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With the potential to reduce
inspection times from weeks
to hours, it’s no wonder
drones are becoming an
integral part of the solar
asset manager’s toolkit.
Men have almost a 50 percent
chance of contracting the
disease at some point within
their lifetime, and women
have a 1/3 chance. Pretty
crazy isn’t it?
In a time where so much
information is coming to
light, challenging the
belief systems of so many,
it’s important to keep an
open mind to new information
to help us see through
what’s really been happening
on our planet. It’s no
secret that a small group of
corporations dominate almost
every aspect of our lives,
from energy to education,
all the way to modern day
healthcare.
The Seattle e-commerce giant
said Wednesday that it's
looking to fill more than
50,000 positions across the
United States. The
announcement comes at a time
when the labor market is
growing tight with
back-to-school and holiday
shopping around the corner.
Others will be competing for
many of those potential
hires.
Having lost tens
of thousands of coal mining
jobs to the rise in natural
gas, several states have
decided if you can’t beat
them, join them.
A bipartisan
group of lawmakers hopes to
persuade President Donald
Trump to spare a loan
program he wants to kill and
use it to help a $10 billion
gas-storage project in the
hard-hit Appalachian region
of the eastern U.S. where
coal had once dominated.
Proponents say it would help
spur new chemical, refining
and other manufacturing
industries -- and give
out-of-work miners a new
career path.
China has installed 7.21 GW
of new solar capacity in the
first quarter of 2017,
achieving another renewable
energy milestone with growth
maintaining the same pace as
during 1Q16. Of that total,
4.78 GW came from
utility-scale solar, with
the remaining 2.43 GW
originating from distributed
solar PV, bringing the
country’s cumulative solar
PV capacity up to almost 85
GW.
Whoosh! Astronomers
discovered a small asteroid
– now designated as asteroid
2017 OO1 – on July 23. That
was 3 days after it passed
1/3 the moon’s distance from
Earth.
More than just a case of
feeling sad or “down”,
depression can alter your
brain chemistry and may
sometimes be caused by
imbalances in
neurotransmitters. It may
require medical intervention
aimed at normalizing brain
chemistry.
Exercise, eating healthy
food selected for its mood
enhancing effects,
medications, counseling, and
bright light therapy are
some of the options
suggested by healthcare
practitioners. These are
options that
increase serotonin,
endorphins, and the
chemicals your brain needs
to feel optimistic, or at
the very least, not “down”.
These neurochemicals are
needed to create a good
mood.
The
U.S. military has been
accused of wasting millions
on the dark green "relish"
uniforms that stand out in
the desert setting. Only 2
percent of Afghanistan is
covered by forests.
“These problems are
serious,” Special Inspector
General John Sopko told the
House Armed Services
Committee. “They are so
serious that we started a
criminal investigation
related to the procurement
of the ANA uniforms.”
In a 2-1 decision, the
three-judge panel issued an
injunction against the
good-cause law, which
required residents to have a
viable reason for obtaining
a concealed carry pistol
license.
Awan has been the lead
suspect in an
ongoing criminal probe into
security breaches within the
House of Representatives
that was launched on Feb. 2.
He allegedly doubled charged
the U.S. House for IT
equipment and may have
exposed sensitive House
members’ information online.
According to previous
reports, Wasserman Schultz
kept Awan on her payroll,
even though he had been
banned from House servers by
Capitol Hill security.
What we label as
autism covers a
vast spectrum. One autistic
child may be able to
communicate perfectly and
perform normal daily life
tasks, while others can
barely move, and still
others can’t communicate at
all. You also have children
under this label known as
autistic “savants” who show
extraordinary abilities.
This is why it’s more
commonly referred to as
autism spectrum disorder
(ASD).
In 2015 the editor of the
Lancet study admitted
that pharmaceutical
marketing is supported by
deceitful research. Now, a
new report issued by a
distinguished doctor
provides more insight into
how drug companies
manipulate scientific
research in order to advance
corporate interests in the
realms of health and
medicine.
"The sole question here
is whether, as a matter
of law, Title VII
reaches sexual
orientation
discrimination. It does
not, as has been settled
for decades. Any efforts
to amend Title VII's
scope should be directed
to Congress rather than
the courts," according
to the DOJ's brief.
It concluded "that
Title VII does not
prohibit
discrimination
because of sexual
orientation."
It’s unfortunate to realize
that so many facts about our
world are kept hidden from
us, supposedly for the sake
of ‘national security,’ but
it’s quite evident that
there are also special
interests at stake, and
secrecy is used to preserve
and uphold these interests,
whatever they may be.
The lawsuit challenges
the 1970 Controlled
Substances Act that
classifies marijuana as a
dangerous drug with no
medical value, alongside far
more dangerous drugs such as
heroin and meth.
“Classifying cannabis as
a ‘Schedule I drug’ is so
irrational that it violates
the U.S. Constitution,” the
lawsuit contends.
FBI agents seized smashed
computer hard drives from
the home of Florida
Democratic Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz’s
information technology (IT)
administrator, according to
two sources with knowledge
of the investigation.
Pakistani-born Imran
Awan, long-time right-hand
IT aide to the former
Democratic National
Committee (DNC) Chairwoman,
has since desperately tried
to get the hard drives back,
an individual whom FBI
investigators interviewed in
the case told The Daily
Caller News Foundation’s
Investigative Group.
This past winter, Arctic sea
ice extent sank to a record
low for the 3rd straight
year. Now, NASA is looking
at the summer melt season’s
impact on the Arctic’s
oldest, thickest sea ice.
The Senate rejected a
proposal from Republican
lawmakers to repeal
Obamacare on Wednesday,
marking a significant
milestone in the
Republican Party's
years-long political
crusade to gut former
President Barack Obama's
legacy health care law.
The vote was 45-55, with
seven Republicans
opposing the measure.
The GOP-controlled House has
given tentative approval to
a $1.6 billion down payment
for President Donald Trump's
long-promised wall along the
U.S.-Mexico border. The
controversial wall money is
being given a ride on
legislation to give the
Pentagon a massive spending
boost and increase funding
for veterans medical care.
The research, which analyzed
the brains of 202 deceased
American football players,
displayed a staggeringly
high percentage of CTE
occurrences, including a 99
percent diagnosis rate for
athletes who had played in
the NFL.
Solar Activity Forecast:
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (28 Jul, 29
Jul, 30 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(28 Jul) and quiet levels on
days two and three (29 Jul,
30 Jul).
An artificial intelligence
system being developed at
Facebook has created its own
language. It developed a
system of code words to make
communication more
efficient. The researchers
shut the system down as it
prompted concerns we could
lose control of AI.
Scientists have designed a
new type of cathode that
could make the mass
production of sodium
batteries more feasible.
Batteries based on plentiful
and low-cost sodium are of
great interest to both
scientists and industry as
they could facilitate a more
cost-efficient production
process for grid-scale
energy storage systems,
consumer electronics and
electric vehicles
Beleaguered”
Attorney General Jeff
Sessions on Tuesday
announced cities that refuse
to work with Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents
will lose significant
federal grants.
“So-called
‘sanctuary’ policies make
all of us less safe because
they intentionally undermine
our laws and protect illegal
aliens who have committed
crimes,” Sessions said in a
statement announcing the
decision.
Wright had a fondness for
trophies: scalps, fingers,
ears and noses, often sliced
off while their owners were
still alive. He kept Indian
women as sexual slaves,
killing any man who
objected. And when he drank,
this mean man turned even
meaner.
In 1996, Steven M. Druker
did something very few
Americans were doing then
— learn the facts about the
massive venture to
restructure the genetic core
of the world’s food supply.
The problem of unawareness
still exists today, but it’s
getting much better thanks
to activists like Druker.
Republicans in Congress have
joined the White House in
asking questions about the
extent to which a Democratic
Party consultant may have
worked with Ukrainian
officials to hurt
then-candidate Donald
Trump's presidential bid
last year.
Different materials are
designed to tap into the
different types of energy we
waste in our day-to-day
movements. There are fabrics
that generate a charge
through friction,
thermoelectric devices that
harvest body heat, and
piezoelectric systems that
work on mechanical stress.
The Vanderbilt team's device
falls into the latter
category.
A
federal judge on Tuesday
dismissed a lawsuit by
energy companies and trade
groups to stop New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo from
providing billions of
dollars in subsidies to prop
up struggling nuclear power
plants in the state.
U.S.
District Judge Valerie
Caproni in Manhattan
rejected claims that federal
law preempted New York and
its Public Service
Commission from offering
credits to promote clean
energy and reduce reliance
on fossil-fueled or gas
plants.
The US Navy has taken
another step closer to
swapping powder for
electrons with the Office of
Naval Research (ONR)
announcing that its
electromagnetic railgun has
moved out of the laboratory.
At the 2017 Naval Future
Force Science and Technology
Expo in Washington DC, an
ONR spokesman revealed that
the weapon is ready for
field demonstrations at the
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dahlgren Division's new
railgun Rep-Rate Test Site
at Terminal Range.
Oil giants like Exxon
Mobil Corp. and Royal
Dutch Shell aren’t the
only corporations that
understood what was
happening to the climate
decades ago and covered
that knowledge up.
Utility companies
recognized that
emissions from burning
fossil fuels warmed the
planet as far back as
1968, according to a
report released Tuesday.
Geoengineering could
help offset the effects of
climate change, but is it
wise to dabble in
deliberately changing the
climate?
Human activity has been
messing with the Earth's
atmosphere since the
Industrial Revolution, and
one controversial proposal
is to attempt to slow the
effects of climate change
by… messing with the
atmosphere.
A new meta-analysis of
male fertility published
yesterday shows that between
1973 and 2011 the sperm
counts of men from western
nations have dropped by over
50 percent, reports Nicola
Davis at The Guardian.
Former Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton’s forthcoming memoir
will double down on her
claims that former FBI
Director James Comey and
Russia are to blame for her
loss in November’s
presidential election, The
Hill reported Wednesday.
First Nations in British
Columbia are continuing
their desperate battle to
save their reserves, homes
and territories from
hundreds of square miles of
wildfires raging in the
center of the province, as
the Kamloops Pow Wow Grounds
were transformed into an
outdoor shelter for
evacuees.
BRACE Industrial Group
said its employee,
56-year-old
Armando Perez, died
Thursday of injuries he
sustained in the June
29 accident at the
Tampa Electric Big Bend
Power Station.
Molten slag, a substance
that can reach temperatures
upward of 1,000 degrees,
gushed from a containment
tank and burning workers in
the vicinity.
“Looking back on that
prediction, why did you make
the prediction at the time
and are you making a new one
right now given the current
circumstances?” Ballasy
asked Gore.
“Well, first of all,
we’ve seen a lot of progress
since the first movie came
out. We have the Paris
agreement now. The cost of
renewable energy has come
down so quickly that people
are switching over.
Unfortunately, some elements
of the Earth system have
crossed a point of no
return,” Gore said.
Dr. Schaffner reports that
our detoxification abilities
have not caught up yet to
the challenges facing us –
due to all these harmful
chemicals we get exposed to
every day. When you
consider the true toxicity
of aluminum – you quickly
see why neurological
problems are on the rise.
For the first time,
scientists have extracted
full nuclear genome data
from ancient Egyptian
mummies. The results offer
exciting insights into how
different ancient
civilizations intermingled
and also establishes a
breakthrough precedent in
our ability to study ancient
DNA.
