End of the World
7 Dumb Predictions For 2016 That Didn't Happen forbes
We broke a lot of new ground in 2016, and whether you think that path is leading us off a cliff or onward to newfound glory, hopefully we can at least agree that it's finally over. Before we start looking forward to 2017 and making all sorts of ridiculous predictions that probably won't come true, let's look back at what some of the more outlandish prognosticating charlatans saw in their crystal balls for the year now ending.
Added as a reminder that Jesus said that the Father alone knows the hour it all ends (Mark 13:32) and that until His final judgement, things will continue on continuing on (Gen 8:22).
North Korea
North Korea's claim on ICBM test plausible: experts reuters
North Korea has been testing rocket engines and heat-shields for an ICBM while developing the technology to guide a missile after re-entry into the atmosphere following a lift-off, the experts said. While Pyongyang is close to a test, it is likely to take some years to perfect the weapon.
North Korea's state media regularly threatens the United States with a nuclear strike, but before 2016 Pyongyang had been assumed to be a long way from being capable of doing so.
Israel
Israel will not return bodies of Hamas terrorists, ministers decide jewishnews.timesofisrael
“The political-security cabinet discussed standing policy on treatment of the bodies of Hamas terrorists killed during terror attacks and decided that they will not be returned, but will be buried,” read a statement issued Sunday evening by the Prime Minister’s Office gov.il.
UN
Put peace first, says new United Nations chief newsinfo.inquirer.net
Antonio Guterres time took the reins of the United Nations on New Year’s Day, promising to be a “bridge-builder” but facing an antagonistic incoming US administration led by Donald Trump who thinks the world body’s 193 member states do nothing except talk and have a good time.
Also see What you need to know about new U.N. chief António Guterres usatoday
Fake News
"Fake News" And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid forbes
On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.” The lead sentence offered “A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials” and continued “While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation’s electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.”
Yet, it turns out this narrative was false and as the chronology [in the remaining article] will show, illustrates how effectively false and misleading news can ricochet through the global news echo chamber through the pages of top tier newspapers that fail to properly verify their facts.
Minimum Wage
[OPINION] Leaving for Las Vegas: California's minimum wage law leaves businesses no choice latimes
California’s minimum wage jumped to $10.50 an hour at the start of the new year. As the founder of a small fashion design house and clothing manufacturer in San Fernando, I’m not a disinterested observer in this change.
I write with some hesitancy, because I’m in no way an opponent of higher pay. When you have a company with fewer than 50 employees, you get to know them pretty well and have a genuine concern for them as individuals. But that has to be balanced with concern for keeping your clients, who can always take their business to other countries or states.
Vaccines
While the disease cannot be cured, it can be prevented from spreading through a strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), where people who are at a very high risk for HIV can take HIV medicines daily to lower the chances of becoming infected.
Banking
Britain to phase out round £1 coin with a new 12-sided coin in March livemint
The new design is made of two metals, with a gold- coloured outer ring and a silver-coloured inner ring. It has a ‘£’ symbol that changes to the number ‘1’ when the coin is seen from different angles and is thinner and lighter than the current coin.
Commonwealth bank doors left unlocked on New Year’s Day heraldsun.au v
“A woman using an ATM at the Hampshire Rd bank advised that a door to the bank was open. Police attended and waited until someone arrived to secure the bank,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
AI
Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence quartz
Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work are also becoming increasingly competent.
Also see The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated hbr.org
Research
Never seen before self-assembled materials with unprecedented complexity innovationtoronto t
Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths of a meter requires extraordinary precision. Scaling up that construction while increasing complexity presents a significant hurdle to the widespread use of such nano-engineered materials. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory bnl.gov have developed a way to efficiently create scalable, multilayer, multi-patterned nanoscale structures with unprecedented complexity.
Space
NASA's solution for a home for astronauts sent to Mars is as cold as ice! zeenews.india
"After a day dedicated to identifying needs, goals, and constraints we rapidly assessed many crazy, out of the box ideas and finally converged on the current Ice Home design, which provides a sound engineering solution," said senior systems engineer Kevin Vipavetz, from NASA’s Langley Research Centre nasa.gov in Virginia, Science Alert reported.
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