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January 12, 2016
Cossmologist tweet appears to confirm rumors of possible discovery that could ‘open a new window on the universe’
Not for the first time, the world of physics is abuzz with rumors that gravitational waves have been detected by scientists in the US.
Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State university, tweeted that he had received independent confirmation of a rumor that has been in circulation for months, adding: “Gravitational waves may have been discovered!!”
The excitement centers on a longstanding experiment known as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) which uses detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana to look for ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
According to the rumors, scientists on the team are in the process of writing up a paper that describes a gravitational wave signal. If such a signal exists and is verified, it would confirm one of the most dramatic predictions of Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of general relativity.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/scientists-try-to-stay-grounded-amid-rumors-that-gravitational-waves-were-discovered/
Scientists try to stay grounded amid rumors that gravitational waves were discovered
Cossmologist tweet appears to confirm rumors of possible discovery that could ‘open a new window on the universe’
Not for the first time, the world of physics is abuzz with rumors that gravitational waves have been detected by scientists in the US.
Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State university, tweeted that he had received independent confirmation of a rumor that has been in circulation for months, adding: “Gravitational waves may have been discovered!!”
The excitement centers on a longstanding experiment known as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) which uses detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana to look for ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
According to the rumors, scientists on the team are in the process of writing up a paper that describes a gravitational wave signal. If such a signal exists and is verified, it would confirm one of the most dramatic predictions of Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of general relativity.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/scientists-try-to-stay-grounded-amid-rumors-that-gravitational-waves-were-discovered/
January 11, 2016
In a skirmish at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston about the state’s new ultra-restrictive abortion law, Democratic Senator Wendy Davis angrily told Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry he knows nothing about human reproduction or women’s vaginas.
“You don’t have to own an SUV to know where to pump the gas,” responded Perry, drawing immediate boos from the small lecture hall full of med students and from some of the media in attendance.
As the governor’s press handlers started to interrupt, Perry waved them off and stepped up to an anatomically-correct ‘female’ doll used in medical training that was laying on an examining table in the room.
“I’m not stupid. Those are the vagina right there,” said Perry, pointing at but not touching the labi majora, the visible protruding edges leading in to the vagina.
http://thelapine.ca/gov-perry-unable-to-find-vagina-on-anatomical-doll/
NOT THE ONION: Gov. Perry Unable to Find Vagina on Anatomical Doll
In a skirmish at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston about the state’s new ultra-restrictive abortion law, Democratic Senator Wendy Davis angrily told Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry he knows nothing about human reproduction or women’s vaginas.
“You don’t have to own an SUV to know where to pump the gas,” responded Perry, drawing immediate boos from the small lecture hall full of med students and from some of the media in attendance.
As the governor’s press handlers started to interrupt, Perry waved them off and stepped up to an anatomically-correct ‘female’ doll used in medical training that was laying on an examining table in the room.
“I’m not stupid. Those are the vagina right there,” said Perry, pointing at but not touching the labi majora, the visible protruding edges leading in to the vagina.
http://thelapine.ca/gov-perry-unable-to-find-vagina-on-anatomical-doll/
January 10, 2016
Climb Aboard NASA's Biggest Flying Laboratory
January 9, 2016
A Canadian tribunal has rejected a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said on Friday.
While saying he did find Kyle Lydell Canty to have a genuine fear of returning to his home country, adjudicator Ron Yamauchi said that was not enough to grant asylum.
A string of shootings of black men by U.S. police over the past 18 months have led to widespread protests and the issue has fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives Matter.
“The Act does not protect claimants from every form of ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship,” he wrote in the decision, dated Dec. 3. “It is addressed at situations of persecution, which is serious harm, an interference with a basic human right.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/canada-rejects-asylum-plea-from-black-american-saying-he-wanted-to-escape-police-abuse/
Canada rejects asylum plea from black American saying he wanted to escape police abuse
A Canadian tribunal has rejected a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said on Friday.
While saying he did find Kyle Lydell Canty to have a genuine fear of returning to his home country, adjudicator Ron Yamauchi said that was not enough to grant asylum.
A string of shootings of black men by U.S. police over the past 18 months have led to widespread protests and the issue has fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives Matter.
“The Act does not protect claimants from every form of ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship,” he wrote in the decision, dated Dec. 3. “It is addressed at situations of persecution, which is serious harm, an interference with a basic human right.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/canada-rejects-asylum-plea-from-black-american-saying-he-wanted-to-escape-police-abuse/
January 9, 2016
"The Lord® came to me and said 'Larry (not my name but when the Lord® speaks to you, well, you listen) I want you to organize the people to donate their snacks to our Patriots® in Oregon®. My father, God® who is also me believes that you can do this. I've asked the Holy® Spirit®, who is also me to help out with supplies and socks. I'm not sure about the socks, I might ask one of the saints to do that. Maybe Saint Theresa, she's new. Anyway, I am God® and all that. Bring them snacks.' I'll be damned if I don't heed his call. No matter how self-serving and somewhat rambling it was. #?SnacksforYallQaeda"
People Really are frying him over the stolen valor. Enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/Blaine-Cooper-230684280388837/?fref=ts
Blaine Cooper, one of the HomeGrown Warlords is Getting Shredded on Facebook
"The Lord® came to me and said 'Larry (not my name but when the Lord® speaks to you, well, you listen) I want you to organize the people to donate their snacks to our Patriots® in Oregon®. My father, God® who is also me believes that you can do this. I've asked the Holy® Spirit®, who is also me to help out with supplies and socks. I'm not sure about the socks, I might ask one of the saints to do that. Maybe Saint Theresa, she's new. Anyway, I am God® and all that. Bring them snacks.' I'll be damned if I don't heed his call. No matter how self-serving and somewhat rambling it was. #?SnacksforYallQaeda"
People Really are frying him over the stolen valor. Enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/Blaine-Cooper-230684280388837/?fref=ts
January 9, 2016
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On Thursday, The Carter Center announced that only 22 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2015— a reduction of 83% from 2014. This quite remarkable, as when The Carter Center began leading the international campaign to eradicate the parasitic disease in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million Guinea worm cases occurring annually in Africa and Asia.