The author of the popular pH
Miracle book series will
spend the next five months
in jail, after admitting
that he illegally treated
patients at his luxury
Valley Center ranch without
any medical or scientific
training.
Adi Astl, a retired
mechanic and Toronto
resident, grew increasingly
frustrated with waiting for
city leaders to actually
build the staircase in Tom
Riley Park, and decided to
build a staircase on his own
— for a whole lot less.
Astl built the staircase
for just $550, paid for in
part by private donations,
and hired a homeless man to
help while he was at it,
according to CTV.
A new discovery by a team at
the University of Buffalo
has revealed the genetic
trace of a mysterious, and
possibly undiscovered,
ancient sub-species of human
present in the modern-day
genome of Sub-Saharan
Africans. The discovery also
indicates that interbreeding
between ancient human
species was a lot more
widespread than previously
thought.
The mandate stems from a
child support court order in
2003 that said Cornejo owed
his ex-girlfriend child
support for her
then-recently born daughter
because the mother said
there was no way Cornejo was
not the father.
Cornejo, who has three
children of his own and is
raising two of his brother’s
children, contends that he
was never notified about the
order until a sheriff showed
up at his door last year to
serve him papers claiming he
owed the massive amount of
unpaid child support. He
then took a paternity test
that proved he was not the
child’s father.
Today, I would like to
continue the series by
detailing the second
critical piece of
legislation needed in the
bill: Cutting the corporate
tax rate from 35 percent
down to 15 percent.
Simulations at ANU's
National Security College
suggest that the world is
sleepwalking towards war.
Meanwhile, international
cyber negotiations could be
set back a decade.
Cyber intelligence
operations could increase
the risk of accidental war,
according to researchers at
the Australian National
University's National
Security College.
Even in circumstances when
the law protects you from
criminal prosecution you can
count on a civil lawsuit
from the criminal or their
family members. The costs
involved with hiring a
quality defense attorney and
covering court fees are
sometimes in the tens to
hundreds of thousands of
dollars..
Back in May, the
Arecibo Observatory in
Puerto Rico detected strange
radio signals coming from
Ross 128, a red dwarf star
11 light-years away. After
closely analyzing the data
with the help of the Search
for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (SETI) project,
the team has now revealed
what they believe to be the
source of the signals – and
it's bad news for little
green men hunters.
According to the
Arecibo astronomers, "the
signals consisted of
broadband quasi-periodic
non-polarized pulses with
very strong dispersion-like
features," and they're
unusual enough that the team
has since dubbed the
observation "The Weird!
Signal," in an apparent
reference to the 1977 Wow!
Signal.
Foreign
investment and purchases in
U.S. residential real estate
skyrocketed to a new high,
fueled by a substantial
increase from Canadian
buyers.
Foreign buyers
closed on $153 billion worth
of U.S. residential
properties between April
2016 and March 2017, a 49
percent jump from the period
a year earlier...
"I don't understand why
the House and Senate
Judiciary Committees aren't
investigating a lot of this
stuff," the former House
speaker said Thursday on Fox
News' "Hannity."
He said leaks of
information must be coming
from Mueller's team.
Officials in Hawaii are
launching a campaign to help
residents plan for a nuclear
missile attack from North
Korea — much to the dismay
of the state’s tourism
industry.
The Aloha State’s
Emergency Management Agency
is kicking off an
educational campaign aimed
at helping people figure out
what to do if strongman Kim
Jung Un decides to follow
through with his
threats, according to Hawaii
News Now.
A simple conversation
can lead to neural
synchrony, according to new
research...
While the team there didn't
quite uncover our latent
psychic abilities, they did
discover that when two
people hold a conversation,
their brain waves
synchronize.
In the ongoing fight against
illegal immigration, ICE
intends to increase its edge
by hiring 10,000 new agents
and cracking down on
sanctuary cities. While
announcing preparations for
this crackdown, acting ICE
director Thomas Homan told
Washington Examiner that he
considered the law
enforcement policies of
sanctuary cities to be
“ludicrous” and the new
agents would help to
reinforce ICE operations in
these cities.
Dominion burned coal for
decades at the plant, which
sits on the Elizabeth River
near the mouth of the
Chesapeake Bay. A landfill,
pond and pits at the site
hold around 2.8 million
cubic yards of ash, the
heavy metal-laden byproduct
that's left behind when coal
is burned.
California
is poised for a swift
transformation of its
electricity landscape -- and
that could bring tumult if
preparations aren't made
soon to maintain quality and
avoid reliability problems
like rolling blackouts, the
state's leading energy
regulator is warning.
After decades of
dominance by investor-owned
utilities, electricity
markets in the state are
becoming more competitive.
I have recently
been slightly critical of
the public school system.
And by “recently” I mean
relentlessly for the last
decade. And by “slightly” I
mean that I consider the
public school system to be a
cannibalistic mutation
that brainwashes our
children, devours their
individuality and their
creativity, and annihilates
the moral values their
parents instilled in them
(if any were instilled at
all).
Measurements over Canada's
Mackenzie River Basin
suggest that thawing
permafrost is starting to
free greenhouse gases long
trapped in oil and gas
deposits.
There are two solutions to
modernizing overloaded local
grids. The “business as
usual” solution is to pay
the local utility for
upgrades that include bigger
transformers, wiring,
control systems and battery
storage. Unfortunately,
ratepayers get stuck with
higher electric bills for
this.
Given how politically
charged Washington currently
is — and the dangers that
has posed to Republicans —
people were outraged that a
news outlet would show the
world Spicer’s private
residence where he lives
with his wife and two
children.
When the U.S. Surgeon
General visited Oklahoma
last year, he declared the
“prescription opioid
epidemic that is sweeping
across the U.S. has hit
Indian Country particularly
hard.” This is absolutely
felt in the Cherokee Nation,
where opioid-related
overdoses have more than
doubled in recent years and
more Cherokee Nation
citizens suffer from opioid
addiction.
he five teens who taunted a
disabled man while
videotaping his drowning in
a Florida pond earlier this
month — never making an
attempt to assist him — will
now face charges.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (25 Jul, 26
Jul, 27 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(25 Jul) and quiet levels on
days two and three (26 Jul,
27 Jul).
The robot found large
amounts of solidified
lava-like rocks and lumps in
layers as thick as 3 feet on
the bottom inside of a main
structure called the
pedestal that sits
underneath the core inside
the primary containment
vessel of Fukushima's Unit 3
reactor,..
Few issues are as confusing
or multifaceted as the
effect of temperature on pH.
Most users understand that
temperature changes the pH
value and that temperature
compensation corrects for
this effect. But they’re not
quite sure how it works. And
most don’t understand that
there is an effect of
tempera ture that is very
real and yet another that
can cause error.
"If the leaks don't stop,
I'm going to pare down the
staff, because it's just not
right. I think it's not fair
to the president; it's
actually not fair to America
or the people in the
government.
Every fundamental particle
in the universe has an
antiparticle, which has the
same mass but the opposite
charge. If a particle should
ever meet its antiparticle,
the two would annihilate
each other in a flash of
energy. But it's long been
theorized that there's an
exception to the rule, with
certain particles that are
actually their own
antiparticles. Now,
scientists from Stanford and
the University of California
have found the first strong
evidence for this type of
particle, which they dub the
"angel particle."
This new type of paint from
RMIT University turns solar
energy and water vapor into
hydrogen fuel...
This paint from RMIT isn’t
the only one going
energy-efficient lately.
Late 2016, researchers from
South Korea have introduced
thermoelectric paint that
converts heat to
electricity, while in May
this year, a paint producer
has made the first
lime-based graphene paint
that saves on heating costs.
Solar plants that supply
electricity at competitive
prices after the sun goes
down are about to become a
reality in the Middle East,
according to one of the
region’s biggest developers
of power plants.
One key front in the battle
against Alzheimer's is early
detection of the disease.
Breakthroughs in this area
could open up more treatment
options that are less
imposing on the patient, and
researchers have just
reported a promising advance
in the form of a blood test
that could reveal signs of
Alzheimer's long before more
obvious symptoms appear.
For the feasibility studies,
a hydrogen fuel-cell truck
from Toyota Motor North
America will haul cargo
between the port and
warehouse facilities up to
70 miles away...
This technology has already
been used as fuel for
spaceships by NASA. Making
it even more desirable and
interesting is the fact that
it is more efficient than
diesel or gas.
“At the time of European
exploration and colonization
of North America,” the
authors say, “the only
inhabitants were Indians.”
Before Christian Europeans
invasively brought the words
“Indian” and “Indians” to
the land mass now typically
called “North America” or
“the Americas,” there were
no people or peoples living
here who were identified
by those names. Not one
original nation of this part
of the planet
self-identified as “Indian”
or “Indians” prior to
Christian European
colonization.
Damned if you do, damned if
you don't. How many times
have you heard this? More
importantly, how many times
have you said it about a
situation you were in? This
is called a double bind: the
feeling that whatever
decision you make, you are
wrong. Everyone experiences
this at some point; some are
more susceptible to it than
others.
Our waste is so efficiently
removed from our sight that
we become more inclined to
dispose increasing
amounts it. But what if it
wasn’t so easy for us to
toss things in our trash
cans, and then dump that
waste into the street bins
once they got too full, and
then have those bins picked
up once, if not more times,
a week? We would soon learn
how much trash we truly
accumulate in such little
time, and with nowhere
to toss it so quickly and
efficiently, we’d be
provoked to find ways to
scale it back.
Just 412,000 barrels of
Saudi Arabian light crude
stashed in a Southeast Texas
salt cavern. In the wake of
the Arab oil embargo, which
sent prices through the roof
and forced Americans to
ration gasoline, creating a
national reserve seemed like
an obvious way to protect
U.S. consumers from global
supply shocks...Forty years
later, the world has
changed, and Washington is
torn on whether the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
has outlived its usefulness.
The U.S. is awash in crude
In about 5 billion years'
time, our Sun will use up
its reserves of hydrogen and
begin to cool down and
expand, cooking the Earth in
a miasma of heat and
radiation. Given our current
trajectory, humans will
probably be long gone by
then anyway, but at least
one lifeform will likely
still be plodding along: the
utterly unkillable
tardigrade
US refiners stand to lose
the most if the Trump
administration imposes
sanctions that restrict or
ban imports of Venezuelan
crude, Venezuela's oil
minister Nelson Martinez
said Monday.
He noted that many
refineries in the US Gulf
Coast have made significant
investments in the past few
decades to optimize runs of
heavy oil, which is
primarily what Venezuela
produces.
To improve fuel efficiency,
48-V systems are
supplementing 12-V
batteries, especially in the
emerging world of mild
hybrids. ...
That said, the 12-V battery
is here to stay, at least
for the near term—i.e., the
next few years. But it has
its many drawbacks,
including the fact that the
lead element is hardly in
vogue ecologically. And
except for a few
applications that need its
heavy weight, the heavier
higher-voltage batteries
like 24 V or 36 V just weigh
down the car further.
Verily, an independent
subsidiary of Google's
parent company Alphabet, has
just launched its Debug
Fresno project, which will
see the release of 20
million sterile male
mosquitoes across two
neighborhoods in Fresno
Country, California. This
will be the largest mosquito
field study ever conducted
in the US with an aim of
curbing the population of
the disease-carrying insect.
The core problem is not that
Republicans are not trying
hard enough. The problem is
that Republicans have set
unattainable goals and have
publicly crashed on the
rocks of the impossible for
six solid months.
