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Hepatitis C Kills More Americans Than All Other Reportable Infectious Diseases Combined [???]
December 26th, 2019Via: Stanford: The hepatitis C virus now kills more Americans than all other reportable infectious diseases combined — including HIV. Acute cases of HCV have increased 3.5-fold over the last decade, particularly among young, white, injection drug users. Women aged 15 to 44 have also been hit hard by the virus that is spread through […]
88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV. Why?
December 26th, 2019Via: Ars Technica: According to data from Nielsen, the TV metrics company, 88 percent of Americans “use a second digital device while watching TV.” Seventy-one percent of Americans “look up content related to content they are watching,” while 41 percent of Americans are busy messaging “friends/family about content they are watching.” Can this possibly be […]
Kevin Spacey Accuser Ari Behn Dead At 47
December 26th, 2019Kill them with kindness: Via: E Online: Ari Behn, who accused disgraced actor Kevin Spacey of groping him, has passed away at the age of 47. The author and ex husband of Norway’s Princess Martha Louise died by suicide on Christmas Day, his manager Geir Håkonsund told the Norwegian media. “It’s with great sorrow in […]
Japan’s Births Decline To Lowest Number On Record
December 25th, 2019Japan has been trying to increase its birth rate for years, hoping that a youthful boost could offset an otherwise rapidly aging population. It’s not working. The country’s health ministry announced Tuesday that the number of babies born in 2019 fell by an estimated 5.9% this year, to 864,000. It’s the first time since 1899, […]
Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Over Northeast Colorado Leave Local Law Enforcement Stumped
December 25th, 2019Via: Denver Post: A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft. The drones, estimated to have six-foot wingspans, have been flying over Phillips and Yuma counties every night for about the last week, Phillips County […]
Anonymous Story About a “School” that Borders Denver International Airport
December 24th, 2019Via: Reddit: But the craziest job I had there was a Waterproofing job for a “school”. It wasn’t actually on DIA property, but was on the Eastern edge of the property, just outside it. It was ran by the Corp of Engineers. Which in itself was odd, being that it was supposed to be a […]
Cancers Strike Veterans Who Deployed to Uzbek Base Where Black Goo Oozed, Ponds Glowed
December 22nd, 2019Via: McClatchy: U.S. special operations forces who deployed to a military site in Uzbekistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks found pond water that glowed green, black goo oozing from the ground and signs warning “radiation hazard.” Karshi-Khanabad, known as K2, was an old Soviet base leased by the United States from the Uzbek government just […]
Invisible Ink Embeds Immunization Records Into a Child’s Skin, “The Team Eventually Wants to Inject Sensors”
December 22nd, 2019Via: Scientific American: Keeping track of vaccinations remains a major challenge in the developing world, and even in many developed countries, paperwork gets lost, and parents forget whether their child is up to date. Now a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers has developed a novel way to address this problem: embedding the record […]
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices
December 20th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as internet connectivity directly to its devices, according to people familiar with the work. The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design […]
Google Goes Offline After Fibre Cables Cut
December 20th, 2019Via: BBC: Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday. The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to happen. Google said its services were among those unavailable in […]
