Tuesday, January 1, 2019

PLATT - MISC News

New Horizons

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Where-to-Watch.php

GENERAL INTEREST
Pictures so good they might make your eyes pop out on stalks - just like this crab's! Beautiful images of animals from around the world feature are shortlisted for top photography prize
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6540317/Warring-finches-forest-feud-pictures-shortlisted-photography-prize.html

EDUCATION
Young Americans for Liberty scores 50 pro-free speech policy changes on campuses across the country
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/young-americans-for-liberty-scores-50-pro-free-speech-policy-changes-on-campuses-across-the-country

FINANCIAL
Under Trump, budget deficit projected to reach $1 trillion 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=34ee843dce028ad04f792fddd7c8c3ff_5c2a2cf0_5cd1fdb&selDate=20181231&goTo=A03&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

ENVIRONMENT
Our Complicated Relationship With Plastic: 5 Essential Reads 
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-industry-history-health-2624269864.html

10 Most Intriguing Forest Stories of 2018 
https://www.ecowatch.com/forest-stories-2018-2624413006.html

ENTOMOLOGY
DraDracarys! Professor names three newly-discovered beetle species after fictional DRAGONS from Game of Thronescarys! Professor names three newly-discovered beetle species after fictional DRAGONS from Game of Thrones
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6540319/Professor-names-beetle-species-Game-Thrones.html

HERPETOLOGY
Cane toads [sneak] ride on python's back to escape storm in northern Australia 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/31/cane-toads-python-escape-storm-northern-australia-kununurra?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMzE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

DEFENSE
Shanahan begins as Pentagon 'CEO': 'Doesn't have the moral and ethical constraints that Mattis has'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/31/patrick-shanahan-acting-defense-secretary-succeeds/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=3gJm4qxKAUyhyr%2FxSvIegpBvua%2FXL6P3Ewhin1fOI3R%2B4OCZVSETFw6st579IGOl&bt_ts=1546305524448

IMMIGRATION
California Sheriff SLAMS Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Immigration After SEVEN More Individuals Are Arrested In Cop Slaying
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39778/california-sheriff-slams-sanctuary-cities-illegal-emily-zanotti?utm_medium=email&utm_content=123119-news&utm_campaign=position1

POLITICS
Trump Advisor Predicts Who Would Be the President's Biggest Challenge in 2020. And Why.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/12/31/trump-advisor-predicts-who-would-be-the-presidents-biggest-challenge-in-2020-n2538276?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809


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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

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