2017/10/27 #

  • Trump - Opioid 'national shame' a public health emergency www.bbc.com #

  • Catalan crisis - Regional MPs debate Spain takeover bid www.bbc.com #

  • JFK assassination - Trump declassifies some documents www.bbc.com #

  • Pope's tough question for International Space Station crew www.bbc.com #

  • Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research www.techmeme.com #

  • Radiolab Presents - More Perfect - American Pendulum I - Korematsu v. United States www.radiolab.org #

  • Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System www.nasa.gov #

  • Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element shkspr.mobi #

  • Piccadilly Circus lights switched back on after renovations www.bbc.com #

  • The Register - we are already through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole at this point, so let's see what else Scoble has for us www.theregister.co.uk #

  • Australia deputy PM disqualified from office www.bbc.com #

  • A Halloween guide to being scary in six easy steps www.bbc.com #

  • Young people 'not receiving mental health care they need' www.bbc.com #

  • Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself out of water back into the air boingboing.net #

  • Vintage news blooper of anchor hysterically laughing about a person's tumor removal boingboing.net #

  • Watch a real rocket scientist figure out (and beat) carnival scams techcrunch.com #

  • Hollywood sex scandal predators go unnamed and unashamed in this week’s tabloids boingboing.net #

  • San Francisco just took a huge step toward internet utopia www.wired.com #

  • Bill O’Reilly points finger at “God” after accusations of sexual harassment boingboing.net #

  • 18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones) techcrunch.com #

  • Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances techcrunch.com #

  • Brexit - EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054 www.bbc.com #

  • "It wasn’t just sexual abuse. Everyone got abused. It didn’t really matter how high up you were, you got the same treatment" www.theguardian.com #

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