Batteries are used in
renewable energy (RE)
systems for many reasons.
For example, if your home is
off-grid and powered by a PV
array, you’ll need to store
the solar energy in
batteries for use at night
or during cloudy weather.
When you're venturing into
the wilderness, the ability
to quickly boil water is
convenient and, potentially,
crucial for maintaining good
hygiene. Although fire and a
saucepan is one way to get
your water bubbling away, a
St Louis-based team has an
alternative solution in the
form of Cauldryn, a
battery-powered mug.
By their very name, black
holes exude mystery. They’re
unobservable, uncontrollable
and—for more than 50 years
after their first prediction
in 1916—undiscovered.
Astronomers have since found
evidence of black holes in
our universe, including a
supermassive one at the
center of our own Milky Way.
Yet much remains unknown
about these cosmic enigmas,
including what exactly
happens to the stuff that
they suck up with their
titanic gravity.
So, Song has concluded that
if BACE1 can be directed to
chop up the precursor
proteins into smaller
strands, we can gain greater
control over eliminating or
delaying the disease.
Researchers identified
simple behavioral rules that
allow these tiny creatures
to collaboratively build
elaborate structures – rafts
and towers – with no one in
charge.
Drop a clump of 5,000 fire
ants in a pond of water. In
minutes the clump will
flatten and spread into a
circular pancake that can
float for weeks without
drowning the ants.
Drought and rising demand
for cooling water are
putting freshwater supply
and power plants at risk...
Take the average amount of
water flowing over Niagara
Falls in a minute. Now
triple it. That’s almost how
much water power plants in
the United States take in
for cooling each minute, on
average...
This tremendous volume of
water has to come from
somewhere. Across the
country, water demand from
power plants is combining
with pressure from growing
populations and other needs,
and is straining our water
resources—especially during
droughts and heat waves
Here’s why, after a 2000-era
plateau, global levels of
the greenhouse gas are
hitting new highs...
When it comes to global
warming, carbon dioxide is
the 800-pound gorilla: it’s
the most abundant of the
long-lived greenhouse gases
that human activities
generate. But ounce for
ounce, methane (CH4) traps
more heat, and it accounts
for about 20% of the
greenhouse gases produced by
human activities. Strangely,
though, global methane
levels “flat lined” from
1999 to 2006.
Depending on who you talk
to, Google Glass was either
a device way ahead of its
time and the general public
just wasn't ready for it, or
an expensive technological
dead-end that solved a
problem no one ever had.
Google Glass raised thorny
privacy concerns and early
adopters were quickly
labelled "Glassholes" giving
the device a public stigma
it might never overcome.
When the universe was just a
few microseconds old, it
existed as a strange soupy
substance called quark-gluon
plasma (QGP), which exhibits
a whole host of unusual
quantum effects. Now, for
the first time, IBM
researchers have observed a
gravitational anomaly in
earthly materials, which was
previously only thought to
occur in QGP in deep space
or just after the Big Bang.
Even in America’s most
pristine wildernesses,
unwanted sound is changing
landscapes
As transportation networks
expand and urban areas grow,
noise from sources such as
vehicle engines is spreading
into remote places.
Human-caused noise has
consequences for wildlife,
entire ecosystems
and people. It reduces the
ability to hear natural
sounds, which can mean the
difference between life and
death for many animals,
and degrade the calming
effect that we feel when we
spend time in wild places.
Woods [1] gives figures of
1,514 to 2,725 litres of
water consumption per
megawatt-hour (MWh) for
nuclear power reactors and
the Nuclear Energy Institute
gives identical figures.[2]
For a 1 GW reactor, that
equates to daily water
consumption of 36.3 to 65.4
million litres. The lower
figure is for once-through
cooling, the higher figure
is for systems using cooling
towers (a.k.a. closed-loop,
recirculating).
The Bureau of Indian
Affairs will claim ownership
of rights-of-way. Energy
companies –both on and off
the reservation – seek ways
to seize land through
eminent domain, legal
loopholes, or dishonest
bargaining.
And tribal citizens have
to jump through a plethora
of hoops just to open a
business, a process that
takes longer than obtaining
an engineering degree from
Arizona State University.
Energy development in
Indian country is no
exception.
For the first time in years,
pay for lowest-income
Americans is rising faster
than for other groups.
Weekly pay for earners at
the lowest 10th percentile
of the wage scale rose at a
faster rate last quarter,
from a year earlier, than
any other group measured by
the Labor Department --
including those at the top
of the income scales who
earn five times as much.
The expansive webs of
pipeline that sprawl beneath
many of the world's urban
areas serve as a literal
lifeline for thirsty
inhabitants, but we don't
often think about how much
is going to waste. According
to MIT, an average of 20
percent of the water flowing
through today's distribution
systems is lost to holes
along its journey, so
researchers are developing a
small robot that can be
deposited through a fire
hydrant to hunt out the
leaks.
On Aug. 21, 2017, scientists
are looking to this year’s
total solar eclipse passing
across America to improve
our modelling capabilities
of Earth’s energy. Guoyong
Wen, a NASA scientist
working for Morgan State
University in Baltimore, is
leading a team to gather
data from the ground and
satellites before, during
and after the eclipse so
they can simulate this
year’s eclipse using an
advanced computer model,
called a 3-D radiative
transfer model.
The U.S. Navy already has
deployed lasers that can
take out land- and air-based
targets, and is developing
second-generation weapons to
hit missiles at the speed of
light, CNN reported.
The LaWS, or Laser
Weapons System, is being
used onboard the USS Ponce
amphibious transport ship
and can take down a drone
aircraft like the ones
heavily used by Iran, North
Korea, China, Russia and
others.
Missing
paperwork reportedly may
ultimately erase $5 billion
dollars of debt for loans
that tens of thousands of
former students took out
over a decade ago.
National
Collegiate Student Loan
Trusts — a 15-trust company
that purchases private
student loan debt —
reportedly lost the
paperwork documenting these
loans’ chains of ownership,
according to cases brought
forward in Pennsylvania and
Delaware, the New York Times
reported.
Once upon a time, Cleveland
was the 5th largest city in
the U.S. and ranked 1st in
transportation equipment;
2nd in machinery; 3rd in
iron-and-steel making;
4th in metal products; and
5th in electrical
machinery...Today, we see a
city that is becoming one of
the most livable cities in
America as well as
developing sustainable
practices that attract young
and old residents alike.
In December
2015, the US Energy
Information Administration
(EIA)
announced a major
milestone in the life and
times of small-scale solar:
the agency would start
acknowledging the resource
by state in its regular
monthly generation and
capacity report.
Just
imagine that, though. Across
the country, enough rooftops
had started wearing enough
solar hats as to potentially
shift the profile of
states’ electricity use and
needs.
Doctors have used
hyperbaric oxygen therapy,
where a patient is
administered pure oxygen in
a pressure-controlled
chamber, to reverse brain
damage in a toddler saved
from drowning
If medical professionals can
intervene quickly enough,
the heart can be restarted
after a person has
officially died, but the
resulting brain damage often
means they struggle to
return to their former motor
function and neurological
capacity. Now, doctors at
LSU Health New Orleans and
the University of North
Dakota have successfully
reversed the brain damage of
a two-year-old drowning
victim using oxygen therapy
techniques.
Wind and solar power
don’t pose a significant
threat to the reliability of
the U.S. power grid, U.S.
Department of Energy staff
members said in a draft
report, contradicting
statements by their leader
Rick Perry.
"The power system is more
reliable today due to better
planning, market discipline,
and better operating rules
and standards," according to
a July draft of the study
obtained by Bloomberg.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on day
one (21 Jul) and expected to
be very low on days two and
three (22 Jul, 23 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and three (21 Jul, 23 Jul)
and quiet to active levels
on day two (22 Jul).
In good news for anyone
coming face to face with a
Tyrannosaurus rex, a new
study indicates that humans
could outrun the fearsome
dinosaur. By combining two
separate biomechanical
computer simulations,
scientists at the University
of Manchester have concluded
that running would have been
out of the question, and
even the giant meat eater's
walking speed would have
been limited due to its size
and weight.
Moscow and Washington are in
talks to create a joint
cyber security working
group, RIA news agency
reported on Thursday, citing
Russia's special envoy on
cyber security Andrey
Krutskikh.
Sen. John McCain has an
aggressive brain cancer —
the same type that felled
former Sen. Ted Kennedy and
Joe Biden's eldest son, CNN
reported Wednesday night.
Spain's Civil Guard said
that the criminal ring
acquired horses in Spain and
Portugal that were "in poor
shape, old, or had been
designated 'not apt for
consumption.'" After
falsifying paperwork and
substituting microchips used
to identify the horses, the
animals were slaughtered and
the meat shipped to Belgium.
To pass a tax cut bill this
year, Congressional
Republicans should start
outlining and explaining
their plan for deep tax cuts
now. Their survival in the
2018 elections will depend
on it.
The thawing permafrost soils
in the Arctic regions might
contribute to the greenhouse
effect in two ways: On the
one hand rising temperatures
lead to higher microbial
methane production close to
the surface. On the other
hand deeper thawing opens
new pathways for old,
geologic methane. This is
shown in a study in the
Mackenzie Delta (Canada),
conducted by scientists from
the German Research Centre
for Geosciences GFZ, the
Alfred Wegener Institute,
Helmholtz Centre for Polar
and Marine Research (AWI)
and partners in the US. The
study is published in the
journal Nature
Scientific Reports.
Memphis
residents are as proud of their
sweet-tasting water as their
barbecue and blues. The
water — drawn from the
Memphis Sand aquifer beneath
this
Tennessee city —
is so revered that a city
utility called it a
"community treasure" in an
online report on its
cleanliness.
So alarms went off after
state environmental
officials and the
Tennessee Valley Authority
revealed this week that high
levels of arsenic and lead
had been found in
groundwater beneath the
coal-fired Allen Fossil
Plant in southwest
Memphis. The
toxins were detected in
wells where pollution is
monitored from ponds that
hold coal ash — the dirty
byproduct left from burning
coal to generate
electricity.
The Trump
administration has withdrawn
or delayed 860 proposed
regulations in its first
five months, the beginnings
of a regulatory overhaul
meant to bolster economic
growth.
Federal agencies
have withdrawn 469 proposed
regulations compared to a
fall 2016 report when Barack
Obama was president,
according to figures from
the White House budget
office. This includes 19
regulations with an economic
impact of $100 million or
more. Another 391
regulations have been
delayed for further
evaluation and
consideration.
A renewed push for passing
the healthcare replacement
is ignited with Trump
stepping in boldly. Unlike
the past seven years, as
soon as the senate passes
the bill, the president will
sign it immediately. It’s
time to reach an agreement
and repeal Obamacare!
On the morning of June 30
2017, a federal judge
sentenced an Amish man to
six years in prison. His
crimes: making and selling
herbal health products that
were not “adequately
labeled”, and obstructing a
federal agency.
By the time it reached a
rocky swimming hole several
miles downstream, it was a
roaring torrent 6 feet (1.8
meters) high, and an
extended family celebrating
a birthday while seeking
refuge from the summer heat
had no warning — and no
chance to escape.
The financial burden for
obligated parties to comply
with the US' ethanol
blending mandate in 2018
could be eased by higher
gasoline consumption
reducing the per gallon
costs of biofuels.
