Israeli, Palestinian Women March for Peace, Catholics Divest From Fossil Fuels, Carbon Dioxide Transformed to Ethanol
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November 4, 2016

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These Israeli women marched from the Lebanese border to Jerusalem. Here�s why.
October 19, 2016, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/these-israeli-women-marched-from...

Two weeks ago, a small group of Israeli women set off on a protest march to Jerusalem from northern Israel to demand that the Israeli government restart a peace process with the Palestinians. After reaching the Palestinian city of Jericho ... the core group of 20 women were joined by more than 3,000 others, including about 1,000 Palestinian women. Although most of the Palestinians could not proceed beyond the barrier that separates the West Bank from Israel, the Israeli women headed for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu�s formal residence, where they held an emotional rally. The group, which calls itself Women Wage Peace, is made up of women from across the political spectrum and the religious divide. At the rally, many held banners reading, �Right, Center and Left are all calling for an agreement, Women Wage Peace.� The movement was founded two years ago after the Gaza war, when many Israeli mothers had to send their sons to fight. More than 10,000 women have registered with the group. �I came because I want to see a peace agreement with the Palestinians,� said Tanya Harkavi ... a mother and a grandmother. [Harkavi] said that women are better positioned to solve disputes because of their roles within the family and that it was time they become involved in the dispute with the Palestinians, too. �Two years ago, my son was in the army; he fought in the Gaza war. I decided then that I did not want to launder army uniforms anymore. I want peace,� said [group member] Miki Rom.

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Catholic orders take their lead from the pope and divest from fossil fuels
June 15, 2016, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/16/catholic-orders-take-their-lead...

Four Australian Catholic organisations have announced they are completely divesting from coal, oil and gas in what they say is the first joint Catholic divestment anywhere in the world. The move comes as prominent Jewish rabbis, Muslim clerics, Anglican bishops and other religious leaders call on the Australian government to protect the Great Barrier Reef, stop approving coalmines and remove subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, in an open letter published by the Guardian. The divestment announcement ... and letter were coordinated by the multi-faith group the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, in partnership with the environmental group 350.org. It comes a year after Pope Francis, in his second encyclical, Laudato Si�, called on all people � not just Catholics � to take �swift and unified global action� to protect the environment and stop global warming. At the time the papal intervention was labelled �explosive� and �the most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document of the past 100 years�. The multi-faith open letter ... reads: �So far, the election debates have failed to assign due priority to global warming. Neither of the major parties currently plan to wind back coal and gas mining.�

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Scientists � by accident � turn carbon dioxide into ethanol fuel
October 19, 2016, Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1019/Scientists-by-accident-turn-carbon...

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a Department of Energy lab in Tennessee, have discovered a mechanism for converting carbon dioxide into ethanol. Their method takes advantage of nanotechnology, creating a catalyst that produces ethanol from a solution of carbon dioxide in water. �We discovered somewhat by accident that this material worked,� said Adam Rondinone, the lead author of a new study in the journal ChemistrySelect. �We were trying to study the first step of a proposed reaction when we realized that the catalyst was doing the entire reaction on its own.� The discovery may change the way we think about carbon dioxide. If it could be captured and turned into a fuel, then carbon dioxide � the earth-polluting byproduct of global dependence on fossil fuels � could help high-energy societies work toward energy independence. Repurposing carbon dioxide could be invaluable for the environment, the researchers say. Converting it into ethanol can turn a greenhouse gas into a gasoline-like fuel source. Ethanol contains one-third less energy than gasoline but produces far fewer byproducts when burned in engines, which can limit further carbon emissions. �Closing the carbon cycle by utilizing CO2 as a feedstock for currently used commodities, in order to displace a fossil feedstock, is an appropriate intermediate step towards a carbon-free future,� the researchers wrote in the study.

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Before his coma he spoke English; after waking up he's fluent in Spanish
October 25, 2016, CNN News
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/24/health/teen-spanish-new-language-trnd/index.html

Life's been full of uncertainties for Reuben Nsemoh lately. Ever since he suffered a concussion in a soccer game, the suburban Atlanta teen's worried about why it's so hard for him to concentrate. He's fretted over whether he'll ever get to play his favorite sport. But the biggest stumper of all: how is it that he's suddenly speaking fluent Spanish? Nsemoh, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, ended up in [a] coma last month after another player kicked him in the head during a game. When he woke up, he did something he'd never done before: speak Spanish like a native. His parents said he could already speak some Spanish, but he was never fluent in it until his concussion. Slowly, his English is coming back, and he's starting to lose his Spanish fluency. Foreign accent syndrome is an extremely rare condition in which brain injuries change a person's speech patterns, giving them a different accent. The first known case was reported in 1941. Since then there have been a few dozen reported cases. Three years ago, police found a Navy vet unconscious in a Southern California motel. When he woke up, he had no memory of his previous life, and spoke only Swedish. In Australia, a former bus driver got in a serious car crash that left her with a broken back and jaw. When she woke up, she was left with something completely unexpected: a French accent. And earlier this year, a Texas woman who had surgery on her jaw, has sported a British accent ever since.

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U.S. police chiefs group apologizes for �historical mistreatment� of minorities
October 17, 2016, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/10/17/head-of-u-s-police...

