California Voters May Force Meat And Egg Producers Across The Country To Go Cage-Free

California voters will soon decide whether to ban the sale of all veal, pork and eggs from farm animals raised in cages, even when raised in other states.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/660605016/california-voters-may-force-meat-and-egg-producers-across-the-country-to-go-cage?source=Snapzu

USA Women's Team Wins Yet Another World Championship Title

This is Kara Eaker, who got the highest score on beam and who, with Simone Biles, Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker, Ragan Smith and Grace McCallum help the US team get yet another gold medal.
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Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii's highest court

State supreme court rules that the US$1.4-billion observatory's construction permit is valid, after years-long legal battle.
Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04444-2??source=Snapzu

Psychologists discover what type of person is most likely to believe fake news

Researchers identified two styles of thought which affected the likelihood of someone believing fake news.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/psychologists-discover-deluded-people-religious-fundamentalists-more-likely-1193324?source=Snapzu

Japan's Princess Ayako surrenders her royal status as she marries for love

Under crisp blue skies, about 1,000 well-wishers turned out at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo Monday to catch a glimpse of Japan's Princess Ayako and her groom Kei Moriya on their wedding day.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/29/asia/princess-ayako-wedding-ceremony-intl/index.html?source=Snapzu

Report: Trump Clocks in About Three Hours of Work on a Good Day

The rest of his day is devoted to “executive time,” i.e. TV-watching and Twitter.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/trump-schedule-executive-time?source=Snapzu

'We are like robots': Apple investigates Chinese factory using forced student labour

Supplier under fire after vocational degrees were withheld unless students undertook factory work
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/30/we-are-like-robots-apple-investigates-chinese-factory-using-forced-student-labour?source=Snapzu

Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia

At the time, the Arabian Peninsula was a grassland dotted with lakes.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/archaeologists-find-300000-year-old-stone-tools-in-saudi-arabia/?source=Snapzu

Can we predict when and where a crime will take place?

Predictive policing using data analytics is gaining acceptance among police forces, but at what cost?
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46017239?source=Snapzu

Robert Mueller possible target of false sexual abuse scheme

The special counsel's office has confirmed to DW that it referred a case about payoffs for false testimony against Robert Mueller to the FBI. Details remain murky but are said to involve a GOP lobbyist.
Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/robert-mueller-possible-target-of-false-sexual-abuse-scheme/a-46095280?source=Snapzu

Would you risk prison for a dinosaur fossil? This man did.

We are all familiar with the trade in drugs or stolen artworks. But what would make someone want to risk life and limb for a fossil? That’s one of the questions Paige Williams has tried to answer in The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for the Ultimate Trophy.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/dinosaur-fossils-collectors-book-talk/?source=Snapzu

NYC mayor announces plan to assist 12,000 veteran students at risk of eviction

The VA says the delay is a result of technical issues that occurred last year after the president signed the Forever GI Act.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-mayor-announces-plan-assist-12-000-veteran-students-risk-n925666?source=Snapzu

Trove of newly released NASA audio puts you backstage during Apollo 1

A team of engineers spent years giving new life to old NASA tapes with behind-the-scenes audio from the Apollo era.
Read more: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/10/trove-of-newly-released-nasa-audio-puts-you-backstage-during-apollo-11?source=Snapzu

Air Pollution Killed 600,000 Children in 2016, According to WHO Report

The World Health Organization found that 1.8 billion people under 15 are at risk of respiratory infections due to contaminated air.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj49m8/air-pollution-killed-600000-children-in-2016-according-to-who-report?source=Snapzu

Convicted Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger Dies At 89

James "Whitey" Bulger rose to power as a secret informant to the FBI. His 16-year run as a fugitive made Bulger a legend and deeply embarrassed the FBI.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/661163894/convicted-mobster-james-whitey-bulger-dies-at-89?source=Snapzu

Fury after China reverses 25-year-old tiger bone and rhino horn ban

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced their "profound concern" over the changes in the law, which would allow bone and horn products to be traded
Read more: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-fury-after-china-reverses-13499549?source=Snapzu

Sweet discovery: New UBC study pushes back the origins of chocolate

As Halloween revelers prepare to feast on chocolate, a new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia, is pushing back the origins of the delicious sweet treat. The study, published online today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests that cacao—the plant from which chocolate is made—was domesticated, or grown by people for food, around 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. In addition, the researchers found cacao was originally domesticated in South America, rather than in Central America.
Read more: https://news.ubc.ca/2018/10/29/sweet-discovery-new-ubc-study-pushes-back-the-origins-of-chocolate/?source=Snapzu

