Leyzorek's News Anthology -Issue No. 5 |
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Dear readers, I apologize for this three days overdue issue, but this delay simply could not have been foreseen nor avoided. The cause is very complex, and I won't bother anyone with the details, but it involved a certain loon in need of help. If you wish, you can see videos of his rescue and release here: facebook.com/joel.rosenthal.140. Thank you for your patience! Abram. |
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Abram Leyzorek 5/13/2018 Current Events Muraselon: A top Iranian official has denied that Iran attacked the Golan Heights on May 10 and blamed it on the Syrian Arab Army in a statement to Sputnik. Date: May 10, 2018. From: https://muraselon.com/en/2018/05/iranian-official-syrian-army-struck-israel/. Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-israel-attack-why-syria-golan-heights-war-air-strikes-rockets-a8345406.html. The New York Times: At least forty-one protesters have died and another 1,700 have been wounded during the current mass Palestinian protests at the Gaza-Israel border fence as protesters in Gaza attempt to enter Israel, enraged over Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the capital, on Monday, May 13, 2018. Date: May 14, 2018. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/world/middleeast/gaza-protests-palestinians-us-embassy.html. The New York Times: A paper published on May 14, 2017 in the journal Nature presents evidence that a group of scientists, including lead author Xianzhe Jia, assembled by looking at old data from the Galileo space exploration mission, launched in 1989 and terminating in 2003, that indicates the occurrence of sporadic plumes of ice crystals jetting from the ocean under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa, similar to a phenomenon on Saturn's moon Enceladus which also has a liquid ocean; the evidence includes an anomaly in Europa's magnetic field, an estimate of the size of the plume, higher density electrons in the area, higher density particle locations lining up with plume directions, a burst of radio waves coming directly from the location of the magnetic field anomaly, and a computer model that was consistent with the previous observations. Date: May 15, 2018. From:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/europa-plumes-water.html. Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0450-z. Fox News: The South China Morning Post, a Chinese media organization, reported on the 26 of March, 2018, that China will control its weather by manufacturing thousands of rain making machines that will be positioned near regular updrafts that will transport silver iodide particles into the atmosphere and cause rain clouds to form where they otherwise would not; this technique was proven on a smaller scale at the 2008 Beijing Olympics when China spent 40 million dollars launching chemicals into the sky to make it rain before the Olympics, and now China wants it to rain all over the dry Tibetan Plateau and its parched cropland, which is great for China, but their plan may prevent as much rain from coming to countries like India and Pakistan. Date: May 15, 2018. From: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/15/chinas-massive-plan-to-control-weather.html. CBS News: According to data released by the California Department of Public Health, there was a forty-five percent increase in the incidence of Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Syphilis since five years ago, with 300,000 cases in 2017; Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, blames the Sexually Transmitted Disease incidence spike on the 2008 financial crisis, which he says is responsible for the “decimation” of public health infrastructure. Date: May 15, 2018. From: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/std-cases-reach-all-time-high-in-california-report-finds/. BBC: An experiment published in the journal eNeuro on May 14, 2018, by Glanzman, et. al., showed that when the RNA of Alypsia sea snails trained to react to an electric shock by defensively contracting was injected into the brains of untrained sea snails, they acted as if they had been trained as well and remained contracted for longer than untrained snails without the RNA from trained snails; this finding suggests that memories may be stored in the nucleus of neurons, where RNA is found, instead of primarily in the synapses as was previously thought by most neuroscientists. Date: May 14, 2018. From: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476. Read More: http://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2018/05/14/ENEURO.0038-18.2018. BBC: In response to a statement by National Security Adviser John Bolton saying that he would like North Korea to follow a “Libya model” of denuclearization and allow the U.S. to inspect their facilities as Libya did in 2003 and 2004, the North Korean minister Kim Kye-gwan said “we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him,” and Kim Jong-un stated that if the United States "corners us and unilaterally demands we give up nuclear weapons we will no longer have an interest in talks" and "will have to reconsider" attending the scheduled June 12, 2018, summit in Singapore. Date: May 16, 2018. From: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44134910. Russia Today: On May 15, 2018, president Vladimir Putin held an opening ceremony for a new, nineteen kilometer long bridge from the Krasnodar region to Crimea over the Kerch Strait that is the longest in Europe; at the ceremony, Putin says that he plans to continue building transportation infrastructure all over Russia, and the Russian embassy in the US responded to the US State Department's accusations that Russia build the bridge on occupied territory without permission from Ukraine, saying that Russia doesn't need permission to build on Russian territory, i.e. “Crimea is Russia.” Date: May 16, 2018. From: https://www.rt.com/business/426875-russia-needs-no-us-permission/./ Science: When the Romans refined silver, lead volatilized into the air and landed on the Greenland ice caps, leaving a detailed record of the state of the Roman economy that coincides perfectly with historical events and measurements of lead levels in other areas such as the peat bogs of Spain; Andrew Wilson, a University of Oxford, Britain, archaeologist, collaborated with ice core experts to produce an extremely detailed record of Roman lead pollution over a 1,900 year period with about twelve measurements per year. Date: May 14, 2018. From: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rise-and-fall-roman-empire-exposed-greenland-ice-samples. AJC: The remains of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist Timothy Cunningham, who went missing from his home in the Northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, on February 14, 2018, were spotted by fishermen on April 3, 2018, floating in the Chattahoochee river; his death was ruled a suicide by drowning, but it is there was no apparent motivation, by substances or otherwise. Date: May 22, 2018. From: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-cdc-researcher-death-ruled-suicide-drowning/gWYu2ijwNkORvOtg6pVz0M/. Read more: a) https://www.myajc.com/news/crime—law/many-unanswered-questions-death-cdc-researcher-cunningham/gTFA2IArsYhDCrSYsglVwM/. b) First reported February 28, 2018 in Leyzorek's News Anthology: A Harvard educated epidemiologist and CDC official, Timothy Cunningham left work early on February 12 telling co-workers that he was feeling sick; earlier that day he had called his sister, who said he sounded odd, and his mother who didn't respond right away, but when she called back later, Cunningham gave no response and a relative went to check on him, but found that he was missing but had left his car, his dog, and his cell phone, he seemed to have evaporated and there is a 10,000 dollar reward for information. Science Alert: A new study lead by Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, biologist Ron Milo published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that eighty-three percent of the biomass on Earth has disappeared, largely due to human activity. Date: May 22, 2018. From: https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-are-just-0-01-of-life-earth-but-we-annihilated-rest-biomass-animals-mammals-plants. Read more: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/15/1711842115. The Washington Post: Diversibipalium multilineatum, a species of carniverous hammer-head flatworm native to Asia, was discovered in France recently by amateur naturalist Pierre Gros who reported the findings to National Museum of Natural History (Paris, France) biologist Justine Jean-Lou, who was initially very skeptical because the flatworms weren't native to France; the findings were reported in the journal PeerJ, which included the fact that there had been 111 sightings of flatworms in France since 1999, but no one knew what they were until now. Date: May 22, 2018. From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/22/giant-predatory-worms-invaded-france-but-scientists-just-noticed-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f458797e43b1. Read more: https://peerj.com/articles/4672/.
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