PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
• Environmentalists decry all the debris washing up on beaches around the world, but a discovery in January near Perth, Australia, has historians thrilled. The Washington Post reported that Tonya Illman and a friend were walking along the beach when she spotted "a lovely old bottle." Inside was a damp note, tied with string. "We took it home and dried it out ... and it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it," she said. Experts at the Western Australia Museum have determined the note was 132 years old -- 24 years older than the previous record for a message in a bottle. The note was dated June 12, 1886, from a ship named Paula. Further study revealed that a German Naval Observatory program was analyzing global ocean currents in the area between 1864 and 1933, and an entry in the Paula's captain's journal made note of the bottle being tossed overboard. Thousands of other bottles were released into the sea as part of the program, and only 662 have been returned. The last one discovered was in January 1934. [The Washington Post, 3/6/2018] 

Forget a fiddler. City woman awakens to find a goose on her roof --- and laws about removing it and her eggs
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/schmich051718.php3

INSIGHT
Suicide By Liberalism
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/05/17/suicide-by-liberalism-n2481414?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

SNAP
Paul Krugman’s Fake Facts: Demonizing Republican Food-Stamp Proposals
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/paul-krugmans-fake-facts-demonizing-republican-food-stamp-proposals/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-05-17&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

SCIENCE
The opioid epidemic has boosted the number of organs available for transplant
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516172257.htm

Republican congressman explains sea-level rise: it's rocks falling into the sea
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-congressman-explains-sea-level-203325866.html

ENVIRONMENT
A Mystery Source Is Producing Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemicals, Shocking Scientists 
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-looks-like-someone-is-producing-an-internationally-banned-ozone-destroying-chemical-once-again?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=fcf43acf4b-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-fcf43acf4b-365889541

California Tree Loss Could Have Implications for Forests Nationwide 
https://www.ecowatch.com/california-tree-loss-study-2569414275.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=10179dc035-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-10179dc035-85328381

NASA Study of Increasingly Dire Global Water Shortages Finds 'Clear Human Fingerprints' 
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-water-shortages-nasa-2569657811.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=10179dc035-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-10179dc035-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
Google’s File on Me Was Huge. Here’s Why It Wasn’t as Creepy as My Facebook Data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/personaltech/google-personal-data-facebook.html?emc=edit_nn_20180517&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180517&te=1

Bitcoin estimated to use half a percent of the world's electric energy by end of 2018
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516131236.htm

MEDIA
Marginalizing Melania
https://www.ammoland.com/2018/05/marginalizing-melania/#axzz5FmKUnC8V

IMMIGRATION
The Irish Aren’t Red-Headed Mexicans
http://www.freedomsback.com/the-irish-arent-red-headed-mexicans

MIDDLE EAST
Why Isn't There a Palestinian State?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76NytvQAIs0&feature=youtu.be

NORK
Trump offers 'protections' if Kim surrenders nukes
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/388198-trump-offers-kim-protections-if-he-surrenders-nukes?userid=288549

RUSSIAGATE
GOP-Controlled Senate Committees Just Undermined Republican Conspiracy Theories about the Russia Investigation 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/russia-investigation-republican-committee-undermine-conspiracy-theories/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-05-17&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

POLITICS
The Right Must Reckon With Its Generation Gap
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2018/05/17/the-right-must-reckon-with-its-generation-gap-n2481346?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

-- 
"But there is no turning time, inexorably it moves from under you; what you were
yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis