May 17, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Fentanyl Crisis: Chicago Sees Surge in Deaths From New Designer Drug, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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When it comes to killing people in Chicago, bullets have some competition from a deadly designer drug called Acryl fentanyl.
Laced with heroin or cocaine, it has already killed 44 people in the nation’s third largest city and its suburbs through April 8 — a huge jump from the seven fatal overdoses last year, the Cook County Medical Examiner reported Monday.
And the number of Acryl fentanyl deaths this year could actually be higher because toxicology results in some fatal overdose deaths have not been completed, the ME’s office said.
What makes this fentanyl derivative even more dangerous is that it is more resistant to the overdose antidote naloxone, better known by the trade name Narcan.
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Bags of the powdered form of Acryl fentanyl. DEA
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May 16, 2017
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Arts, Breaking News, Human Interest
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Powers Boothe, the Emmy-winning character actor admired as one of Hollywood’s most reliable villains, died Sunday in Los Angeles, his publicist told NBC News. He was 68.
Boothe died in his sleep of natural causes at his home, said Karen Samfilippo of Image Management Public Relations.
Powers Allen Boothe was born June 1, 1948, in Snyder, Texas, and began his acting career with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before moving to Broadway in 1979.
He broke into the big time a year later in the TV movie “Guyana Tragedy,” for which he won the Emmy for best actor in a limited series. He played the Rev. Jim Jones, the California cult leader who moved his Peoples Temple flock to South America and persuaded 918 of them to commit mass suicide.
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Powers Boothe at the Los Angeles premiere of “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” in Los Angeles in August 2014. Todd Williamson / Invision/AP
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May 15, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Medical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, What Is Gray Death? The Killer Drug Cocktail
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It looks like a chunk of concrete, can kill with one dose, and it’s got an ominous name — Gray Death.
And it’s the latest killer drug cocktail making headlines in the ongoing war against the national opioid crisis.
So far, it’s been limited to the Gulf Coast and states like Georgia and Ohio and “we are monitoring the potential spread of this deadly combination of drugs,” Russ Baer of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency told NBC News.
“We’ve not yet seen a national proliferation of the ‘gray death’ substance,” the DEA spokesman wrote.
But even as law enforcement is focusing on Gray Death, drug dealers are hard at work on even more lethal drug cocktails made from opioids that are smuggled into the country from Mexico or shipped in by mail from China.
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A forensic chemist prepares a sample of the drug “gray death” to be weighed at the crime lab of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations in Decatur, Ga., on May 4, 2017. Mike Stewart / AP
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May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
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It’s a dim bulb of a star, but its weak light may fall on living beings.
TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star that’s a short 39 light-years distant, is hitting the headlines again. It was in the news last year because of the discovery of three accompanying planets. Now a team of astronomers has found four additional worlds in orbit around this ruddy sun.
Remarkably, these planets are of a type that would make them candidates for hosting the dirty chemistry we call “life.” All are roughly the size of Earth, and all receive an amount of sunlight that might make for tolerable temperatures, depending on their atmospheres (if any).
Mind you, this is a planetary system rather unlike our own. It’s more compact than a bonsai bush, and if we could arrange to move all seven of these worlds to our own solar system, they would fit within the orbit of Mercury with oodles of room to spare.
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Artist’s impression of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Seth Shostak
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May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
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We’ve often heard that if you want to succeed in life, you need to subscribe to the idea of “survival of the fittest.” Success, we are commonly told, has to be grabbed; it has to be taken or someone else will get it.
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When I initially presented some of my ideas about the power of compassion in success and achievement, my critics pointed out that Darwinism made my argument weak: It was, in their way of thinking, the Jenga piece that would crash my faulty tower of compassion. I quickly acquired as many of Charles Darwin’s works as possible and carefully read through them searching for the Jenga pieces that could take down my argument.
Instead, I found that most of Charles Darwin’s work, especially “The Descent of Man,” not only supports the general argument of this book; it doesn’t support the idea of what most call Darwinism. Darwin’s research shows that “survival of the kindest” is more correct for explaining which species climb the evolutionary ladder efficiently and effectively.
According to biologists from Darwin to E. O. Wilson, cooperation has been more important than competition in humanity’s evolutionary success. Compassion is the reason for both the human race’s survival and its ability to continue to thrive as a species.
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May 12, 2017
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Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, COLUMBUS Mississippi, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Wrongfully Convicted Child’s Murder Confession Tests Compensation Law
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He obsessed over the police interrogation for years, tormenting himself with questions he could not answer.
“How could you be so stupid?” Tyler Edmonds asked himself. “Why would you do that?”
Edmonds was 13 when he told detectives he helped his half-sister shoot her husband in his sleep ─ a story he says she concocted to skirt blame. He spent four years behind bars before his murder conviction was overturned and a second jury acquitted him. He went to therapy, and studied why children admit to crimes they didn’t commit. He began to understand what he’d done.
“I think the answer is that you’re young and you don’t know any better,” Edmonds, now 27, said.
He has rebuilt his life in many ways. But he is still paying for that confession.
After Mississippi passed a law allowing exonerees to seek compensation, Edmonds sought a payout that he hoped would help his mother, who went deep into debt to pay for his defense. The state refused to give it to him. A judge sided with the state.
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Tyler Edmonds last month at his family’s farmhouse in Columbus, Mississippi. Brock Stoneham / NBC News
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May 11, 2017
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Breaking News, Crime, Political
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The Department of Justice is considering reopening the investigation into the infamous murder of Emmett Till — an African-American teen whose brutal killing charted the course of the civil rights movement — after meeting with the boy’s family.
Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told her “no one gets a pass,” adding that he would like to look into more unsolved civil rights crimes during a meeting with her and civil rights activist Alvin Sykes, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
In 1955, 14-year-old Till was savagely beaten and shot in the head by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant Donham, said the boy whistled at her and touched her in a Mississippi store.
Three days later Till’s badly disfigured body was found attached to a cotton gin fan floating in the Tallahatchie River.
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Emmett Louis Till AP
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May 11, 2017
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Breaking News, Crime, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Kushner Kin’s China Sales Pitch ‘Corruption, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, Pure and Simple’: Expert, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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A former White House ethics adviser says that a sales pitch by Jared Kushner’s sister to potential Chinese investors that was centered on a controversial visa program came “very, very close to solicitation of a bribe.”
“This is corruption, pure and simple,” said Richard Painter, who was an attorney for President George W. Bush and is now a University of Minnesota law professor.
The latest conflict-of-interest uproar to roil President Donald Trump’s administration arose this weekend as the Kushner Companies invited wealthy foreigners to sink cash into a New Jersey real estate project via the EB-5 program.
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Nicole Meyer poses at a promotional event in Shanghai on Sunday. Albee Zhang / AFP – Getty Images
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May 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, These ER Docs Invented a Real Star Trek Tricorder, travel, vacation, Video
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The original 1960s Star Trek series took place in a universe of the future with personal communicators, holograms, and the technology to send humans beyond our solar system. In many ways that future is here. We have smartphones, virtual reality, space travel — and now the tricorder.
In the show, the tricorder was a handheld medical device that could scan a patient, read his or her vital signs, and diagnose problems in minutes. A working prototype invented by a Philadelphia-based emergency room physician Basil Harris may not look like the ones used by Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Commander Beverly Crusher throughout the sci-fi series, but it’s advanced enough to offer a medical diagnosis in minutes and anyone can use it.
The device — which won top honors during the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition — still needs to undergo more testing and receive regulatory approval before it’s available to consumers. But Harris said that may happen in just a few years and he’s aiming to keep the price around $200.
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Brothers George, Basil and Gus Harris examine prop tricorders from the Star Trek series. Courtesy of XPRIZE
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May 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, What You Need to Know About Trump Comey and the Russia Probe
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What’s the latest on the Russia investigation and where does fired FBI Director James Comey fit in?
President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Comey sent shockwaves through Washington on Tuesday, with many senior Democrats accusing the White House of undermining the agency’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to prevent Hillary Clinton’s election.
There are, in fact, multiple ongoing storylines and investigations related to Russia so it’s worth taking a moment to break them out individually and see how Comey’s ouster intersects with them.
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