Society
How A Cakemaker Became An Enemy Of The State thefederalist
...those 30 seconds [when Phillips declined to participate in celebrating the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig] were clarifying in many other ways. It showed us that most of the media are incapable (or unwilling) to lay out the debate over religious freedom in an honest or enlightening way. It’s shown us that many of those who praise the diversity of American life have, in reality, lost their compassion and the ability to tolerate anyone who disagrees with their worldview.
Teen's plan to die has disability groups seeking intervention usatoday
Carrie Ann Lucas, executive director of the Colorado-based Disabled Parents Rights disabledparentrights.org, said her organization is one of several that have asked for child-protection authorities to investigate the case of 14-year-old Jerika Bolen, whose decision to enter hospice care at the end of summer gained national attention.
Christianity
Evangelicals Ignore G.O.P. by Embracing Syrian Refugees nytimes
...at a time when conservative politicians, many with ties to Christian religious groups, have aggressively sought to keep the Syrian newcomers out of their states, it is conservative people of faith who, in many cases, are serving as their indispensable support system.
Note: the title says 'evangelicals', but the author has a more broad group in mind, including even Mormons, etc. But the core point is the same...
Genetics
Human Hair Protein Sequencing Might Replace DNA In Crime Scene Investigation forbes
Writing today in the journal PLOS One plos.org, Glendon Parker and colleagues lay out their case for identification of individuals using the proteins in their hair shafts. Whereas DNA can be damaged by biological, environmental, and chemical processes, protein is more stable and abundant, even in archaeological samples. This is one of the reasons that many bioarchaeologists use collagen from bone and tooth dentine to reconstruct ancient diets. Parker and colleagues, however, chose to look at the human hair shaft because of its forensic relevance and because of the possibility of reconstructing the proteome — like a genome for proteins — from it.
Medical Tech
Groundbreaking 3D printed hearing aid from Earlens uses non-visible light to create natural, rich sound 3ders.org v
The partially 3D printed Earlens Hearing Aid earlens consists of three major parts: a photon processor, light tip, and the lens. The small custom-fit lens is placed into the wearer’s ear by an ear, nose, and throat physician, and sits in the eardrum like a contact lens does on the eye—with surface tension. The microphone of the photon processor, which is worn around the ear, picks up sound and communicates the sound information to the light tip, which converts the sound into non-visible light. When these light signals reach the lens placed on eardrum, the wearer’s natural hearing system is activated, leading to a richer, more complete hearing experience.
Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was once a KGB spy code-named ‘Mole,’ report claims washingtonpost
The news report, which was based on research carried out by two Israeli professors, revealed that the cryptic information was hidden in documents from the Mitrokhin archive wilsoncenter.org, a collection of handwritten notes by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin smuggled his notes out of Russia in the 1990s when he defected to Britain. Cambridge University's Churchill College made the papers public in 2014.
Two-State Talks
Experts: Potential Abbas, Netanyahu meeting dubious at best usatoday
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have tentatively agreed to conduct talks in Moscow aimed at ending their decades-old stalemate in the Middle East, Russian officials said Thursday.
See also Netanyahu and Abbas agree ‘in principle’ to meet, Russia says timesofisrael
Automation
Michigan moves to not require human in driverless test cars rapidcityjournal
The expansive bills , which are on track for final legislative approval by year's end and are supported by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, would make Michigan a rare state to explicitly end a requirement that a researcher be present inside an autonomous test vehicle. The researcher would have to "promptly" take control of its movements remotely if necessary, or the vehicle would have to be able to stop or slow on its own.
Space
Australian student Seamus Thomson won a 10-week internship at NASA after being a runner-up in the 2015 Australian Science Prize. Now it doesn't want him to go home.
Talk about having a fanciful dream job :)
Um...
3D printing could be key to creating authentic-tasting cow's milk, without the cows digitaltrends
That’s the mission statement of a startup called Perfect Day Foods perfectdayfoods, founded by two twenty-something biomedical scientists. The firm has so far raised $4 million from investors. Perfect Day’s plan? To create a lactose-free milk substitute that’s a whole lot closer to the real thing than existing milk substitutes.
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