More Than 30 Websites Are Churning Out Viral Hoaxes About Crazy Crimes And Hip-Hop Beefs

Some of the sites’ hits include “Father of 23 Kids Only Had Sex at Night, Because He Thought Sperm Was Sleep” and “60 KKK Members Commit Suicide After Learning Harriet Tubman Will Be on $20 Bill.”
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/the-celebtricity-network?utm_term=.mfXvawo1JX#.yrd9D4GdOJ?source=Snapzu

Bernie Sanders says oil company knows more about climate change than 'pathetic' Donald Trump

Bernie Sanders has claimed that an oil company “understands more about climate change” than Donald Trump, after ExxonMobil urged the government not to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord. In a letter to the government, a senior official from the US’s largest oil company, said the accord signed in 2015 was “an effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change”. “It is prudent that the United States remain a party to the...
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-climate-change-a7657036.html?source=Snapzu

Trump Pledges Airlines Help in Feud Over Foreign Rivals’ Aid

That's what the electronics ban from 10 Muslim airline hubs is all about. They used the National Security agencies to fabricate a story about terrorism to help US airlines eliminate rivals.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/u-s-airline-chiefs-set-to-talk-jobs-traffic-control-with-trump?source=Snapzu

Coal Mining Jobs Trump Would Bring Back No Longer Exist

The jobs the president alluded to — hardy miners in mazelike tunnels with picks and shovels — have become vestiges of the past.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/coal-jobs-trump-appalachia.html?_r=1?source=Snapzu

China downplays tensions with U.S. as Xi prepares to meet Trump

Let's see.
Read more: http://www.oann.com/china-downplays-tensions-with-u-s-as-xi-prepares-to-meet-trump/?source=Snapzu

New Drug Appears To Eliminate Type 2 Diabetes For First Time

Type 2 diabetes, although influenced by a person’s genes, is largely thought to be brought about by a poor diet and being overweight for prolonged periods of time, particularly at an old age. The pancreas is either unable to produce enough insulin, or the body’s cells simply don’t react to insulin, which leads to dangerously high blood sugar levels. This is known as insulin resistance, and at present, there is no medical way to treat this. A new drug forged by a team at the University of California, however, might prove to be a veritable game-changer.
Read more: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drug-appears-eliminate-type-2-diabetes-first-time/?source=Snapzu

Distraction, On Street And Sidewalk, Helps Cause Record Pedestrian Deaths

It's the oldest and most basic form of transportation — walking — and more people are doing more of it to get fit or stay healthy. But there's new evidence today that even walking across the street is getting more dangerous. A report released today by the Governors Highway Safety Association shows that the number of pedestrians killed in traffic jumped 11 percent last year, to nearly 6,000. That's the biggest single-year increase in pedestrian fatalities ever, and the highest number in more than two decades.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/522085503/2016-saw-a-record-increase-in-pedestrian-deaths?source=Snapzu

The first people who populated the Americas

We are getting closer to understanding who the first Americans really were
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170328-the-first-people-who-populated-the-americas?source=Snapzu

The White House is playing whack-a-mole with Russia investigations

The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Trump associates’ ties to Russia is looking more compromised every day. Yochi Dreazen has a great rundown of the bizarre recent behavior of the committee’s chair, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who sure seems like he’s bending over backward to protect the White House by canceling hearings and making odd, anonymously sourced claims. But if Nunes and the Trump administration truly are trying to scuttle the House Intelligence investigation, they’re playing whack-a-mole.
Read more: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/29/15105650/trump-russia-investigations-devin-nunes?source=Snapzu

Scientists Who Want To Study Climate Engineering Shun Trump

President Trump issued a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that will begin to undo a slew of government efforts to fight global warming. Among those worrying and watching to see how the executive order plays out are scientists who actually are in favor of exploring bold interventions to artificially cool the climate. Just a year ago, some hoped that the U. S. government would start funding such research and take a leadership role.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521780927/scientists-who-want-to-study-climate-engineering-shun-trump?source=Snapzu

The Real Russian Threat to Central Eastern Europe

Neo-fascism. Russian disinformation. State-sponsored ethno-nationalism. And all around unwillingness to do much about any of it — yet.
Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/30/the-real-russian-threat-to-central-eastern-europe-2/?source=Snapzu

Who’s Afraid of Howard Zinn? Arkansas Republicans.

