Archive for September, 2017
Scientists Edit Embryos’ Genes to Study Early Human Development
September 21st, 2017Via: Reuters: British scientists have used a genome editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out a gene in embryos just a few days old, testing the technique’s ability to decipher key gene functions in early human development. The researchers said their experiments, using a technology that is the subject of fierce international debate because […]
Hurricane Maria: Direct Hit Puerto Rico
September 20th, 2017Via: Weather.com: Metal roofs were flying off buildings and windows were breaking in San Juan, Puerto Rico even before Hurricane Maria made landfall as a Category 4 storm on the island’s southeastern coast early Wednesday morning. According to the Associated Press, nearly 900,000 people were already without power as the storm approached.
Strong Earthquake Near Mexico City Kills Hundreds
September 19th, 2017Via: Reuters: Rescue crews and ordinary citizens searched through rubble for survivors as night fell on Tuesday on battered cities in central Mexico, including the capital, where the death toll from a major earthquake grew to at least 226. The magnitude 7.1 quake toppled dozens of buildings, broke gas mains and sparked fires less than […]
New Zealand: One Pipeline Rupture Later…
September 18th, 2017Update: New Zealand Military Deploying for Fuel Transportation — Update: Air New Zealand Restricting Ticket Sales, Cargo Reduced — New Zealand is a funny place. It sort of pretends to be a modern, first world sort of place, when in actuality, it’s a hair’s width away from infrastructure collapse at all times. Combine the she’ll-be-‘right […]
Stanislav Petrov: Soviet Officer Who Averted Nuclear War Dies at Age 77
September 18th, 2017I’m amazed by how few people are aware of this incident. It makes for great dinner time conversation! Via: Russia Today: A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away. He was 77. In 2010 RT spoke to […]
Air Force Planes to Spray Harris County with Dibrom
September 18th, 2017Via: AP: Harris County officials say Air Force Reserve cargo planes will be spraying much the county beginning Thursday to combat the mosquito threat left by Harvey’s heavy rains and floodwaters. Modified C-130 planes from Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio are to spray about 600,000 acres in roughly the northern and southern thirds […]
U.S. Navy/National Security Agency Submarine Flies Jolly Roger, “For Morale”
September 18th, 2017Via: Ottawa Citizen: US Navy Commander Corey Barker told the UK’s Daily Mail that the flag was flown for morale, and has no further significance. “There was no real reason for flying the flag, just a part of morale,” he explained. “When submarines come into and leave port they are authorized to fly flags as […]
Trump Renews Post-9/11 State of Emergency
September 18th, 2017Via: USA Today: President Trump has become the third president to renew a post-9/11 emergency proclamation, stretching what was supposed to be a temporary state of national emergency after the 2001 terror attacks into its 17th year. But the ongoing effects of that perpetual emergency aren’t immediately clear, because the executive branch has ignored a […]
Vatican Recalls Washington Diplomat Amid Child Pornography Investigation
September 18th, 2017Via: Reuters: A Vatican diplomat working in Washington has been recalled to the Holy See after the U.S. State Department said the priest may have violated child pornography laws, the Vatican said on Friday. Prosecutors in the Vatican have opened an investigation into the case, which represents a fresh blow to the Roman Catholic Church […]
Merck’s Links to Biological Warfare
September 18th, 2017Via: YouTube:
