Society
The 6-foot poster causing all the fuss was taped to a door at a middle school and shows Linus, Charlie Brown's best friend, citing Scripture about the birth of Christ. [Luke 2:8-12]
It's not he or she - it's ze: Oxford students told to use 'gender neutral pronouns' oxfordtimes.co.uk
The suggestion, being reported by the Sunday Times today, is apprently made in a students' union leaflet.
Abortion
Macy's Is Done With Planned Parenthood townhall
“You may remember how four companies (AT&T, Coca-Cola, Ford, and Xerox) publicly distanced themselves from Planned Parenthood last year after our research exposed forty-one companies with direct financial ties to the abortion giant,” he elaborated. “Well, we are happy to report that we can take another company off that list—Macy’s, who confirmed with 2ndVote last week that they no longer give nor match donations to Planned Parenthood.”
Climate Change
Gaia Can’t Stomach Spagbol quadrant.org.au
Fight global warming by reducing CO2 emissions from your spaghetti bolognaise! This is the recommendation of two academics associated with Melbourne’s RMIT University whohave found that the farm-to-fork “Global Warming Potential” (GWP) of pasta with meat sauce can be significantly reduced by eliminating beef and substituting kangaroo. They recommend that for an even greater impact on global heat, rising seas, coral bleaching, tempests, bushfires and ocean acidification, you should dispense with the kangaroo too, and make your spagbol topping with lentils and kidney beans.
Banking
Venezuela to remove most common banknote from circulation 'to beat mafia' independent.co.uk
The Venezuelan government has announced it will pull its largest bill from circulation within 72 hours as the country is mired in an economic crisis and facing one of the world’s highest inflation.
However, critics were quick to denounce the decision by Mr Maduro, saying that there was no realistic way for Venezuelans to exchange 100-bolivar notes currently in circulation within the allotted time, particularly given the inflation crisis and already long queues at banks and cash machines.
Syria
Syria: 'Battle for Aleppo is over' as rebels withdraw, monitor claims independent.co.uk
The Syrian military claimed to have taken control of 98 per cent of rebel-held east Aleppo early on Monday morning after seizing the large industrial district of Sheikh Saeed.
Israel
Hamas offers missiles for armies willing to fight Israel jpost
Palestainian terror group Hamas has offered to share its rocket arsenal with any Arab army willing to use them against Israel, Gaza-based Hamas official Fathi Hammad said Sunday to Al-Aqsa TV.
Research
Innovative refrigerator developed using multistage sound wave engine phys.org t
Shinya Hasegawa and colleagues at Tokai University have developed a refrigerator (107 C) powered only by waste heat that generated sound waves in an innovative multistage traveling wave thermoacoustic engine. The refrigerator produced the gas oscillations and refrigeration at a temperature lower than the boiling point of water and achieved a minimum cold temperature of -107.4 C when the hot temperature was 270 C. The findings are published in the journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, November 2016.
Painless microneedle patch could replace needles phys.org
It's only a matter of time before drugs are administered via patches with painless microneedles instead of unpleasant injections. But designers need to balance the need for flexible, comfortable-to-wear material with effective microneedle penetration of the skin. Swedish researchers say they may have cracked the problem.
Others...
This Incredible Floating House Complex is Truly Off-The-Grid interestingengineering
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