Abortion
The Numbers That Show Planned Parenthood About Abortion, Not Women’s Health dailysignal v
Planned Parenthood’s own numbers prove that it’s an abortion corporation, focused on abortion, not on women’s health care. The fact is, Planned Parenthood doesn’t perform a single mammogram and performs less than 2 percent of all women’s cancer screenings in the United States. Yet, as America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood commits over 30 percent of America’s abortions—887 abortions a day, one abortion every 97 seconds, and over 320,000 abortions last year alone.
Louisiana loses another round in effort to defund Planned Parenthood nola
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday (Sept. 14) upheld a lower court ruling ensuring that needy women can get Medicaid-funded non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities in the state.
Society
Welsh pupils' 'biblical flood' zoo visits questioned bbc
Concerns about the school trips have been raised by humanist campaigners, while one of Britain's leading experts on evolution said the flood story views backed by the zoo were "nonsense".
The 'expert' then went on to declare his ignorance (or was willingly lying) about Darwin (see additional quote), as I don't think there's any evolutionary scientists who still seriously considers Darwin right anymore :) For example: Do Evolutionists Believe Darwin’s Ideas about Evolution? answersingenesis.org
"It would be the most exciting day in a biologist's life if you found that Darwin was wrong," he said.
Climate Change
U.N. 'certain' Paris climate deal will enter into force by end-2016 reuters
U.N. officials have said they are confident the Paris climate change agreement will enter into force by the end of 2016, with at least 20 countries indicating they will join it at a U.N. event on Sept. 21, adding to the 27 that have already done so.
Environmental
Taiwan braces for second typhoon in less than a week upi
Local government on Friday said seven people were killed and nine were missing in eastern China's Fujian province, Xinhua reported. Three others were killed in the Zhejiang province. One person died in Taiwan.
Devastating Typhoon Leaves Some 140,000 North Koreans In Need Of Aid npr.org
Typhoon Lionrock struck North Korea about two weeks ago. It triggered floods that have left at least 138 people dead and some 400 others missing, the U.N. resident coordinator's office says.
Also see Hundreds killed, missing in massive flood in NK koreaherald
Syria
Even Peace May Not Save Syria newyorker
“What is increasingly apparent amid all this misery is that Syria as a nation is increasingly a fiction,” James Stavridis, the former nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe and current dean of Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, wrote in Foreign Policy. “Large chunks of it are ruled by disparate actors with no allegiance and often bitter enmity toward what remains of the sovereign state. Like Humpty Dumpty in the children’s nursery rhyme, the odds of putting Syria back together again into a functioning entity appear very low.”
Note: One of the quotes in the article has a couple bad words
Robots
Tiny robots have bee queueing all week to buy iPhone 7s for their 100 owners mashable v
Clive Ormerod of Spark spark.co.nz said the project was born of invention and necessity, saying "technology these days is so much more advanced than it used to be, so why shouldn’t our customers have their tech queue for them instead?"
Robot Deputy Could Be The Future Of Crime Fighting losangeles.cbslocal v
A robot was brought in last week when Lancaster deputies were after a man wanted for attempted murder and other crimes. The man tried to hide out in a small dugout dirt berm with shrubs and fencing wire around it. Deputies in a helicopter above and in an armored vehicle on the ground tried to get him to surrender. Using the noise from the helicopter, a special weapons team quietly brought in the robot behind the suspect, who was on his stomach facing the deputies with a shotgun.
AI
Nissan is developing an AI to design its cars geek
For now, Nissan is in the testing phase of using an AI as designer. They are going beyond just solving problems, though. Their prototype AI can recognize images and attempts to design cars based on them. It has already managed to create a design for a car not seen before, which is by no means perfect, but a strong start nonetheless.
Research
UCLA researchers use stem cells to grow 3-D lung-in-a-dish scienceblog t
“While we haven’t built a fully functional lung, we’ve been able to take lung cells and place them in the correct geometrical spacing and pattern to mimic a human lung,” said Dr. Brigitte Gomperts ucla.edu, an associate professor of pediatric hematology/oncology and the study’s lead author.
Founded in 2009 and described as the ‘only company worldwide that is able to 3D print optically functional products, without the need for polishing or grinding’, Luxexcel luxexcel has been responsible for numerous strides in 3D printing, as well as for creating dynamic partnerships with other companies, helping to further mass customization within their industry as they focus on 3D printing lenses. Luxexcel started out initially just 3D printing optics for illumination applications, quickly discovering that the highly accurate technology would allow them to rapidly print fully transparent materials with smooth surfaces without any polishing or grinding at all.
Medical
Rare Diseases Are Becoming Too Common. Sound Impossible? Here's Why It's Not forbes
It is hard to make money treating rare diseases. There simply aren’t enough customers to generate many profits. That’s why the U.S. government passed the Orphan Drug Act fda.gov in 1983, a law which created a series of incentives to encourage drug companies to develop treatments for rare or “orphan” diseases–conditions affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. Thanks to longer patent protection, tax reductions and fee waivers, the orphan drug industry has become quite profitable.
Space
DigitalGlobe has high hopes for new imaging satellite cbsnews
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set for blastoff Friday carrying a sophisticated commercial imaging/surveillance satellite featuring a large telescope capable of resolving features on the ground just a bit larger than a football.
Crime
The Venture Capital Firm That Wasn’t There fortune
In 2012, hedge fund manager and venture capitalist Albert Hu was convicted of a financial fraud that stretched from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong. Today, he is locked up in the minimum security wing of Lompoc federal prison—inmate #131600-111—without access to the Internet. But, somehow, his bogus investment firm has come back to life.
Others...
Google street view blurs face of cow to protect its identity telegraph.co.uk
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