schwit1 shares a report from The New York Times: As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases — ones that are readily prevented by vaccines. This spring, after the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children…
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Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage
Last week, the internet went dark for Yemen and its 28 million citizens. It’s still not fully back today. In fact, the entire Red Sea region has dealt with slow to nonexistent connectivity since the severing of a single submarine cable on Thursday. Wired reports: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Ethiopia all felt major effects from last week’s cut of the…
The US Is Suspected of Killing a Terrorist In Syria Using Missile With Knife Warhead
pgmrdlm shares a report from Business Insider: A suspected terrorist in Syria was reportedly killed with a rare U.S. missile packed with swords, according to multiple reports. The weapon that shredded the car did not explode. While the driver’s side was torn apart, the vehicle was actually mostly intact. The deadly precision weapon was, according to a report from the Wall…
The Drone Wars Are Already Here
The skies of Syria, Yemen, and Libya swarm with armed and dangerous unmanned aerial vehicles. And the technology is spreading farther and farther afield. From a report: Three decades ago, drones were available to only the most technologically developed state military organizations. Today they’re everywhere, being used by weaker states and small military forces, as well as many non-state actors, including…
Ten Drones Attack Saudi Arabia’s Oil and Gas Facilities
“Saudi Arabia has cut oil and gas production following drone attacks on two major oil facilities run by state-owned company Aramco…” reports the BBC. “TV footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant [the world’s biggest oil producer], while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.” The Iran-aligned Houthi movement (fighting the…
‘Blood Antiquities’ Looted from War-Torn Yemen Bring in $1 Million at Auction
The artifacts include ancient inscriptions, statues, coins and manuscripts from the Middle Ages, according to a Live Science investigation. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65641-yemen-blood-antiquities-investigation.html
Pursuing New Interests and a Master’s Degree: Meet Bertram
What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it? I started taking TU Delft’s first Solar Energy MOOC, back in 2013. Following that, in 2017 I enrolled in the Solar Energy Engineering MicroMasters® program from the same university. My university didn’t have a particular focus on solar, and I was eager to learn about it…
20 years after Columbine, the guns are still the problem
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18412627/columbine-anniversary-gun-control-mass-shootings…
The Secret Death Toll of America’s Drones
President Trump is making it harder to know how many civilians the government kills by remote control. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/drones-civilian-casulaties-trump-obama.html?partner=rss&emc=rss