Wednesday, October 18, 2017

PLATT- MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Tired of the office? Microsoft builds treehouses for its employees
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tired-of-the-office-microsoft-builds-treehouses-for-its-employees-2017-10-15

People love to live in places that are at risk for disasters, ‘and this is what happens’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/people-love-to-live-in-places-that-are-at-risk-for-disasters-and-this-is-what-happens/2017/10/15/ba50ed38-b03f-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.b0b237d58671&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

This woman is 8 months pregnant and doing 275 pound deadlifts
http://nypost.com/video/this-woman-is-8-months-pregnant-and-doing-275-pound-deadlifts/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The News in Zingers
http://jewishworldreview.com/1017/hamilton.php3

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-64/

HEALTH
Robots are better at slicing open humans than surgeons are
http://nypost.com/2017/10/16/robots-are-better-at-slicing-open-humans-than-surgeons-are/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Toronto School District to Remove ‘Chief’ from Job Titles because It’s a Microaggression
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452736/toronto-schools-chief-microaggression-against-indigenous-people?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202017-10-16&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

This Just In: Lib Students Shout Down ... a Liberal
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1017/bernie_g101717.php3
 Some minority students' organizations, commenting on the planned extensive renovation of the University of Michigan's student union building, recommended ditching the current interior's elegant wood paneling -- because it gives off an "imposing, masculine" feeling that makes them seem "marginalized." A spokesperson for the students, attempting to soothe the controversy, said the marginalization was more based on the building's "quiet nature."
• In Australia, Chanel's just-introduced luxury wood-and-resin boomerang (selling for the equivalent of about $1,415) came under fire from aboriginal groups for "cultural appropriation." (Hermes had issued its own luxury boomerang in 2013.) [The College Fix, 5-15-2017] [Sydney Morning Herald, 5-15-2017]

MONEY
Got $1 million to retire? Here’s how long it will last, by U.S. state
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/got-1-million-to-retire-heres-how-long-it-will-last-by-us-state-2017-10-13

Meet the new class traitors who are coming out as rich
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/16/coming-out-as-wealthy-inequality-progressives?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=248212&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

WEATHER
The Energy 202: 2017 is a crazy weather year. We launched the best eye in the sky just in time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/10/16/the-energy-202-2017-is-a-crazy-weather-year-we-launched-the-best-eye-in-the-sky-just-in-time/59e3efb230fb041a74e75d93/?utm_term=.f705a700015d

SCIENCE
Novel antimicrobial polymer receives EPA approval
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q3/novel-antimicrobial-polymer-receives-epa-approval.html

TECHNOLOGY
A commercial airplane collided with a drone in Canada, a first in North America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/16/a-commercial-airplane-collided-with-a-drone-in-canada-a-first-in-north-america/?utm_term=.022bfef9c9b7&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1

Nissan’s 40kg 400HP Engine (Been around a couple of years now ... wonder how it's donig.)
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7071/Nissans-40kg-400HP-Engine.aspx

CYBER SECURITY
All wifi networks' are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/16/wpa2-wifi-security-vulnerable-hacking-us-government-warns?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=248212&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

Here’s what you can do to protect yourself from the KRACK WiFi vulnerability
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/16/heres-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-from-the-krack-wifi-vulnerability/

DEFENSE
The Storm Gathers and America is Unready
https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/the-storm-gathers-and-america-is-unready/

SOCIAL MEDIA
What Facebook Did to American Democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-facebook-did/542502/

BIG BROTHER
Millennials should stand up to end FISA
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/10/16/millennials-stand-end-fisa/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter%20-%2010/16/17&utm_medium=email

MIDDLE EAST
Israeli Jets ‘hit Syrian anti-aircraft battery’ after Alleged Attack – IDF
https://www.infowars.com/israeli-jets-hit-syrian-anti-aircraft-battery-after-alleged-attack-idf/

POLITICS
Are Republicans really at serious risk of losing the House?
http://www.blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/245257-are-republicans-really-at-serious-risk-of-losing-the-house

Commerce Secretary hid billions before being confirmed
http://nypost.com/2017/10/16/commerce-secretary-hid-billions-before-being-confirmed/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

How Obama is funding the anti-Trump resistance
http://nypost.com/2017/09/23/how-obama-is-funding-the-anti-trump-resistance/

-- 
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
                ~ Jack London

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