBI has found no
evidence supporting
allegations that Republican
nominee Donald Trump’s
campaign has ties to Russia,
the New York Times reported
late Monday.
According to the Times,
federal agents for months
investigated alleged
connections between key
Trump advisers and Russian
bankers, the hacking of
computers and emails
belonging to Democrats, and
even the allegation that
Trump had a secret channel
to communicate with a
Russian bank — but each
claim was found to be
unsubstantiated.
President Barack Obama has
called for "peace" and
"restraint" on the disputed
Dakota Access oil pipeline,
and says the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers is examining
whether the four-state
project can be rerouted in
southern North Dakota to
alleviate the concerns of
American Indians.
Human-induced earthquakes
could be much older than
once thought
As fracking becomes
more popular, earthquakes
are on the rise. The problem
has grown so much that
the USGS updated its
earthquake risk map this
past spring to include
seven million more
Americans.
The State Department on
Monday released hundreds of
pages of new Hillary Clinton
emails from the time that
she was secretary of state,
and at least three of them
contain
classified information.
“I stand where I’ve stood
all fall and all summer,”
Ryan (Wis.) said during an
interview on Fox News’ “Fox
and Friends” Tuesday
morning. “In fact, I’ve
already voted here in
Janesville for our nominee
last week in early voting.”
Ryan largely avoided
using GOP presidential
nominee Donald Trump’s name
during the interview and
said that he would be
campaigning for House
Republicans elsewhere when
Trump comes to campaign in
Wisconsin. The two men have
feuded throughout the 2016
election cycle.
The investigation into
Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server will
continue regardless of the
result on Election Day, Rep.
Michael McCaul said
Wednesday. But if she ends
up in the White House, she
could eventually face
impeachment proceedings.
"This investigation will
continue whether she wins or
not," the Texas Republican,
who heads the House Homeland
Security Committee, told Fox
News' "America's
Newsroom." "But
assuming she wins and the
investigation goes forward
and it looks like an
indictment is pending, at
that point in time, under
the Constitution, the House
representatives would engage
in an impeachment trial."
If that happens, he
continued, the House would
"go to the Senate and
impeachment proceedings and
removal would take place."
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(04 Nov, 05 Nov, 06 Nov).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (04
Nov), quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (05 Nov)
and quiet levels on day
three (06 Nov).
Russian gas exports via
pipeline to Europe and
Turkey in the first 10
months of 2016 were 13.05
Bcm higher year on year,
data from state-controlled
Gazprom showed Tuesday,
pointing to a surge in
supplies of some 2.3 Bcm in
October.
Gazprom's
deliveries to Europe and
Turkey -- but not including
the former Soviet Union
countries -- were 10.7 Bcm
higher year on year in the
January to September period.
Saudi Arabia will choose a
site for its first nuclear
power plant "soon" and will
announce concrete plans for
new build within the next 12
months, Khalid Al-Falih, the
country’s energy minister,
said October 20, Bloomberg
reported.
It’s not exactly new news
that climate change has an
impact on butterflies. In
the past, Care2 has detailed
the kind of danger global
warming poses to the
beautiful insects:
Led by mechanical
engineering professor John
Salmon, the students hope to
trigger energy change by
installing solar cells in
public locations you
wouldn’t think of...
As a mortgage rate shopper,
it's important to know when
today's rates are changing.
This is because, when
mortgage rates change,
mortgage lenders will not
honor rate quotes which have
not been previously
"locked".
A new book by historian
Daniel Ruddy makes one stop
and think.
Ruddy writes:
“While astute observers
saw the seeds of greatness
[in him] years before he
reached the White House,
others saw a quick-tempered,
impetuous and potentially
dangerous man who could not
be trusted to wield
presidential power. He never
shook off his reputation for
rash behavior but he did…use
it to his advantage
especially in foreign
affairs.”
Population studies
estimate that there are only
150,000 to 200,000 of
westland lowland gorillas
left in the wild, with the
species in rapid decline.
