Jenna Orkin

'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth

If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (And Amazon Has a Patent for It.)

Elon Musk's Tesla and SA Labor reach deal to give solar panels and batteries to 50,000 homes

Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for Congress

No More Paper Cups: video.

Stunning Breakthrough in Computer Engineering Could Be Bigger Than the Internet

Corn Syrup Lobbyist Is Helping Set USDA Dietary Guidelines

America to Reach Debt Limit a Month Early Because Tax Cuts Have Depleted Treasury

Universal Basic Income in Stockton, CA video.

Packing up and moving out: People are leaving California in droves, including some High Desert residents

Up In Arms: German Small Arms Ownership Soars 85% In Under 2 Years

Nunes: FISA Memo Just "Phase One," Now Targeting State Department In "Phase Two"

CIA, FBI Agents Respond To Nunes' Memo

Texas officials allegedly engaged in bribes and kickbacks to make millions while building Trump's border wall

Jenna Orkin

Post Carbon Sustainability Town Hall - Corvallis

Registration is now open for the 2018 Sustainability Town Hall, to be held on Monday, March 12, from 7 to 9 pm at the CH2MHill Alumni Center on the OSU campus. Save your place by registering HERE.

Peaked Energy and Climate Chao

Peak Money: a permanent change

Peak Electricity was 2007 in the USA

What the Frack?  Scraping the bottom of the barrel is not good to the last drop

Smuggling Guns Into the World Trade Center

Nunes: FISA Memo Just "Phase One," Now Targeting State Department In "Phase Two"

Amazon Patents Ultrasonic Tracking Wristbands To Control Workers

Faced with failing antibiotics, scientists are using killer viruses to fight superbugs

An Atlanta jail intercepted a letter from an inmate who was using a secret code to orchestrate a murder

China has a supermarket unlike anything in the US — and it has 2 major advantages over Amazon Go

'The politics of hysteria': The much-anticipated Nunes memo left experts underwhelmed

And...
Only Kim Jong Un’s girl band can unify Korea

From Jenna Orkin

Doctors select first women to have ‘three-person babies’

Nanoparticle vaccine for universal protection against influenza

The G.O.P. Tax Cut Is Draining the Treasury Even Faster Than Expected

Cargill Invests In Facial Recognition...For Cows

"One Typhoon Away From Full Breach" - US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean

"Visegrad Four" Group Of European Nations Stand United Against Brussels

Kunstler: The FBI Has Some 'Splaining To Do

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis hinted that the US may strike Syria again over new reports of chemical weapons

A major South African city is about to run out of water, and officials say it will be the worst disaster since 9/11

And...
The Olympic Village will be stocked with 37 condoms per athlete

From Jenna Orkin

Fidel Castro's eldest son kills himself: reports

CDC to cut global disease outbreak prevention by 80 percent
This WaPo article has been removed.  Here's a related article from The Hill.CDC to cut back disease work in foreign countries: report
China's Steps Towards Saving the Planet video.

Loaded Grenade Launcher Found in Goodwill Donations Pile

Taiwan Holds Live-Fire War-Drills Amid Fears Of China Invasion

The Earth's Magnetic Field Is Shifting, Poles May Flip: "This Could Get Bad"

It's Israel Vs Lebanon And Hezbollah In Escalating Dispute Over Mediterranean Gas Field

Adam Schiff: FISA Memo Could Lead To Firings Of Mueller, Rosenstein

Clark County Defies Order To Release Vegas Shooter Coroner's Report

Cryptos Tumble After India Says It Will "Take All Measures To Eliminate" Their Use

Actor Robert Wagner is now a 'person of interest' in the mysterious drowning death of Oscar-nominated actress Natalie Wood in 1981
And not a moment too soon.

Google's parent company Alphabet is exploring a relationship with Saudi Arabia oil giant to build a 'tech hub' in the Middle East

Conspiracy theorists are already making wild claims about the Amtrak train full of Republican lawmakers that collided with a truck in Virginia

From Jenna Orkin

300 Kinds of Vegetables on Small Farm in Middle of Detroit video.

New from The Black Vault: A COMPLETE INDEX OF JFK DOCUMENTS WITHHELD – 29 JAN., ’18

Second Person Of Interest Identified In Las Vegas Massacre

Unknown Group Pays $175 Million For 74,000 Acres In Nevada For Mysterious Ethereum Project

Declassified Docs Expose UK's Secret Cold War Plan To Nuke Mid-East Oil Fields

 

Germany To Stop Taking Migrants From Italy And Greece

Hamas Founder Linked To Iran Dies After Mysterious "Accidental" Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

House Intel Committee Shocks the World, Votes to Release Controversial FISA Memo, Heads to Roll

Andrew McCabe Under Active DOJ Investigation For Sitting On Weiner Laptop Emails

The craziest day in the Russia saga in months has people freaking out that Mueller's whole investigation could unravel

The head of the CDC resigns after report says she purchased shares of a tobacco company while in office

FEMA is 'officially shutting off' hurricane aid to Puerto Rico, but the US territory is still devastated — here's what it looks like on the ground

From Jenna Orkin

Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science

Stephen Hawking and leading doctors to take Jeremy Hunt to court over 'back-door privatisation' of NHS

Desperate Alaskans Turn To Government For Food, Healthcare As Recession Deepens

These Are The 6 Traders Who Were Just Arrested For Manipulating The Gold Market

Corrupt Baltimore Cops Admit Planting Guns, Using GPS-Locators To Rob Drug Dealers

The Return Of Sumptuary Laws? Dutch Cops To 'Undress' Youths Wearing "Clothes Deemed Too Expensive For Them"

Japan's Renesas is in talks to buy U.S. chipmaker Maxim for $20 billion

Floods in Paris are so bad that its equivalent of Liberty Island is underwater

House Intel Committee Republicans vote to release secret memo in a move that the DOJ said would be 'extraordinarily reckless'


And...
There’s a secret code passengers can give to airport security if they’re hiding an engagement ring from their partner

How long before we find an explosive in an engagement ring?

From Jenna Orkin

Flu widespread and deadly, claiming the lives of 37 children

Delivering drugs directly to the brain via tiny needle

Hackers Are Using Malware To "Jackpot" US ATMs, Forcing Them To Dispense All Cash

Hackers Create "Perfect Virus" - Put Oil Companies On Edge

John Kerry In Secret Communications With Palestine For "Alternative Initiative" Circumventing Trump

FBI Releases Docs Claiming RT Founder Beat Himself To Death In His Hotel Room

White House Is Planning To Nationalize 5G Network: Report

Japanese Police Launch Probe Of Biggest Cryptocurrency Heist In History

Bomb Threats Target 25 Moscow Buildings, Force Evacuations Of Parliament, Stock Exchange

Fitness Tracking App Accidentally Reveals Secret US Military Bases, CIA "Black" Sites

From Jenna Orkin

Monkeys Cloned in World First

Biggest Washington DC Lobbyist Is Now Google

Ex-Montana House Majority Leader Gets 18 Years for Drug Trafficking

East China Sea: Worst Tanker Oil Spill in Decades

ICE Is About to Start Tracking License Plates Across the U.S.

"The Honest Poor"? - 1 In 5 Of America's Homeless Live In NYC Or LA

Russian Parliament Set To Make The CryptoRuble Legal Tender

The Flu Is Far Worse Than We're Being Told

CNN Turkey Fake News Goes Viral: 'American Sniper' Star Killed In Syria, Pentagon Forced To Deny

Forget the West — blockchain will have the biggest impact in emerging markets

Companies like Amazon and Starbucks want to kill cash — and it could be a huge blow to the most vulnerable Americans

From Jenna Orkin

Only Trump can restore America's ability to win a nuclear war - The Hill(!)

Brut nature's video. - Central Africa

Engineered for Dystopia
Engineering is full of authoritarians who, predictably, take all the wrong lessons from pop culture

Death Panels Next? FDA Approves A.I. Model That Predicts Your Chance Of 'Sudden Expiration'

Toronto Billionaire Couple Were Murdered In A "Targeted Double Homicide"

California Considers $1,000 Fine For Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

Google Launches Cybersecurity Firm

Feds Charge Democrat Florida Mayor With Money Laundering, Taking Bribes From "Bunch Of Russians"

USAF Begins Massive GPS Blackouts In The Western US During Largest Ever Air War Drill

Bombshell report details worries of a 'shadow' newsroom and alleged spying at the Los Angeles Times

Chelsea Manning attended a party hosted by far-right conservatives to 'gather intel' on the alt-right

From Jenna Orkin

Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting on Humans

Museum of Natural History urged to cut ties with 'anti-science propagandist' Rebekah MercerMore than 100 scientists have urged the museum to sever its ties with Mercer, one of Donald Trump’s top donors

Anti-science tech wizard.

Air Force One Fridge Replacement To Cost $24 Million, Store 3,000 Meals

Is This The World's Most Critical Pipeline? (Azerbaijan)

The Other Way To Steal Crypto: Armed Robbers Storm Ontario-Based Bitcoin Firm

Anti-Trump FBI Official Identified As Leaker To WSJ, WaPo Reporter   

 

At Davos, economists and execs say the strategies that led major corporations to world domination in the past won't work anymore

 

Thousands of people in Kenya are getting free money for 12 years in an experiment that could redefine social welfare around the world

 

$400 million of cryptocurrency disappeared on a Japanese exchange — and no one knows what happened

And...
The world's first 'smog vacuum cleaner' can suck up air pollution and turn it into jewelry