Though it is
well-established that
the aftermath of the
Fukushima nuclear disaster
is a detriment to human
health, wildlife and the
environment, the head
company responsible for the
Fukushima clean-operation,
Tokyo Electric Power Company
(TEPCO), is intent on
dumping water tainted with
tritium — a radioactive form
of hydrogen — into the
Pacific Ocean. Presently,
there are about 580 barrels
of the radiative water which
were used to cool the
nuclear plant’s damaged
reactors.
Many predictions examining
the potential consequences
of a nuclear strike focus on
either the immediate
fatalities or the
radioactive aftermath. A
team from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln has taken a
broader look at what effect
the detonation of a nuclear
weapon would be on global
climate patterns – and the
conclusions are a little
frightening.
Could the storms that once
engulfed the Great Plains in
clouds of black dust in the
1930’s once again wreak
havoc in the U.S.? A new
statistical model developed
by researchers at Princeton
University and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
predicts that climate change
will amplify dust activity
in parts of the U.S. in the
latter half of the 21st
century, which may lead to
the increased frequency of
spectacular dust storms that
have far-reaching impacts on
public health and
infrastructure
On Wednesday, I wrote about
President Trump’s remarkable
address to the Polish people
in Warsaw on July 6 that he
made before attending the
G-20 Summit in Hamburg,
Germany.
Today, I’d like to discuss
the hysterical, absurd, and
truly looney response that
many in the media had to it.
In today's dynamic energy
industry, the need for
flexible, efficient
electricity generation is
increasingly important. The
days of predictable peak
demand patterns are behind
us. As wind and solar energy
sources achieve greater
market penetration, their
intermittent energy supplies
present challenges for
Independent System Operators
(ISOs) to balance loads and
maintain frequencies. These
challenges are often
intensified at
sub-transmission voltages.
The issue garnered a lot of
backlash when it was first
learned that six teenage
girls had been denied U.S.
visas to participate in next
week’s FIRST Global
Challenge, an international
robotics competition in
Washington, D.C., that will
include participants
from about 160 countries,
according to Politico.
C2 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on day
one (18 Jul) and expected to
be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on day
two (19 Jul) and expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on day three (20 Jul).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (18
Jul) and quiet to unsettled
levels on days two and three
(19 Jul, 20 Jul). Protons
greater than 10 Mev have a
slight chance of crossing
threshold on day one (18
Jul).
They plan to watch this
curious red dwarf star again
over the weekend.
Scientists at the
1000-foot wide Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico
are baffled by the
“peculiar” signals coming
from the red dwarf star Ross
128 and its accompanying
planets. In hopes of solving
the mystery, the researchers
announced this week that
they plan to watch the
rust-colored star on Sunday,
July 16, which at less than
11 light-years away, is one
of the closest stars to our
solar system.
So lets not overestimate the
extent of the problem of
those with pre-existing
conditions. The $70 billion
in the Senate bill is more
than enough and the option
always exists to change the
law to let the 6,000 very
ill people into Medicare for
coverage even though they
are under 65.
Not since the days of
the now-legendary Silk Road
has a single site dominated
the dark web's black market
as completely, and for as
long, as the online bazaar
known as AlphaBay. And with
the news that the site has
been torn down by a law
enforcement raid—and one of
its leaders found dead in a
Thai prison—the dark web
drug trade has fallen into a
temporary state of chaos.
Scientists are now beginning
to fully appreciate the
life-giving effects of
sediment, which some
researchers, as well as
people who live along
waterways, once viewed as a
malevolent force that choked
the life out of rivers,
streams, and wetlands. Now,
as global warming steadily
melts glaciers and polar ice
sheets, quickening the pace
of sea level rise,
scientists say that a severe
shortage of river-borne
sediment — most of it
trapped behind dams — will
increasingly be felt along
the world’s coasts.
The U.S. government’s role
in the heroin (or opium)
industry began during the
Vietnam War and has
continued ever since, moving
from South East Asia to
Afghanistan to the United
States. The opium epidemic
was fuelled by the
government, and continues to
worsen thanks to Big Pharma
and the medical industry.
Xenoestrogens or chemical
estrogens or synthetic
estrogens or environmental
estrogens cause hormone
imbalance. Herbs can be
phytoestrogens or plant
estrogens also contribute to
loss of balance. The loss of
balance is typically too
much estrogen or Estrogen
Dominance. If these
xenoestrogens and
phytoestrogens are
eliminated from the
patient's environment, the
Estrogen Dominance typically
goes away. Topical
progesterone cream may also
be used to balance out and
counter the effect of too
much estrogen, but only if
the xenoestrogen load is not
too much.
We have plenty to be
grateful for, we’ve learned
so much from everything that
we’ve experienced, and we
still have lots ahead of us,
yet we choose to dwell on
that which seemingly did not
or currently isn’t going
according to plan.
If you’re unsure
whether you’re guilty of
making your life seem worse
than it actually is,
consider these three, clear
signs that you’re sabotaging
your own happiness, in both
video and written form:
A lot has been happening
in Washington, D.C. lately,
and so it's easy for energy
updates to get lost in the
noise.
Last month, however,
President Donald Trump
dedicated the entire week of
June 26 to the topic of
energy. While the event
was overshadowed by a
vicious public feud with two
cable news hosts, the
president issued four tweets
related to energy, and his
administration hosted
multiple events on the
topic.
Soon after the arrival of
Columbus, detailed
descriptions of the
inventions of Indigenous
Peoples began to make their
way back to Europe. Not
satisfied that “savages”
would be able to generate
such innovation, rumors
began to spread that the
Americas were simply a lost
colony of Christians or
Israelites. Such rumors
still exist today and in
fact continue to be
discussed by archeologists.
The House Appropriations
Committee on
Tuesday released a bill
allocating $1.6 billion
to begin construction of
a physical barrier along
the U.S. border with
Mexico, one of President
Trump’s central campaign
promises.
The bill funding the
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) for
fiscal year 2018 also
negates one of Trump’s
central promises, that
Mexico would pay for the
construction of the
wall.
Hard drives will one day
seem as primitive as punch
cards or floppy disks, and
it may turn out that the
medium that replaces them
was inside us all along:
DNA. There's a mind-boggling
amount of data naturally
stored in the genome of
every organism, with density
and durability far beyond
our best efforts. Now a
Harvard team has created a
biological hard drive, using
the CRISPR gene-editing tool
to record information to
(and retrieve it from) the
genome of living bacteria.
Of the 13,000 chemicals
used in cosmetics, only
10 percent have been
safety tested;
manufacturers are tasked
with testing the safety
of their products but do
not have to release the
testing data to the FDA
The number of adverse
events from exposure to
personal care products
is likely underreported,
as found by the FDA in
2014 when 127 event
reports came to the
agency about WEN
haircare, but the
company received over
21,000 complaints
Since manufacturers are
not mandated to share
adverse event reports
publicly or with the
FDA, you can protect
yourself by using the
EWG database to find
safe personal care
merchandise
Although it has not been
well studied, flossing
has been a basic tenet
of developing healthy
gums and reducing the
potential for
periodontal disease
While the development of
nonstick material has
made flossing easier, it
increases your exposure
to toxic chemicals
To avoid unnecessary
toxic exposure, confirm
your favorite floss is
free of toxic chemicals,
switch brands or use a
water flosser that
directs a pulsating
stream of water to
remove debris from
between your teeth
The upper-ocean heat content
anomaly was above average
during June, reflecting
above-average sub-surface
temperatures across the
central and eastern Pacific.
In the atmosphere, tropical
convection was suppressed
over the west-central
tropical Pacific and
enhanced over the Maritime
Continent. The lower-level
and upper-level winds were
near average over most of
the tropical Pacific
Oxygen in the seawater is
not only vital to most
marine organisms, its
concentrations also affect
the chemistry of the ocean
and that of the atmosphere
above. In oceanic regions
with very little oxygen, for
example, large amounts of
the potent greenhouse gas
nitrous oxide, also called
laughing gas, are produced
via biogeochemical processes
and can then be released to
the atmosphere.
The quantity of renewable
biogas contracted is
sufficient to support a 2.8
megawatt SureSource 3000TM
fuel cell power plant. The
digester gas agreement
enables FuelCell Energy to
proceed under the State of
California Bioenergy Market
Adjustment Tariff (BioMAT)
program to execute a twenty
year power purchase
agreement (PPA) with the
electric utility SCE to
purchase the renewable and
carbon neutral power for
supply to the California
electric grid.
An Antarctic suspense story
has come to an end with one
of the largest icebergs ever
observed breaking off the
Larsen C Ice Shelf. The
slow-motion breakup was
closely monitored by
scientists, who say that the
6,000 km² (2,300 mi²) ice
floe now adrift in the sea
is 190 m (625 ft) thick,
weighs more than a trillion
tonnes, and represents 10
percent of the shelf.
Senate Republican leaders
released a revised
health-care plan Thursday
that would provide an added
$70 billion to stabilize
insurance exchanges over a
decade in an effort to win
over GOP holdouts.
The change comes on top
of $112 billion provided for
the same purpose in an
earlier measure by Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, who is hoping the
modified bill will revive
prospects for their
embattled Obamacare repeal
effort, which stalled about
two weeks ago.
Earlier this month,
cattlemen and rancher groups
sued the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA) over last
year’s repeal of country of
origin labeling (COOL) for
meat. The lawsuit alleges
that the USDA’s regulations
are in violation of the Meat
Inspection Act, which
requires slaughtered meat
from other countries to be
clearly marked. The
plaintiffs allege that
current USDA rules allow
meat from other countries to
be sold with a “Product of
USA” label alongside real
domestic products.
Either way the dance was
absolutely mesmerizing. I
don't know about you, but I
had never seen anything like
it in my neck of the woods
and was wondering a little
bit more about the dance and
its origins. I reached out
to the dancer in the videos
and she was willing to share
her story as possibly one of
the only female Grizzly Bear
dancers in the world. Below
is a little bit more about
her journey.
Every time President
Trump scores a great
success—such as his address
to a joint session of
Congress, his trip to Saudi
Arabia and Israel, or his
recent speech in
Poland—another damaging leak
lands on the front page of
The New York Times
or the Washington Post.
For the second time in New
York City Mayor Bill De
Blasio’s tenure, police
officers of the NYPD turned
their back to him in a show
of contempt Tuesday at a
funeral for a police
officer.
Win32/Industroyer, some
believe, may be the biggest
cybersecurity threat to the
power grid since Stuxnex. An
article in The National
Interest magazine warned a
successful cyber attack on
the grid could cause up to
$1 trillion in damage.
Texas deregulated its
electric utility market 15
years ago and turned it into
a competitive market where
retail electric companies
competed to sell power plans
at different Residential
electricity prices have
fallen over the last decade
for Texans who live in areas
with competitive electricity
markets ...
Flexibility is everywhere in
nature. It is the same
quality, whether it is found
in a plant, a building, a
human body or a human mind.
Flexibility is the ability
to adapt, to be willing to
change, to be open, to bend
and to respond with
sensitivity. It is the
opposite of rigidity. A
rigid mind is full of fixed
habits and strong views on
what is right and wrong,
good and bad, intelligent
and stupid, just and unjust,
etc. A flexible mind is open
to new ways of viewing the
world; it is not prejudiced.
The international journal Science
of the Total Environment has
just published a
compelling study from the
Republic of Korea,
where autism prevalence is
high. The study identifies a
strong relationship between
prenatal and early childhood
exposure to mercury and
autistic behaviors in
five-year-olds.
