Archive for January, 2020
Permanent Trillion Dollar Deficits
January 30th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: The national debt and sustained federal budget deficits will hit the highest levels since World War II over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office projected on Tuesday, following multiple rounds of tax cuts and continued increases in federal spending. The government will spend $1 trillion more than it collects in […]
Journey Across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
January 30th, 2020This is a fascinating look inside some of the abandoned areas of Chernobyl. However, don’t drink the water. Via: shiey – Illegal Freedom:
Santa Cruz Decriminalizes Psychedelic Mushrooms
January 30th, 2020Via: ABC: A new resolution has been passed in Central California to decriminalize the use of psychedelic mushrooms. The City Council of Santa Cruz voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a measure that will make investigation and arrest for “the adult possession, use or cultivation of psychoactive plants and fungi” a low-priority infraction by law […]
University of Missouri Tracking Students with Phone App
January 29th, 2020Get them ready for life in those lovely “smart” cities! Via: Kansas City Star: Officials say it’s for the students’ own good. … The phone app is called Spotter, developed by a former Mizzou basketball coach. It works using short-range phone sensors and campus-wide WiFi networks. The university can tell when a student crosses a […]
GM Now Claims To Be Serious About Electric Vehicles
January 28th, 2020Via: Electrek: After GM’s official dedication yesterday of its Detroit-Hamtramck plant strictly for electric cars, Electrek spoke with Mark Reuss, the company’s president. We wanted to hear directly from GM leadership about its level of commitment to quickly deliver on multi-billion-dollar, global EV plans. Here is an edited version of Reuss’s discussion with us and […]
Acclaimed Harvard Scientist Is Arrested, Accused Of Lying About Ties To China
January 28th, 2020Via: NPR: Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been arrested and criminally charged with making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the U.S. Defense Department about his ties to a Chinese government program to recruit foreign scientists and researchers. The Justice Department says Lieber, 60, lied about […]
How Sanitation Conquered Disease Long Before Vaccines or Antibiotics
January 28th, 2020Via: Roots of Progress: The bottom line is that sanitation—pest control, water filtration and chlorination, safe sewage disposal, milk pasteurization and other food safety, and public education about general hygiene—probably did more than anything else to reduce mortality rates, if only because these techniques were available decades, and in some cases centuries, before anything else.
Soybean Oil Linked to Metabolic and Neurological Changes in Mice
January 26th, 2020Via: UC Riverside: New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible […]
America’s Radioactive Secret
January 26th, 2020Via: Rolling Stone: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
Newly Discovered Immune Cell Points to Universal Cancer Treatment
January 26th, 2020Via: New Atlas: Breakthrough research from an international team of scientists has uncovered a new type of immune cell with the ability to target and kill most kinds of cancer cells. The discovery was previously thought to be impossible and, although it is still untested in human subjects, it offers the potential for revolutionizing immunotherapy […]
