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Trump Says Prepared to Meet North Korea’s Kim in First-Ever Summit
March 8th, 2018Via: Reuters: President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S.-North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang. Kim has committed to “denuclearization” and to suspending nuclear or missile tests, South Korea’s National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong […]
42% of Americans Have Less Than $10,000 Stashed Away for Retirement [???]
March 6th, 2018Can this possibly be right? Via: CNBC: At this rate, retirement is more of a fantasy than a reality for many people in this country. About 42 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for when they retire, according to a study by GoBankingRates released Tuesday. The No. 1 reason most people cited for […]
Is Google Going Underground With Hypersonic Tech?
March 6th, 2018Via: IEEE: Google is carrying out research on hypersonics, probably for new technologies to slash the cost of geothermal energy and tunneling. It could also be acquiring a Washington-based startup called HyperSciences that has already built prototype devices. … The technology being developed by HyperSciences should make it cheaper to reach much higher temperatures even […]
Men’s Sperm Counts Are Dropping, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
March 4th, 2018Via: Yahoo News: The topic of overpopulation has been much discussed over the past few decades, but what if the real issue is a severe decline in population? It sounds like something straight out of a dystopian nightmare, but new research shows sperm counts are drastically dropping across the Western world. Researchers from Hebrew University-Hadassah […]
40Hz Audio and Visual Stimuli and Alzheimer’s
March 2nd, 2018Via: Nature: In March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering strobe. The mice — which had been engineered to produce plaques of the peptide amyloid-? in the brain, a […]
Trump: “Take the Guns First, Go Through Due Process Second”
February 28th, 2018Via: USA Today: President Trump said Wednesday he favors taking guns away from people who might commit violence before going through legal due process in the courts, one of many startling comments he made in a rambling White House meeting designed to hash out school safety legislation with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. “I like […]
Trump Announces Re-Election Campaign and Campaign Manager
February 27th, 2018It’s a bit like the Christmas shit appearing in stores in October. Hmm. I wonder if They’ll fit Hillary with a powered exoskeleton suit this time? Via: CBS: President Donald Trump announced that he’s running for re-election in 2020, and Brad Parscale, who served as the Trump campaign’s 2016 digital guru, has been named campaign […]
CDC Epidemic Intelligence Officer Left Work Feeling Ill, Hasn’t Been Seen Since
February 25th, 2018Update: Body of CDC Worker Who Mysteriously Disappeared in February Found in a River Via: Business Insider: The mystery surrounding the February disappearance of a 35-year-old Centres for Disease Control and Prevention worker ended tragically this week, with the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department finding the CDC commander’s body in a river late Tuesday evening. The […]
Construction Begins on Jeff Bezos’ $42 Million 10,000-Year Clock
February 24th, 2018Via: The Verge: Installation has finally begun on Jeff Bezos’ 10,000-year clock, a project that the Amazon CEO has invested $42 million in (along with a hollowed-out mountain in Texas that Bezos intends for a Blue Origin spaceport), with the goal of building a mechanical clock that will run for 10 millennia.
Oregon UFO Incident
February 17th, 2018Via: The War Zone: Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October 25th, 2017. What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series […]
