NEWSY BITS...
Too soon?
Activists in South Korea launched balloons across the border
into North Korea filled with thousands of Choco Pies, a popular chocolate
snack, Wednesday. The Choco Pies, distributed to workers at factories at the
Kaesong Industrial Complex, were sold in the black market in North Korea and
authorities in Pyongyang ordered the factory owners to stop handing them out.
Creating enemies faster than you can kill them...
Until yesterday, everyone in the international community was
laughing at this engine and its inventor, Roger Sawyer. It's called the EmDrive
and everyone said it was impossible because it goes against classical
mechanics. But the fact is that the quantum vacuum plasma thruster works and
scientists can't explain why. Sawyer's engine is extremely light and simple. It
provides a thrust by "bouncing microwaves around in a closed
container." The microwaves are generated using electricity that can be
provided by solar energy. No propellant is necessary, which means that this
thruster can work forever unless a hardware failure occurs. If real, this would
be a major breakthrough in space propulsion technology.
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U.S. officials began the inquiry after The
Washington Post reported two years ago that flawed forensic evidence involving
microscopic hair matches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of
potentially innocent people. Most of those defendants never were told of the
problems in their cases. The inquiry includes 2,600 convictions and 45 death-row
cases from the 1980s and 1990s in which the FBI’s hair and fiber unit reported
a match to a crime-scene sample before DNA testing of hair became common. The
FBI had reviewed about 160 cases before it stopped, officials said.
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"A woman should be chaste. She should
know the difference between public and private. She should not laugh in
public," joked Bülent Arinç, deputy prime minister of Turkey.
Turkish women thought Bülent's joke was so
funny, they posted photos of themselves laughing.
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Today I would like to take 17 minutes of your time so that you can learn something about the US prison system. I encourage you to take that time...
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