Archive for August, 2018
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Office Employed Chinese Spy for 20 Years
August 6th, 2018Via: CBS: New details emerged Wednesday about how a mole for the government of communist China managed to stay by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s side for nearly 20 years. It happened five years ago, but additional information is just surfacing about how the Bay Area senator’s office was infiltrated by a Chinese spy. The Bay Area […]
Hong Kong: McSleepers
August 6th, 2018Via: South China Morning Post: The number of people sleeping in McDonald’s outlets has increased six-fold over the past five years, a trend partly driven by rising rents and substandard housing that makes life especially unbearable in the city’s baking weather, a study has found. … Researchers were able to interview 53 McRefugees aged between […]
Scientists Have Successfully Transplanted a Bioengineered Lung Into a Pig
August 5th, 2018Via: BBC: To create a new lung, experts used a “scaffold” that provided structural support and slowly built up the lung tissue around it, using cells from the pig that was due to get the transplant. This was done to prevent the lung being rejected by the pig’s immune system. Once transplanted, the lung alveolar […]
Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro Survives Assassination Attempt by Terrorists Using Explosives-Laden Drone
August 4th, 2018Via: Daily Mail: Seven national guards have been injured in Venezuela after what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on socialist President Nicolas Maduro using an explosive-laden drone during a Caracas military parade. Footage broadcast by state television shows Maduro abruptly cutting short his speech before looking to the sky. Thousands of soldiers […]
Association of Statin Exposure With Histologically Confirmed Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis in an Australian Population
August 3rd, 2018Facebook link to cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson discussing this. In other news: Doctor Payments Increased Drug Prescribing by 73%: Drugmakers that pay for doctors’ meals get an outsize return on their investment, or a 73% increase in prescribing of their drug. That was the conclusion of a new paper, which looked at cardiologists who were […]
Periodic Fasting Starves Cisplatin Resistant Cancers to Death
August 3rd, 2018Via: EMBOpress: Treatment of cancers with the cytotoxic agent cisplatin frequently evokes resistance, accompanied by rewiring of metabolic pathways, limiting its clinical use. Recent research by Obrist et al (2018) shows that cisplatin?resistant growth of lung adenocarcinoma is particularly vulnerable to periodic fasting cycles and starvation?induced cell death, due to its dependency on glutamine, required […]
NASA Names Astronauts for First Manned U.S. Space Launches Since 2011
August 3rd, 2018Via: Reuters: NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s announcement signals a milestone in the U.S. space program, with its shift to the private sector for ferrying cargo and astronauts to the International […]
Trash Piles Up in U.S. as China Closes Door to Recycling
August 3rd, 2018Via: PhysOrg: For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China. Beijing is no longer buying, claiming the recycled materials are “contaminated.”
Tesla Gigafactory 1 Battery Production at ‘~20 GWh’ – More Than All Other Carmakers Combined
August 2nd, 2018Via: Electrek: Tesla Gigafactory 1, the Tesla/Panasonic battery factory in Nevada, is starting to reach some impressive levels of production. The automaker has now confirmed Gigafactory 1 battery production is now at ‘~20 GWh’, which it claims is “more than all other carmakers combined.” We have previously estimated that battery production had already reached 20 […]
Apple Breaches $1 Trillion Stock Market Valuation
August 2nd, 2018Via: Reuters: Apple Inc became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Thursday, crowning a decade-long rise fueled by its ubiquitous iPhone that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications.