In 2000, a group of radical leftist students called the Campus Democracy Collective arranged to have Howard Zinn speak at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where I saw him speak for the first time, along with a couple hundred other students. Seventeen years later, Arkansas state legislator Kim Hendren (Republican) has recently introduced a bill to the Committee on Education barring any “public school district or an open-enrollment public charter school” from including...
Read more: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2017/03/29/afraid-howard-zinn-arkansas-republicans/?source=Snapzu

President Trump’s company pursues second Washington hotel

Amid criticism over ethics of Trump International Hotel, executives tour smaller properties with eye on bringing new Scion brand to D.C.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trumps-company-pursues-second-washington-hotel/2017/03/29/dfd6ee8e-0f42-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?source=Snapzu

Trump plays the villain in trailer for 'An Inconvenient Truth' sequel

"Climate changes. Truth does not." That's the tagline for An Inconvenient Sequel, the follow-up to Al Gore's 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary — which debuted at Sundance Film Festival — released its first trailer on Tuesday, and it couldn't be more timely. President Trump plays a prominent role in the trailer, which dropped on the same day that the president signed an executive order aimed at rolling back the Obama Administration's climate policies.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/03/28/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power-trailer/?source=Snapzu

Nearly extinct tigers found breeding in Thai jungle

Hopes rise for critically endangered big cats, with only 221 Indochinese tigers thought to remain in Thailand and Myanmar
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/29/nearly-extinct-tigers-found-breeding-in-thai-jungle?source=Snapzu

Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature

Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm this weekend, the academy has announced. The American singer was awarded the prize in October but failed to travel to pick up the award, or deliver the lecture that is required to receive the 8m kroner ($900,000;£727,000) prize. The academy said it would meet Dylan, 75, in private in the Swedish capital, where he is giving two concerts.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39429032?source=Snapzu

Anarchist Cookbook author William Powell dies aged 66

Man behind manual for violent rebellion, used in a number of high-profile killings, had long repented publishing and turned to charitable work...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/30/anarchist-cookbook-author-william-powell-dies-aged-66?source=Snapzu

Baby in a Box

A new US program is giving out cardboard bassinets to new mothers to encourage safe sleeping. Jernica Quiñones, a mother of five, was the first parent in New Jersey to get her free baby box — a portable, low-tech bassinet made of laminated cardboard. But first, she had to take an online course about safe sleeping practices, which experts say can sharply reduce the chances of sudden infant death syndrome. “Basically, you want to have the baby on the mattress, and that’s it,” she said after watching a 20-minute series of videos. The message may not be new. But health officials say it is critical to keeping babies safe.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/new-jersey-parents-cardboard-bassinets.html?source=Snapzu

SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket

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.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15117096/spacex-launch-reusable-rocket-success-falcon-9-landing?source=Snapzu

Here Are The Jobs NASA Can't Fill Because of Trump's Stupid Hiring Freeze

One of President Trump’s first actions after taking office was to institute a federal hiring freeze, leaving thousands of jobs vacant across the US government. Many of these jobs are in agencies that Trump supposedly values, like NASA. But when you look at the job vacancies that NASA is forbidden from filling, we see Trump’s “values” are a crock of shit.
Read more: http://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-jobs-nasa-cant-fill-because-of-trumps-stup-1793789120?source=Snapzu

Interior secretary: Trump’s border wall may be built in Mexico because “we won’t cede” the Rio Grande

