Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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LOS ANGELES (May 14, 2021) - A record $25 million conservation challenge grant from Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation to the National Wildlife Federation's #SaveLACougars campaign to build a wildlife crossing in the Los Angeles area will help the landmark project break ground later this year. The wildlife crossing at Liberty Canyon over the 101 Freeway – which will be the largest wildlife crossing in the world - will reconnect a long-fragmented ecosystem, a biodive...
A new report on the Researchgate.com website reports on a group of US, European and Chinese researchers who believe the "blueberries" of Mars are not rock formations. They are actually hardy fungi, the report claims. Which would mean there's life on Mars. The report theorizes that the fungus, or fungi, could be used as food or fuel by future human colonists. Personally, I think I prefer the deep fried mushroom burger at Shake Shack, but I digress. The objects in question...
The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. We are excited to announce the release of our new book, which provides an in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly - covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship with milkweed, its extraordinary migration, and the threats it now faces due to habitat loss and climate change. This book includes at-a-glance profiles of plants...
8: A highly convincing video with over 26 million views on Twitter and Facebook, appears to show the Mars Perseverance Rover on the Martian surface, with audio. While Perseverance will ultimately broadcast audio and video from the Martian surface, the video now going viral is not actually from NASA at all. While NASA did land Perseverance on Mars, many on the internet are unintentionally sharing a false video. The 26 second fake video claimed to be from Mars...
The best footage of a UFO taken from an airplane in several years was posted to Reddit and to Twitter on February 2, 2021. The footage may be seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/lcalco/best_footage_of_an_ufo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 In the footage, a woman points to a oblong object seemingly following the airplane about a kilometer away, off the starboard side. "oh wow it teleported huh that's pretty cool", she says. The object is seen to...
Russian scientists announced that a 12,000 Year old Mammoth tusk had been recovered in Siberia. The find is believed to have been exposed by melting permafrost last summer. The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who used its bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and hunted the species for food. It disappeared from its mainland range at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago. Isolated populations survived on St. Paul Island until 5,600 years ago...
Alexander Kagansky, 45, was found dead Sunday night on a street in Vladivostock, Russia. He had been stabbed, then thrown out a fifth floor window, reports the NY Post, among other news sources. ("What is it with these Russian windows, anyway? They seem to be awfully easy to fall out of," said one wag on Twitter). The internet is rife with speculation that Kagansky was working on a cure to Covid-19, and close to a discovery that Russian or Chinese intelligence did not want...
Jack Dorsey does kind of look like an alien. But do the Men in Black run Twitter? Last week, yours truly reported that a NASA video shows a silver monolith in orbit about 3 KM from the International Space Station. This is a simple statement of fact; all you have to do is watch the video, if Big Tech would permit you to. The object resembles silver monoliths recently discovered in Utah's Red Rock Desert, in California, the UK and Romania. https://www.smobser...
The Silver Monolith that appeared suddenly in the Utah desert, disappeared just as mysteriously sometime before sunrise Sunday. Reportedly, 4 Earthlings quickly dismantled the monument, laying it flat first then dividing it into sections. Witnesses didn't want to risk their safety by taking cellphone photos as the men jumped out of an SUV. There are a few blurry photos. ""We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the "monolith" ha...
In case you thought 2020 couldn't get any stranger, Reuters is reporting that workers discovered a black metal monolith in the Utah Red Rock Desert National Monument. There is no indication of who put it there or when or why. Did it come from space and land here, so that we can evolve a higher level of human? Will it suddenly cure Covid-19, or perhaps do the opposite? Your guess is as good as ours. I'm sorry Dave. I can't tell you that. Utah’s highway patrol shared images o...
We're in the midst of the worst health crisis of the 21st century -- and it's not COVID. The coronavirus is a terrible disease, of course. In just ten months, it has killed more than one million people around the globe. But there's a far more dangerous plague circulating through the population. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect one American every 11 seconds and kill one every 15 minutes. By 2050, these "superbugs" could kill 10 million people worldwide each year unless we...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.- This summer, biologists with the National Park Service (NPS) at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) attempted to foster two orphaned mountain lion kittens and keep them in the wild. Fostering involves getting a wild mountain lion mother to "adopt" the orphaned animals and care for them as her own. Link to footage of kittens https://www.facebook.com/80124818659/posts/1015773929...
Way back in 1968, a man named George Kocher from the RAND Corporation, a local institution that does good work but is the subject of various conspiracy theories worldwide, wrote a paper titled "UFOs: What to Do." The 48-page document, which was labeled as an "internal document," is an interesting read and does not talk down to believers, nor does it say they're definitely right. But that wasn't the purpose of the paper. Its purpose was to cut through the nonsense surrounding...
