America's Huge, Radioactive Mess in Greenland Is Finally Getting Cleaned Up

During World War II and the Cold War, the United States built 30 bases in the northern reaches of Greenland to gain advantage over Germans and Soviets. Today, the empty structures lie exposed and rusting on the ice, where they’ve been forgotten by everyone except the Arctic island’s pissed-off inhabitants. The “ghost bases” have been more than just an eyesore — they’re also threatening to leak nuclear waste and human feces into the ocean.
Read more: https://www.inverse.com/article/33613-greenland-world-war-wwii-cold-iceworm?source=Snapzu

News Digest - top news and stories about tech and business

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the digest news regarding business development as well as tech development!
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Sale of heartburn drug suspended over cancer fears

CVS pharmacies become the latest to withdraw Zantac, a drug being investigated for cancer links.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49868852?source=Snapzu

Abortion decriminalized in Sydney after Australian lawmakers overturn 119-year-old law

Abortion has now been decriminalized in almost all of Australia after the country's most populous state voted to overturn a 119-year-old law. On Thursday, lawmakers in New South Wales -- which is home to Sydney -- voted to pass a bill that decriminalizes abortion and makes terminations available to people who are less than 22 weeks pregnant.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/26/asia/abortion-australia-decriminalized-intl-hnk/index.html?source=Snapzu

Discovery By International Team of Scientists may Change Models of Planets Formation

A surprising discovery by an international team of scientists may change our understanding of the formation of planets. An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a large planet, more than half the mass of Jupiter, around a small, cool red dwarf star.
Read more: https://www.matconlist.com/2019/09/discovery-by-international-team-of.html?source=Snapzu

Introduction of sacred eagle feathers into Manitoba courts called a historic moment

Indigenous people will soon be able to give their testimony in Manitoba courts after swearing their oath on an eagle feather. A ceremony to mark the introduction of eagle feathers into every provincial courtroom was held Thursday morning at the Oodena Celebration Circle at The Forks in Winnipeg.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/eagle-feathers-manitoba-court-system-1.5298006?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk to Unveil SpaceX's New Starship Design Tonight. Here's What to Expect

It's that time again. Elon Musk will unveil the latest design of SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonization architecture tonight (Sept. 28) during a presentation at the company's South Texas facilities, near the village of Boca Chica.
Read more: https://www.space.com/elon-musk-starship-design-update-2019-preview.html?source=Snapzu

Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites

Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War.
Read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-means-overthrowing-the-ruling-elites/?source=Snapzu

You Know Who Else Is a Whistleblower? Chelsea Manning

With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally announcing an impeachment inquiry for Donald Trump, whistleblowers are currently the talk of the nation. While we all should be thanking the brave individual who disclosed that Trump was pressuring Ukranian officials to interfere in the upcoming 2020 election, we would be remiss if we didn’t discuss the treatment of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman who is still imprisoned for information she made public.
Read more: https://www.out.com/commentary/2019/9/26/you-know-who-else-whistleblower-chelsea-manning?source=Snapzu

40,000-year-old bracelet suggests ancient humans used drills

The 40,000-year-old bracelet was discovered alongside human remains in a cave in Siberia. Scientists claim it could have been made so precisely with tools similar to our modern drills.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072094/40-000-year-old-bracelet-believed-oldest-suggests-ancient-humans-used-drills.html?fbclid=IwAR1UmHhFNhn5HQFSY-A6GMSqeXgfwDfqRsbFK2o_pzuRhtF-WYY5Nb0Hark?source=Snapzu

Turkish scientist gets 15-month sentence for publishing environmental study

Bülent Şık went to a newspaper after the government sat on a study of a cancer cluster in polluted region
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/turkish-scientist-gets-15-month-sentence-publishing-environmental-study?source=Snapzu

How the Climate Kids Are Short-Circuiting Right-Wing Media

Young people like Greta Thunberg are participating in the culture wars while also managing to float above the fray.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opinion/climate-change-greta-thunberg.html?source=Snapzu

