U.S. cops aiming for 1000-kill year

After shooting, beating, choking and kicking their way to 1,021 kills last year and 2019’s near-miss count of 999, U.S. police officers are racing to bring 2021’s death toll over the the line: Statista reports this week that police killed 716 civilians in the first nine months of 2021. — Read the rest

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Oklahoma botches first execution in 7 years: condemned man “convulsed and vomited”, took 21 minutes to die

Fox News reports that Oklahoma, lifting a moratorium on executions, killed its first inmate in 7 years. And Oklahoma botched it, because of course it did [archive.org]. John Marion Grant, on death row because he murdered a prison cafeteria worker, began vomiting as soon as the sedative midazolam was administered—assuming that’s what he was administered. — Read the rest

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US issues first passport with “X” gender marker

The US State Department has issued the first passport with the gender marked as “X.” So what the hell does X mean?

“As the Secretary announced in June, the Department is moving towards adding an X gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons applying for a U.S. — Read the rest

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A history of humanzees, born from female chimps impregnated with human sperm

The early 20th century was a hotbed of genetic experimentation. One bizarre line of research explored human-nonhuman hybrids, such as humanzees. At least one such case of a humanzee making it to term is described in History of Yesterday:

An evolutionary psychologist by the name of Gordon Gallup stated that in the 1920s the first humanzee was “born” at a secret research facility in Florida.

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California town smells like “rotten eggs, vomit, farts, and body odor”

Carson, California residents have picketed city hall about pervasive noxious odor that’s been making people sick for weeks. Yesterday the city council declared a local emergency and the mayor is seeking state funds to pay for hotel rooms and air filters. — Read the rest

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Hundreds of rare three-eyed crustaceans found in Arizona desert after a storm

The Arizona Daily Sun reports that hundreds of tiny three-eyed crustaceans called triops were recently found near the desert in the aftermath of a rare monsoon.

After years of drought drained the reservoirs and baked the land, finally the rain has come.

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Texas Lt. Gov’s $1MM bounty pays off by catching a Republican who voted twice

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick put up $1,000,000 of his campaign donor’s money to catch voter fraud in Texas. It took a while but they finally caught someone, a Republican, of course.

Vice:

Shortly after the 2020 election, Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick offered up to $1 million in reward money, to be paid out of his own campaign coffers, to “incentivize, encourage and reward people to come forward and report voter fraud.”

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Pig kidney successfully transplanted to human body

Surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human subject, reports The Economist. The kidney, experimentally attached for three days ito a brain-dead patient, marks substantial advances in the science of xenotransplantation.

In 2014, a firm called Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla, California, began work on a unique and radical project.

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Man with zero hours flying experience accidentally takes off, and barely lands

A guy bought a new plane but, as yet, had zero hours of flying experience. For some reason he was allowed to taxi his plane from one part of the airport to the other — and while doing so, he accidentally took off. — Read the rest

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Top Boeing pilot indicted over 737 MAX scandal

A now-former chief technical pilot for Boeing was indicted on fraud charges over his involvement in the 737 MAX scandal, which claimed the lives of hundreds of passengers when two of the defective jets crashed. Mark Forkner, 49, was in that role during the certification process for the jet and is accused of deceiving the Federal Aviation Administeration during that process in 2016 and 2017. — Read the rest

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Dog saves owner from meteorite

From the CBC:

Ruth Hamilton had been asleep for hours in her Golden, B.C., home when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking, giving her a moment’s notice before a rock from outer space hurtled into her bedroom.

“The next thing was just a huge explosion and debris all over my face,” Hamilton recalled in an interview Tuesday.

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Solving the mystery of the boom that rocked New Hampshire on Sunday morning

On Sunday morning, residents of New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts were rocked by a massive boom that shook homes in the region and understandably freaked people the hell out. Early theories that it was a supersonic aircraft or earthquake were quickly proven wrong. — Read the rest

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New carnivorous plant discovered, right under our noses

Ever since Darwin first wrote on carnivorous plants, in his still-fun-to-read 1875 book Insectivorous Plants, there have only been 11 independent origins for plants that eat animals.

Now scientists have discovered a new one, the “North American flowering plant Triantha occidentalis“, also known as the “western false asphodel.” — Read the rest

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WHO approves the first malaria vaccine

Exciting vaccine news that’s not about Covid: there’s now a WHO-approved vaccine for malaria, a disease caused by a single-celled microorganism of the Plasmodium group— not a bacteria or virus. According to the NYT, this vaccine is “the first developed for any parasitic disease. — Read the rest

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Federal judge blocks enforcement of Texas abortion ban

A District Court judge in Texas yesterday issued an injunction barring enforcement of Texas’s abortion ban, describing it as plainly unconstitutional and designed to avoid judicial scrutiny.

“In a 113-page opinion, Pitman took Texas to task over the law, saying Republican lawmakers had ‘contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme’ by leaving enforcement solely in the hands of private citizens, who are entitled to collect $10,000 in damages if they bring successful lawsuits against abortion providers who violate the restrictions.”

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Andrew Yang leaves Democratic Party to form his own

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang’s outsider primary run and signature support for a universal basic income made him a star for some Democratic voters, but his prospects in the party have dimmed in the year since. So exit Yang, and enter his new Forward Party: “Not Left, not Right, but Forward”

The two parties are trapped in a war that they both win, while the rest of us lose.

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The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it’s about damn time.

The American Prospect reports the US Postal Service has — finally! — begun piloting several postal banking programs.

In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and have the money put onto a single-use gift card.

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Capybaras occupy Buenos Aires suburb; no demands yet issued

KHOU 11 reports that an army of capybaras has overrun Tigre, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and begun breeding there.

COUNTLESS CAPYBARAS: People living in this community in Argentina have a lot of furry, four-legged neighbors. Local media reports hundreds of capybaras have overrun a suburb in Tigre, and the population has been increasing over the years.

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“Unbreakable” glass developed, say researchers

McGill University researchers say they’ve developed an “unbreakable” glass inspired by the inner layer of mollusk shells. As resilent as plastic yet as hard as nacre, it could “improve cell phone screens in the future, among other applications.”

The scientists took the architecture of nacre and replicated it with layers of glass flakes and acrylic, yielding an exceptionally strong yet opaque material that can be produced easily and inexpensively.

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US exceeds 700,000 dead of COVID-19

My condolences to everyone whose family has lost a loved one to COVID-19. Please get vaccinated if you are not already.

NPR:

The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone Friday, eclipsing 700,000 deaths from COVID-19 just as the surge from the delta variant is starting to slow down and give overwhelmed hospitals some relief.

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