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggests that the Trump administration may not even build the border wall in U.S.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/03/29/interior-secretary-trumps-border-wall-may-be-built-in-mexico-because-we-wont-cede-the-rio-grande/?source=Snapzu

Maine is poised to make it a lot harder for police to steal your stuff

Maine is poised to make it a lot harder for police to seize your property without charging you with a crime, as lawmakers introduced a bill this month to reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. With civil asset forfeiture, police can seize cash, vehicles and even homes, provided only that the property is suspected of being used in a crime. Often, no charges or convictions are required. Senator Eric Brakey, along...
Read more: http://rare.us/rare-politics/issues/government-run-amok/maine-is-poised-to-make-it-a-lot-harder-for-police-to-steal-your-stuff/?source=Snapzu

Trading One Bad Map for Another?

Boston Public Schools just dumped the Mercator Projection, to much fanfare. But cartographers aren’t impressed.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mercator-peters-boston-map?source=Snapzu

She’s the other funky drummer (and every woman, too): Chaka Khan in the 1970s

A young, fierce-looking Chaka Khan behind the drum kit for Rufus back in the early 1970s.  
Read more: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/shes_the_other_funky_drummer_and_every_woman_too_chaka_khan_in_the_1970s?source=Snapzu

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev commits to 100 percent renewable energy

Brewing powerhouse Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has committed to secure all of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025. In an announcement on Tuesday, the business said that its commitment would help to "shift 6 terawatt-hours of electricity annually to renewable sources in the markets where AB InBev operates." It added that its decision to go big on renewable energy would cut its operational carbon footprint by 30 percent, equivalent to taking almost 500,000 cars off the road.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/29/beer-giant-anheuser-busch-inbev-commits-to-100-percent-renewable-energy.html?source=Snapzu

President Trump has successfully created an alternate reality

A poll shows 3 in 4 Republicans think Trump's offices were surveilled during the 2016 election. Americans live in two realities when it comes to the Russia investigation. On one side is the intelligence community, and on the other is a Republican Party that very much believes President Trump's alternative facts. Including, apparently, that Trump's offices were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/29/president-trump-has-successfully-created-an-alternate-reality/?source=Snapzu

Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’

The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words "climate" in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/energy-department-climate-change-phrases-banned-236655?source=Snapzu

Huge nuclear cost overruns push Toshiba's Westinghouse into bankruptcy

Westinghouse Electric Co, a unit of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-board-idUSKBN17006K?source=Snapzu

Sewage clue to silent polio scourge

Despite mass vaccination, polio is making a comeback. Sewage could become a critical early warning system.
Read more: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/sewage-clue-to-silent-polio-scourge?source=Snapzu

Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard

The Fourth Industrial Revolution could bring mass global unemployment. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s “not worried at all” about artificial intelligence replacing human workers because it's “50-100 more years” off. In reality, data shows this is already happening — with an estimated 38 percent of existing U.S. jobs at risk of being turned over to machines by 2030, according research from PwC. Another study put out by the University of Oxford last year had similar estimates: The researchers found that 47 percent of US jobs were at risk of automation in the next two decades.
Read more: https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies?source=Snapzu

Life in the fast lane: Oregon Senate OKs $110 fine for slowpoke lane hogs

Going slow in the fast lane? Move over - or face a possible ticket. That's the upshot of legislation passed 19-10 by the Oregon Senate on Tuesday. “People who hog the left lane lead to road rage and frustration, tailgating and passing on the right,” said Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland. “All of these are unsafe behaviors. Several states across the nation are taking this approach to make their highways safer. It will improve traffic safety and help end an annoying behavior on the roadway.”
Read more: http://kval.com/news/local/life-in-the-fast-lane-oregon-senate-oks-110-fine-for-slowpoke-lane-hogs?source=Snapzu

Iran Sentenced to Death a 21-Year-Old Man for ‘Insulting Islam’ on Instant Messaging App