That has earned them a
Critically Endangered
ranking from the IUCN, the
organization that monitors
the world’s endangered
animal. Most western lowland
gorillas live in equatorial
Africa, the geographic area
that includes countries like
Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, the
Central African Republic and
Nigeria. In Nigeria’s Cross
River State, one subspecies
of lowland gorilla is even
more imperiled—an isolated
group of gorillas located
about 200 miles north of the
main population, which
number less than 300. A new
superhighway project slated
for the area threatens to
put them in even more
precarious situation.
Richard Broken Nose is
a spiritual leader from the
Pine Ridge reservation. On
Wednesday, October 26, he
and Leonard Little Finger,
one of the Oglala’s most
revered elders, came to pray
with the water protectors
near the Cannonball River.
The next day, October 27,
tension in camp was
whirling. The state of North
Dakota was arming and
massing a large strike-force
eight miles to the north.
When Resourceful Earth
Limited announced it would
be building a facility to
convert 35,000 tons of the
local food waste to power
each year—enough to provide
80 percent of the energy to
the nearby town of Keynsham,
U.K—the company became the
latest to employ anaerobic
digestion to reduce waste,
generate energy and cut down
on carbon emissions. It’s
localism taken to its
conclusion, not just what a
community buys, but what it
gets rid of, too
On Thursday, October
27, scores of law
enforcement officers from
seven different states
showed up with riot gear,
armored vehicles, and
military weaponry to clear
away Standing Rock’s newest
camp, the “1851 Treaty
Camp.” The camp stands
directly in the path of the
Dakota Access pipeline.
Tipis and sweat lodges were
destroyed. Vehicles were set
ablaze. More than 140
protesters were arrested.
The U.S. Geological Survey
is reporting a 6.6 magnitude
earthquake in central Italy
this morning (October 30,
2016). There are no deaths
or serious injuries reported
so far, but several people
had to be pulled from
rubble. And several
buildings have been
destroyed, including the
Basilica of St. Benedict at
the Monastery of St.
Benedict in Norcia, Italy.
At this writing, there are
11 casualties reported, with
aftershocks occurring about
every 20 minutes, according
to CNN.
Law enforcement officials
in riot gear arrested 141
people at a demonstration on
private land against
construction of the Dakota
Access Pipeline, owned by
Energy Transfer Crude Oil
Company, as police attempted
to disperse the crowd
Thursday.
Demonstrators set up the
camp just east of Highway
1806 on land the pipeline
company purchased from
private owners, but which
the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe says rightfully
belongs to them under an
1851 treaty.
In our honor ways,
when we leave this Unc’i
Maka – Grandmother
Earth, the only thing we
truly own is our word. When
you met with our people on
your campaign trail in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, you
stated that you are a lawyer
and understand treaty
documents. You told us that
you realized our treaties
were violated and you would
address these violations
against our people if you
became President.
This was your Word.
You then took a photo of us
together at that time and
then I found out you used my
photo for your campaign
brochure, even without
asking me. I accepted you as
a man of his word and
ignored people asking me if
I gave you permission,
because I thought you
understood Woope - in
keeping one’s Word.
FBI Director James Comey is
now seeking to explain
himself after facing a lot
of scrutiny for the way he
informed Congress that the
federal agency had
determined to reexamine its
investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private
email server during her
tenure as secretary of
state.
The warrant will allow the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation to examine the
emails to see if they are
relevant to its probe of the
private email server used
for government work by
Clinton, the Democratic
presidential nominee, while
she was secretary of state
from 2009 to 2013.
Laptop may contain thousands
of messages sent to or from
Mrs. Clinton’s private
server
Federal agents are preparing
to scour roughly 650,000
emails contained on the
laptop of former Rep.
Anthony Weiner to see how
many relate to a prior probe
of Hillary Clinton’s email
use, as metadata on the
device suggests there may be
thousands sent to or from
the private server that the
Democratic nominee used
while she was secretary of
state, according to people
familiar with the matter…
After 100-odd years of
factories and cars belching
out pollutants, the air
we're breathing is far from
fresh. The World Health
Organization (WHO) considers
airborne particles to be the
most damaging pollutant to
human health, and now a
Dutch company has developed
a creative solution: a giant
vacuum cleaner that pulls in
the equivalent of 32 Olympic
swimming pools of air every
hour and scrubs almost all
toxic particles out of it.
