11/16/16
News
- British woman arrested on 'extra-marital sex' charges after reporting gang rape to police in Dubai as attackers go free
- Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure - " over $100 billion is spent each year on trying to enforce prohibition, but with very little effect. In 2014, around one in 20 adults around the world are thought to have used some sort of illegal drug"
- China websites block searches for 'Fatty Kim the Third'
Science
- Snowden: We are becoming too dependent on Facebook as a news source; "To have one company that has enough power to reshape the way we think, I don’t think I need to describe how dangerous that is"
- Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98% of HIV isolates tested, including 16 of 20 strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class, for development to potentially treat or prevent HIV infection
- What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out
Showerthoughts
- "Smoking or non-smoking" will eventually refer more to marijuana than to cigarettes.
- The speed of light is basically just the fastest the universe can render.
- The craziest prediction that the tv show "The Jetsons" made about life that far in the future was that a man could still support a middle class family of 4 by working in a factory.
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