newswars--2020-01-27--Breakthrough Method Could Slow Down or Stop Progression of Parkinson’s

A collaboration between scientists at Rutgers University and Scripps Research led to the discovery of a small molecule that may slow down or stop the progression of Parkinson ’ s disease .
Parkinson ’ s , which affects 1 million people in the United States and over 10 million worldwide according to the Parkinson ’ s Foundation , is a neurodegenerative disorder with no cure .
Symptoms develop slowly over time and can be debilitating to patients , who most recognizably develop tremor , slow movements and a shuffling gait .
A key feature of Parkinson ’ s disease is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an abnormal form in brain cells causing them to degenerate and die .
However , it has been difficult to target α-synuclein because it does not have a fixed structure and keeps changing its shape , making it very difficult for drugs to target .
Because higher levels of the protein in the brain speed the degeneration of brain cells , scientists have been looking for ways to decrease the protein production as a form of treatment .
In 2014 , Parkinson ’ s disease expert and scientist M. Maral Mouradian , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ director of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Institute for Neurological Therapeutics , contacted Matthew D. Disney , chemistry professor at Scripps Research in Florida , to explore a novel idea for treating Parkinson ’ s disease using a new technology developed by Disney .
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Disney ’ s method matches RNA structure with small molecules or drug-like compounds .
The two collaborators believed this innovative technology could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targets the messenger RNA that codes for α-synuclein , which causes the disease , in order to reduce production of the protein in the brains of Parkinson ’ s patients .
Since the protein itself can ’ t be treated with drugs , RNA could be a more robust and reliable target .
They were right .
The NIH-funded study , which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on January 3 , showed that by targeting messenger RNA , the team found a compound that prevents the harmful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This new compound , named Synucleozid , reduces specifically α-synuclein levels and protects cells against the toxicity of the misfolded form of the protein , suggesting that it has the potential of preventing disease progression .
“ We found the molecule to be very selective at both the RNA level and the protein level , ” Disney says .
“ Currently , there is no cure for Parkinson ’ s disease , and it is truly a devastating disease .
For the first time , we discovered a drug-like compound that has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before it advances through an entirely new approach , ” said Mouradian .
Such a treatment would be most effective for people who are in the early stages of the disease with minimal symptoms , she said .
“ Several other experimental drugs currently being tested for Parkinson ’ s disease are antibodies that target a very late stage of α-synuclein protein aggregates .
We want to prevent these protein clumps from forming in the first place before they do damage and lead to advancing disease.
, ” she said .
“ This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that and could change the course of life for people with this devastating disease.
” Mouradian says this discovery is ‘ highly promising ’ and is eager for the next steps in optimizing and testing the compound .
Additionally , this can benefit another devasting disease that also has α-synuclein clumps , known as Dementia with Lewy Bodies .
Further , this new concept of targeting RNA to reduce protein production developed in Disney ’ s lab at Scripps Research may be applied to other challenging diseases because of their similar undruggable proteins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The reach of our study could go beyond people with Parkinson ’ s disease to many other neurodegenerative diseases .
It is a classic example of how interdisciplinary research leads to significant change , ” she shares .
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A collaboration between scientists at Rutgers University and Scripps Research led to the discovery of a small molecule that may slow down or stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s, which affects 1 million people in the United States and over 10 million worldwide according to the Parkinson’s Foundation, is a neurodegenerative disorder with no cure.
Symptoms develop slowly over time and can be debilitating to patients, who most recognizably develop tremor, slow movements and a shuffling gait.
A key feature of Parkinson’s disease is a protein named α-synuclein, which accumulates in an abnormal form in brain cells causing them to degenerate and die. However, it has been difficult to target α-synuclein because it does not have a fixed structure and keeps changing its shape, making it very difficult for drugs to target. Because higher levels of the protein in the brain speed the degeneration of brain cells, scientists have been looking for ways to decrease the protein production as a form of treatment.
In 2014, Parkinson’s disease expert and scientist M. Maral Mouradian, William Dow Lovett Professor of Neurology and director of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Institute for Neurological Therapeutics, contacted Matthew D. Disney, chemistry professor at Scripps Research in Florida, to explore a novel idea for treating Parkinson’s disease using a new technology developed by Disney.
RFK Jr & Children’s Health Defense are suing FCC over allowing damaging cell phones as the government ramps up exposure with 5G.
Disney’s method matches RNA structure with small molecules or drug-like compounds. The two collaborators believed this innovative technology could be used to find a drug that targets the messenger RNA that codes for α-synuclein, which causes the disease, in order to reduce production of the protein in the brains of Parkinson’s patients. Since the protein itself can’t be treated with drugs, RNA could be a more robust and reliable target.
They were right. The NIH-funded study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on January 3, showed that by targeting messenger RNA, the team found a compound that prevents the harmful Parkinson’s protein from being made. This new compound, named Synucleozid, reduces specifically α-synuclein levels and protects cells against the toxicity of the misfolded form of the protein, suggesting that it has the potential of preventing disease progression.
“We found the molecule to be very selective at both the RNA level and the protein level,” Disney says.
“Currently, there is no cure for Parkinson’s disease, and it is truly a devastating disease. For the first time, we discovered a drug-like compound that has the potential to slow down the disease before it advances through an entirely new approach,” said Mouradian. Such a treatment would be most effective for people who are in the early stages of the disease with minimal symptoms, she said.
“Several other experimental drugs currently being tested for Parkinson’s disease are antibodies that target a very late stage of α-synuclein protein aggregates. We want to prevent these protein clumps from forming in the first place before they do damage and lead to advancing disease.,” she said. “This new compound has the potential to do that and could change the course of life for people with this devastating disease.”
Mouradian says this discovery is ‘highly promising’ and is eager for the next steps in optimizing and testing the compound. Additionally, this can benefit another devasting disease that also has α-synuclein clumps, known as Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Further, this new concept of targeting RNA to reduce protein production developed in Disney’s lab at Scripps Research may be applied to other challenging diseases because of their similar undruggable proteins including Alzheimer’s disease.
“The reach of our study could go beyond people with Parkinson’s disease to many other neurodegenerative diseases. It is a classic example of how interdisciplinary research leads to significant change,” she shares.
Mike Adams and Alex Jones explain to the public how to prepare against the coming chaos.