Microsoft Says It Will Sell Pentagon Artificial Intelligence and Other Advanced Technology

Microsoft is talking the opposite position from Google, which said it would not provide cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to the Defense Department.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/politics/ai-microsoft-pentagon.html?source=Snapzu

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Cheer on the Red Sox While Attending World Series Game Together

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are true Red Sox fans! The pair, who finalized their divorce earlier this month, both attended Game 4 of the World Series at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Saturday. Garner and Affleck, who were photographed near each other in a suite, both dressed casually for the nail-biting game.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ben-affleck-jennifer-garner-cheer-212139171.html?source=Snapzu

Police are using artificial intelligence to spot written lies

A tool that identifies false robbery reports is being rolled out across Spain
Read more: https://qz.com/1441034/using-artificial-intelligence-to-detect-written-lies/?source=Snapzu

Istanbul Vending Machines Offer Subway Credit for Recycled Bottles and Cans

The city has installed “reverse vending machines” at metro stations that crush, shred and sort the materials as a way of paying for travel.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/istanbul-vending-machines-recycling-subway.html?source=Snapzu

The Midterms Are Our Chance To Vote Out White Supremacy

The results of the 2016 election felt like a punch to the gut. I remember feeling stunned, confused, and unprepared for what lay ahead. I learned in that moment, and in many moments since, that elections have consequences. We enter the Nov. 6 midterm election ruled by a Republican majority carrying out a concerted voter suppression campaign and with a leader blatantly cultivating an environment of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and oppression. This must end.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-midterms-candidates-of-color_us_5bd0d365e4b0d38b587f6dcf?source=Snapzu

Louisiana teacher donates kidney to student she never met

A Louisiana science teacher is set to donate a kidney to a student who previously attended the school she teaches in, but never had her for class. Heather Mallet, who teaches at F.K. White Middle School, said it doesn’t matter that Hayden Diaz never sat in her classroom, she just knew she had to help him.
Read more: https://www.okaynews.info/2018/10/louisiana-teacher-donates-kidney-to.html?source=Snapzu

Sting - Fields Of Gold (HD) Ten Summoner's Tales

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Coke and Kellogg’s among major firms to pledge to cut all plastic waste

Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s and Nestle are among 250 major brands pledging to cut all plastic waste from their operations – a move described by the UN as the most ambitious effort yet to fight plastic pollution. The commitment comes as public pressure mounts on manufacturers and retailers to reduce the avalanche of plastic packaging clogging landfills and choking the oceans.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-waste-pollution-coca-cola-kelloggs-nestle-environment-recycling-un-ocean-a8606136.html?source=Snapzu

Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?

On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 1987, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Saanich, B.C., their hometown, to pick up some furnace equipment in Seattle for Cook’s father. Saanich and Seattle are a little more than 100 miles apart, but the trip takes almost five hours: a ferry into the U.S. across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, another across Puget Sound, and between them a winding coastal drive through evergreen forests and fishing towns. The young couple planned to make an overnight jaunt of it.
Read more: https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/your-dna-is-out-there-do-you-want-law-enforcement-using-it?source=Snapzu

China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'

A Chinese state-owned telecommunications company has been "hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries," according to an academic paper published this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University. The culprit is China Telecom, the country's third-largest telco and internet service provider (ISP), which has had a presence inside North American networks since the early 2000s when it created its first point-of-presence (PoP).
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-has-been-hijacking-the-vital-internet-backbone-of-western-countries/?source=Snapzu

Price is Right: Red Sox Win World Series

The Boston Red Sox are World Champions, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, to win the World Series in five games.
Read more: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Red-Sox-Dodgers-World-Series-Game-5-Recap-498851681.html?source=Snapzu

Of Life, Death, And Cryptos: What Happens To Your Digital Assets When You Die?