Sina Dehghan, a 21-year-old man, was sentenced in Iran to death over criticizing Islam. He was arrested by security forces on October 21, 2015, at a military barracks in Tehran. Dehghan was charged under article 262 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code for ‘insulting the prophet’ of Islam; a criminal charge which is punishable by death. Dehghan was convicted at the Penal Court of the city of Arak over critical comments he had made against Islam and the Quran on the LINE instant messaging application.
Read more: http://jimmywalesfoundation.org/iran-sentenced-to-death-a-21-year-old-man-for-insulting-islam-on-instant-messaging-app/?source=Snapzu

Monopoly capitalism destroyed American black businesses, which provided safe employment for civil rights activists

Monopoly capitalism destroyed American black businesses, which provided safe employment for civil rights activists.
Read more: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/28/markets-vs-capitalism.html?source=Snapzu

'It's devastating': Documentary reveals 'streams' of water pollution from jean industry

Those jeans you pull on before running out to the corner store were produced by one of the most toxic industries on the planet, according to a new documentary that explores how clothing manufacturers are poisoning the world's water supply. The documentary "RiverBlue" highlights the environmental and human damage caused by the fashion industry, which uses highly toxic chemicals to produce 80 billion garments worldwide each year, while using 3.2 per cent of the world's fresh water.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/it-s-devastating-documentary-reveals-streams-of-water-pollution-from-jean-industry-1.3343791?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump declares 'new age of American energy' as he destroys Obama's climate change legacy

US President Donald Trump set out to obliterate his predecessor Barack Obama's legacy on climate change as part of a bid to unleash America's energy potential. Mr Trump last night signed a sweeping executive order slashing measures from the Obama era, a move that was welcomed by the oil and coal industries as a bold step to end regulations that were "choking" the economy. Environmentalists condemned the move, accusing Mr Trump of wanting to "travel back to when smokestacks damaged our health" and said they would take his administration to court.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/28/donald-trump-declares-new-age-american-energy-destroys-obamas/?source=Snapzu

Scottish Parliament backs referendum call

Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second referendum on independence for Scotland has been formally backed by the Scottish Parliament. MSPs voted by 69 to 59 in favour of seeking permission for a referendum before the UK leaves the EU. Ms Sturgeon says the move is needed to allow Scotland to decide what path to follow in the wake of the Brexit vote. But the UK government has already said it will block a referendum until after the Brexit process has been completed.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39422747?source=Snapzu

Coca-Cola calls in police after human waste is found in cans

Coca-Cola has called in police to investigate how human waste turned up in a consignment of its drink cans at one of the company’s factories in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed on Tuesday it had opened an inquiry into how faeces ended up in the cans at the Helllenic Bottling Company factory in Lisburn, Co Antrim. Coca-Cola suspended night-time processing last week at the plant when machines became clogged.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/28/coca-cola-police-human-waste-drinks-cans?source=Snapzu

India's Cities Have A Honking Big Noise Problem

They're so noisy that the Central Pollution Control Board is urging drivers not to honk needlessly — like that Uber driver who beeps along with the song on the radio.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/28/520140876/indias-cities-have-a-honking-big-noise-problem?source=Snapzu

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

The House repeals rules requiring broadband providers to get permission before selling your web history.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39427026?source=Snapzu

Inside the renewed search for a male contraceptive pill

Picking up a quest abandoned by Big Pharma, academic labs are using new disruptive technology to develop contraceptive drugs for men.
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603676/the-search-for-a-perfect-male-birth-control-pill/?source=Snapzu

The Guardian is suing ad tech company Rubicon Project

The Guardian is looking to recuperate "non-disclosed buyer fees".
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/guardian-takes-legal-action-against-rubicon-project-2017-3?source=Snapzu

It turns out Donald Trump is not an ‘Artist of the Deal’

