February 20, 2016
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Using NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers have witnessed an unprecedented event: a miniature celestial body getting ripped apart by the white dwarf star it orbits.
According to NASA, it confirms one of the more gruesome theories of the universe: that white dwarfs — small, dense stars that form when a star burns out or collapses — can “cannibalize” other planets still hanging around them.
“We are for the first time witnessing a miniature ‘planet’ ripped apart by intense gravity, being vaporized by starlight and raining rocky material onto its star,” said Andrew Vanderburg, graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the paper published in Nature, according to the NASA press release.
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February 20, 2016
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Technical
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Every morning, officers across the nation get a predictive map that tells them where crime is likely to happen before it’s committed. When the mapping systems used by Detroit Police Department started showing an increase of auto theft and larceny downtown, Detroit’s 1st Precinct got together and laid a trap.
The thieves were two local restaurant workers, casing cars on their smoke breaks and cracking windows. Thanks to the predictive maps, the precinct knew the rough locations and the times the suspects would be out. They even knew the make and model of the cars the perps would target, Officer Steve Shank told Mic. So the officers set out bait cars wired with cameras, sensors and GPS tracking devices. In the summer, the maps started to turn up bike theft, and the precinct set up bait bikes using the same techniques. In both cases, the criminals were caught. Crime was reduced. The police officers could watch the hotspots fade on the predictive map’s interface.
In the film and now TV show Minority Report, a future police force uses psychics, called “precogs,” to predict crime and identify criminals. But in the 21st century, we don’t have clairvoyants or sci-fi magic. We have data projections, digital histories and social media profiles.
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February 19, 2016
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Fire, brimstone and… tacky high-end luxury properties?
The New York Daily News fired a new salvo in its ongoing war of words with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling the real estate magnate “ANTI CHRIST” on its front page.
An image of Trump was also doctored to surround him with flames and to give him devilishly red and scaly skin.
The cover referred to this week’s spat between Trump and Pope Francis. The pontiff said Trump was “not Christian” because of his proposal to build a wall to keep out refugees.
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February 19, 2016
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Human Interest
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Harper Lee has died in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, according to Alabama news site AL.com. Her publisher HarperCollins confirmed the news, according to the New York Times. She was 89.
The author was born in Monroeville in 1926, moving to New York in the late 1940s. There, she found publishers interested in a reworked version of To Kill a Mockingbird — which was released in 1960 to critical acclaim, eventually winning a Pulitzer Prize and becoming a beloved American novel.
For a time, the novel about lawyer Atticus Finch was the author’s only book. However, the author resurfaced in the news last year when a spiritual sequel, titled Go Set a Watchman, was found among Lee’s belongings and published.
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February 18, 2016
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Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice appointed by a Republican president, said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama should get to name the replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
O’Connor, in an interview with a Fox affiliate in Phoenix, disagreed with Republican arguments that the next president, and not Obama, should get to fill the high court vacancy.
“I think we need somebody there to do the job now and let’s get on with it,” said O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
O’Connor, 85, agreed it’s unusual for a Supreme Court vacancy to open in an election year, which “creates much talk around the thing that isn’t necessary.”
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February 18, 2016
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Medical
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Oncologists may have a new way to kill cancer — by bombing the crap out of your insides.
The current procedure goes like this: Oncologists surgically remove as much of a tumor as possible, then follow up that procedure with chemotherapy to get rid of any cancer cells still hanging out in the body. which can still metastasize and kill you. The problem, though, is that trying to eliminate the leftovers doesn’t always work, and cancer can recur.
A paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology details an answer to that problem. Researchers from Rice University in Texas found that they could use nanoparticles sort of like Trojan horses to get inside a growing tumor and make it explode from the inside.
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Using nanoparticles like Trojan horses to get inside a growing tumor and make it explode from the inside.
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February 17, 2016
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A is bracing itself for the fight of the century.
On Tuesday Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of Federal District Court for the District of Central California ordered the tech company to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation hack into the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
But Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in an open letter that he had zero intentions of complying with the order.
Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out an attack on a holiday party for Farook’s colleagues on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, California, k 14 and injuring 22.
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February 17, 2016
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Science
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Can pot give you cancer? The answer to that question is a resounding “maybe.” Intuition says a substance that potentially causes cancer shouldn’t be prescribed to cancer patients as part of their treatment, as medical marijuana sometimes is. The risk seems to vary depending on how a person ingests weed.
We know that smoking cigarettes causes cancer, which is why research on the connection between cannabis and cancer has focused on the effects of smoking marijuana. Yet the findings have so far proved inconclusive, in part b that the data to support it (or to disprove it) does not yet exist.
But, as with all things substance-related, it’s best to err on the side of caution if cancer is your concern.
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February 16, 2016
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The 1980s pop star and model Denise Matthews, known by the stage name Vanity, died Monday at the age of 57. She battled years of kidney failure and a recent abdominal illness, according to TMZ.
Native to Canada, Matthews first found success as a model, but a fateful meeting at the American Music Awards in 1980 would help launch a singing career. Prince recruited the 21-year-old to become the lead singer of the R&B girl group Vanity 6, whose biggest hit was 1982’s “Nasty Girl.” Vanity 6 toured with Prince in ’82 and ’83, before splitting up. Vanity then released two solo albums via Motown Records, 1984’s “Wild Animal” and 1986’s “Skin on Skin.”
Vanity began work on a third solo album that did not come to fruition. She starred in the 1986 B-movie “Never Too Young to Die” and the 1988 action film “Action Jackson,” for which she contributed to the soundtrack. But as Vanity’s music career waned in the late ’80s, she developed a crack-cocaine addiction. As a result, she nearly overdosed in 1994 and suffered near-fatal kidney damage. Matthews then converted to Christianity, abandoned her stage name and became an evangelist.
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February 16, 2016
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Human Interest
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President Barack Obama will not rush through a Supreme Court choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia this week but will wait to nominate a candidate until the U.S. Senate is back in session, the White House said on Sunday.
“Given that the Senate is currently in recess, we don’t expect the president to rush this through this week, but instead will do so in due time once the Senate returns from their recess,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.
“At that point, we expect the Senate to consider that nominee, consistent with their responsibilities laid out in the United States Constitution,” he said.
Obama is traveling in California and returns to Washington on Tuesday. The Senate returns from recess on Feb. 22.
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