‘Shut Down DC’ climate protesters returned to D.C. streets this morning

Climate change protesters who shut down intersections in the District during Monday’s morning commute returned to the streets Friday for another rally to call attention to Earth’s rising temperatures. Dozens of protesters went through downtown, causing traffic disruptions and rolling street closures for about two hours during the morning rush hour.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shut-down-dc-climate-protesters-plan-return-to-dc-streets-friday-morning/2019/09/26/813b5954-e09c-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html?source=Snapzu

World's Largest Privately-Owned Giant Sequoia Grove Is for Sale

And a conservation group needs the public’s help acquiring the property
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vast-landscape-giant-sequoias-leaving-private-hands-180973196/?source=Snapzu

Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?

Andrew Yang’s climate fatalism during Wednesday’s debate seemed to reflect a strange, esoteric nihilism taking root in the internet’s weirder corners.
Read more: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/is-andrew-yang-the-doomer-candidate-and-whats-a-doomer.html#comments?source=Snapzu

Man who created labradoodle breed describes it as his 'life’s regret'

The man who created the world’s first labradoodle has spoken of his regret in creating the popular mixed-breed dog, describing them as “crazy Frankenstein’s monsters” prone to hereditary problems. Australian, Wally Conron, bred the first labradoodle, Sultan, in 1989 as a guide dog for a blind woman whose husband was allergic to dog hair.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/labradoodle-wally-conron-regret-frankensteins-monster-hypoallergenic-a9120971.html?source=Snapzu

Before Trump, Cambridge Analytica’s parent built weapons for war

How the parent company of Trump’s campaign firm plied its skills on the battlefield and in elections, while working for the U.S., the U.K., and NATO.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90235437/before-trump-cambridge-analytica-parent-built-weapons-for-war?source=Snapzu

The world's largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete. It can power 1 million homes

The world's largest offshore wind farm is taking shape off the east coast of Britain, a landmark project that demonstrates one way to combat climate change at scale. Located 120 kilometers (75 miles) off England's Yorkshire coast, Hornsea One will produce enough energy to supply 1 million UK homes with clean electricity when it is completed in 2020.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/business/worlds-largest-wind-farm/index.html?source=Snapzu

The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

Twelve years. Thousands of hours of sleuthing. No answers. On the hunt for the three most enigmatic minutes of music
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/?source=Snapzu

The $47 Trillion Death Sentence For Oil & Gas

The future of hydrocarbons is becoming bleak if plans presented by international banks, representing around $47 trillion in value, will be fully implemented. Around 130 international banks, all present at the UN climate change summit in New York, have committed themselves to decrease their support and investments in the oil and gas sector the coming years.
Read more: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-47-Trillion-Death-Sentence-For-Oil-Gas.html?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bezos would pay $9 billion a year in wealth taxes under Bernie Sanders' plan

Jeff Bezos would pay about $9 billion in taxes this year under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed wealth tax. As part of his presidential primary campaign and efforts to outflank the rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sanders announced a wealth tax that would hit multibillionaires like Bezos especially hard. The Amazon CEO would pay more in annual wealth taxes than the net worth of the 50 richest Americans as listed by Forbes.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/jeff-bezos-would-pay-9-billion-a-year-in-taxes-under-sanders-plan.html?source=Snapzu

5 reasons McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC must speak up about the Amazon fires

The Amazon rainforest is on fire. But what does this have to do with McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King? Here are the top five reasons why these fast food giants must take a stand against Amazon destruction...
Read more: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/24341/reasons-mcdonalds-burger-king-kfc-must-speak-up-amazon-fires/?source=Snapzu

'Notable' Wisconsin inmate allegedly confesses to 'Making a Murderer' killing

Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were convicted in the 2005 death, but have maintained their innocence.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/notable-wisconsin-inmate-allegedly-confesses-making-murderer-killing-n1058061?source=Snapzu

