Future Tech
THIS FLEXIBLE CAMERA TAKES CRAZY IMAGES digitaltrends v
The camera lens looks vaguely like a flexible solar tile. When bent, it captures an image that may appear altered but is still a high quality full picture. The team used silicone for the prototype sheet camera that lets the focal length of each lens vary with the curvature of the sheet, meaning there is no missing information as the lens deforms.
Researchers create super stretchy, self-healing material that could lead to artificial muscle phys.org
One of her team members, Cheng-Hui Li, wanted to test the stretchiness of a rubberlike type of plastic known as an elastomer that he had just synthesized. Such materials can normally be stretched two or three times their original length and spring back to original size. One common stress test involves stretching an elastomer beyond this point until it snaps.
But Li, a visiting scholar from China, hit a snag: The clamping machine typically used to measure elasticity could only stretch about 45 inches. To find the breaking point of their one-inch sample, Li and another lab member had to hold opposing ends in their hands, standing further and further apart, eventually stretching a 1-inch polymer film to more than 100 inches.
Robots
Chinese restaurant fires subpar robot waiters cbsnews
A human staff member from one of the restaurants told Workers' Daily, "The robots weren't able to carry soup or other food steady and they would frequently break down. The boss has decided never to use them again."
China
Chinese military plane makes first public landing on disputed South China Sea island abc.net.au
In a front-page story, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said a military aircraft on patrol over the South China Sea received an emergency call on Sunday to land at Fiery Cross Reef to evacuate three seriously ill workers.
Philippines
U.S. to give Philippines eye in sky to track South China Sea activity reuters
"We will add to its capability to put sensors on ships and put an aerostat blimp in the air to see into the maritime space," Goldberg said in an interview with CNN Philippines,
Israel
Netanyahu vows Golan Heights will remain part of Israel forever timesofisrael
Speaking in the Israeli town of Ma’aleh Gamla, next to an archaeological site where Jewish rebels stood off against Roman soldiers nearly 2,000 years ago, Netanyahu said he told US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday that Israel does not oppose current efforts to reach a political agreement to end the Syrian civil war, but that Israel’s boundary line with the country will not change.
See Arab League, U.S., Germany reject Israel’s Golan Heights affirmation
Israel finds a tunnel, Egypt destroys another, but Hamas is defiant timesofisrael v
The tunnel flooded by Egypt appeared to have been a commercial tunnel used to smuggle people and goods in and out of the Strip, as opposed to the “terror tunnel” located in southern Israel, which could have been used to carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
PM slams UNESCO resolution ignoring Jewish connection to Temple Mount timesofisrael
“This is yet another absurd UN decision,” Netanyahu said Saturday. “UNESCO ignores the unique historic connection of Judaism to the Temple Mount, where the two temples stood for a thousand years and to which every Jew in the world has prayed for thousands of years. The UN is rewriting a basic part of human history and has again proven that there is no low to which it will not stoop.”
Third Temple
Celebrating this Passover with a sacrifice (Opinion) jpost
...I believe that we can no longer neglect the following gnawing question: is it time to reinstitute the ritual of the Paschal Lamb?
Select sections of Hebrews 10:1-18:
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:8-9)
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:11-14)
Abortion
Victory for babies: Laws pass to protect the unborn and newborns kentuckytoday
In what many evangelicals consider a major victory, the House and Senate came together on legislation that will require women seeking abortions to have face-to-face meetings or real-time video consultations with their physicians or other medical personnel.
Depravity
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster conducts first legal wedding in New Zealand independent.co.uk
Wellington-based Pastafarian Karen Martyn is the first person to be granted the legal right to conduct marriages, and carried out her inaugural wedding as an ordained “ministeroni” on Saturday.
“The Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. We know that,” said Ms Martyn. “We weren't around then and we didn't see it, but no other religion was around to see it either, and our deity is as plausible as any other.”
Religious Freedom
Christian charities unite to fight Ofsted becoming 'state regulator of religion' (in UK) christiantoday
The department of education announced the plans last year which would force institutions that teach under-19s for more than six hours a week to register. The move is part of the government's counter-extremism strategy and came after concerns children were exposed to extremist views in a small number of Muslim madrassas.
Pestilence
Yellow fever outbreak in Angola is 'threat to entire world' independent.co.uk
So far, thousands of people are suspected to have been infected with the disease and 238 people have died, WHO has reported.
Animal Death
Scientists have finally named the killer of 211,000 rare antelope businessinsider
The bacteria normally and peacefully coexist inside the saiga's stomachs, but unusual rain conditions caused by climate change somehow turned the bacteria deadly, as previously reported by Zimmer.
The press release.
Volcano
Mount Paektu: North Korean, Western scientists join forces to solve volcano mystery csmonitor
...new tremors have prompted an unprecedented international scientific study of [Mount Paektu]. A team of Western, Chinese, and North Korean scientists deployed six seismometers on the North Korean side of the volcano for the first time, in an effort to better understand the rocky beast. The team jointly published their first paper Friday in the journal Science Advances, describing the never-before-studied structures beneath the North Korean side.
Earthquake
NASA Accidentally Discovers Ways to Engineer Buildings That Can Withstand Earthquakes dreamit-doit.socialmediacontractors.net
In 2013, NASA was working on one particular rocket that was known for violently shaking during launch. Testing revealed that the Ares rocket, a crew launch vehicle, would shake so hard during ascent that it could harm astronauts on board. So one NASA team experimented with controlling the heaviest part of the rocket—its fuel. That got the team thinking: If this technique worked on a rocket, why not a building?
Climate Change
Daniel Valle’s Water Pavilion Lets Visitors Walk on the Ocean industrytap
This is really art...with a climate change fear undertone
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