Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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Remarkable! A new study by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy pieces together an extraordinary 178 years of rainfall data from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This is a rare study that brings in much older data, looking at trends and extremes. This is pretty much the ultimate long term rainfall paper for South East Australia. Henceforth, there shalt be no more headlines about “unprecedented” rainfall or
Octopuses survived the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, but look set to go blind thanks to coal fired power and your car. Octopuses may go blind from climate change, study warns … Plastic pollution and climate change may be significantly altering the level of oxygen on our planet. Now, a new study dives into the impact it could have on marine life, including squids, crabs and octopuses – blin
Oh yes, the YouTube filters are getting stricter and stricter. Now a few seconds of bumper music is enough to keep an entire radio program from being seen on the platform. Good thing there are plenty of other ways to get Corbett Report content.
The first official trailer for the Downton Abbey movie contains almost nothing in the way of story (a royal luncheon!) but that's not what we're going back for, is it? All we care about is seeing the upstairs and downstairs of Downton – the wealthy Grantham family and their loyal help – go about their lives as "modern folk" in 1927. The King and Queen are apparently visiting Downton Abbey, a mome
Game of Thrones came to an end on Sunday, but we still have plenty of burning questions. From plot holes to cliff hangers, the loose ends left in Westeros after Season 8 are frustratingly numerous. Whole seasons seem pointless, important character arcs lack conclusions, and that feeling that we need a Season 9 remains as strong as ever. Here are the dangling Game of Thrones plot points destined t
Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset is believed by many to be one of Britain's most haunted buildings. Formerly Britain's oldest operating prison, Shept...
The enigmatic dwarf planet has been throwing up no shortage of surprises over the last few years. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed a flyb...
Back in April of 2018, when the trade war with China was still in its early stages, we explained that among the five "nuclear" options Beijing has to retaliate against the US, one was the block of rare-earth exports to the US, potentially crippling countless US supply chains that rely on these rare commodities, and forcing painful and costly delays in US production as alternative supply pathways h
( Let's see how Trump handles the inevitable outcry and outrage )
Grimbergen Abbey brew incorporates methods found in 12th-century books It has taken more than 220 years but an order of monks at Grimbergen Abbey, producers of a fabled medieval beer whose brand was adopted by mass producers in the 1950s, have started to brew again after rediscovering the original ingredients and methods in their archives. In a sign of the significance of the news for beer-loving
Move follows revelations MEP failed to declare lavish funding from year of Brexit referendum The European parliament is to investigate Nigel Farage for failing to declare lavish expenses funded by Arron Banks. The European parliament president, Antonio Tajani, “today refers the Farage issue to an advisory committee”, a source told the Guardian.
Italian unions refused on Monday to load electricity generators onto a Saudi Arabian ship with weapons on board in a protest against the war in Yemen. The Bahri-Yanbu vessel loaded arms in the Belgian city of Antwerp earlier this month, but was prevented from picking up another consignment of weapons in the French port of Le Havre following protests by humanitarian groups. Rights campaigners say t
Quentin Tarantino's ninth movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , is premiering at Cannes this week. So in honor of the film's debut, Sony decided to drop the film's first full trailer Tuesday morning—and the thing looks absolutely incredible. The first half of the two-and-a-half-minute trailer plays like a goofy buddy comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Western actor Rick Dalton and his stuntman
DeVos pulled a Hillary Clinton — that is, she used a private email account to conduct official government business
People who experience anxiety symptoms might be helped by taking steps to regulate the microorganisms in their gut using probiotic and non-probiotic food and supplements, suggests a review of studies.
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the Earth's axis. Both were essential for Earth to develop life. Planetologists at the University of Münster (Germany) have now been able to show, for the first time, that water came to Earth with the formation of the Moon some 4.4 billion years ago.
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01573-0 Understanding why living on the street seems to cause rapid aging could help homeless people — and governments.
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01620-w A dam or an ape — Indonesia faces stark choice
In the future, quantum physics could become the guarantor of secure information technology. To achieve this, individual particles of light—photons—are used for secure transmission of data. Findings by physicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research could play a key role. The researchers accidentally came across a light source that generates a photon pair from the energy of an ele
Regular use of glucosamine supplements may be linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to a new study. The findings suggest that glucosamine could help prevent coronary heart disease and stroke, but further clinical trials will have to test the theory, says lead author Lu Qi, director of the Tulane University Obesity Research Center. “Our study for the first time provide
Below is Pepe Escobar’s account of the state of play between Russia, China, and the USA on all topics. Pompeo is an embarrassment — out of his league. Bolton is simply a traitor — an agent of a foreign power — and perhaps out of his mind as well. What Putin and Pompeo did not […]
Note: One scenario seems apparent – The highest levels of the Iranian government have long been infiltrated by CIA/Israeli agents. We only need to remember the US was infiltrated by Israelis prior to 9/11. See Carl Cameron’s report from 2001. We have evidence of a political takeover in the controlled demolition of Tehran’s 17 story […]
God is on Israel's side? Oh Really!
Unconscious, no wallet, no distinguishing marks -- who is this guy?
These Two Mutations Turned Not-so-Deadly Bacteria Into the Plague By Marissa Fressenden Smithsonian.com The bacterium that causes the Black Plague, called Yersinia pestis, has been infecting humans ever since it evolved 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. But its ancestor, Y. pseudotuberculosis, only causes an illness similar to scarlet fever. Most people recover from an Y. pseudotuberculosis infection af
Of course the U.S. landed on the moon in 1969
 

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