"'The detection is very unique for molecular water,' says Shuai Li, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii and co-author on one of the new studies. The water signature was detected on the moon's illuminated surface, where the molecule would be exposed to UV radiation and where temperatures fluctuate dramatically between dawn, noon and dusk. It's somewhat surprising, but it's conclusive. 'Based on our knowledge, it cannot be anything else,' Li says."
"A wildfire that nearly quadrupled in size Monday, prompted tens of thousands of people to evacuate and caused two firefighters to suffer critical injuries may have been started by a power company's equipment."
"The 2020 hurricane season continues to overachieve as Hurricane Zeta formed Monday as it heads toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The storm is taking a track similar to Hurricane Delta, striking near Cozumel, Mexico, and then heading towards the Northern Gulf Coast." Damn overachievers.
You have to get pretty deep into this article titled "Diet drinks linked to heart issues, study finds. Here's what to do" to get to this… "Compared to people who didn't drink artificially sweetened beverages, high consumers were 20% more likely to have cardiovascular disease at any particular time. There was a similar result for higher consumers of sugary drinks when compared to nonusers, the researchers found." Again, small study, and preliminary findings. But that means that your risk of cardiovascular problems is the same when using either sugar (glucose) or artificial sweeteners to sweeten drinks. But people don't drink Diet Cokes to reduce their chance of heart disease.
"Antibodies against the coronavirus fall as people recover from the disease, according to the findings of a major U.K. study, potentially dealing a blow to those pushing for so-called herd immunity." This is why you need actual science reporters reporting on science. This is not news. It is common for your antibody counts to decrease after you've cleared an infection. Any infection. What matters is if your T and B cells remember how to make those antibodies and are triggered by a new infection.
"Police in Philadelphia said 30 officers were injured during violent protests Monday night that broke out after police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man who authorities said had a knife… More than 300 people marched through the streets of Philadelphia late Monday into early Tuesday to protest the shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. which was captured on video. Dozens of officers were injured with rocks, bricks and other projectiles and a 56-year-old female officer was hit by a pickup truck and hospitalized with a broken leg, WCAU-TV reported."
"The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them, two people familiar with the issue said… The report would cite such groups’ alleged or perceived support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which has targeted Israel over its construction of settlements on land Palestinians claim for a future state."
"While President Trump's chief of staff on Monday attempted to clarify the assertion that the United States is “not going to control” the coronavirus crisis, the president himself complained that the media is too focused on a pandemic that has killed more than 225,000 Americans and infected more than 8.6 million… Trump said news coverage of COVID-19, which he has described as an attempt to hurt his campaign, should be 'an election law violation.'"
"Seven people have died and at least 123 more have been injured in a blast at a religious school on Tuesday in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to local authorities."
"With Amy Coney Barrett now seated on the Supreme Court, Republicans are pushing for reconsideration of a Pennsylvania case on mail-in voting -- the first potential test of how the new justice will handle election challenges." Here we go.
"A divided Supreme Court said Monday that mail-in ballots in Wisconsin could be counted only if they are received by Election Day… Democrats in the state had asked the court to allow the counting of ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day if they were postmarked by November 3… The ruling was 5-3, coming just before the Senate voted to add Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court."
"Democratic congressional candidates are swamping Republicans on the airwaves in another sign they’re poised to pad their House majority in November… In the most competitive 94 districts, Democrats have booked over $177 million in ads since Sept. 1, while their GOP opponents have booked $93 million, according to a POLITICO analysis of advertising data. Republican outside groups have partly made up the difference, but the party is still bracing for a string of defeats next month." Despite ample evidence, the news media continues to equate spending with winning.
"Worldy Armand, a 39-year-old Boston resident, was taken into custody late Sunday, hours after he started a fire inside a drop box outside the Boston Public Library in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood, authorities said. The box contained more than 120 ballots."
"Nov. 3 promises to be an Election Day unlike any other, and public safety entities say they're preparing for the tensions and the possibility of violence."
"Seven people were arrested after fights broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump in New York City on Sunday. The clashes came after a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon."
"Heading into the final week of the 2020 presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden now holds his largest-ever lead over President Trump, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a 12-point margin that’s four times the size of Hillary Clinton’s national advantage over Trump at this point in 2016." Again, polls don't matter, votes do. As does the electoral college. Get out and vote (if you haven't already).
"With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days."
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "A huge swath of the country no longer trusts the elite media, which has been battered by Trumpian attacks as well as their own increasingly blatant biases and blunders. Many people no longer believe the fact-checkers will deliver the facts. Many reflexively dismiss a story in the New York Times or Washington Post, no matter how well-documented, as trash because of the perception of political animus." I didn't eat any cookies, claims child with chocolate smears all over their face and a pile of crumbles at their feet. This story is a complete hash meant ostensively to "clear the air", but instead actually muddles the waters even more. It's an argument for why news organizations should just print what they're given and not do any actual "reporting" (ie. checking sources). It argues that Fox News should have run the Hunter Biden story, even though Fox's own newsroom i investigated and founded that there is no evidence that the claims made are true. What complete bullshit.
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