Day's Headlines: Drug Addict Slaughter; Cold Shake; Kashmir Concerns; Golf Missile; Ironclad Flaky Relationship; Bank In Deutsche; Science Isn't Subjective Enough; Judge Judged a Hater; EU Fast Track to Save the World; Teaming with Creepy Critters; World Watches Rosetta Die; SpaceX's Entry into the Impossible Dream; Yuan in the Basket; Dark Lights; and NASA's Gecko

Friday, September 30, 2016

Drug Addict Slaughter; Cold Shake; Kashmir Concerns; Golf Missile; Ironclad Flaky Relationship; Bank In Deutsche; Science Isn't Subjective Enough; Judge Judged a Hater; EU Fast Track to Save the World; Teaming with Creepy Critters; World Watches Rosetta Die; SpaceX's Entry into the Impossible Dream; Yuan in the Basket; Dark Lights; and NASA's Gecko

Philippines

Rodrigo Duterte Condemned After Comparing Philippine War on Drugs With Holocaust wsj

“Hitler massacred three million Jews,” Mr. Duterte told reporters in Davao upon his return from a visit to Vietnam Friday. “Now, there are three million drug addicts [in the Philippines]…. I’d be happy to slaughter them.” In fact, historians estimate that the Nazis murdered six million Jews across Europe in the Holocaust during World War II.

Also see Duterte, Citing Hitler, Says He Wants to Kill 3 Million Addicts in Philippines nytimes

Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas share historic handshake at Shimon Peres' funeral independent.co.uk v

It was only a brief moment, but the handshake between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will become one of the defining moments of the Shimon Peres funeral on Friday.

Pakistan-India

China urges Pakistan, India to solve differences over disputed Kashmir in.reuters

China on Wednesday called on Pakistan and India to solve their differences over Kashmir, as tensions mount between the nuclear-armed neighbours after an attack killed 18 Indian soldiers in the disputed Himalayan region.

Also see Pakistan: Indian fire kills 2 Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir ap.org

North Korea

Jack Nicklaus Course Picked to Thwart North Korean Missiles bloomberg

The decision comes after more than two months of protests over the original plan to locate Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, known as Thaad thediplomat, in the mountainous county of Seongju more than 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Seoul. The missile defense system will now be located nearby at the Lotte Group’s Skyhill Country Club, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry.

Pentagon chief calls U.S. alliance with Philippines 'ironclad' in.reuters

Carter spoke a day after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has branded President Barack Obama a "son of a [-]," declared upcoming U.S.-Philipppines military exercises "the last" and ruled out any joint navy patrols.

Banking

Deutsche Bank’s shares tumble again economist

The catalyst: a Bloomberg report saying that “about ten” hedge funds that use Deutsche’s prime brokerage had moved part of their derivatives holdings elsewhere, to reduce their exposure to Germany’s biggest lender.

Also see Deutsche Bank shares swing wildly amid stability concerns sfgate

Society

Feminist PhD Candidate: Science Is Sexist Because It’s Not Subjective thefederalist

College science classes are hostile to women and minorities because they use the scientific method, which assumes people can find reliable truths about the natural world through careful and sustained experimentation, concludes a recent dissertation by a doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota und.edu.

Alabama justice off bench for defying feds on gay marriage usnews

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench Friday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, more than a decade after he was ousted for disobeying a federal order to take down a 2 ½-ton monument to the Ten Commandments.

Climate Change

EU states agree fast joint ratification of U.N. climate deal reuters

"All member states greenlight early EU ratification of Paris Agreement. What some believed impossible is now real," tweeted European Council President Donald Tusk, whose home country Poland had been the main state resisting such a swift accord.

Also see Landmark Paris climate change treaty to come into force amid alarm over 'signals from the natural world' independent.co.uk

Creatures

Researchers sample unusually rich deep-sea area off Big Island westhawaiitoday

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noaa.gov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday that the abundance of sea life sampled in a particular stretch of water off the Big Island points to a thriving deep-sea habitat, but they aren’t exactly sure why. The area, about a mile off the south shore of Hawaii Island, was full of fish including sawtooth eels, dragonfish and many other mysterious deep-sea creatures.

Space

The Life and Death of the Rosetta Spacecraft: 2004 to 2016 space v

On Sept. 30, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will crash-land on the Comet 67P, ending a 12-year mission to study a comet like never before. Launched in 2004, the Rosetta spacecraft visited asteroids before arriving in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. In November of that year, Rosetta's lander Philae made a historic landing on Comet 67P - a major space feat.

Also see Here are the last photos a star-crossed robot took before killing itself on a comet businessinsider

The race to Mars: here's how SpaceX ranks against the competition theverge v

On Tuesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced his ambitious — if crazy — plan to colonize Mars within the next 40 to 100 years. But Musk isn’t the only one with Mars dreams and ambitions. In fact, people have been drawing out missions to the Red Planet for at least the last 70 years — and we’re still waiting for one to take flight.

Warning: The video includes that 'science' guy who believes we're martians v.

Yuan joins IMF’s elite reserve currency club in a milestone moment for China scmp

From tomorrow, the yuan, also known as the renminbi, will become the fifth member of the IMF’s prestigious Special Drawing Rights imf.org (SDR) basket of currencies, alongside the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound.

Also see China's yuan prepares for global currency status as questions on reform linger reuters

Tech

LIFX’s new smart bulb emits light you can’t actually see theverge

To see at night, a lot of security cameras rely on infrared, which they shine out like an invisible spotlight. With the addition of some infrared bulbs around a room, a security camera that relies on IR should have a farther and clearer look at whatever it’s monitoring.

NASA’s Gecko-Inspired Robots Can Climb Pretty Much Anything wired v

Adhesion-wise, space presents a couple problems. First, robots typically struggle with uneven surfaces, let alone the kind of cliffs and crags you see on Mars. Second, space is kind of gravity challenged. “Out in zero gravity, even pushing tape against surfaces is difficult,” say Jaakko Karras, a robotics electrical engineer at JPL. Without gravity to anchor your feet to the ground, it’s easy to run afoul of Newton’s third law. (For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So you’ll be pushed away from the wall with the same amount of force you applied to it. Physics!)

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