The end result is air that
complies with European
legislation on fine particle
emissions.
Bad times lie ahead for
bondholders as rising
inflation and resurging
deficits conspire to drive
up interest rates, according
to Jeffrey Gundlach.
“We’re in the eye of a
hurricane for the next three
to four years,” Gundlach,
chief executive officer of
DoubleLine Capital, said
recently at the Impact 2016
conference hosted by Charles
Schwab Corp. in San Diego.
“Come 2018, 2019 and 2020,
look out!”
The Hatch Act is a federal
law passed in 1939 which
"limits certain political
activities of federal
employees, as well as some
state, D.C., and local
government employees who
work in connection
with federally funded
programs. The law's purposes
are to ensure that federal
programs are administered in
a nonpartisan fashion, to
protect federal employees
from political coercion in
the workplace, and to ensure
that federal employees are
advanced based on merit and
not based on political
affiliation."
Sweetened beverages have
been identified as a
major contributor to the
obesity and diabetes
epidemics around the
world. To stem the sale
of sugary drinks, WHO is
now urging countries to
impose a stiff tax on
them
For decades, the links
between sugar and poor
health outcomes have
been buried, and
nutritional science has
been misdirected on
purpose — to shield
industry interests,
without regard for
public health
DC Leaks recently
disseminated hacked
correspondence revealing
just how intimate of a
relationship Coca-Cola
has with presidential
candidate Hillary
Clinton’s camp
In order to fully step into
our calling with power and
consciousness, we must first
elect to forget what it is
at birth so we may, after
years and decades, and for
some, lifetimes of soul
searching, arrive at a point
in our lives where we must
make a choice to remember
who we truly are and
deliberately call forth what
gives us highest joy.
Although it
reports officially to Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi,
the coalition is mostly made
up of groups trained by Iran
and loyal to its Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.
They have close
ties with General Qassem
Soleimani, the commander of
Iran's Quds Brigade, the
extra-territorial arm of
Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
He was seen touring the
frontlines around Mosul last
week.
n a surprise blow to
federal government control
over public lands, a jury
has delivered a not guilty
verdict for seven defendants
charged in the occupation of
Oregon’s Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge earlier this
year.
Brothers Ammon and Ryan
Bundy and five others were
found not guilty of
conspiracy following a trial
that lasted for weeks in a
Portland courtroom.
FBI Director Jim Comey's
decision to alert
congressional Republicans to
the existence of new emails
pertinent to the Hillary
Clinton email investigation
was opposed by his boss,
Attorney General Loretta
Lynch, and went against
longstanding Justice
Department policy not to
comment publicly on the
status of an ongoing
investigation, according to
media reports.
Comey said he made the
decision to go public with
the revelation there are
more emails that need to be
reviewed because he told
Congress under oath that the
Clinton private email server
investigation was completed,
a fact that was no longer
true when the new emails
came to light.
This year has
already seen some
big battery tech
breakthroughs, from
devices that charge
via bacteria, to
nanowire electrodes
that can cope with
hundreds of
thousands of cycles.
Now, researchers at
the University of
Cambridge have
turned to biology –
to cells that line
the human intestine
– for inspiration in
designing
next-generation
batteries. It's a
big step forward for
lithium-sulphur
batteries, but it'll
likely still be
years before the
tech becomes
commercially
available.
North Korea has managed to
stun the world with his
nuclear ambition and its
recent progress has caused
fears to grow across many
Asian nations. With two
nuclear tests conducted this
year, it has managed to draw
international ire from
several nations - however,
with seven out of its eight
missile tests failing - the
North has grown very
suspicious and now, Kim Jong
Un wants to uncover the
reason behind the failure.
A month into their endeavor
to finalize a preliminary
freeze pact agreed in
Algiers, OPEC countries will
gather in Vienna on Friday
for a two-day technical
meeting to try and bridge
the substantial gaps in
their positions.