Overlooked by many in Donald Trump's hard-hitting interview conducted by his namesake son last month was the president's reveal that he knew "very interesting" things about Roswell, New Mexico. For those who don't know, Roswell was the site of an alien spacecraft crash in 1947. The government has been covering up the incident since then, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence. Whether Trump decides to divulge what he knows is unknown, but he might be tempted later this...
An Australian pharmaceutical company claims an 83% recovery rate among Covid-19 patients on ventilators. The study was conducted at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in March and April, on Covid-19 patients on ventilators. ARDS Covid-19 patients on ventilators ordinarily experience a 9% survival rate. When remestemcel-L is administered within the first 5 days, 83% of the patients survived and came off ventilators within ten days. A press release posted on Globenewswire...
In a viral video, an ER doctor who works in New York City claims ventilators kill people by pushing too much oxygen into unaffected lungs. According to Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell Covid-19 might be about the hemoglobin not being able to transport oxygen, as opposed to the lungs being infected. Doctor Kyle-Sidell was transferred from ICU to ER after he appealed to the hospital management to change the treatment protocol. So he went online and issued an appeal to all health workers...
"What will the final overall mortality rate be? It seems highly likely that it will be south of 1% (versus the current media reports of greater than 3%). Perhaps 0.5% or less? We'll see. But it's not like the 1918 Spanish flu that had a mortality that some estimated to be as high as 10%." Subject line: An update from Dr. Otto Yang, Doctor of Infectious Disease at UCLA: Hi Everyone, I hope you find this helpful re the Corona Virus issue: I've seen so much misinformation making...
Anyone who thinks the world has been combed over and all its mysteries have been figured out should take a plunge into the ocean. Even today, NOAA declares that over eighty percent of our ocean remains unexplored. (https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html) And you don't have to dive particularly deep to find questions no research has yet been able to answer. Many such questions linger around the seahorse's relative, the seadragon. Until recently, there were only...
As the Stock market sold off for the second day (I mean 1800 points down on the Dow in 2 days); the Centers for Disease Control warned American citizens to get read for the Coronavirus to reach epidemic levels in US cities. "It's not a matter of if but when a pandemic will happen in the US" said a spokesman for the CDC today. "Coronavirus cannot be contained, and will cause significant disruptions in our lives." On a cruise ship called the Diamond Princess in Yokohama Japan,...
Birdwatchers take heed: Egyptian geese have been spotted near Douglas Park in Santa Monica. The species is common in Africa, but are not native to the America's and have not previously been reported in California. According to Wikipedia, the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is a member of the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. It is native to Africa south of the Sahara and the Nile Valley. Egyptian geese were considered sacred by the Ancient Egyptians, and appeared...
8/8/19: The National Park Service has documented a rare case of a mountain lion crossing the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass area. The male mountain lion known as P-61 made his way east of the massive freeway sometime between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on the morning of July 19th. This is the first time during the course of the 17-year study of mountain lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains that a GPS-collared lion has crossed the 405 Freeway. In the same...
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health, confirms two cases of typhus in Santa Monica in the last year. He said they have found typhus in Santa Monica in the past, on rats, feral cats and opossums. It has not recently found cases in people. There is a concern that they could be transmitted from the animals to people sleeping in the park, by way of fleas. Another concern is shelter workers, who could contract disorders from animals. The County does test rat...
(dpa) - Last week it was reported that Amazon may be working on developing a bracelet that can use the speech recognition software Alexa to detect how you are feeling emotionally. While Amazon isn't the first to trial emotion-reading software, the report has plenty wondering about the potential for AI assistants like Amazon's Alexa to read our emotions. According to a report from financial wire Bloomberg, the company is working on the voice-activated wearable described as a he...
Los Angeles (dpa) - Facebook on Tuesday said it had again deleted dozens of fake accounts, groups and pages that it said were involved in "coordinated inauthentic behavior" that originated in Iran. Fifty-one fake accounts, 36 pages, seven pages and three Instagram accounts run by people who "misled people about who they were and what they were doing" were taken down, the social media giant said in a statement written by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of cybersecurity policy....
Hong Kong (tca/dpa) - Out of the darkness appeared a snout. "Fei zhu! Fat pig!" 8-year-old Shino Chen shouted to her younger brother as she jumped up and down and pointed at a wild boar. The hairy black pig, which must have weighed at least 150 pounds, grunted and snuffled through a flimsy, old fence along the sidewalk. The children tiptoed toward the animal then sprinted back to their father's side. Kenneth Chen, 44, and his children visit the boars almost every night. All...
