Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia

Authorities said the ban was instituted when Wikipedia declined to take down content alleging that Turkey had provided support for terrorist groups. Since the ban, all language versions of the site have been inaccessible to Turkish IP addresses. A screen saying that the browser cannot make a secure connection to the server comes up when trying to reach the site.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17302142/wikipedia-ban-turkey-one-year-anniversary?source=Snapzu

Wonder what Michelle Wolf said to make everyone so mad? Read it here.

The former Daily Show correspondent took a number of cutting swipes at figures like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, made fun of President Trump’s wealth, and raised eyebrows with her raunchy language — even the words the president’s already said.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/30/17301436/michelle-wolf-speech-transcript-white-house-correspondents-dinner-sarah-huckabee-sanders?source=Snapzu

As Hawaii Aims for 100% Renewable Energy, Other States Watching Closely

How to incorporate solar and wind while keeping the electricity grid stable is a key question
Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-hawaii-aims-for-100-renewable-energy-other-states-watching-closely/?source=Snapzu

U.S. vehicle deaths topped 40,000 in 2017, National Safety Council estimates

U.S. vehicle deaths barely declined in 2017 but remained notably higher than in 2015, according to a new report. The National Safety Council estimated automotive fatalities topped 40,000 for the second consecutive year. The estimates are not the official federal figures, which will be released later this year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They also include deaths that NHTSA does not classify as roadway deaths.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/02/15/national-safety-council-traffic-deaths/340012002/?source=Snapzu

Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids

A team of researchers in Germany has found evidence suggesting that the famous wooden Shirgir Idol is actually 11,500 years old. The team has documented their efforts and findings in a paper published on the Cambridge University Press site Antiquity.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-wooden-shigir-idol-egyptian-pyramids.html?source=Snapzu

T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, finally, strutting 5G clout

After years of off-and-on courtship, T-Mobile is acquiring Sprint in an all-stock, merger and acquistion deal worth $26-billion.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/t-mobile-and-sprint-to-merge-finally-strutting-5g-clout/?source=Snapzu

Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict

America’s social hierarchies rule everything – even the opioid epidemic. You don’t have to dig deep to find the hypocrisy and insult to people of color.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/opioid-epidemic-selects-white-victim-black-addict?source=Snapzu

What's An 'Incel'? The Online Community Behind The Toronto Van Attack

Reporter Arshy Mann breaks down the ideology of violent misogyny linked to the Toronto suspect: "It's quite a disturbing part of the Internet."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/29/606773813/whats-an-incel-the-online-community-behind-the-toronto-van-attack?source=Snapzu

Western bombing won’t save Syria. Non-western diplomacy might

Interventionist policies from the west have failed in the Middle East. It’s time for the rest of the world to step up, says Chandran Nair, chief executive and founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, a Hong Kong based thinktank
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/16/syria-bombs-western-policy-diplomacy-africa-china?source=Snapzu

Stop Talking About Race and IQ. Take It From Someone Who Did.

Framing genetic arguments in racial terms isn’t scientific.
Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/stop-talking-about-race-and-iq-take-it-from-someone-who-did.html?source=Snapzu

French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes

A state-owned French art museum has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of worthless fakes and experts fear that other public galleries may also be stuffed with forgeries.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/28/french-museum-discovers-half-collection-fakes/?source=Snapzu

Parkland shooting survivors cry hypocrisy after NRA bans guns during Pence speech

"I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?"
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/parkland-shooting-survivors-cry-hypocrisy-after-nra-bans-guns-during-pence-speech-e21f8558bd0c/?source=Snapzu

Scientists 'keep pigs' brains alive without a body for up to 36 hours'

The brains, which are not conscious, are kept alive through the circulation of an oxygen-rich fluid through the organs
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/27/scientists-keep-pigs-brains-alive-without-a-body-for-up-to-36-hours?source=Snapzu