California regulators
stated that glyphosate
will appear on the
state’s list of
cancerous chemicals
beginning July 7, 2017
This means new labels
may be appearing within
the next year in
California that include
a cancer warning on
Roundup and other
glyphosate-containing
weed killers
An increasing number of
lawsuits are popping up
across the U.S.,
alleging Monsanto’s
Roundup caused cancer
and the company engaged
in fraudulent activity
and deceptive
advertising of its weed
killer
Quantum entanglement is one
of the most
counter-intuitive and
perplexing effects in modern
physics. Two objects can be
separated by great
distances, yet they share
the same quantum states.
Famed physicist Albert
Einstein once described the
process of affecting an
object in this way as
“spooky action at a
distance,” and a team of
Chinese scientists just took
spooky into space. For the
first time, quantum
“teleportation” has been
demonstrated between Earth
and an object in space.
China's intelligence network
includes a whopping 25,000
spies now operating in the
United States — as well as
another 15,000 American
recruits, The Washington
Free Beacon reports.
Moscow attorney Natalia
Veselnitskaya was given
special permission to enter
the United States by
then-Attorney General
Loretta Lynch, but the
purpose was supposed to have
been to work on a court case
in New York City, and her
stay was supposed to have
been limited to October 2015
to early January 2016, The
Hill reported Wednesday.
C8 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 days one, two, and
three (14 Jul, 15 Jul, 16
Jul). The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
quiet to unsettled levels on
days one and three (14 Jul,
16 Jul) and unsettled to
active levels on day two (15
Jul).
In the last few months, the
crack between Larsen C and
the Antarctic mainland has
been growing by about 10 m
(33 ft) a day, and it's
speeding up. The crack now
extends some 200 km (124
miles) across the ice, with
a mere 5 km (3 miles)
standing between it and the
ocean. When it completes the
journey and breaks off, the
resulting iceberg will have
an area of about 6,000 sq km
(2,317 sq mi).
A George Washington
University researcher helped
design and construct a
prototype for a new solar
cell that integrates
multiple cells stacked into
a single device capable of
capturing nearly all of the
energy in the solar
spectrum.
The new design, which
converts direct sunlight to
electricity with 44.5
percent efficiency, has the
potential to become the most
efficient solar cell in the
world.
Throughout much of 2016 and
into the winter of 2017,
water protectors stood fast
against the Dakota Access
Pipeline (DAPL), even in the
face of severe injury. The
egregiousness of the actions
taken against unarmed water
protectors caught the
attention of the Wallace
Global Fund, founded by
Henry A. Wallace, who was
Vice President of the United
States under Franklin D.
Roosevelt. The progressive
fund awarded $250,000 to the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
and pledged to invest an
additional $1 million in
renewable energy
initiatives, to be led by
the tribe.
Vast amounts of toxic
mercury are accumulating in
the Arctic tundra,
threatening the health and
well-being of people,
wildlife and waterways,
according to a UMass Lowell
scientist investigating the
source of the pollution.
Rising temperatures due to
global warming will make it
harder for many aircraft
around the world to take off
in coming decades, says a
new study. During the
hottest parts of the day, 10
to 30 percent of fully
loaded planes may have to
remove some fuel, cargo or
passengers, or else wait for
cooler hours to fly, the
study concludes. The study,
which is the first such
global analysis, appears
today in the
journal Climatic Change.
Reciprocating engines have
been identified as a
cost-effective resource to
help compensate for power
fluctuations and other
issues associated with the
expansion of renewable
energy resources, including
a growing supply of private
solar power systems and
TEP’s own community-scale
solar and wind resources.
On June 22, 2017, the
U.S. suspended imports
of fresh beef from
Brazil. Among the
problems discovered
during inspections were
abscesses in the meat,
thought to be due to
infected vaccination
sites
For the past two years,
Brazil’s Federal Police
have investigated
corruption charges
within the beef
industry. Dozens of food
inspectors have been
arrested, and one
meatpacker has been
fined $3.2 billion
While traceability is
key for food safety,
country of origin
labeling (COOL) was
rejected by the World
Trade Organization in
2014 for being
“discriminatory.”
Ranchers are now suing
the USDA to reintroduce
COOL
The Earth is actively
fighting back against
human-induced climate
change. Some of the excess
carbon dioxide we're pumping
into the air is absorbed by
"carbon sinks" like forests
and oceans, which helps to
slow down – but not stop –
the greenhouse effect.
Unfortunately, a new study
has found that oceans are
gradually becoming less
effective carbon sinks,
thanks to rising global
temperatures.
Sound healing is not a ‘new’
method of healing. It’s been
around since at least the
invention of the Royal Rife
frequency machine. Ancient
indigenous cultures including
the Egyptians, Tibetans,
Sumerians, Aboriginals, etc.
understood the power of
vibration more than 5,000
years ago for treating a
whole handbag full of
illnesses.
North Korean dictator Kim
Jong Un is lucky to be
alive, according to U.S.
military officials who say
that they had the communist
leader in their crosshairs
while he oversaw a missile
launch earlier this month,
Business Insider reported.
Sebastian Gorka, the deputy
assistant to President
Donald Trump, appeared on
CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday and
laid into host Alisyn
Camerota and CNN for
“selectively choosing” what
crimes to cover and which to
dismiss based on political
party affiliation.
Hackers are targeting the
networks of power plant
operators in the U.S. and
have been since May,
according to reports citing
the FBI and Homeland
Security...
It is not immediately clear
how the hackers gained
access, how many facilities
were compromised, or what
the motive was. However, the
agencies said these cyber
attacks may have been
probing attacks meant to map
out network weaknesses for
future attacks.
The
United States and Qatar
signed an agreement on
Tuesday aimed at combating
the financing of terrorism,
as U.S. Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson visited Doha
to try to end a month-long
rift between Western-allied
Arab states.
Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain, the United
Arab Emirates and Egypt
imposed sanctions on Qatar
last month, accusing it of
financing extremist groups
and allying with the Gulf
Arab states' arch-foe Iran,
allegations Doha denies.
Senator Edward Markey has
called for U.S. federal
government departments to
reveal how many nuclear
power plants have been
impacted by cyber attacks
and demonstrate sufficient
cyber security measures are
in place, following media
reports of security
breaches.
A ruling by the highest
court of the European
Union has the
pharmaceutical industry
up in arms over being
held financially
accountable in European
civil courts for
injuries and deaths
caused by their vaccine
products
The European Court of
Justice (ECJ) ruled that
plaintiffs bringing
vaccine injury lawsuits
against drug companies
do not have to prove
causation but, rather,
can provide clinical and
circumstantial evidence
to demonstrate that a
vaccine more likely than
not caused a person’s
injury or death,
prompting a barrage of
criticism from the
vaccine industry
The EU ruling will allow
for important pertinent
evidence to be
considered in vaccine
injury cases to
determine whether or not
the evidence
demonstrates that a
vaccine was the most
plausible explanation
for an individual’s
health deterioration or
death following
vaccination
An estimated 40 percent
of American buildings,
including at least 25
percent or more of all
homes, are believed to
be affected by toxic
mold that can cause
serious health problems
Poor construction and
water intrusion are
common sources of
microbial growth.
Researchers are now
warning that wallpaper
can be a significant
source of fungi that
contribute to sick
building syndrome
Guidelines to identify
mold intrusion and
remediate the problem
are discussed, as is
guidance on diagnosing
mold-related illness and
its treatment
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
appears to be a man with way
too much time on his hands.
Either that, or he has grown
temporarily bored with
promoting the disproven
conspiracy theories of
Russian hacking.
A PBS Frontline
documentary, “The Fish
on My Plate,” tracks a
best-selling author’s
global pursuit of an
answer to the question,
“What fish should I eat
that’s good for me and
good for the planet?”
For a whole year,
Greenberg gave up meat
and ate only fish — some
700 portions — while
investigating open-sea
fishing and fish-farming
practices in places like
Alaska, Norway and Peru
They're also reminders of
how the peer-review process
works, and why peer-reviewed
research remains the key to
sound climate policies.
Two new studies published
this month are helping
resolve lingering
differences between what
climate models have
predicted and what actual
measurements have recorded.
In doing so, they undermine
two of the timeworn
arguments used by those who
question the prevailing
scientific consensus on
global warming.
Cities plagued with terrible
traffic problems may be
overlooking a simple,
low-cost solution:
High-occupancy vehicle (HOV)
policies that encourage
carpooling can reduce
traffic drastically,
according to a new study
co-authored by MIT
economists.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy
reported it has executed a
definitive merger agreement
with Energy Future Holdings
as part of the latter’s
reorganization. The
objective is acquiring
Oncor, which serves millions
of Texans with its 120,000
miles of transmission and
distribution lines.
In late December, a series
of studies and news stories
went largely unreported and
ignored by the corporate,
deadstream media.
These reports covered
blatant conflicts of
interest between the
biotechnology corporations
promoting genetically
modified or engineered
products and the researchers
and politicians guiding
legal policy.
In shamanic culture Mapacho
and other forms of tobacco
are often used as a way to
clear energy. The
understanding of this really
starts with more of an
understanding of how a
shaman would generally
interpret nature. For a
shaman there is a thin line
between this world and the
spirit world, and all living
organisms have a spiritual
essence to them, as well as
a physical one. The shamans
job is to communicate
between the worlds to
understand the properties of
specific spirits and then
bring back these ideas for
personal healing, world
healing and/or the healing
of the people they are
working with. So when a
shaman sees tobacco, it is
not just the physical
substance, but a spirit that
accompanies it.
Donald Trump’s
first-quarter salary
donation will help fund the
restoration of two projects
at Antietam National
Battlefield, Department of
Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke announced Wednesday.
Zinke, who spoke with
Breitbart News about the
importance of preserving
America’s history, also
announced $7.2 million in
additional grants to help
identify, preserve, and
protect America’s historic
battlefields.
In less than
25 years, a
majority of the
new cars rolling
off of
dealership lots
will be powered
by electricity,
according to a
report out
Thursday—a
prediction that
outpaces
previous
forecasts and
stokes hopes
that
climate-warming
tailpipe
emissions could
be cut more
substantially
and more
quickly.
Can you imagine fully
charging your cell phone in
just a few seconds?
Researchers in Drexel
University’s College of
Engineering can, and they
took a big step toward
making it a reality with
their recent work unveiling
of a new battery electrode
design in the journal Nature
Energy.
A unique demonstration plant
in Finland has proven that
carbon dioxide (CO2) can be
taken directly from the air
and used to produce
renewable fuels and
chemicals.
This is a one-of-a-kind
demo plant in which the
entire process chain, from
solar power generation to
hydrocarbon production, is
in the same place.
The demo plant is made up
of four separate units: a
solar power plant; equipment
for separating CO2 and water
from the air; a section that
uses electrolysis to produce
hydrogen; and synthesis
equipment for producing a
crude oil substitute from
carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
Real
sound isn't just
compressions in the air but
also rarefactions. A
rarefaction is a region of
decreased pressure in the
air where the air balls are
farther apart than usual.
How
fast does this compression
of air balls travel? It
travels at the speed of
sound because this is sound
- around 340 m/s. But notice
that the compression is
traveling in this one
direction. The individual
air balls are mostly moving
faster and in all different
directions.
It's estimated that while
psychopaths only make up one
percent of the general
population, their prevalence
in committing crimes mean
they make up between 15 and
25 percent of the male North
American prison population.
So what is going on inside
the brains of psychopaths?