Securing crypto tokens hasn’t always been a smooth affair, and it gets even harder when matters of inheritance are concerned. A crypto is basically a virtual currency that’s been coded and protected with strong encryption protocols. As is the case with Bitcoin and others, these encryptions are impossible to crack.
Read more: http://helpinghand.today/2018/10/28/of-life-death-and-cryptos-what-happens-to-your-digital-assets-when-you-die/?source=Snapzu

A Rural Community Decided To Treat Its Opioid Problem Like A Natural Disaster

A rural county in Washington declared the opioid epidemic a life-threatening emergency. They use a multi-agency coordination group straight out of FEMA's playbook to respond to the crisis.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/28/658476111/a-rural-community-decided-to-treat-its-opioid-problem-like-a-natural-disaster?source=Snapzu

Court: Teen’s driving killed someone, but he can’t be forced to give up passcode

A Florida state appellate court has ruled that an inebriated teenager involved in a car crash that resulted in the death of another person cannot be compelled to provide a passcode to his iPhone 7—the boy can indeed invoke a Fifth Amendment privilege, protecting him against self-incrimination. The October 24 ruling in G.A.Q.L. v. State of Florida before the 4th District appellate court runs against a previous ruling by a sister court in a case known as State of Florida v. Stahl.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/court-teens-driving-killed-someone-but-he-cant-be-forced-to-give-up-passcode/?source=Snapzu

Demi Lovato Is 90 Days Sober, Her Mother Says

Demi Lovato has reached 90 days of sobriety, according her mother, Dianna De La Garza. "She has 90 days," she confirmed in an interview on Maria Menounos‘ Sirius XM show Friday. "I couldn't be more thankful or more proud of her because addiction being a disease, it's work. It's very hard. It's not easy, and there are no shortcuts."
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/demi-lovato-is-90-days-sober-her-mother-says-1155728?source=Snapzu

Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick

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Brazil: Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro poised for victory

Bolsonaro's rise has come amid a backdrop of economic and political turmoil, corruption scandals and rising violence.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/brazil-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-poised-victory-181027164316403.html?source=Snapzu

Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

There are many, many jobs that are much worse than working at Netflix. But based on an extensive profile of the company’s culture, the streaming company certainly seems to have built a unique version of corporate hell. Citing interviews with more than 70 current and former employees (some on the record, some off), the Wall Street Journal has published an inside account of Netflix workplace culture. It details a philosophy cobbled together from bits and pieces of self-help lit, business school puffery, Silicon Valley disruption, and new-agey commitments to radical transparency. More than anything, it just seems bizarre.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/working-at-netflix-sounds-like-hell-1830020977/?source=Snapzu

This Billionaire Is Spending $500 Million To Re-Create The Titanic And Its Original Journey

Back in 2012, billionaire Australian mining magnate and politician Clive Palmer announced his plans to build and launch the Titanic 2. His aim was to both completely recreate the original Titanic and then have his new vessel make the same journey that infamously left more than 1,500 dead when the original ship hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912.
Read more: https://allthatsinteresting.com/titanic-2-ship?source=Snapzu

'No pencils, no lunch': why teachers dip into their own pockets

Mandy Wells teaches refugee children whose parents can't afford to buy pencils, stationery or school bags. They certainly don't have felt pens, pencil sharpeners or erasers. So, to ensure they don't miss out, she dips into her own pocket. "Every term I will stock up on the things that their parents can't buy for them," she says. "I can spend anywhere from $900 to $1800, $2000 a year – depending on the needs of the class. I work with colleagues who spend more.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/education/no-pencils-no-lunch-why-teachers-dip-into-their-own-pockets-20181025-p50bs5.html?source=Snapzu

Ireland votes 'yes' to remove blasphemy from the Constitution - Independent.ie

The country has voted to remove 'blasphemy' from the Constitution. Some 951,650 people voted 'yes' in the referendum that featured alongside the Presidential Election on Friday, making up 65 per cent of the total valid votes (1,467,458). The move was welcomed by leading figures earlier in the day, after an exit poll conducted by RTÉ and Red C showed some 71.1pc of participants voted to remove the term from the Constitution.
Read more: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/blasphemy-referendum/ireland-votes-yes-to-remove-blasphemy-from-the-constitution-37465620.html?source=Snapzu

America’s Next Civil War

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse. By Stephen Marche.
Read more: https://thewalrus.ca/americas-next-civil-war/?source=Snapzu

The Synagogue Killings Mark a Surge of Anti-Semitism

In 2016, more than half of religious hate crimes in America targeted Jews, and in 2017 authorities have reported a surge of anti-Semitic incidents.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/pittsburgh-synagogue-comes-amid-surge-anti-semiticism/574180?source=Snapzu

Apple reportedly announcing iPad Pro with USB-C, MacBook Air successor, and new Mac Mini next week

