The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave…
March 30, 2019
Viola, of the University of Toronto, and his colleagues compared a digital reconstruction of the skull fragment with corresponding parts of 112 present-day human skulls and 30 Stone Age Homo skulls, including Homo sapiens and Neandertals. The Denisovan find didn’t fit neatly into any previously known Homo species. Some features linked the Denisovan fossil to Neandertals and to a 430,000-year-old Spanish Homo species that had Denisovan ancestry (SN: 12/28/13, p. 8). The Denisovan skull fragment is surprisingly thick, more like cranial bones of Stone Age Homo erectus, Viola said.
Such evidence is tough to interpret at this point, paleoanthropologist María Martinón-Torres of University College London said at the meeting. Interbreeding of closely related populations, such as Denisovans, Neandertals and H. sapiens, generates novel skeletal features that can obscure what started out as, say, a distinctive Denisovan look, she suggested.
Twitter Temporarily Suspended ‘Unplanned’ Movie Account On Opening Weekend…
March 30, 2019
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to the social media platform for comment and learned a different account violated Twitter rules, causing the system to suspend related accounts, according to Twitter. When Twitter took a second look, it decided the “Unplanned” account should not be suspended and reinstated it.
Twitter did not specify what other related account had caused this.
‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: As Trump threatens to close border, migrants overwhelm Texas cities…
March 30, 2019
- Border Patrol agents expect to see more than 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants in March, the highest monthly total in over a decade.
- Vast majority of those crossing between ports of entry turn themselves into Border Patrol agents, seeking asylum.
- On Friday, Trump threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico didn't stop undocumented migrants from coming.
TIM POOL made vide about JOE BIDEN BEING CREEPY…
March 30, 2019
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel to Trump: ‘Stay out’ of Jussie Smollett case…
March 30, 2019
Sounds like he just implicated himself here.
Trump cuts all direct assistance to Northern Triangle countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala…
March 30, 2019
Trump said the funds totaled $500 million, but it wasn’t clear Friday if that figure was accurate. The State Department announced in December that the U.S. would mobilize $5.8 billion in public and private american investment to these three countries.
“We’re not paying them anymore because they haven’t done a thing for us,” he added.
China Identifies A Trojan horse galloping towards its debt market. Did they get caught off guard?…
March 30, 2019
The real change agent for China may not be trade talks, but ‘financial vigilantes’ poised to punt billions into Chinese bonds from Monday
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On Monday, China’s giant $13 trillion onshore debt market will, for the first time, be included in a major global index. That means a sudden influx of overseas fund managers shoving at least $100 billion into mainland debt this year. That will make global punters key shareholders in China Inc.The biggest diamonds company starts selling synthetic diamonds for the first time in 130 years. Synthetic diamonds’ manufacturing process is sophisticated in a way that makes them flawless and better than natural ones…
March 30, 2019
The challenge is to make this process, known as chemical vapour deposition (CVD) cost-effective. De Beers now believes it has reached this point and plans to extend production at its facility in Ascot in the UK and at a new diamond factory in the USA.
Microsoft donates 500 patents to startups…
March 30, 2019
This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits.
What’s maybe most interesting here, though, is that Microsoft is also donating 500 patents to startups in the LOT Network. This organization, which counts companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, SAP, Epic Games, Ford, GM, Lyft and Uber among its close to 400 members, is designed to protect companies against patent trolls by giving them access to a wide library of patents from its member companies and other sources.
Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets…
March 30, 2019
Judge Strikes Down Trump’S Deal With Alaskan Community For A Life-Saving Road…
March 30, 2019
U.S. District Court of Alaska Judge Sharon Gleason nullified a January 2018 deal that traded roughly 500 acres of federally protected wilderness to the community of King Cove, Alaska, in exchange for one acre to the Interior Department. At the time, Alaskan lawmakers and King Cove residents celebrated the agreement as the end of a four-decade battle.
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“There have been nearly 100 medevacs in King Cove — many carried out by the Coast Guard — since 2014 alone. There is no question that the people who live there need a single-lane, gravel, non-commercial road to protect their health and safety,” Murkowski said. “I will never stop until this road is a reality and the nearly 1,000 residents of this isolated community have a lifeline for emergency medical care.”Justice With Judge Jeanine Is Back…
March 30, 2019
Caravan Migrant from Viral Video Arrested on Assault Charges…
March 30, 2019
Remember the Beans "Lady"? - Her & her sister are now in Jail in Dallas charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon & awarded an ICE Detainer.
Arizona Republican Allegedly Paid Two Boys $10 for Sex on Numerous Occasions…
March 30, 2019
Each boy claimed to have both received oral sex from and to have performed oral sex on the long serving Arizona Republican
These people are SICK.
The FCC Has Fined Robocall Companies $208 Million But Only Collected $6,790…
March 30, 2019
The problem here is partly bureaucratic: While the FCC has the power to dole out fines, it lacks the power to actually enforce those orders. That task, according to the Journal, falls to the Justice Department, and is not made easier by the fact that many entities responsible for this relentless aural spam are individual people or small outfits that can't afford the fees they rack up and can skirt collectors without too much fuss.
Ex-spy shot dead in Alps, months after being accused of role in Congo assassination plot…
March 30, 2019
Daniel Forestier, 57, was discovered last Thursday in a remote car park in Ballaison, France. He was reportedly shot five times, including in the head and heart. Police called it a professional job.
His death came six months after he was charged with plotting to kill an opponent of President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, the London Times reported. He had also been charged with possession of explosives.
Astromers discover second galaxy with basically no dark matter, ironically bolstering the case for the existence of the elusive and invisible substance…
March 30, 2019
They are probably scientists in that galaxy looking at the Milky Way surprised at our galaxy.
Black Church Member Pleads Guilty in ‘Vote Trump’ Arson…
March 30, 2019
A member of a black church in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to burning the church, which was also spray painted with the slogan “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election.
Andrew McClinton, 47, pleaded guilty to arson... His sentencing is set for late April.
Some of Mark Zuckerberg’s old Facebook posts have disappeared…
March 30, 2019
On Friday, Business Insider reported that the social network accidentally deleted some of Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts, including all the ones he made in 2007 and 2008.
"A few years ago some of Mark's posts were mistakenly deleted due to technical errors. The work required to restore them would have been extensive and not guaranteed to be successful so we didn't do it," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO…
March 30, 2019
How long will this bubble freaking last? Tech stock valuations are Insanity.