Yellowstone National Park,
which covers parts of
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana,
lies on top of a super
volcano that could
effectively wipe out the
United States if it were to
explode. The last time it
did, 640,000 years ago, it
expelled 240 cubic miles
(think about that) of rocky
debris into the sky.
The future cost of energy
storage technologies can now
be predicted under different
scenarios, thanks to a new
tool created by Imperial
researchers.
Using a large database,
the team can predict how
much consumers will have to
pay in the future for energy
storage technologies based
on cumulative installed
capacity, current cost and
future investment.
Russia wasn’t alone —
North Korea and China have
also breached recent U.S.
elections, White House Chief
of Staff Reince Priebus said
Sunday.
It was the first time
someone in the Trump
administration formally
accused the two nations of
interfering with the
election, backing up vague
claims from President Trump
that “other countries”
joined Russia in its digital
interference.
While Friday's meeting
between the leaders of the
two biggest nuclear powers
drew world attention,
representatives from 122
other countries did
something truly historic
that barely registered a
blip: They negotiated the
first-ever treaty outlawing
atomic bombs.
The announcement came as
nuclear reactors, which
currently generate 20
percent of the country’s
power, are expected to
decline to 11 percent by
2050 as plants retire. Trump
did not disclose specific
details of the plan.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is
calling on Republican Senate
leaders to introduce several
important changes to their
plan to replace Obamacare,
including one very unique
reform idea that has the
potential to dramatically
change the U.S. health care
system.
C1 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a chance for
M-class flares on days one,
two, and three (11 Jul, 12
Jul, 13 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on days one
and two (11 Jul, 12 Jul) and
quiet to unsettled levels on
day three (13 Jul).
Despite Russia being a
leading member of the
OPEC/non-OPEC production cut
coalition, its producers
face significant uncertainty
as to whether participation
will continue to be
profitable and provide the
impetus they need to keep
their crude output
restrained.
The current economic and
diplomatic blockade on Qatar
imposed by Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE,
will continue to have a
limited impact on its oil
and gas trade, the country's
energy and industry minister
Mohammed al-Sada said
Monday.
A new analysis shows that
septic systems in the United
States routinely discharge
pharmaceuticals, consumer
product chemicals, and other
potentially hazardous
chemicals into the
environment. The study,
published June 15 in the
journal Environmental
Science & Technology,
is the most comprehensive
assessment to date of septic
systems as important sources
of emerging contaminants,
raising health concerns
since many of these
chemicals, once discharged,
end up in groundwater and
drinking water supplies.
The sun is heading towards
another minimum in the
11-year sunspot cycle, say
NASA scientists, expected in
2019-2020. During solar
minimum, intense activity –
such as sunspots and solar
flares – subsides, and the
suns’s activity changes
form. This new NASA
ScienceCast video will give
you some basic facts about
solar minimums, and what to
expect with the one that’s
coming.
The Gallup-Sharecare
Well-Being Index, published
Monday, found that the
uninsured rate among U.S.
adults was 11.7 percent in
the second three months of
this year, compared with a
record low of 10.9 percent
at the end of last year.
Though small, the change was
statistically significant,
survey analysts noted.
Now the company has
ambitious plans to extend
that functionality to an
entire Australian state by
building the world's biggest
battery storage system to
keep homes powered come
hell(ish summers) or high
water.
A=432 Hz, known as Verdi’s
‘A’ is an alternative tuning
that is mathematically
consistent with the
universe. Music based on
432Hz transmits beneficial
healing energy, because it
is a pure tone of math
fundamental to nature.
According to Brain T.
Collins, a musician and
researcher, the standard
pitch (A=440 Hz) does not
harmonize on any level that
corresponds to cosmic
movement, rhythm, or natural
vibration.
SpyDealer" malware has been
active since October 2015
and researchers still aren't
sure how it infects victims.
Dubbed SpyDealer by the Palo
Alto Networks researchers
who discovered it, the
malware harvests vast
accounts of personal
information about
compromised users, including
phone numbers, messages,
contacts, call history,
connected wi-fi information
and even the location of the
device.
Trump told Xi "I appreciate
the things that you have
done" with North Korea.
North Korea's latest missile
launch has prompted global
calls for action..
Donald Trump has become so
polarizing a figure in our
politics that everybody is
devoted either to praising
him or panning him, but most
don't take the time or
trouble to understand him.
And, as a result, very few
people do.
Throughout history, humans
have utilized sticky and
sweet honey, with the
earliest record of keeping
beehives being traced back
to 2,400 B.C., in a temple
near Cairo, Egypt. The
Egyptians relied on honey as
a sweetener and as an
ingredient in honey cakes
that were offered to the
gods and even as embalming
fluid
Tribal Nations are the only
recognized arbiter of
belonging to or being a
member of a tribe. No other
agency or arm of any
government has that
responsibility, other than
the particular tribe to
which a person claims to
belong. Thus the issue of
what percentage Indian is
any individual belonging to
a tribe?
There is a reason for the
seemingly endless series of
conferences and press
releases on energy storage,
and why the topic is near
the top of the agenda for
many energy and facility
managers across the country.
In the last three years,
more energy storage has been
deployed in the U.S. than
the previous five years
combined
Dual Fates: Both threatened
by dams, Winnemem Wintu and
their salmon draw closer to
reuniting
With New Zealand’s Southern
Alps looming above, about 30
members of the Winnemem
Wintu tribe from Northern
California sat on the
windswept bank of the Rakaia
River cradling in their
hands dark and wormy salmon
fry, a long-lost relative
finally found.
Ewe Gasspeicher's battery,
called brine4power, is based
on a system developed by the
Friedrich Schiller
University in Jena, which
uses saltwater electrolytes
with recyclable polymers as
the active molecules. Those
materials, the team says,
are far more environmentally
friendly than the heavy
metal/sulfuric acid mix that
other redox flow
electrolytes are often made
of.
I wish the title of the
article were hyperbole, but
it really is that dark, and
the coverup stretches over
half a century, being no
less devastating to public
health than other agendas
you may already be familiar
with such as Big Tobacco’s
Smoking-Cancer link and the
CDC’s Vaccine-Autism
coverup.
The proof is in how many
people still know absolutely
nothing about the
devastating health risks of
bleed-air being fed directly
into the cabins of planes
from their engines.
Ties between China and
Germany are about to enter a
new phase, China's president
said, as he met the German
chancellor before a G20
summit that is expected to
highlight their differences
with the United States on a
host of issues.
President Xi
Jinping and Chancellor
Angela Merkel pledged on
Wednesday to work together
more closely on a range of
issues, two days ahead of
the G20 summit in Hamburg
that U.S. President Donald
Trump is also due to attend.
Amazon recently
announced its intention
to acquire Whole Foods
Market for $13.7 billion
Just as Amazon changed
the book industry by
forcing the entire
supply chain to cut
costs, the organic food
industry may now face
the same challenges,
thereby ensuring the
deterioration of organic
food quality
The convenience of
online shopping has led
to a major cardboard and
packing waste problem.
The main recycling plant
in San Francisco alone
collects 100 tons of
cardboard per day
“With hundreds of screeching
seagulls hovering above and
rotting bird carcasses
littering the streets, the
scene near Zug Island and
the wastewater treatment
plant in Southwest Detroit
seems straight out of an
apocalyptic horror movie,”
Michigan Live reported.
There are at least 180
cross-border tunnels and
intricate drainage systems
between Mexico and
California and Arizona,
according to the Border
Patrol, and drug dealers and
human traffickers, known as
coyotes, use these tunnels
to move drugs and illegally
smuggle people across the
border largely undetected.
As the number of tunnels
grow and become more
sophisticated, Border Patrol
agents say they are falling
behind in finding technology
that will detect them.
After reporting Monday that
the Reddit user,
“HanAssholeSolo,” had a
history of racist and
antisemitic tweets, CNN
tracked him (apparently, he
is male) down and attempted
to make contact with him by
email and telephone.
Keep in mind that this
apology came after CNN
found the Redditor and
contacted him; however, many
are claiming that CNN
allegedly threatened to
expose the meme maker’s
identity if he didn’t issue
a public apology.
Consumer groups filed
suit against Sanderson
Farms after the U.S.
Department of
Agriculture Food Safety
and Inspection Service
(FSIS) scrutinized 69
locations and found 82
“unconfirmed residues”
FSIS inspections and
testing discovered the
recreational drug
ketamine, a
hallucinogenic
anesthetic, as well as
antibiotics, pesticides
and growth hormones in
Sanderson Farm products
Several consumer groups
filed the complaint
against the $2.8 billion
company for touting its
products as “100 percent
natural,” asking
Sanderson to admit it
violated false
advertising laws and to
pay for a corrective ad
campaign
It appears the largest dark
web drug and counterfeit
marketplace might be pulling
off a Houdini. Numerous
users on Reddit and Twitter
are speculating that
AlphaBay Market – often
dubbed as the new Silk Road
– has executed an elaborate
exit scheme.
Military and industry
officials appear to have
known about the dangers of
firefighting foams a decade
before it came to light that
perfluorinated compounds
(PFCs) in these foams had
contaminated water supplies
across the country.
The discovery and scientific
examination of one of the
oldest human remains found
in the Americas confirms
what Native people have
known all along, that they
are the original inhabitants
of this hemisphere.
From the beginning, U.S.
government policy
contributed to culture and
land loss. Keeping our focus
on the 4th of July, however,
let’s jump to the early
1880s, when Secretary of the
Interior Henry Teller
developed what has come to
be called the Religious
Crimes Code—regulations at
the heart of the Department
of Interior, Office of
Indian Affairs, Code of
Indian Offenses that
prohibited American Indian
ceremonial life.
The nine projects of
ENLITENED seek to double
datacenter efficiency by
using light instead of metal
to transmit and receive
information between
components in a computer
chip. Datacenters currently
consume about 2.5% of U.S.
electricity—a figure that is
expected to double in just
eight years. As we come to
rely increasingly on cloud
computing services and
storage, the challenge of
handling all this
information without wasting
energy will become
critically important.
Trump recently re-activated
the National Space Council,
at an event at the White
House where several members
of Congress, industry
officials and Apollo 11
astronaut Buzz Aldrin were
in attendance. The council
was last active at the end
of the George H.W. bush
administration in 1993. The
council will advise the
president with matters
regarding setting space
policy. It will also bring
the government’s
relationship with industry
leaders, agencies, and
private contractors closer.
This study provides critical
information for federal,
state and local policy
makers as they look to
modern piping materials to
help rebuild the nation's
crumbling underground
infrastructure. Clean water
was identified as a high
priority by President Trump
and this report confirms
that safer, more
cost-effective and more
durable PVC pipe is key to
upgrading America's drinking
water and wastewater
systems," said PVCPA
Executive Director Bruce
Hollands.
Duke University has admitted
that one of its lab
technicians falsified or
fabricated research data on
respiratory illnesses that
were used to get large
grants from the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
The decision, filed late
Friday in California, gave
Facebook a win in a lawsuit
that accused the company of
improperly tracking users'
Internet usage between April
22, 2010, and September 26,
2011, even after they had
logged out of their Facebook
accounts.
The Federal Reserve is
taking away the punch bowl
for the U.S. economy. But
not right away - and only
one cup at a time.
The Federal Reserve could
trigger a long-awaited move
to reduce its massive $4.5
trillion in debt holdings as
early as September, but the
central bank still appeared
unsettled on the timing of
its strategy to reduce the
scope of its support for the
U.S. economy.
