Venezuela
Where flour, pasta and milk can cost a month's pay cnn
There's hardly ever fresh milk on the shelves. The same for powdered milk, which can sell on the black market for 100 times its official price. We found milk being sold for 7,000 bolivares -- more than $700 at the official currency exchange rate, though if you have U.S. dollars you can exchange them on the black market at vastly more favorable rates, perhaps getting 1,000 bolivares to the dollar.
This story reminded me a bit of the third seal (famine) describes in Revelation 6:6 NIV
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages, and six pounds of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
North Korea
North Korea hopes to plant flag on the moon by 2020 scmp
In an interview, a senior official at the North’s version of Nasa said international sanctions won’t stop Pyongyang from launching more satellites by 2020, and that he hopes to see the North Korean flag on the moon within the next 10 years.
Iran
Congress was right: The Iran deal is a travesty — and Obama is to blame salon
Onlookers concerned about a nuclear Iran shouldn’t be surprised by a report from The Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration secretly apparently airdropped $400 million in foreign currency in exchange for the release of four Americans, a move that breaches U.S. protocol and amounts to ransom. Even more troubling, yet not surprising: new reports that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is publicly backpedalling from President Obama’s prized nuclear deal.
I've included this one because it's written by the rather liberal Salon...
Society
President Barack Obama Says, "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like" glamour w!
That isn’t always easy, either—watching [my daughters] prepare to leave the nest. But one thing that makes me optimistic for them is that this is an extraordinary time to be a woman. The progress we’ve made in the past 100 years, 50 years, and, yes, even the past eight years has made life significantly better for my daughters than it was for my grandmothers. And I say that not just as President but also as a feminist.
Genesis 2 speaks of a different kind of equality. We were created equal in stature and value as image bears of God (Gen 1:27), but with complimentary roles in life and relationship (Gen 2:15, Gen 2:18). Notice this complimentary role was assigned by God before the fall (Genesis 3), and so was not the result of sin as often egalitarian 'evangelicals' will promote. Pushing for a system that is contrary to God's design only ends up hurting the woman it supposedly helps, not to mention the "side"-effect of others hurt and killed (think: unborn babies) that comes from feminism (possibly a result of the very type of desire gotquestions God refered to in Gen 3:16, though different options exist on the exact meaning as the Hebrew isn't clear).
Tech
Your battery life may be revealing your internet history telegraph.co.uk
Researchers at Princeton University princeton.edu discovered that two popular web scripts were able to target people by reading the Battery Status API – an indicator of battery life that devices give to web browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome.
Digital Brain
IBM Creates Artificial Neurons That Learn by Themselves newsweek
The artificial neurons were made using special materials called phase-change materials, which form the basis of re-writable Blu-ray discs. However, the artificial neurons do not store digital information; they are analog, just like the synapses and neurons in our biological brain.
Being Creators
How Scientists Plan to Grow Cities Out of Living Organisms gizmodo v w!
Imagine a future where there is no need to cut down a tree and and reshape that raw material into a chair or table. Instead, we could grow our furniture by custom-engineering moss or mushrooms. Perhaps glowing bacteria will light our cities, and we’ll be able to bring back extinct species, or wipe out Lyme disease—or maybe even terraform Mars. Synthetic biology could help us accomplish all that, and more.
When dreamers dream of being creators while refusing to give thanks, honor, or even acknowledgement to their Creator (while trying to hijack His stuff!) you get fanciful stories like this one :) (c.f. Romans 1:21)
NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos npr.org
The National Institutes of Health nih.gov is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions.
Archeology
Legends say China began in a great flood. Scientists just found evidence that the flood was real. washingtonpost
It is a powerful foundation myth, but many believed that was all it was. Some 4,000 years after the flood was supposed to have happened, historians had found no archaeological evidence of its effect or firsthand accounts of its destruction. There are no historical artifacts from Yu, or the Xia dynasty ancient.eu he founded. All researchers had to go on were stories written long after the fact, dramatized and politicized to justify the ends of those who wrote them. Until Wu Qinglong, a geologist at Nanjing Normal University, found signs of the flood in the sediments beneath his feet.
Evidence for a flood? In plain sight? Who would have thought? :D
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