"As we get closer to zero, each case takes on increasing importance. Full surveillance must continue in the few remaining endemic nations and neighboring countries until no cases remain to ensure the disease does not return," said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. "The Carter Center and our partners are committed to seeing that this horrible parasitic disease never afflicts future generations."
jimmy-rosalynn-carter-photo.jpg
Considered a neglected tropical disease, Guinea worm disease (Dracunculiasis) is contracted when people consume water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae. After a year, a meter-long worm slowly emerges from the body through a painful blister in the skin. Guinea worm incapacitates people for weeks or months, making them unable to care for themselves, work, grow food for their families, or attend school.
Without a vaccine or medical treatment, the ancient disease is being wiped out mainly through community-based interventions to educate and change behavior, such as teaching people to filter all drinking water and preventing contamination by keeping anyone with an emerging worm from entering water sources.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/8/1467404/-The-Carter-Center-announces-only-20-Guinea-Worm-Disease-cases-left-from-previous-3-5-million-cases
The Carter Center announces only 22 cases of flesh-eating Guinea worm disease left—from 3.5 million
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On Thursday, The Carter Center announced that only 22 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2015— a reduction of 83% from 2014. This quite remarkable, as when The Carter Center began leading the international campaign to eradicate the parasitic disease in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million Guinea worm cases occurring annually in Africa and Asia.
"As we get closer to zero, each case takes on increasing importance. Full surveillance must continue in the few remaining endemic nations and neighboring countries until no cases remain to ensure the disease does not return," said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. "The Carter Center and our partners are committed to seeing that this horrible parasitic disease never afflicts future generations."
jimmy-rosalynn-carter-photo.jpg
Considered a neglected tropical disease, Guinea worm disease (Dracunculiasis) is contracted when people consume water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae. After a year, a meter-long worm slowly emerges from the body through a painful blister in the skin. Guinea worm incapacitates people for weeks or months, making them unable to care for themselves, work, grow food for their families, or attend school.
Without a vaccine or medical treatment, the ancient disease is being wiped out mainly through community-based interventions to educate and change behavior, such as teaching people to filter all drinking water and preventing contamination by keeping anyone with an emerging worm from entering water sources.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/8/1467404/-The-Carter-Center-announces-only-20-Guinea-Worm-Disease-cases-left-from-previous-3-5-million-cases
January 7, 2016
Trump threatens to pull $1 billion investment if he is banned from UK
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has threatened to cancel over 700 million pounds ($1 billion) of planned investments in golf courses in Scotland if Britain slaps him with a travel ban.
The threat from Trump, owner of two golf courses in his mother’s homeland of Scotland, comes as British lawmakers prepare to hold a debate on a petition signed by over half a million people calling for him to be barred from the country after his proposal to stop Muslims entering the United States.
The debate will be held on Jan. 18 but will not be followed by a vote. Only interior minister Theresa May can issue an order banning entry into Britain and Prime Minister David Cameron has said he does not favor barring Trump.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/trump-threatens-to-pull-1-billion-investment-if-he-is-banned-from-uk/
January 7, 2016
NASA recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times faster than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.
The VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO of Ad Astra.
According to Diaz, “this is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”
http://www.industrytap.com/nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-reach-mars-39-days/33646
NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days
NASA recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times faster than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.
The VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO of Ad Astra.
According to Diaz, “this is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”
http://www.industrytap.com/nasas-new-vasimr-plasma-engine-reach-mars-39-days/33646
January 7, 2016
(RW Death Cultist AKA Mainstream Republican)
An extremist Christian activist and video blogger called for the execution of feminists in Europe who desecrate the crucifix, according to Right Wing Watch.
Theodore Shoebat, an anti-gay Donald Trump supporter, posted the comments to his blog on Tuesday. Last month, Shoebat called for armed raids on “demonic” yoga studios in order to “Christianize the land.”
In his Tuesday video, Shoebat said he doesn’t believe attacks on Christianity “should be tolerated.”
“There’s these feminists in France, they’ll get crucifixes and they’ll put the crucifixes up their anuses,” he said. “Those people should not be tolerated. That happened in Italy. If I was ruling in Italy or if the Italian government called me up and said, ‘Theodore what do you think we should do?’ I would say, ‘You need to arrest those women and burn them at the stake.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/watch-unhinged-trump-supporter-says-feminists-should-be-burned-alive-for-desecrating-crucifixes/
WATCH: Unhinged Trump supporter says feminists should be burned alive for desecrating crucifixes
(RW Death Cultist AKA Mainstream Republican)
An extremist Christian activist and video blogger called for the execution of feminists in Europe who desecrate the crucifix, according to Right Wing Watch.
Theodore Shoebat, an anti-gay Donald Trump supporter, posted the comments to his blog on Tuesday. Last month, Shoebat called for armed raids on “demonic” yoga studios in order to “Christianize the land.”
In his Tuesday video, Shoebat said he doesn’t believe attacks on Christianity “should be tolerated.”
“There’s these feminists in France, they’ll get crucifixes and they’ll put the crucifixes up their anuses,” he said. “Those people should not be tolerated. That happened in Italy. If I was ruling in Italy or if the Italian government called me up and said, ‘Theodore what do you think we should do?’ I would say, ‘You need to arrest those women and burn them at the stake.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/watch-unhinged-trump-supporter-says-feminists-should-be-burned-alive-for-desecrating-crucifixes/
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