PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
On the edge of death: Heart-stopping pictures show daredevils somersaulting on precipices and dangling from cranes without a harness
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6889883/Heart-stopping-pictures-daredevils-somersaulting-precipices-dangling-cranes.html

Fireball Streaks Across Southern Sky From Florida to Virginia
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/fireball-streaks-across-southern-sky-from-florida-to-virginia?pl=pl-the-latest

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week???s Headlines (7 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/05/briefing/05weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190405&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

Brexit, 293AD: Immaculate gold coin worth 100k emblazoned with face of rebel Roman who took Britain out of Empire is discovered by an amateur metal detectorist
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6890247/Immaculate-coin-worth-100-000-discovered-amateur-metal-detectorist-Kent.html

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An evicted man abandoned his ailing fish, police say. He was charged with animal cruelty
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/fish_animal_cruelty.php3

HEALTH
Amid blood pressure medicine shortage, take tainted losartan, says FDA
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/04/05/fda-blood-pressure-medicine-shortage-take-tainted-losartan-valsartan/3373874002/

Even Moderate Drinking Increases Stroke Risk, Groundbreaking Genetic Study Finds
https://www.ecowatch.com/drinking-alcohol-stroke-risk-2633767112.html

These diet habits kill more people than smoking
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-diet-habits-kill-more-people-than-smoking-2019-04-04

Despite debate, don't toss your vitamin D supplements just yet
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/vitamin_d.php3

This $8 product may be the secret to a better night???s sleep 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-secret-to-a-better-nights-sleep-may-be-this-8-product-2019-04-04

Doctors find four bees inside woman's EYE where they were drinking her tears
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6886353/Doctors-four-bees-inside-womans-EYE-drinking-tears.html

HEALTH CARE
Dems struggle to unite behind drug price plan
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/437487-dems-struggle-to-unite-behind-drug-price-plan?userid=288549

SPORTS
This College Basketball Team Banned Smartphones. Now It's in the Final Four 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/time-this_college_basketball_team_banned_smartphones_no-rtime

CLIMATE CHANGE
The Climate Needs Nuclear Power
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

ENTOMOLOGY
The VAMPIRE water bugs that eat their prey alive: Tiny four-inch killer insects devour fish, frogs, turtles and even snakes by sucking them to death from the inside out
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6886797/Creepy-footage-shows-tiny-water-bugs-eating-prey-TEN-TIMES-size-inside-out.html

SPACE
Japan just blasted a hole in an asteroid 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/05/japan-just-blasted-a-hole-in-an-asteroid/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SCIENCE
A battery breakthrough? Swiss startup says it has invented a lithium-ion electric car battery that can run for 600 miles on a single charge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6888183/A-battery-breakthrough-Startup-says-invented-electric-car-battery-600-mile-range.html

Researchers develop clothing made from color-changing thread that could save lives by alerting wearers when harmful gases are present
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6886893/Clothing-color-changing-thread-save-lives-detecting-toxic-gas.html

TECHNOLOGY


FOREIGN POLICY
US revokes visa of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/05/politics/icc-prosecutor-visa-revoked/index.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Democrats Subpoena White House Over "Security Issues," Just Remember 44 House Democrats Exempted Muslim IT Spies From Background Checks
http://aibafs.net/viewtopic.php?t=80235

LAW AND THE COURTS
Chicago attorney calls for Jussie Smollett to be RE-CHARGED with staging alleged attack and calls for investigation into whether city's top prosecutor interfered in controversial decision to drop felony charges against him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6889967/Chicago-police-demand-resignation-citys-prosecutor-Jussie-Smollett-charges-dropped.html

BIG BROTHER
Zuckerberg's Plan for the Internet Would Be a Disaster for Free Expression 
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2019/04/05/zuckerbergs-plan-for-the-internet-would-be-a-disaster-for-free-expression-n2544300?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/05/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Justice Department rebuffs demands for Mueller report 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=9b8269221c2f771c4d238d43f16da625_5ca773f2_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190405&goTo=A01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Michael Cohen says he???s unearthed more Trump documents, asks lawmakers to help delay his prison term
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/michael-cohen-says-hes-unearthed-more-trump-documents-asks-lawmakers-to-help-delay-his-prison-term-2019-04-04

'Trump used coded language to order me to lie under oath': Michael Cohen again claims president instructed him to give false account to Congress as embattled attorney offers up 14million files of 'significant value' in bid for lighter sentence
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6889667/Trump-used-coded-language-order-lie-oath-says-Michael-Cohen-according-reports.html

POLITICS
The Heat on Biden May be Politically Driven 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/joe-biden-allegations-democratic-party-politics/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Democratic adviser on 2020: 'We could blow this'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/httpseditpublishingoathcomcmsentry5ca69164e4b0a00f6d3d245a-090000121.html

Tax-return fight tests Mnuchin's loyalty to Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/437500-tax-return-fight-tests-mnuchins-loyalty-to-trump?userid=288549

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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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-needs-nuclear-power-11554420097?emailToken=cddbe10367950f92009d0bf087520cc6jbPGNlxxAD4ANiGxg6UuJbsVZJFin/RiAoMje8qdEMZTemIuzh9qiYIeZdzyn+BDZ1ev4GcBuJQ5lzSpbeF1nA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The Climate Needs Nuclear Power

If governors are serious about global warming, they???ll preserve this vital source of clean energy.

By

James Hansen and

Michael Shellenberger

April 4, 2019 7:21 p.m. ET

The Diablo Canyon nuclear-power plant in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images

Many environmentalists have changed their minds about nuclear energy over the past decade. While the share of energy produced by solar and wind has grown rapidly, nuclear remains America???s largest source of clean, zero-emissions electricity. Anyone seriously interested in preventing dangerous levels of global warming should be advocating nuclear power.
But two-thirds of U.S. nuclear plants in the U.S. are at risk of being closed prematurely and replaced by natural-gas generation, which is currently cheaper in many states. If that happens, carbon emissions could increase by an amount equivalent to adding 47 millioxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx           The governors of California, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania can take actions to keep their nuclear plants operating. Governors in those states have in recent years urged more action out of Washington to address climate change. They???ll have far more credibility and influence if they first take action in their home states.

Mr. Hansen is a climate scientist and head of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program at Earth Institute Columbia University. Mr. Shellenberger is president of Environmental Progress.

Appeared in the April 5, 2019, print edition.