Google to Invest $2 Billion in Wind and Solar Energy

Ahead of the UN climate summit and the global climate strike, the world's largest search engine announced that the tech behemoth will make its biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy yet, signing on to a series of agreements that will increase Google's wind and solar investments by 40 percent, as Quartz reported.
Read more: https://www.ecowatch.com/google-invest-renewable-energy-2640582144.html?source=Snapzu

‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing world in climate emergency

A new equation showing that the world is ‘deep in a climate emergency’ was unveiled on 24 September by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change, who said that people still don’t want to see the truth about the state we’re in.
Read more: https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/i-would-people-panic-top-scientist-unveils-equation-showing-world-climate-emergency.html?source=Snapzu

Facebook promises not to stop politicians’ lies & hate

Facebook confirms it won’t fact check politicians’ speech or block their content if it’s newsworthy even if it violates the site’s hate-speech rules or other policies.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/pawn-not-platform/?source=Snapzu

Woman discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen

Christ Mocked, by the 13th-century painter Cimabue, could be worth up to €6m
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/24/woman-discovers-renaissance-masterpiece-in-her-kitchen?source=Snapzu

The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

Twelve years. Thousands of hours of sleuthing. No answers. On the hunt for the three most enigmatic minutes of music
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/?source=Snapzu

40,000-year-old bracelet suggests ancient humans used drills

The 40,000-year-old bracelet was discovered alongside human remains in a cave in Siberia. Scientists claim it could have been made so precisely with tools similar to our modern drills.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072094/40-000-year-old-bracelet-believed-oldest-suggests-ancient-humans-used-drills.html?fbclid=IwAR1UmHhFNhn5HQFSY-A6GMSqeXgfwDfqRsbFK2o_pzuRhtF-WYY5Nb0Hark?source=Snapzu

Boeing to pay bereaved 737 families $144,500 each

The financial assistance fund Boeing set up after the crashes has started accepting claims.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49803068?source=Snapzu

Whale populations in New York Harbor are booming—here's why

“There’s a spout!” naturalist Celia Ackerman calls excitedly to the captain. “Behind the green buoy!” It’s half an hour into a whale-watching cruise aboard the 95-foot American Princess, and we’re not in Hawaii or Alaska—we’re in New York Harbor, within sight of Coney Island and the Brooklyn shoreline.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/whale-populations-new-york-city-booming/??source=Snapzu

Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry Into President Trump

"The president must be held accountable," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. "No one is above the law."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763700264/trumps-ukraine-call-may-be-game-changer-on-impeachment?source=Snapzu

Billionaire Threatens to Sue YouTuber For Calling Him 'Fatty McFuckhead' and Photoshopping Him as Trump's Baby

Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire often called the Donald Trump from Down Under, is threatening to sue YouTuber Friendly Jordies for defamation if he doesn’t pay $500,000. The popular YouTube personality and comedian, whose real name is Jordan Shanks, posted a video with the threatening letter he recently received from Palmer’s attorney which, among other things, claims that Palmer was defamed because the YouTuber called him “Fatty McFuckhead” and a “dense Humpty Dumpty.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/billionaire-threatens-to-sue-youtuber-for-calling-him-f-1838392409?source=Snapzu

She left a can of dry shampoo in her car. It blasted a hole through the roof.

A Missouri teen was ecstatic to purchase her first car. She had no idea that a beauty product would severely damage it.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/23/she-left-can-dry-shampoo-her-car-it-blasted-hole-through-roof/?source=Snapzu

Closing My Curtains for Xi Jinping and His Grand Parade

Beijing is banning kites and balloons as it celebrates the 70th birthday of modern China. I, too, would have to go.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-communist-party-70th-anniversary.html?source=Snapzu

'This is not Mars': Sky in Indonesia turns red

Pictures and videos of the phenomenon went viral on social media over the weekend.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49793047?source=Snapzu

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

At the age of 22, when I entered the American intelligence community, I didn't have any politics. Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren't truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mash-up of the values I was raised with and the ideals I encountered online.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-snowden-in-his-own-words-why-i-became-a-whistle-blower/?source=Snapzu

California Is Investing $95 Million Into Clean Transportation

California has announced that it is investing $95 million into clean transportation with several goals in mind, including helping those living in disadvantaged communities get access to clean transportation. A 2019–2020 Investment Plan Update for the Clean Transportation Program was published a few weeks ago.
Read more: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/21/california-is-investing-95-million-into-clean-transportation/?source=Snapzu

Hangovers are 'illness', rules German court

Judges in Frankfurt said a company selling anti-hangover drinks was making illegal health claims.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49802749?source=Snapzu

Where do you read books? I read at the mall.

