[Amazing] Link25 (194) – Send A Nude Day Edition
Are you ready? It’s been an entire week since our last Link25 and we know you’ve been eagerly anticipating this moment. As always we come to you with 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web. This week features news on National Send A Nude Day (yup, that was today), as well as solving the world hunger problem, a promising development for an HIV Vaccine, and melting glaciers. So get ready, because this is Link25 (194) – Send A Nude Day Edition.
Tsunamis waves tall enough to swallow the Statue of Liberty washed away the shorelines of Mars’s ancient ocean, according to a study published Thursday.
In the wake of their destructive force, a Martian mystery was born.
Planetary scientists had hypothesized for decades that a primordial ocean might have once covered much of the red planet’s northern hemisphere. Last year they presented molecular traces of atmospheric water that backed the claim. But still missing from their theory were visible traces of the ocean’s coastline.
They essentially had evidence of an ancient ocean, but (Click on the title to read the full article)
Killer Nile Crocodiles in Florida? Experts Say It's Possible
Step aside, Burmese python — you may no longer be Florida’s scariest invasive species. Researchers have confirmed that three Nile crocodiles were captured near Miami, and they say it’s possible more of the man-eating reptiles are still out there, although no one can say for sure.
The big question now: How did they get to Florida?
“They didn’t swim from Africa,” University of Florida herpetologist Kenneth Krysko said. “But we really don’t know how they got into the wild.”
Krysko and his co-authors just published a paper showing that DNA testing proved the three animals captured in 2009, 2011 and 2014 are Nile crocs, a species whose males grow to over 16 feet long and weigh upward of 1,600 pounds. Nile crocs are believed to be (Click on the title to read the full article).
Using the much-touted CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method, scientists have demonstrated how they can edit HIV out of human immune cell DNA, and in doing so, can prevent the reinfection of unedited cells too.
If you haven’t heard of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique before, get ready to hear a whole lot more about it in 2016, because it’s set to revolutionise how we investigate and treat the root causes of genetic disease. It allows (Click on the title to read the full article).
NEW YORK » Morley Safer, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans’ view of the war, died today, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS News publicist.
No further details on his death were immediately available.
Safer, who once claimed “there is no such thing as the common man; if there were, there would be no need for (click to read the full article).
It seems, according to the cultural barometer that is Twitter TWTR +1.34% hashtags, that today is National Send a Nude Day.
Yes, for some strange reason, today is a designated day for forever scarring the people in your life with pictures of things that may appear bigger…or smaller, to you.
At first glance, it seems like something a desperate horndog would say to get women to send him nudes but for some unknown reason, the internet hive-mind has latched onto this most lascivious of occasions.
I did some digging and for all intents and purposes, this seems (click on the title to read the full article)
Reports have emerged that one of the crew members on flight MS804 had posted pictures of a cabin attendant in front of a crashed airplane – the Guardian has been unable to verify the authenticity of the image, which was published by the Daily Mail. My colleague Gwyn Topham has written a short post following the unconfirmed report.
Security experts expressed alarm after it emerged that a cabin crew member from the doomed EgyptAir flight MS804 had posted pictures on Facebook of a cabin attendant in front of an aeroplane that had crashed into the sea.
Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, uploaded the digitally manipulated (click on the title to read the full article)
Friday coming at you like...
Planet Earth is doomed with a fast growing global population and a limited amount of farmland to produce food for everyone. That means that we’re going to need to figure out how to maximize what we’ve got—and researchers just made a major breakthrough in getting the most from our crops.
Biologists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have come up with a new agricultural technique which they say increases their crop yields by an incredible 50 percent. The key, they say, lies in (click on the title to read the full article).
A massive glacier melting into the Antarctic Ocean could raise sea levels by nearly three metres, scientists believe.
A study predicts that unless the current rate of climate change is reduced, the Totten Glacier could cross a point of no return within the next century.
This would lead to it retreating inland by up to 300 kilometres (186.4 miles), releasing vast amounts of water.
Global sea levels could rise by as much as 2.9 metres as a result, (click on the title to read the full article).
