An Australian photographer documents the last remaining Kazakh eagle hunters in a remote and unforgiving part of the planet, amid fears the ancient tradition could disappear within 20 years.
Red-back spider numbers booming in Queensland’s south-east
Red-back spiders are booming in number in Queensland’s south-east, with the senior curator of spiders at the Queensland Museum warning people to be on the lookout.
Taylor Swift sues radio host for alleged groping
The pop superstar demands the trial of a radio host she accused of groping her, saying she hopes to stand up for other women who have been assaulted.
Sports of The Times: It Turns Out the Royals Are Not the Cubs
Groups Want Federal Health Exchange to Register Voters, Too
No, it is true that meat causes cancer | Sci-Tech | DW.COM | 29.10.2015
“I have sat on many committees around the world, I have done cancer research for 35 years – if you want the ultimate answer to something, you go to the IARC monograph program,” says Neil Pearce, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.Pearce tells DW that such criticisms come out every time IARC produces a monograph. “The same happened with smoking, with asbestos and many other things.”
Source: No, it is true that meat causes cancer | Sci-Tech | DW.COM | 29.10.2015
Washington DC police use dance-off to defuse confrontation between teenagers – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
17-year-old Aaliyah Taylor approached a female officer while playing the hit song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) on her phone and doing her version of the signature shoulder-swaying dance.Rather than responding with force, the officer laughed and said she had better dance moves than that, Ms Taylor told the Washington Post.”Instead of us fighting, she tried to turn it around and make it something fun,” Ms Taylor said.”I never expected cops to be that cool. There are some good cops.”I mostly hold my head down when I dance, so I didn’t really see her.”But when I looked at the video after, I was like ‘Oh, she has some moves’.”By the time the resulting dance-off was over — with both sides reportedly claiming victory — the tension had lifted.President Barack Obama singled out the dance-off as a model for police looking to build relationships with neighbourhoods — a pressing issue as outrage at police brutality has grown in the past year.”Who knew community policing could involve the Nae Nae? Great example of police having fun while keeping us safe,” he tweeted.
Immigrant women in family detention center begin hunger strike & demand their release
As the pressure mounts on the Obama administration to close family immigrant detention centers once and for all, dozens of women at a detention center in Texas are begining a hunger strike and calling on the federal government to release them.
Detained women seeking asylum or other forms of humanitarian relief began an indefinite hunger strike at an immigration detention center in Texas on Wednesday night, sending hand-written letters to the federal government calling for their release.
At least 27 immigrant women refused dinner on Wednesday at the T. Don Hutto detention center, which is run by the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America. The majority of the women came to the U.S. after fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, and many have already passed their “credible fear” or “reasonable fear” interviews — a preliminary step in the asylum application process.
The Hutto detention center originally opened in 2006 as a family detention center, but families are no longer sent there thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s landmark settlement seeking to improve the conditions for children and their mothers. The detention center remains an all-women facility, however.
Thanks to the work of advocates, as well as the hunger strikes by women at the Karnes detention center this past spring, the unjust conditions faced by mothers and children in our family detention system have been brought into the national spotlight. This summer, a federal judge ruled that holding children in these centers is illegal and the administration said it would begin releasing them.
And yet, a week after the deadline the judge gave for closing the centers, families are still not free. Enough. As an organizer working with the advocacy group Texans United For Families told ThinkProgress, “Eighteen different women have written us letters explaining their reason and intent to strike and they’ve been very clear that they have one demand only and that’s release.”
Header image credit: Christina Parker/ThinkProgress
New vaccine provides full protection against malaria
Aduro Biotech Inc. and Protein Potential LLC recently announced that representatives will present details with pre-clinical data about a new vaccine that offers 100 percent protection against malaria in models.
The vaccine showed that the two-component vaccine regimen provided mice with 100
percent
protection against malaria when they were infected with a rodent malaria parasite. The success is attributed to the vaccine provoking an immune response that isolates the circumsporozoite protein antigen in Plasmodium falciparum, which is the parasite that causes the majority of malaria deaths.
“The Plasmodium falciparum parasite is able to adapt to the human host and evade its immune response very effectively and to date, the most effective subunit, recombinant vaccine prevents infection by malaria parasites in only 30 to 50 percent of those immunized,” B. Kim Lee Sim, president and chief scientific officer of Protein Potential, said. “In order to be broadly adopted by travelers and the military, a vaccine must provide more than 80
percent protection against infection for at least six months. There is a significant need for more effective vaccines for malaria and we believe the data shared today represent a very positive first step. We look forward to IND-enabling studies and clinical testing in humans.”
The data was presented Wednesday in Philadelphia at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting under Post Session C, or Abstract No. 1647.
The effects of various antibiotic discs on a bacterial colony.
The effects of various antibiotic discs on a bacterial colony.
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