Apple plans to announce updated iPad Pros with USB-C ports, a 13-inch laptop meant to replace the MacBook Air, and long-awaited updates to the Mac Mini during its event Tuesday morning, according to Bloomberg. Just about all of this has been rumored before, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is usually the definitive name when it comes to nailing exactly what we’ll see on event day, and with a few days to go, we now have those answers.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/26/18029728/apple-event-rumors-macbook-air-update-ipad-pro-usb-c-mac-mini?source=Snapzu

GM breaks with Trump administration and calls for nationwide electric-car sales program

Two of the biggest automakers are pushing back on the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of U.S. fuel-economy standards. In filings due Friday, General Motors Co. planned to propose that, rather than oppose California’s so-called zero-emission vehicle sales mandate, federal regulators should embrace a nationwide electric-car sales program starting in 2021. Honda Motor Co., meanwhile, took exception to President Trump’s proposed freeze on mileage standards and called for steadily increasing requirements to continue.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gm-fuel-efficiency-20181026-story.html?source=Snapzu

Twitter says it ‘made a mistake’ for not removing threatening tweets from Florida bomb suspect

After 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr., was arrested on Friday on the suspicion that he mailed 13 explosives to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the spotlight turned on a Twitter account that appears to belong to him, which he allegedly used to issue veiled threats to critics of the President. Twitter has apologized for not acting on tweets that clearly violated its terms of conduct.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/27/18031888/twitter-alleged-florida-bomber-threats-rochelle-ritchie?source=Snapzu

Clever dog pretends to be a stray in a McDonald’s drive-thru to get free burgers

An Oklahoma pet owner disclosed her own dog’s greedy way to ingeniously get free hamburgers in a McDonald’s drive-thru. Oklahoma City’s Betsy Reyes says that her dog sneaks out from the house at night and pretends to a stray while sitting outside a McDonald’s drive-thru.
Read more: https://thefirstnewspaper.com/25/10/2018/social-media/clever-dog-pretends-to-be-a-stray-in-a-mcdonalds-drive-thru-to-get-free-burgers/?source=Snapzu

Playing the Long Game for the Supreme Court

Conservatives emerged from the Bork battle bent on winning control. It took 31 years. How will progressives respond?
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/supreme-court-conservatives-progressives.html?source=Snapzu

Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West

Long before veggie burgers and soy lattes were fashionable, Kin was sent on a mission by the United States government to uncover the benefits of the soybean for Americans. In 1917 Yamei Kin, a Chinese-born doctor then living in New York, visited her homeland to study a crop that was virtually unknown to Americans: the soybean.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html?fbclid=IwAR01nOrI4oCPBbdaPj9WSJWbw4DwtJAVMpYb7a_M6ohPeOUbZw3KLdgDudQ?source=Snapzu

Scientists are calling for a crash programme to scrub ‘vast quantities’ of carbon dioxide from the air

Humanity may have to start removing as much carbon as all the world’s forests and soils currently absorb each year to meet Paris Agreement goals, according to Princeton climate scientist .
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/carbon-dioxide-co2-scrubbing-remove-atmosphere-climate-change-global-warming-us-report-a8604116.html?source=Snapzu

‘Call of Cthulhu’ Launch Trailer Cranks up The Cult And The Creepy

October 30th is right around the corner, so what better time to remind you to snag Cyanide Studios’ Call of Cthulhu on that day? In fact, we’ve gotten the launch trailer for the game, which like so many of the previous trailers, is heavy on the Cthulhu and the weird. It also does a good job of getting the game’s story up and running for those who “walked in late”.
Read more: https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3529756/call-cthulhu-launch-trailer-cranks-cult-creepy/?source=Snapzu

An anonymous 4chan post could help solve a 25-year-old math mystery

A 4chan poster may have solved part of a very tricky math problem that mathematicians have been working on for at least 25 years. The user was just trying to figure out the most efficient way to watch episodes of a nonlinear anime series, but the result has generated considerable interest from mathematicians around the world who have no way to identify the anonymous user.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anime-haruhi-math-mystery?source=Snapzu

European Parliament to act on single use plastic pollution

In order to reduce marine litter European Parliament has voted to ban a range of single-use plastics across the European Union. The European Union proposed a ban of single-use plastics earlier in May this year following the demand from public to reduce and fight marine litter. The proposal asked for EU wide rules that would target “10 single-use plastic products most often found on Europe’s beaches and seas, as well as lost and abandoned fishing gear. Together these constitute 70% of all marine litter items.”
Read more: http://mygoodplanet.com/european-parliament-plastic-pollution/?source=Snapzu