“Winning is everything,” Donald Trump often said as he campaigned for president. “Nothing is presidential except victory.” Last week, Trump suffered a major defeat when he couldn’t force a House vote for the health care bill he endorsed. But, Trump being Trump, he said it wasn’t really a defeat; it was a success in disguise. “Here’s the good news,” he told the Washington Post. “Health care is now totally the property of the Democrats. … I’ve been saying for years that the best thing is to let Obamacare explode and then go make a deal.”
Read more: http://wcfcourier.com/news/opinion/columnists/it-turns-out-donald-trump-is-not-an-artist-of/article_4c50692f-18e1-5263-94d2-0201dca661d4.html?source=Snapzu

The Know Your Enemies 3.0 Advanced Persistent Threat Advisory is Finally Here!

We Connect the Dots between Nation State, Cyber Mercenary, Cyber Caliphate and Cyber Criminal Advanced Persistent Threats
Read more: http://icitech.org/the-know-your-enemies-3-0-advanced-persistent-threat-advisory-is-finally-here/?source=Snapzu

Judge orders Omaha teen who threw baby out window to serve probation, live in group home

An Omaha teenager who threw her newborn baby out the window needs to start getting therapy, a judge said Friday, and she isn’t getting it while in the Douglas County Youth Center. Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Christopher Kelly ordered Antonia Lopez to be placed on probation, live in a group home, take part in individual and family therapy, delete her Facebook account and perform 50 hours of community service.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/teen-who-threw-baby-out-window-is-ordered-to-serve/article_8121e9e4-10a4-11e7-a1ad-fb0344e26945.html?source=Snapzu

Civilian deaths from US airstrikes have hit a record high under Donald Trump

A non-profit organisation that tracks civilian casualties caused by airstrikes in the Middle East said it has shifted nearly all of its resources to track a surge of claims regarding US-led strikes in Syria and Iraq. The group, called Airwars.org, had been tracking deaths caused by both Russian and US airstrikes but said in a statement Friday that it was suspending its work on "alleged Russian actions in Syria -- so as best to focus our limited resources on continuing to properly monitor and assess reported casualties from the US and its allies.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-civilian-deaths-syria-iraq-middle-east-a7649486.html?source=Snapzu

Crayola is retiring a color from its 24-count box for 1st time ever

The color in question will be revealed on Friday.
Read more: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/crayola_is_retiring_a_color_from_its_24-count_box.html?source=Snapzu

Report: Bannon told conservatives 'this is not a debate,' you have to back bill

White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon told a group of House conservatives they had no choice but to back the GOP's ObamaCare repeal bill days before the bill was pulled, according to a new report. Bannon confronted members of the House Freedom Caucus earlier this week during the White House's push for the American Health Care Act, Axios's Mike Allen reported Saturday in his newsletter.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/325767-report-bannon-told-conservatives-this-is-not-a-debate-you-have-to-vote-for-bill?source=Snapzu

Mexicans who help build Trump wall 'traitors,' says Catholic Church

Mexicans who help build U.S. President Donald Trump's planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said on Sunday, turning up the heat on a simmering dispute over the project. In a provocative editorial, the country's biggest Archdiocese sought to increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on companies aiming to profit from the wall, which has strained relations between Trump and the Mexican government.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/27/mexicans-who-help-build-trump-wall-traitors-top-archdiocese-says.html?source=Snapzu

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations.

These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations?source=Snapzu

A Marvelous Moment for French Writers and Artists

The close friendship, interaction, and parallelism between writers and artists in nineteenth-century France are the subject of Anka Muhlstein’s "The Pen and the Brush." Balzac put more painters into his novels than he did writers, constantly name-checking artists and using them as visual shorthand (old men looked like Rembrandts, innocent girls like Raphaels). Zola, as a young novelist, lived much more among painters than writers, and told Degas that when he needed to describe laundresses he had simply copied from the artist’s pictures. Victor Hugo was a fine Gothicky-Romantic artist in his own right, and an innovative one too.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/06/marvelous-moment-french-writers-artists/?source=Snapzu