Showing posts with label #Random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Random. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

U.S. cops aiming for 1000-kill year

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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...
Friday, October 29, 2021

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

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Fox News reports that Oklahoma, lifting a moratorium on executions, killed its first inmate in 7 years. And Oklahoma botched it, because ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

US issues first passport with “X” gender marker

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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 annou...

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

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The early 20th century was a hotbed of genetic experimentation. One bizarre line of research explored human-nonhuman hybrids, such as human...

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

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Carson, California residents have picketed city hall about pervasive noxious odor that’s been making people sick for weeks. Yesterday the c...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

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

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

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

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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 ca...

Pig kidney successfully transplanted to human body

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Surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human subject , reports The Economist . The kidney, experimentally attac...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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

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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 o...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Top Boeing pilot indicted over 737 MAX scandal

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A now-former chief technical pilot for Boeing was indicted on fraud charges over his involvement in the 737 MAX scandal, which claimed the...

Dog saves owner from meteorite

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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 ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

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

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On Sunday morning, residents of New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts were rocked by a massive boom that shook homes in the region and u...
Monday, October 11, 2021

New carnivorous plant discovered, right under our noses

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Ever since Darwin first wrote on carnivorous plants, in his still-fun-to-read 1875 book Insectivorous Plants , there have only been 11 inde...
Friday, October 8, 2021

WHO approves the first malaria vaccine

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Exciting vaccine news that’s not about Covid: there’s now a WHO-approved  vaccine for malaria, a disease caused by a single-celled microo...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Federal judge blocks enforcement of Texas abortion ban

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A District Court judge in Texas yesterday issued an injunction barring enforcement of Texas’s abortion ban , describing it as plainly uncon...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Andrew Yang leaves Democratic Party to form his own

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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang’s outsider primary run and signature support for a universal basic income made him a star for some Democratic vo...

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

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The American Prospect reports the US Postal Service has — finally! — begun piloting several postal banking programs. In four pilot citi...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Capybaras occupy Buenos Aires suburb; no demands yet issued

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

“Unbreakable” glass developed, say researchers

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McGill University researchers say they’ve developed an “unbreakable” glass inspired by the inner layer of mollusk shells . As resilent as p...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

US exceeds 700,000 dead of COVID-19

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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...