Tipping Point: Hyundai Has Bigger Market Share for EVs Than Combustion Cars
June 8th, 2020Via: Electrek:
Internal-combustion vehicles made by Hyundai-Kia represented 8.9% of the global market in the first quarter of 2020. But the EVs it sells were 9.9% of the global electric-vehicle market. In other words, Hyundai could be the first legacy automaker that is now more competitive on EVs than with its gas- and diesel-powered cars.
The Shallow Deep-State Goes Deeper as It Moves Toward Martial Law
June 8th, 2020Via: Off Guardian:
The current president, Donald Trump, is the choice of one faction of these psychopaths. This year, Joseph Biden, is the shaky presumptive choice of the other. Both are deranged puppets. Regular people fight over who is better or worse because they are living inside what Jim Garrison, the former District Attorney of New Orleans and the only person to ever bring a trial in the assassination of President Kennedy, long ago called “the doll’s house.”
It is a place where illusions and delusions replace reality. It is 24/7 propaganda. It keeps people engaged. It gives them something to argue about, one team to root for. It’s a sport.
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The sick system of exploitation is oiled and greased with the tantalizing bait of hope dangled for the masses. Shit slogans like “We are all in this together.”
But there is no hope for this system.
World’s Most Powerful CW Handheld Laser
June 8th, 2020When I was a boy, I played with the 5mw red laser in my high school’s chemistry lab and it was good.
These kids today…
Via: styropyro:
Mysterious Pattern Of ‘Cosmic Radio Bursts’ From A Distant Galaxy Repeats Every 157 Days, Say Scientists
June 8th, 2020Via: Forbes:
Although several thousand FRBs are thought to be coming in from deep space every day, and from every direction, there are two that are particularly interesting—FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J10158+56.
These two keep repeating.
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The astronomers think that the pattern they observed suggests that these powerful bursts are linked to:
* the orbital motion of a massive star
* a neutron star
* a black hole
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could be Released in Florida and Texas
June 8th, 2020Here we go again.
Via: Medical Express:
On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions of GM mosquitoes (labeled by Oxitec as OX5034) every week over the next two years in Florida and Texas. Females of this mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, transmit dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika viruses. When these lab-bred GM males are released and mate with wild females, their female offspring die. Continual, large-scale releases of these OX5034 GM males should eventually cause the temporary collapse of a wild population.
However, as vector biologists, geneticists, policy experts and bioethicists, we are concerned that current government oversight and scientific evaluation of GM mosquitoes do not ensure their responsible deployment.
Remember:
Plan to Kill Off Mosquitoes Backfires Spectacularly, Making the Disease-Carriers Even More Resilient
Woman Behind Effort to Stop Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Found Dead in Swimming Pool
Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying CEOs Millions
June 8th, 2020Via: DNYUZ:
HCA is among a long list of deep-pocketed health care companies that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer funds but are laying off or cutting the pay of tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and lower-paid workers. Many have continued to pay their top executives millions, although some executives have taken modest pay cuts.
The New York Times analyzed tax and securities filings by 60 of the country’s largest hospital chains, which have received a total of more than $15 billion in emergency funds through the economic stimulus package in the federal CARES Act.
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The bailout money, which hospitals received from the Health and Human Services Department without having to apply for it, came with few strings attached.
Doomscrolling
June 8th, 2020Ever find yourself glued to your phone screen, mindlessly thumbing through depressing news for hours on end?
Hmm. Only for about the last 25 years.
Via: New York Post:
Well, now there’s a word for that: “doomscrolling.”
Authors Pull Study Flagging Hydroxychloroquine Risks
June 8th, 2020Via: Barron’s:
The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19, after the paper’s authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data.
It was soon followed by the withdrawal of another coronavirus paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that was not linked to hydroxychloroquine but relied upon the same healthcare company’s patient database.
The unfolding research scandal threatens to undermine confidence in two of the world’s top medical journals in the midst of a pandemic.
U.S. Investigators Want to Interview Prince Andrew About Friendship with Epstein
June 8th, 2020Via: Reuters:
U.S. investigators want to interview Andrew, Queen Elizabeth’s second son, about his friendship with Epstein – who was found dead in prison last year while awaiting charges of trafficking minors – as part of their inquiry into possible co-conspirators.
Andrew has publicly stated he will cooperate with any “appropriate law enforcement agency”. But in March, Manhattan-based U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said the prince had “shut the door on voluntary cooperation and our office is considering its options”.
In a statement, Andrew’s lawyers said the prince, whose official title is the Duke of York, had offered his help to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) three times this year.
“Unfortunately, the DOJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the Duke has offered zero cooperation,” Andrew’s lawyers Blackfords said.
“In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered,” the statement said.
Bricklaying Robot Set a New Lay Speed Record
June 6th, 2020Via: Popular Mechanics:
A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to reach 1,000.)
