From a NY Times story on the matter:
According to an internal memorandum circulating inside the government on Thursday, the “intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year.” President Obama said in April that the United States had physiological evidence that the nerve gas sarin had been used in Syria, but lacked proof of who used it and under what circumstances. He now believes that the proof is definitive, according to American officials.
This represents a quote-unquote “red line” situation for the U.S. (as in, Syria’s crossed a line), which means that we could see military action as a result.
GOP Rep. Steve King calls out “illegal aliens” who just “invaded” his D.C. office.
Quite the invasion.
That’s what we call misrepresenting the situation.
In its first shot against the bow against the Business Insider audience, BuzzFeed literally writes an article that’s so fetch. Move over Financial Times, BF is gunning for your readership.
I join the judgment of the Court, and all of its opinion except Part I–A and some portions of the rest of the opinion going into fine details of molecular biology. I am unable to affirm those details on my own knowledge or even my own belief. It suffices for me to affirm, having studied the opinions below and the expert briefs presented here, that the portion of DNA isolated from its natural state sought to be patented is identical to that portion of the DNA in its natural state; and that complementary DNA (cDNA) is a synthetic creation not normally present in nature.A big-deal case passed the Supreme Court this morning, with the court finding that genes can’t be patented. But the fun part of this decision is Justice Antonin Scalia’s reasoning for joining with the majority, which disregards a part of the opinion which notes that “Genes form the basis for hereditary traits in living organisms.” Apparently Scalia slept through biology class in high school, because that’s all way over his head.
Once-a-day pill prevents HIV in drug users
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A once-a-day pill can protect people who inject drugs from the AIDS virus, lowering their risk by nearly 50 percent, researchers reported Wednesday.
Big deal in the fight against AIDS.
This guy’s name is Gen. Keith Alexander. He heads the National Security Agency. He says that the surveillance programs the agency has implemented under the Patriot Act have stopped “dozens of terrorist plots.” He says the program isn’t as bad as it’s being made out to be. “I think what we’re doing to protect American citizens here is the right thing,” he told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. “We aren’t trying to hide it. We’re trying to protect America.” (photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Best iOS7 feature not mentioned at WWDC? Apparently you can make your wallpaper image a panorama that moves based on your location. Neat.
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One of the perks of being an early employee...
Over the last 90 days, the Digg...
#FMMDI (at 30 Rockefeller Plaza)
Thanks. I guess my thoughts are as follows:
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I won’t sugar-coat it. That my foot crossed the threshold into the crease of the door is pretty amazing, and I’m still, nine years later, sort of amazed it happened.
Following up on the ProPublica Kickstarter regarding unpaid internships I pointed out last night, I wrote a post on Medium about how a paid job post-graduation was a major lifeline career-wise—and if that job was an unpaid internship instead, how it might not have actually happened. — Ernie @ SFB
o_O
DAMN hahahahaha
You guys realize he noted it was a fake account shortly after and outed the account, right?
Even the best screw up sometimes.
BuzzFeed: Republican Nominee For Virginia Lieutenant Governor Misspells Own Book Title…On The Cover
E.W. Jackson’s self-published book Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life has a big error on the cover. Commandments — not “comandments.”
The 11th “comandment”: Thou shalt learn how to spell.
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