Merkel’s antisemitism envoy ‘not surprised’ Jews want to leave Germany

A newly appointed special envoy tasked by the German government with tackling the country’s rising wave of antisemitism has said he is not surprised that, following a series of high-profile race hate attacks, Jews are considering leaving Germany. Felix Klein, who is due to take up his post this week, said he plans to launch a nationwide register to chart all crimes against the country’s estimated 100,000-strong Jewish community, saying antisemitic attitudes were mainstream in German society.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/28/germany-antisemitism-envoy-jews-consider-leaving-germany?source=Snapzu

Russia's floating 'nuclear Titanic' sets sail on first controversial voyage

A controversial floating nuclear power plant built by Russia that environmentalist have dubbed a "nuclear Titanic" has set sail on its first sea voyage. The plant, Akademik Lomonosov, was towed out of the St Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed on Saturday. 
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/floating-nuclear-power-plant-russia-floating-chernobyl-nuclear-titanic-akademik-lomonosov-launch-a8327316.html?source=Snapzu

Zimbabwe legalises medicinal marijuana

Zimbabwe has made it legal to produce marijuana for medicinal and scientific uses. It follows in the footsteps of Lesotho, the tiny nation which last year became the first in Africa to issue a license for medical marijuana. Zimbabwe has been considering legalising the drug for a number of months, and will now become one of the few countries able to turn it into a source of revenue.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-legalises-marijuana-medicinal-scientific-use-africa-a8327191.html?source=Snapzu

The CDC Says Autism Rates Are Rising in U.S. Children. No, It's Not Because of Vaccines.

A new CDC autism report finds that rates of autism are rising among U.S. children. Given the fraught history of the (consistently debunked) allegations that vaccines are tied to autism spectrum disorders, there may be an impulse in certain corners to bring up vaccinations as a potential root for this rise in diagnoses. The scientific consensus still resoundingly rejects that argument.
Read more: http://fortune.com/2018/04/27/autism-on-the-rise-vaccines/?source=Snapzu

Trump Protesters In U.K. Launch Campaign To Get Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ To No. 1 In Charts For His Visit

The women and their three children were allowed to return from northern Iraq and will not be arrested. German federal prosecutors say their request for a warrant was denied by the Federal Supreme Court.
Read more: https://www.inquisitr.com/4881178/trump-protesters-in-u-k-launch-campaign-to-get-green-days-american-idiot-to-no-1-in-charts-for-his-visit/?source=Snapzu

Two Islamic State wives return to Germany with their children

The women and their three children were allowed to return from northern Iraq and will not be arrested. German federal prosecutors say their request for a warrant was denied by the Federal Supreme Court.
Read more: http://www.dw.com/en/two-islamic-state-wives-return-to-germany-with-their-children/a-43569720?source=Snapzu

Seattle Vacates Hundreds of Marijuana Charges Going Back 30 Years

The City of Seattle on Friday filed a motion asking the court to vacate hundreds of marijuana possession convictions going back three decades and adversely impacting people of color.
Read more: https://www.theroot.com/seattle-vacates-hundreds-of-marijuana-possession-charge-1825622917?source=Snapzu

Fashion brands steal design ideas all the time. And it’s completely legal.

Blame America’s outdated copyright laws.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/27/17281022/fashion-brands-knockoffs-copyright-stolen-designs-old-navy-zara-h-and-m?source=Snapzu

Gertrude Jeannette, Actor, Director and Cabdriver, Dies at 103

Believed to be the first woman to drive a taxi in New York City, she also overcame a speech impediment to work on Broadway, in film and on television.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/obituaries/gertrude-jeannette-actor-director-and-cabdriver-dies-at-103.html?source=Snapzu

The Price of Filming Police Violence

People who filmed high-profile videos of the police killings of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and others say they have faced retaliation and harassment.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evqw9z/filming-police-brutality-retaliation?source=Snapzu

ISIS servers seized in Canada as countries launch coordinated takedown of propaganda network

The ISIS-branded al-Bayan radio and Nashir News were also targets.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4171947/canada-isis-propaganda/?source=Snapzu

Finland’s Basic Income Pilot Was Never Really A Universal Basic Income

Much has been made of the end of the Nordic country’s experiment with giving some of its residents cash, but the program was actually a conservative welfare program that doesn’t say anything about the true UBI experiments in the works around the world.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/40565075/finlands-basic-income-pilot-was-never-really-a-universal-basic-income?source=Snapzu

Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijani capital Baku

A skyscraper that was slated to become a Trump International Hotel in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku has caught fire. The Azadliq newspaper reported that the blaze broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey building, which is locally known as Trump Tower, and spread. Etibar Mirzoev, deputy head of the Emergency Situations Ministry, said there were no injuries and authorities were working to establish the cause of the of the fire.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-tower-fire-azerbaijan-baku-latest-video-international-grand-prix-f1-new-york-building-a8326891.html?source=Snapzu

Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa With Routine Antibiotics

Providing one dose every six months saved one in four babies, researchers reported. Now the W.H.O. will consider recommending routine use.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/health/africa-infant-mortality-antibiotic.html?source=Snapzu

How Jeff Bezos' parents reacted to the news their son was leaving Wall Street to start selling books on the internet

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called his parents in the mid-90s and told them he was leaving a cushy gig on Wall Street to sell books online.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.de/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-parents-wall-street-2018-4?source=Snapzu

US millionaire offers clue to buried treasure

People have died searching for Forrest Fenn’s buried fortune, but his aim was to encourage families to enjoy the outdoors.
Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2142371/us-millionaire-who-buried-treasure-rockies-has?source=Snapzu

Frank Sinatra-Killing me softly

Read more: https://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/frank-sinatra-killing-me-softly?source=Snapzu

EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides

The world’s most widely used insecticides will be banned from all fields within six months, to protect both wild and honeybees that are vital to crop pollination
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides?source=Snapzu

UK houses now cost almost eight times average earnings, says ONS

Workers in England and Wales need to fork out almost eight times their annual income in order to buy an average house, according to the latest official estimates, underlining how unaffordable house purchasing has become for many. The Office for National Statistics reported on Thursday that average house in 2017 rose 4.5 per cent to £225,000.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-house-prices-average-earning-ratio-latest-unaffordable-housing-crisis-a8323086.html?source=Snapzu

This might be Scott Pruitt's most destructive move yet

Adopting a strategy successfully employed by the tobacco industry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a sweeping new regulation that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use in developing its regulations. The EPA administrator, who has come under fire from both parties for his personal conduct and ethical scandals, announced the changes at an EPA event Tuesday, where he was surrounded by conservative allies and pollution skeptics.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/04/this-might-be-scott-pruitts-most-destructive-move-yet/?source=Snapzu

'New sign' warns motorists smartphone zombies could be in the area

Yes, it’s the drivers who have to be more careful and not the people who are glued to their device.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/26/new-sign-warns-motorists-smartphone-zombies-area-7500588/?source=Snapzu

In a medical first, drugs have reversed an inherited disorder in the womb

Doctors in Germany successfully treated twins in utero using a biotech drug, pointing to a new way to eliminate disease.
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611015/in-a-medical-first-drugs-have-reversed-an-inherited-disorder-in-the-womb/?source=Snapzu

Subway plans 500 U.S. store closings amid global growth

Subway Restaurants, the world’s most ubiquitous dining chain, will continue closing U.S. stores as it expands internationally. After peppering the nation with thousands of locations, closely held Subway is retrenching. This year, the sandwich purveyor is planning to shut about 500 more of its U.S. shops. Last year, more than 800 stores went dark, with the total U.S. count dropping to 25,908. It also closed restaurants in 2016.
Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/apr/25/subway-plans-500-us-store-closings-amid-global-gro/?source=Snapzu

Bill Cosby Guilty of Drugging & Molesting a Woman

Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America's Dad.
Read more: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Bill-Cosby-Sex-Assault-Retrial-Deliberations-Day-2-480911201.html?source=Snapzu

New Jersey arrests more people for weed than almost any other state. See the list

New Jersey may be closer than ever to having legal weed, but people in the Garden State are more likely to be arrested for marijuana than almost anywhere else in the country. A recently published analysis of marijuana arrest data shows that in 2016 New Jersey was third in the nation in total marijuana arrests -- after Texas and New York -- and second only to Wyoming in marijuana arrest rate.
Read more: http://www.nj.com/marijuana/2018/04/new_jersey_arrests_more_people_for_marijuana_than.html?source=Snapzu

