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Pentagon Hasn’t Disclosed Thousands of Air Strikes by U.S. Army Helicopters and Drones
February 6th, 2017Via: Military Times: The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed. The enormous data gap raises serious doubts about transparency in reported progress against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban, and calls into question […]
Fukushima Reactor Radiation Levels Soaring Unexpectedly
February 4th, 2017Via: ScienceAlert: The radiation levels inside Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks, reaching a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, a number experts have called “unimaginable”. Radiation is now by far the highest it has been since the reactor was struck by a tsunami in March 2011 – […]
SNOLAB: Inside the Dark Matter Lab Buried Over a Mile Underground
February 2nd, 2017Via: Vice: SNOLAB, one of the world’s premier laboratories, searches for dark matter, supernovas, and neutrinos 6,800 feet underground.
Yemen: Al-Qaeda Knew SEALs Were Coming
February 1st, 2017Via: ABC: Al-Qaeda fighters seemed ready for Sunday’s deadly Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, a source familiar with the action told ABC News, almost as though they knew the Americans were coming. … Accompanying the SEALs on the raid were dozens of special operations forces from a partner nation in the region, the source familiar […]
AP Claims Trump Threatened to Use U.S. Military Force Inside Mexico
February 1st, 2017Via: AP: President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop “bad hombres down there” unless the Mexican military does more to control them itself, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press. The excerpt of the call did […]
Trump Picks Neil Gorsuch as Nominee for Supreme Court
February 1st, 2017Via: Reuters: President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the court’s conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights. The Colorado native faces a […]
Bag of Chips Can Sense If You’ve Been Drinking and Call You an Uber
January 30th, 2017Via: Mashable: Tostitos’ new bag wants to chaperone your Super Bowl party. In honor of the big game, the chip maker is launching a special-edition version of its packaging with a built-in sensor that can detect trace levels of alcohol in your breath. If it decides you’ve been drinking — regardless of how much — […]
First Human-Pig ‘Chimera’ Created
January 27th, 2017Via: Guardian: Scientists have created a human-pig hybrid in a milestone study that raises the prospect of being able to grow human organs inside animals for use in transplants. It marks the first time that embryos combining two large, distantly-related species have been produced. The creation of this so-called chimera – named after the cross-species […]
Musk Apparently Not Joking About Tunnel Boring Venture
January 25th, 2017Is this real? Via: Electrek: If you weren’t convinced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was serious about launching a new company to start digging tunnels, maybe you will be now that he is putting a timeline on the project. He announced early this morning that they have made “exciting progress” and that he expects to […]
Trump Executive Orders on Immigration This Afternoon
January 25th, 2017I don’t know what category to use for this post. I’m actually in favor of the wall, and I think that Trump is acting responsibly by securing the border. Sovereign states secure their borders. This is first-day-of-class political science. Nothing controversial. The U.S., however, looks like a failed state when it comes to the border […]