"There's no doubt that in
order to realize the Trump
administration's vision of a
'golden age of energy,' it's
essential to have a quorum
at FERC," said Dena Wiggins,
president of the Natural Gas
Supply Association, an
industry group...
Trump has nominated
Republicans Neil Chatterjee
and Robert Powelson to the
panel and said this week he
intends to nominate Democrat
Richard Glick. The Senate
Energy and Natural Resources
Committee has approved the
two GOP nominees, but no
floor vote has been
scheduled in the Senate.
If you didn’t already know,
the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) was sued by
Bernie Sanders
supporters last year for
fraud, negligent
misrepresentation, deceptive
conduct, unjust enrichment,
breach of fiduciary duty,
and negligence...
A number of suspicious
deaths occurred during the
lawsuit against the DNC and
their alleged ploy against
Bernie Sanders, for which
many wondered if
the Clintons or the DNC were
responsible.
Stronger than diamond,
graphene has been touted as
a super material to provide
robust and more energy
efficient water filtration.
In a latest development, UK
scientists have found a way
to stop a graphene oxide
membrane expanding during
water filtration.
"Because of the low natural
gas prices and expanded
renewable generating
capacity, wholesale electric
market prices over recent
years have frequently been
too low to merit economic
dispatch of coal generating
capacity," the Boise,
Idaho-based utility said in
the 20-year IRP it filed
Friday with the Idaho Public
Utilities Commission.
The war rages on about the
safety of cell phones.
Depending on which side of
the argument you listen to,
there’s either nothing to
fear, or your phone is
causing grave harm when it
comes into close contact
with your body. Where does
the real truth lie?
Traditional practices of
training horses are Begaye’s
tools of trade, like singing
to them...Begaye rejects
modern training strategies
that rely on dominance and
force, choosing instead to
return to traditional
practices.
An ancient Roman pier
is still standing in a bay
in Italy, and researchers
have studied samples of the
concrete to explore the
secrets of its
long-lasting strength
Leave modern concrete
structures in the ocean, and
a few decades later they'll
be in need of replacing, or
at least a serious patch
job. ..
Malware was recently
identified that appears to
have been designed and
deployed by a nation-state
to target and shut down
electric grids.
According to published
reports, this malware
currently appears to be
capable of attacking the
European grids, and parts of
the Middle East and Asia
grids, by targeting the
specific industrial control
system network protocols
used to operate those grids.
With small modifications,
the malware reportedly also
appears to be capable of
attacking the North American
power grid, as well as other
industries that use ICS
networks (e.g., oil, gas,
water, data) around the
globe.
A lot of Native American
tribes were matrilineal
instead of the typical
patrilineal societies you
see from Europe. This meant
that you were descended from
your mother's clan, not your
father's. It was also meant
the women were involved in
the decision-making process
for the greater good of the
tribe. Some of the more
well-known matrilineal
socieites are the Lenape,
Hopi and Iroquois...
The Rosarito facility would
produce up to 100-million
gallons of water daily in
two phases. The first phase,
expected to be operational
by late 2019 or early 2020,
would make 50-million
gallons or more of
desalinated water available
daily to the
Tijuana/Rosarito region. The
second phase, expected to be
completed by 2024, would
deliver up to an additional
50-million gallons daily,
with 10 to 30 percent of
that water available to the
District.
Strange as it may seem, the
moon’s dark side is its near
side. By that we mean the
near side of the moon
reflects less light – due to
a collection of dark,
low-lying lunar plains that
are the solidified remnants
of ancient seas of molten
magma.
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.
“CNN itself says it is a
sad day when the president
of the United States
encourages violence against
reporters,” he added.
“But I guess it’s really
not a sad day when it’s
former New Year’s host Kathy
Griffin holds up the
president’s bloody head,” he
added. “Not so sad there.”
Any resident in Florida can
now challenge what kids
learn in public schools,
thanks to a new law that
science education advocates
worry will make it harder to
teach evolution and climate
change.
Squeeze this paper device
and you can create
electricity
For most people,
static electricity is a
mildly painful nuisance.
However, engineers in recent
years have been working to
harness this seemingly
random phenomenon to
generate small amounts of
electricity cheaply and
easily.
In what is becoming a trend
in the Western US, Public
Service Co of New Mexico
plans to exit coal-fired
generation by 2031 in favor
of renewables and natural
gas-fired generation,
according to its integrated
resource plan.
The United States asserted
Tuesday that North Korea's
latest missile launch was
indeed an intercontinental
ballistic missile, as the
North had boasted and the
U.S. and South Korea had
feared. Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson called it a
"new escalation of the
threat" to the U.S.
The Pentagon is scrambling
to protect America's power
grid amid fears of attack by
North Korea. Former CIA
Director James Woolsey:..
When our electric grid
fails, it will be like
watching America have a
heart attack right before
your eyes. Because when the
heart stops pumping...
everything shuts down and
the patient flat lines.
Our enemies could cripple
our great country in a
matter of minutes, without
having to fire a single
bullet. They could just sit
back and watch as we
self-destruct through
looting, rioting and the
targeting of police
officers.
The Great Barrier Reef has
seen better days, after a
one-two punch of coral
bleaching events struck it
in 2016 and 2017. Warming
sea temperatures have been
pegged as the culprit, but
that alone can't account for
why the bleaching was so
severe. Australian and
Belgian researchers have now
found that a "perfect
thermal storm" of
oceanographic conditions led
to the 2016 mass bleaching.
If you thought that the
praying mantis was an
innocuous, almost zen-like
insect with a passive
demeanor then prepare to
have your world turned
upside down. Researchers
have found that these
aggressive carnivorous
insects, known to eat small
frogs and lizards, also kill
and eat small birds. A study
by an international group of
zoologists has, for the
first time, documented this
frightening behavior and
revealed it is happening all
over the world.
Oman faces regular threats
from algal blooms, turning
the water green and
providing a massive spike in
turbidity and organics. A
pre-treatment plant was
delivered in less than a
year capable of protecting
desalination equipment and
allows for continued
operation in these difficult
feed water conditions.
Updated: Everything you need
to know about ransomware:
how it started, why it's
booming, how to protect
against it, and what to do
if your PC's infected.
According to a new study
by Professor Charles Tyler
of the University of Exeter
in the United Kingdom, fish
are becoming transgender as
a result of chemicals found
in oral contraceptives.
Tyler’s study determined
that approximately twenty
percent of male freshwater
fish became transgender as a
result of chemicals being
discharged down household
drains.
“We are showing that some
of these chemicals can have
much wider health effects on
fish than we expected,”
Tyler explained. ..
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (07 Jul,
08 Jul, 09 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (07 Jul),
quiet to unsettled levels on
day two (08 Jul) and
unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (09
Jul).
As North Korea continues
testing missiles it says can
reach the United States,
while simultaneously working
to build nuclear warheads
small enough to mount atop
them, America's plan to
shoot down the ICBMs is
nowhere near a sure bet,
Politico reported.
Russia on Thursday blocked a
UN Security Council
statement calling for
"significant measures" in
response to North Korea's
launch of an
intercontinental ballistic
missile...
The draft statement
recalled that the council
had agreed to take "further
significant measures" in the
event of another nuclear
test or missile launch and
that the top UN body would
"begin to work immediately
on such measures."
Russia blocked the
measure, arguing that it had
not been verified that the
launch involved an
intercontinental missile,
said a council diplomat.
The chief executive of
Russia’s Kaspersky Lab says
he’s ready to have his
company’s source code
examined by U.S. government
officials to help dispel
long-lingering suspicions
about his company’s ties to
the Kremlin.
The bill builds on the
Energy Policy Modernization
Act of 2015, which included
priorities from 80 Senators
and passed the Senate with
85 votes, the statement
noted. While that bill fell
just short in a bicameral
conference with the House of
Representatives at the end
of last year, it “provided
an excellent starting point
for Murkowski and Cantwell’s
bipartisan efforts in this
Congress,” according to the
statement.
The chAIR is actually made
up of four multirotor
systems contained within
large metal tube hoops with
a tube grid pattern inside
each hoop to mount the
motors, all attached to a
single frame that's home to
Borg's comfy chair. Kevlar
rope keeps the hoops from
riding above the horizontal
and attacking the pilot.
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Benefits of MMT include
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muscle mass, improved
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mental clarity and
improved longevity
In a recent ruling, judges
at the German Federal
Supreme Court (BGH)
confirmed that the measles
virus does not exist.
Furthermore, there is not a
single scientific study in
the world which could prove
the existence of the virus
in any scientific
literature. This raises the
question of what was
actually injected into
millions over the past few
decades.
The U.S. confirmed a rocket
launched by North Korea on
July 4 was an
intercontinental ballistic
missile, with Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson calling
it a “new escalation of the
threat” to the U.S. and its
allies that would be brought
before the United Nations
Security Council.
President Trump reacted
to North Korea's latest
missile test by ripping Kim
Jong Un and urging China to
"end this once and for all."
North Korea test-launched
its first intercontinental
ballistic missile Tuesday.
Such a test represents a
breakthrough in the isolated
nation's mission of
developing the capability to
reach the United States with
a nuclear weapon.
The U.S. government on
Wednesday proposed to reduce
the volume of biofuel
required to be used in
gasoline and diesel fuel
next year as it signaled the
first step toward a
potential broader overhaul
of its biofuels program.
Monsoon is a term borrowed
from the Asian monsoon which
means “wind reversal.” In
places such as India and
Southeast Asia, winds blow
into those regions from the
Pacific and Indian oceans,
causing what’s known as the
“rainy season” between May
and September. Between
October and April, the wind
“reverses,” flowing out from
land across the oceans,
hence the dry season.
The world’s most prominent
religious leaders came
together to present their
answer on how faith can work
in the world. The pope,
Dalai Lama, and Ayatollah
Sayyid Fadhel Al-Milani,
among others, issued a joint
statement with a simple yet
important message: Make
friends with people of other
faiths.
As the Trump
administration and the
Congress draft the 2017 tax
bill, it is extremely
important that they build it
around a deficit neutral,
not a revenue neutral,
model.
This may sound like a
word game, but it is not.
The difference between
focusing the country on a
revenue neutral tax and a
deficit neutral tax cut is
gigantic.
Circumzenithal arcs have
been described as an “upside
down rainbow” or “a grin in
the sky.” They’re wonderful!
People who look up a lot may
occasionally see the
rainbow-like arcs depicted
in the photos on this page.
They’re called
circumzenithal arcs,
and they’re not really
rainbows. Instead, they’re
caused by ice crystals in
the upper atmosphere.
Drought-parched Lake Mead’s
low water levels could
prompt statewide limits
Arizona risks losing water
rights because of a
lingering, nearly
two-decade-long drought in
the Colorado River that
could restrict water use
ranging from farmers’ crops
to how many households
receive water, state water
experts say.
Biodynamic farming is a
spiritual-ethical-ecological
approach to agriculture
initially developed by
Austrian scholar Rudolf
Steiner, Ph.D.,
(1861-1925)
Not only does biodynamic
farming provide superior
crops both in volume and
increased density of
nutrients, but
biodynamic farms are
also completely
self-sustaining
What sets biodynamic
farming apart from
organic farming are the
principles involving
cosmological forces,
such as taking moon
phases and planetary
cycles into account when
planting and harvesting
Bottled water risks include
more than just draining your
bank account. You see, those
single-use bottles found in
supermarkets, gas stations
and gyms across the country
are what I like to call
“toxic rip-offs.” Why?