“You may shut the f--- up”: Dashcam vindicates cops confronting corruption

Cops refused to be intimidated by an official from the NY/NJ Port Authority.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/you-may-shut-the-f-up-dashcam-vindicates-cops-confronting-corruption/?source=Snapzu

Inventor Madsen guilty of Kim Wall murder

Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine. Madsen had planned to kill Ms Wall, 30, either by suffocating her or cutting her throat, the Copenhagen court heard. Her dismembered remains were found by Danish police at sea on 21 August last year, 11 days after she interviewed him on board his homemade vessel.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43894495?source=Snapzu

China Assigns Every Citizen A 'Social Credit Score' To Identify Who Is And Isn't Trustworthy

China is rolling out a high-tech plan to give all of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score, based on how they behave. But there are consequences if a score gets too low, and for some that's cause for concern.
Read more: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/24/china-assigns-every-citizen-a-social-credit-score-to-identify-who-is-and-isnt-trustworthy/?source=Snapzu

The room inside Pine Gap no Australian could enter, bar one

Declassified US cables confirm the existence of a "national communication and cypher room" at the spy base in the Northern Territory. By Nick Miller.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-the-room-inside-pine-gap-no-australian-could-enter-bar-one-20180425-p4zbhb.html?source=Snapzu

A Google update just created a big problem for anti-censorship tools

Domain-fronting is now a thing of the past. By Russell Brandom.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/18/17253784/google-domain-fronting-discontinued-signal-tor-vpn?source=Snapzu

Kim Jong-un froze missile tests after nuke site collapsed, experts say

Kim Jong-un only agreed to freeze his missile tests because his underground nuclear test site has collapsed, Chinese experts have suggested. The North Korean dictator announced on Saturday he would halt nuke trials and intercontinental missile launches ahead of an expected summit with US President Donald Trump. His regime also vowed to dismantle the atomic facility at Punggye-ri in the country's north east to 'transparently guarantee' the end of testing.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5655089/Kim-Jong-froze-missile-tests-nuke-site-collapsed-experts-say.html?source=Snapzu

Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre

Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered startling evidence of a massacre more than 1500 years ago, when the inhabitants of a small village were struck down in their houses or as they fled along the street, and their bodies left to rot where they fell – with their treasures including beautiful jewellery and Roman gold coins. At Sandby Borg on the shore of Öland island, off the south-east coast of Sweden, there was no escape.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/25/swedish-archaeologists-uncover-brutal-5th-century-massacre?source=Snapzu

How 'new power' is driving journalism in the digital age

A new book on so-called 'new power' can help us understand transformations in journalism like increased collaboration and use of digital technologies for investigative journalism.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/how-new-power-is-driving-journalism-in-the-digital-age-95380?source=Snapzu

Marxists Look Back on the Russian Revolution

Two new books find committed leftists wrangling with the grisly legacy of October 1917. By J.P. O'Malley.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/marxists-look-back-on-the-russian-revolution/?source=Snapzu

Coke warns of pain from UK sugar tax, U.S. freight costs

Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday it would take a hit in the second quarter from the introduction of a British sugar tax on soft drinks and rising freight costs in the United States, overshadowing modestly better than forecast results for the first three months of 2018.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coca-cola-results/coca-cola-sales-surge-after-diet-coke-reboot-idUSKBN1HV18Y?source=Snapzu

The Harrowing Floods of Bangladesh, in Photos

A rickshawala, with the help of his daughter, tried to cross a flooded road in Ramu. “I am documenting what’s around me not only as a photojournalist, but also as a victim,” Jashim Salam says. In Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he lives and works, rising water levels during monsoon season have left houses and places of business..
Read more: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/04/the-harrowing-floods-of-bangladesh-in-photos/?source=Snapzu

Golden State Killer: Ex-cop Joseph James DeAngelo arrested as suspect in serial murder-rapes

Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, has been arrested in Sacramento in a decades-long search for the Golden State Killer who terrorized California communities in the 1970s and 1980s with a series of murders and rapes.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/25/golden-state-killer-joseph-james-deangelo-arrested/550544002/?source=Snapzu