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Cornell Postdoc Detects Possible Exoplanet Radio Emission
December 18th, 2020Via: Cornell University: By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of […]
Pentagon Abruptly Halts Biden Transition Briefings
December 18th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Biden’s team is directly contradicting an earlier statement by Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller which sought to severely downplay the controversy, claiming Biden transition officials had agreed to a holiday “break” in DoD intelligence briefings. “There was no mutually agreed upon holiday break” for transition briefings, Biden’s spokesman Yohannes Abraham has stated pushing […]
Researchers Warn Some Covid-19 Vaccines Could Increase Risk Of HIV Infection
December 17th, 2020Via: Forbes: Some of the Covid-19 vaccines currently in development could increase the risk of acquiring HIV, warned a group of researchers in the The Lancet medical journal Monday, potentially leading to an increase in infections as vaccines are rolled out to vulnerable populations around the world. Related: “Promising Covid Vaccine in Australia Abandoned After […]
Police Launch Investigation Into Death of Vaccine Safety Advocate Brandy Vaughn
December 16th, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Monday announced it is investigating the sudden death of Brandy Vaughn, a well-known Pharma whistleblower and advocate for vaccine safety, who died Dec. 7. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said in a statement that investigators won’t determine the cause of Vaughn’s death until the […]
Japan: Masks with Hyper-Realistic Stranger’s Face
December 16th, 2020Via: Reuters: A year into the coronavirus epidemic, a Japanese retailer has come up with a new take on the theme of facial camouflage – a hyper-realistic mask that models a stranger’s features in three dimensions. Shuhei Okawara’s masks won’t protect you or others against the virus. But they will lend you the exact appearance […]
Part Robot, Part Frog: Xenobots Are the First Robots Made From Living Cells
December 14th, 2020You’ll love this. Via: Discover Magazine: The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, typically lives in the streams and ponds of sub-Saharan Africa, scavenging for food that it rips apart with its feet. In January, researchers at the University of Vermont and Tufts University published a report that gave the amphibian a different lot in life. […]
Trump Suggests White House Staff Will Wait Longer for COVID-19 Vaccines
December 14th, 2020Mmm hmm. Maybe they read the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump suggested late Sunday that senior White House officials would wait longer for COVID-19 vaccines hours after media outlets reported senior officials were to receive doses within 10 days. Late Sunday night, Trump said on Twitter he had asked […]
U.S. Electoral College Formally Confirms Joe Biden’s Victory Over Trump
December 14th, 2020Is that it for Trump? Maybe. Maybe not. Sidney Powell: Trump Could Trigger 2018 Executive Order on Foreign Election Interference: Lawyer Sidney Powell asserted that due to alleged foreign interference in the Nov. 3 election, “it’s more than sufficient to trigger” President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreign interference issued in 2018. In September 2018, […]
Google Experiencing Global Service Disruption
December 14th, 2020Via: The Verge: Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage. DownDetector indicates that the outage, which appears to be affecting Google’s business and personal services, started at around 6:40AM ET in the case of Gmail.
U.S. Supreme Court Ends Trump-Backed Texas Bid to Upend Election Results
December 12th, 2020Via: Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