The president of America�s largest police management organization on Monday issued a formal apology to the nation�s minority population �for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society�s historical mistreatment of communities of color.� Terrence M. Cunningham, the chief of police in Wellesley, Mass., delivered his remarks at the convention in San Diego of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, whose membership includes 23,000 police officials in the United States. The statement ... comes as police executives continue to grapple with tense relationships between officers and minority groups in the wake of high-profile civilian deaths in New York, South Carolina, Minnesota and elsewhere, the sometimes violent citizen protests which have ensued as well as the ambush killings of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Cunningham continued, �While we obviously cannot change the past, it is clear that we must change the future ... For our part, the first step is for law enforcement and the IACP to acknowledge and apologize for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society�s historical mistreatment of communities of color.� He concluded, �It is my hope that, by working together, we can break this historic cycle of mistrust and build a better and safer future for us all.� Jeffery Robinson, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, applauded Cunningham�s statement. �It seems to me that this is a very significant admission,� Robinson said.

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6 Ways to Make Our Money Bring Us More Happiness
October 8, 2016, Yes! Magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/6-ways-to-make-our-money-bring-us-more...

More than a decade of research has been investigating how different types of purchases affect our well-being, and it can help us turn spending into a happiness practice in its own right. The key, it seems, is to spend money in ways that bring you closer to other people. In 2003, researchers found that buying experiences - like seeing a Broadway play or going for coffee with a friend - improves our well-being more than buying possessions. Not all experiences are created equal, though. In a 2013 study, when researchers separated out experiential purchases into social ones and solitary ones - going out to dinner with friends or alone, for example - participants reported that the solitary experiences brought just as little happiness as the material things. If you want to bond with other people, you could buy experiences to have with them - or you could spend money on them directly. In a 2008 study, researchers gave each participant up to $20 to spend on themselves or on others that same day, then called after 5 p.m. to see how they were feeling. In the end, contrary to expectations, participants reported being happier after treating others rather than treating themselves. In the end, though, the best way to cultivate happiness through spending may be not to focus on spending so much in the first place. It�s certainly misguided to stake all our hopes of happiness on our purchases.

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Teen invents 'Sit With Us' app so no high schooler has to eat alone
September 30, 2016, Today.com
http://www.today.com/parents/teen-invents-sit-us-app-so-no-high-schooler-has-t103444

Natalie Hampton doesn't just have memories of being bullied in middle school; she has actual scars. Now 16 and a high-school junior ... Natalie said, "Apart from the horrific attacks, the worst thing was being treated as an outcast and having to eat lunch alone every day. I believe that being isolated branded me as a target." After switching schools ... Natalie found a supportive new friend group, but she never forgot how it felt to be the outcast. "Whenever I saw someone eating alone, I would ask that person to join our table, because I knew exactly how they felt. I saw the look of relief wash over their faces," she said. Her experiences inspired Natalie to create a new app called Sit With Us. The app allows students to reach out to others and let them know they are welcome to join them at their tables in the school cafeteria. Kids can look at the list of "open lunches" in the app and know that they have an open invitation to join with no chance of rejection. "Sit With Us ambassadors take a pledge that they will welcome anyone who joins and include them in the conversation. To me, that is far better than sitting alone," said Natalie. "Even though just about every school has bullies, I believe each school has a larger number of upstanders who want to make their schools more inclusive and kind," she said.

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Putin's New Chief of Staff Claims He Invented the 'Nooscope' to Study the Collective Consciousness
August 16, 2016, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/putins-chief-staff-claims-invented-nooscope...

Last week Russia�s president Vladimir Putin unexpectedly removed one of his closest associates as chief-of-staff. The man who was appointed as the replacement to the post [is] Anton Vaino, a former diplomat and deputy chief of staff. Since then Vaino has become [a subject of interest] for his apparent authorship of several very peculiar academic articles, including one describing the invention of a mysterious device called the "Nooscope," ... entitled, "Capitalization of the Future." by a Russian academic journal. According to the paper: "The Nooscope is a device for recording changes in the Noosphere.� Reading further, it consists of "spatial sensors" and can "make the invisible visible." One characteristic sentence reads: "The sensory network of the Nooscope, beginning from new-generation bank cards and finishing with �smart dust,� straightforwardly identifies co-Being in time and space." Most grandly, the paper apparently written by Putin's new top aide states: "The Nooscope is the first device that allows the study of humanity�s collective consciousness." In fact, the idea of "Noo" is not Vaino�s invention but [was] developed as a theory in the early 20th-Century. The "Noosphere" generally means the sphere of human thought, that is the collective consciousness of mankind. The Noosphere has been studied elsewhere, including ... in the United States by scientists formerly part of Princeton University� controversial PEAR parapsychology lab. One of [Vaino's] co-authors, Viktor Saraev ... told [BBC�s Russian-language service] the Nooscope was an "Internet of Things" device, working from Big Data.

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Strange messages coming from the stars are �probably� from aliens, scientists say
October 25, 2016, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/aliens-proof-evidence-facts-stars...

Scientists have heard hugely unusual messages from deep in space that they think are coming from aliens. A new analysis of strange modulations in a tiny set of stars appears to indicate that it could be coming from extraterrestrial intelligence that is looking to alert us to their existence. The new study reports the finding of specific modulations in just 234 out of the 2.5 million stars that have been observed during a survey of the sky. The work found that a tiny fraction of them seemed to be behaving strangely. �We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an [extraterrestrial intelligence] signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis,� write EF Borra and E Trottier in a new paper. �The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis,� the two scientists from Laval University in Quebec write. The research has appeared in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [and] appears to have been originally suggested for publication with the name 'Signals probably from Extraterrestrial Intelligence', according to a pre-print version of the paper. But they make clear that further work will need to be done to confirm or deny that hypothesis. Breakthrough Listen � an initiative set up this year to look for alien life and supported by people including Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg � said that the message was promising.

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