The perfect reading environment is hard to come by, which may be why it so often comes with a high price tag. For around $1,500, you can own a leather library chair from Restoration Hardware (“reminiscent of chairs found in the great reading rooms of Europe”). The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/where-do-you-read-books-i-read-at-the-mall/2019/09/19/22672210-d4d4-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html?source=Snapzu

Bernie Sanders' climate plan is radical and expensive — which is why it could work

The climate is just one of a range of serious issues that needs a progressive president ready and willing to implement a serious crisis plan in 2020.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bernie-sanders-climate-change-plan-radical-expensive-which-why-it-ncna1057076?source=Snapzu

California Is Investing $95 Million Into Clean Transportation

California has announced that it is investing $95 million into clean transportation with several goals in mind, including helping those living in disadvantaged communities get access to clean transportation. A 2019–2020 Investment Plan Update for the Clean Transportation Program was published a few weeks ago.
Read more: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/21/california-is-investing-95-million-into-clean-transportation/?source=Snapzu

Bernie Sanders wants to put credit reporting companies like Equifax out of business

Hidden at the bottom of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’s plan to erase Americans’ medical debt is a proposal that would replace a roughly $10 billion private credit reporting industry — populated by companies like Equifax, Experian and Transunion — with a public, free credit registry.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2019/9/21/20877050/bernie-sanders-credit-score-equifax-transunion-experian?source=Snapzu

Ontario considers bill to protect farmers from animal rights activists

The Ontario government will consider all options including new legislation to shield farmers from animal rights activists, the province's agriculture ministry said Friday. The assurances from Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman's office come as livestock producers press for action to prosecute those who trespass on their properties and aggressively protest at processing plants.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-protect-farmers-animal-rights-activists-1.5292697?fbclid=IwAR36VlebF14ReOcet_lpczoR-t7i0OlMfUlS2toXihn_RdFQdgYoVJjQfaE?source=Snapzu

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

At the age of 22, when I entered the American intelligence community, I didn't have any politics. Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren't truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mash-up of the values I was raised with and the ideals I encountered online.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-snowden-in-his-own-words-why-i-became-a-whistle-blower/?source=Snapzu

There's evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US

A team of researchers tried to gauge public perceptions of climate activists and faith in humanity's ability to work together on issues like climate change.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/theres-evidence-that-climate-activism-could-be-swaying-public-opinion-in-the-us-123740?source=Snapzu

The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election

The hideous cruelty of the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad almost a year ago still jumps from the pages of the latest apparent transcript of the conversation between his killers as they wait for him to arrive at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/18/the-saudi-crown-prince-plans-to-make-us-forget-about-the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-before-the-us-election/?source=Snapzu

Toronto man who won $10M in lottery dies under mysterious circumstances in Ethiopia

A Canadian man whose fortunes changed overnight two years ago when he went from being laid off to becoming a multimillionaire has died in Ethiopia, Global Affairs Canada has confirmed.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-man-lottery-ethiopia-gebru-1.5292361?source=Snapzu

Man drowns during underwater marriage proposal

Video shows Steven Weber proposing through the window of a submerged cabin off Tanzania.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49783851?source=Snapzu

California Sinking

When you walk through Jeannie Williams's sunny orchard, you don't notice anything wrong. But the problem's there, underfoot. The land around her — about 250 square kilometres — is sinking. "It's frightening," Williams says. "Is the land going to come back up? I don't know."
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-water-sinking-1.5286248?source=Snapzu