Though OPEC's 14 members
emerged from Algiers with a
tentative plan to freeze
their total oil output
between 32.5 million to 33
million b/d -- its first cut
since 2008 -- almost
immediately divisions
emerged within the group
about how to accomplish
that.
Pence, the GOP vice
presidential candidate,
called in to "The Larry
Kudlow Show" after stumping
in North Carolina. When
asked what topics he and
Donald Trump would discuss
during the remainder of the
campaign, he touched on the
Clinton emails first.
Former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton herself
helped fundraise for a
Virginia PAC that donated
big money to the wife of the
FBI official who oversaw the
investigation into the
personal email server she
used while heading the State
Department, the Daily
Mail reported.
In June 2015, the
Democratic presidential
nominee headlined a
fundraiser for Common Good
VA PAC, which is run by
Clinton ally and Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe,
according to the Daily Mail.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(01 Nov, 02 Nov, 03 Nov).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days
one, two, and three (01 Nov,
02 Nov, 03 Nov).
Company still needs to find
"exact" root cause, but
ready to resume rocket
tests.
Nearly two months after a
September 1 accident on the
launch pad, SpaceX says it
is nearing the conclusion of
its investigation. Although
the company has yet to
identify the "exact root
cause" of the accident that
occurred during a static
fire test just prior to a
planned launch of a
communications satellite,
the investigation has
reached an "advanced state."
As highlighted by the
Chelyabinsk meteor impact of
2013 and the frequent
fly-bys of asteroids past
our planet, we need to keep
watching the skies for any
space rocks that may pose a
threat. The international
teams of astronomers doing
just that have now hit a
milestone: 15,000 near-Earth
objects (NEOs) have been
discovered, and there's
plenty more still to find.
Study Finds That
Antidepressants Can Double
Person’s Likelihood Of
Depression And Violence.
The analysis found an
increased likelihood of
developing feelings that
result in suicide and
violence.
In new book, vivid satellite
images of the planet evoke
what astronauts call "the
overview effect"
More than 550 people have
shucked the bonds of Earth
and visited space. They
unanimously describe the
experience as profound. But
it isn’t the empty blackness
between stars or the power
of the harnessed explosion
they ride that so affects
these space travelers. It’s
the feeling they get when
they look back at Earth.
“When we look down at the
Earth from space, we see
this amazing, indescribably
beautiful planet,” says
astronaut Ron Garan. “It
looks like a living,
breathing organism. But it
also, at the same time,
looks extremely fragile.”
A total of 10 newspapers,
two news agencies and three
magazines were closed, most
centered in the
Kurdish-dominated southeast,
according to a decree
published Saturday in the
Official Gazette. Turkish
prosecutors will now be able
to record conversations
between people convicted of
terrorism and their lawyers,
seize the audio tapes and
limit attorney-client
communication in terrorism
cases, according to a
separate decree.
One in every seven
children, 300 million,
endure the world’s most
toxic levels of outdoor air
pollution – six or more
times higher than
international guidelines –
and many die as a result,
finds a new report from
UNICEF, the United Nations
Children’s Fund.
Dirty air sickens and
kills people of all ages.
The World Health
Organization, WHO, says air
pollution kills about seven
million people a year,
nearly 12 percent of all
deaths worldwide. The
culprits are the same
pollutants that are warming
the climate, and WHO has
launched a new campaign to
clear the air.
You may believe
antibiotics will cure
all infections, but that
is rapidly changing in
an environment where
antibiotic-resistant
bacteria are flourishing
If admitted into a
hospital, the person who
last occupied your bed
may increase your risk
of developing
clostridium difficile, a
dangerous and sometimes
lethal infection
Research has
demonstrated hospital
beds harbor bacteria and
are not always cleaned
correctly, increasing
your risk of a
hospital-acquired
infection
By 2020, global wildlife
populations could drop by as
much as two-thirds as a
result of human activity,
according to a new report
from the World Wildlife Fund
(WWF). Indeed, the report
suggests the period in which
humans have been the
dominant species on Earth
could be viewed as the
world's sixth
mass-extinction event.