Because you’re paying way more
for a product that contains
harmful compounds.
Under the temporary
ruling, Monsanto will be
required to label Roundup in
accordance the state’s
cancer warning, best known
as Prop 65, making it the
first state to require the
label warning on the
best-selling herbicide.
Monsanto sued California
is an effort to reverse the
decision, pointing to what
it says in an illegal move
by California, having based
its decision on warnings
made by the French-based
health organization, the
International Agency for
Research on Cancer, instead
of on U.S. research.
Animal domestication is
an interesting thing.
Domesticating wild
animals, for instance,
is overwhelmingly
considered unjust
captivity, but we view
companion animals in our
home far differently.
Bred with particular traits
in order to make them more
cooperative to captivity,
many environmental ethicists
would call domestication
morally problematic because
it creates unnatural
companions that are stunted
and inferior versions of
their wild ancestors.
Scientists say greater
security is needed for EEG
devices
While the widespread use of
devices that monitor
brainwaves might sound like
a long way off, key figures
like Elon Musk are investing
big time and money in making
them a reality. With one eye
on this future, scientists
have carried out a study to
find out whether these
things can be hacked and the
brainwaves interpreted to
decipher a password, with
the findings suggesting that
it is in fact entirely
possible.
At issue in the case was
whether FERC, in approving
PJM’s rules, did its job to
ensure that the rules would
not impose unreasonable
costs on consumers and would
not favor certain energy
resources over others
without good reason.
Comparing vaccination
rates in 34 developed
nations revealed a
significant correlation
between infant mortality
rates and the number of
vaccine doses infants
receive. The U.S.
requires the most
vaccines and has the
highest infant mortality
Research shows the more
vaccines an infant
receives simultaneously,
the greater their risk
of being hospitalized or
dying compared to those
receiving fewer vaccines
The earlier in infancy a
child is vaccinated, the
greater their risk of
being hospitalized or
dying compared to
children receiving the
same vaccines at a later
time
Death is the one certainty
that we all face, so why is
it difficult – even taboo –
to discuss?..
Death is known to many
tribal peoples here on
Turtle Island as the Great
Mystery – because it is
mysterious. We have our
beliefs about what happens
when we die, but most of us
are not 100 percent sure. I
have faith that there is an
afterlife but many people
find that absurd. Agnostics
and atheists seem to be
gaining momentum, especially
among our young people who
find it hard to believe
something that can’t be
proved.
As Senate Republicans
continue to push their plan
to replace the Obama-era
Affordable Care Act, a new
hurdle has emerged as one of
the primary objections to
the plan, titled the Better
Care Reconciliation Act:
alleged “cuts” to Medicaid
spending...
A closer look at the bill,
however, reveals the
Republicans’ “cuts” are not,
in fact, cuts at all, but
rather an attempt to slow
Medicaid’s out-of-control
growth.
According to the
Chattanooga Times Free
Press, the Southern Alliance
for Clean Power, the Union
of Concerned Scientists and
the Blue Ridge Environmental
Defense League have
challenged the Oak Ridge
project's site application.
They say the reactors remain
untested, unsafe and
unneeded.
The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission is reviewing the
application to determine if
the site works for two or
more reactors generating up
to 800 megawatts of nuclear
power.
The U.S Environmental
Protection agency and the
Army Corps of Engineers have
unveiled a joint proposal
that would repeal the Clean
Water Rule, Reuters
reported.
The two agencies are
seeking to replace the rule,
updated in 2015 under the
Obama administration, with
language that was previously
in place.
ON WEDNESDAY, ONE day after
Facebook announced that 2
billion people use its
service every month,
ProPublica released a
bombshell investigation into
the company’s hate-speech
censorship guidelines. The
report included documents
revealing that Facebook’s
rules often end up
protecting the rights of
those in power over those
who are powerless. These two
revelations are inextricably
entwined, each enabling and
necessitating the other.
On July 4, 1838 Chief Black
Hawk, a Native American war
leader of the Sauk Indian
Tribe gave a farewell speech
at Old Settlers Park in Fort
Madison, Iowa...
lack Hawk’s farewell speech
was a far cry from the
surrender speech he gave
just six years before in
1832. In it he talks about
the Indian Removal Act of
1830 and says, “North
America had never been an
empty land, and at the time
of European settlement was
settled by Native American
tribes with well-shaped and
well-functioning societies.
The European settlers and
the cultural values they
brought with them clashed
with those of the native
inhabitants almost from the
minute the English landed at
the mouth of the
Chesapeake.”
Consumer spending in the
U.S. rose was $103 a day in
June, the best performance
for the month since 2008,
according to a survey by
Gallup. The daily spending
in May was $104.
A report from the Wall
Street Journal claims that a
Republican researcher
attempted to obtain hacked
emails from the Hillary
Clinton presidential
campaign during the
election, and that he
believed Mike Flynn was tied
to the effort. Peter W.
Smith, the operative, died
10 days after speaking to
the Journal about his claim.
A new study of 55 cities by
the University of Riverside
in California undermines
illegal alien advocates'
talking point that illegal
aliens cause less crime than
citizens.
The struggle continues for
the people who have lived on
the continent for 50,000
years...
Eddie Koiki Mabo couldn’t
believe his ears. It was
1982, and two professors at
Townsville, Australia’s
James Cook University, where
Mabo worked as a gardener,
had just told him he had no
right to his native land.
The media "goes totally
crazy" when President Donald
Trump posts a tweet such as
the one over the weekend
showing himself
beating up CNN,
but was quiet over ones
like his Fourth of July
tweet, and there's a reason
why, former Gov. Mike
Huckabee said Monday.
"The media basically
hates Donald Trump more than
they love America," Huckabee
told Fox News' "Fox
& Friends"
program.
"They are going to ignore
pro-America comments he
makes."
A massive storm bigger than
the Earth has been raging
for centuries on Jupiter,
and now Juno is swooping in
for a closer look. The
spacecraft will come within
a few thousand miles of the
Great Red Spot, probing the
storm to hopefully reveal
some of its mysteries – and
no doubt snapping some
stunning photos in the
process.
In perhaps the most
outlandish accusation made
against President Donald
Trump by radical
environmentalists yet, the
left-wing Natural Resources
Defense Council has claimed
Trump’s decision to pull the
United States out of the
Paris climate agreement on
June 1 will result in the
deaths of millions of people
over the next 100 years.
President Trump's
national security adviser
said Wednesday that the
administration is
considering a wider range of
strategies on how to deal
with North Korea, including
the military option.
“The threat is much more
immediate now and so it’s
clear that we can’t repeat
the same approach – failed
approach of the past,” H.R.
McMaster, the adviser, said
during a security conference
with Homeland Security Chief
John Kelly.
The Navajo Nation Council
has approved a new lease for
the coal-fired Navajo
Generating Station that
could allow it to run
through 2019, the Arizona
Republic reported.
Though the 2,250-MW plant
had been slated for closure
by the end of the original
lease that ended in 2019,
Salt River Project and other
stakeholders had said the
plant might have to shut
down this year in order to
clear the land by the end of
the lease.
Oil posted the longest run
of gains in six months after
U.S. shale explorers paused
a record drilling expansion
in a sign the boom may be
slowing down.
Parents of children killed
by illegal immigrants
attended a roundtable at the
White House Wednesday and
pleaded for the passage of
laws that will hold
sanctuary cities and illegal
immigrants accountable.
Qatar delivered its official
response to the 13 demands
made by the Saudi-led
coalition that cut
diplomatic and transport
links with the country, as
President Donald Trump and
Kuwait’s ruler stepped up
efforts to resolve the
monthlong crisis.
M1 event observed.
Solar
activity is expected to be
very low on days one, two,
and three (04 Jul, 05 Jul,
06 Jul). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days
one, two, and three (04 Jul,
05 Jul, 06 Jul).
At least twenty-five states
so far are challenging or
refusing to comply with
requests for voter
registration data in the
Trump administration's quest
to prove that illegal votes
cost him the popular vote in
the November election.
Right now, GOP senators are
trying to gather enough
votes to pass their
Obamacare replacement plan,
but even fellow Republicans
are having a time a hard
time accepting the health
care bill.
Scientists in Russia
revealed an advanced
prototype combat suit on
Thursday they designed for
use by the Russian military,
and the incredible gear
looks like something out of
the “Star Wars” film
franchise.
Four Arab states which
accuse Qatar of supporting
terrorism agreed to extend
until late on Tuesday a
deadline for Doha to comply
with a list of demands, as
U.S. President Donald Trump
voiced concern to both sides
about the dispute.
Qatar has called
the charges baseless and
says the demands, including
closing Qatar-based al
Jazeera TV and ejecting
Turkish troops based there,
are so severe that they seem
intended to be rejected.
Southern Company and its
subsidiary Mississippi Power
announced they are
immediately suspending
start-up and operations
activities involving the
lignite gasification portion
of the first-of-its-kind
Kemper County facility.
The combined-cycle plant
will operate using natural
gas, with Southern Company
saying the plant has already
provided natural gas-fired
power for almost three
years.
There is a myriad of toxic
chemicals within household
products, including personal
care products. In the U.S.
only 11 chemicals are banned
from being used in personal
care products while the EU
bans over 1,300. One company
would like to help its
customers understand the
chemicals used in its
products and help create
safer alternatives.
I’ve been a journalist for a
long time. Long enough to
know that it wasn’t always
like this. There was a time
not so long ago when
journalists were trusted and
admired. We were generally
seen as trying to report the
news in a fair and
straightforward manner.
Today, all that has changed.
For that, we can blame the
2016 election or, more
accurately, how some news
organizations chose to cover
it.
Then it was the
five-year-old’s turn. You
could tell she’d been
thinking hard about her
answer. She fixed both her
brother and sister with a
ferocious stare and said:
“Free speech is that you can
say what you want—as long as
I like it.”
It was at this moment
that I had one of those
sudden insights as a parent.
I realized that my oldest
was a constitutional
conservative, my middle
child a libertarian, and my
youngest a socialist with
totalitarian tendencies.
Although ticks
are generally thought of as
being the spreaders of
illness, they may actually
be able to help save
peoples' lives. According to
a new study from the
University of Oxford,
proteins found in tick
saliva could be used to
treat a potentially fatal
heart disease.
The disease,
myocarditis, typically
strikes young adults. It
occurs when the heart
becomes infected due to a
common virus. This causes it
to release chemicals called
chemokines, which attract
cells that cause
inflammation. As a result,
the heart muscle becomes
dangerously inflamed.
With U.S. exports of oil and
natural gas surging,
President Donald Trump says
the U.S. is on the brink of
becoming a net exporter of
oil, natural gas and other
resources.
Total US coal train loadings
have slipped following
consecutive weeks of gains,
with volumes falling across
the major basins.
Data filed by the four major
US railroads -- CSX, Union
Pacific, BSNF and Norfolk
Southern -- for the week
ended June 23 shows
nationwide coal loadings
averaged 98.1 trains/d, down
from 102.3 trains/d the
previous week.
From sinkholes to
liquefaction, we look at how
solid earth can shrink and
elude our grasp
Coastal regions and islands
are vanishing due to a
lethal combination of
erosion, sea rise and
subsidence, or the slow
sinking of land over time.
The network of 1200 coral
islands and atolls that
makes up the Maldives in the
Indian Ocean is ground zero.