Abortion
Activists who filmed Planned Parenthood workers charged in California npr.org w!
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on Tuesday, saying the state "will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations."
Pence breaks tie to allow states to strip family-planning dollars from abortion providers washingtonpost
The measure, a priority for groups that oppose abortion, would give a thumbs-up to Tennessee and other conservative states to resume policies blocking Planned Parenthood clinics from getting federal funding through the Title X family-planning program. Those dollars can’t be used for abortions, but conservatives feel abortion providers shouldn’t receive any taxpayer funds.
I'm not sure if I posted this video before but in case not (and in response to the Post's comment about use of Title X funding): Debunking Planned Parenthood's "3%" Abortion Myth v
Society
HSBC adds new transgender titles including M and Misc bbc w!
The prefixes are designed to give non-binary people more choices if they don't want to be identified by gender.
Other banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, also allow customers to have gender neutral titles.
Space
SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket theverge
After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening, sending a communications satellite into orbit, and then landed on one of SpaceX’s drone ships floating in the Atlantic Ocean. It was round two for this particular rocket, which already launched and landed during a mission in April of last year. But the Falcon 9’s relaunch marks the first time an orbital rocket has launched to space for a second time.
Creatures
Bull shark found washed up after devastation of Cyclone Debbie news.au v p
WIN News Townsville journalist Philip Calder described his shock at finding the “heavy” metre-and-a-half bull shark when he was out reporting in Ayr, a town of Burdekin, covering the local flooding after the devastating cyclone.
Robotics
This strange robotic octopus could soon be working with humans telegraph.co.uk v
The OctopusGripper is made from a soft silicone structure which would be completely harmless to humans in the event of an accidental collision.
Research
Blind tadpoles learn visually with eyes grafted onto tail, neurotransmitter drug treatment medicalxpress t
Blind tadpoles were able to process visual information from eyes grafted onto their tails after being treated with a small molecule neurotransmitter drug that augmented innervation, integration, and function of the transplanted organs, according to a paper published online today by researchers at the Allen Discovery Center alleninstitute.org at Tufts University in npj Regenerative Medicine, a Nature Research journal. The work, which used a pharmacological reagent already approved for use in humans, provides a potential road map for promoting innervation - the supply of nerves to a body part - in regenerative medicine.
The fact that the grafted eyes in our model system could transmit visual information, even when direct connections to the brain were absent, suggests the central nervous system contains a remarkable ability to adapt to changes both in function and connectivity, said Blackiston.
Brain Implants Help Paralyzed Man Feed Himself newsweek v
“It was amazing,” Kochevar said in a video published by the university. “I thought about moving my arm, and it did. I could move it in and out, up and down.
3D Printing
First Certified 3D Printed Aircraft Interior Component of the MENA Region is Ready to Fly 3dprint
The pilot project of the [Siemens AG and Strata Manufacturing PJSC partnership] began with developing and producing 3D printed aircraft interior components, for Etihad’s aircraft cabins. This week, at the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit in Abu Dhabi, the region’s first certified aircraft interior part manufactured through 3D printing technology was revealed.
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