newswars--2020-01-27--Employers Should Censor ‘Sports Talk’ Among Male Workers, Says ‘Gender Balance Expert’

Male colleagues discussing sports in the workplace create an unwelcoming environment for women , according to a ‘ gender balance expert ’ who believes the practice should be curbed by employers .
Ann Francke , CEO of the Chartered Management Institute , claims sports banter makes many women feel excluded and that it can devolve into sexually explicit conversation .
“ A lot of women , in particular , feel left out .
They don ’ t follow those sports and they don ’ t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included , ” Francke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans – that ’ s great .
But the issue is many people aren ’ t cricket fans.
” “ It ’ s a gateway to more laddish behavior and – if it just goes unchecked – it ’ s a signal of a more laddish culture.
” “ It ’ s very easy for it to escalate from VAR ( video assistant refereeing ) talk and chat , to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend , ” she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wave of ridicule on social media , with Piers Morgan calling her suggestions “ utter twaddle.
” “ We ’ ve got to stop these virtue-signalling cretins sucking all the fun out of life , ” Morgan tweeted .
Many netizens pointed out that women often in engage in similar conversations about reality TV and celebrity gossip , and also that many women also enjoy sports .
Francke ’ s author biography describes her as an “ expert on gender balance in the workplace.
” She has written a book on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Mars , BSI , Boots , and Yell .
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Male colleagues discussing sports in the workplace create an unwelcoming environment for women, according to a ‘gender balance expert’ who believes the practice should be curbed by employers.
Ann Francke, CEO of the Chartered Management Institute, claims sports banter makes many women feel excluded and that it can devolve into sexually explicit conversation.
“A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. They don’t follow those sports and they don’t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included,” Francke told the BBC. “I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans – that’s great. But the issue is many people aren’t cricket fans.”
“It’s a gateway to more laddish behavior and – if it just goes unchecked – it’s a signal of a more laddish culture.”
“It’s very easy for it to escalate from VAR (video assistant refereeing) talk and chat, to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend,” she said.
Francke’s comments drew a wave of ridicule on social media, with Piers Morgan calling her suggestions “utter twaddle.”
“We’ve got to stop these virtue-signalling cretins sucking all the fun out of life,” Morgan tweeted.
What utter twaddle.
We’ve got to stop these virtue-signalling cretins sucking all the fun out of life. https://t.co/9JVWwgnwyC — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 27, 2020
Many netizens pointed out that women often in engage in similar conversations about reality TV and celebrity gossip, and also that many women also enjoy sports.
Francke’s author biography describes her as an “expert on gender balance in the workplace.” She has written a book on the subject and has held senior executive positions at Mars, BSI, Boots, and Yell.
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newswars--2020-01-27--Watch Live: Pelosi Jr. Creates Major Issues As Impeachment Heats Up, China Covers Up Coronavirus Tru

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Whether it was purposely released or @ @ @ @ @ of an accident or negligence , the Wuhan coronavirus could be a manmade bio-weapon .
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newswars--2020-01-27--Hubble sees dusty galaxy with supermassive center

This peculiar galaxy , beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust , is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope .
The galaxy is known as NGC 1022 , and is officially classified as a barred spiral galaxy .
You can just about make out the bar of stars in the center of the galaxy in this image , with swirling arms emerging from its ends .
This bar is much less prominent than in some of the galaxy ’ s barred cousins and gives the galaxy a rather squat appearance ; but the lanes of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is no less beautiful .
Hubble observed this image as part of a study into one of the universe ’ s most notorious residents : black holes .
These are fundamental components of galaxies and are thought to lurk at the hearts of many—if not all—spirals .
In fact , they may have quite a large influence over their cosmic homes .
Studies suggest that the mass of the black hole sitting at a galaxy ’ s center is linked with the larger-scale properties of the galaxy itself .
However , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ observational data of a wider and more diverse range of galaxies—something Hubble ’ s study aims to provide .

This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The galaxy is known as NGC 1022, and is officially classified as a barred spiral galaxy. You can just about make out the bar of stars in the center of the galaxy in this image, with swirling arms emerging from its ends. This bar is much less prominent than in some of the galaxy’s barred cousins and gives the galaxy a rather squat appearance; but the lanes of dust that swirl throughout its disk ensure it is no less beautiful.
Hubble observed this image as part of a study into one of the universe’s most notorious residents: black holes. These are fundamental components of galaxies and are thought to lurk at the hearts of many—if not all—spirals. In fact, they may have quite a large influence over their cosmic homes. Studies suggest that the mass of the black hole sitting at a galaxy’s center is linked with the larger-scale properties of the galaxy itself. However, in order to learn more, we need observational data of a wider and more diverse range of galaxies—something Hubble’s study aims to provide.


newswars--2020-01-27--Solar Orbiter will take first-ever direct images of Sun’s poles

Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star , the sun , observing it up close .
It will take the first-ever direct images of its poles , while also studying the inner heliosphere—the bubble-like region around the sun created by the stream of energized , charged particles released in the solar wind .
At its closest , Solar Orbiter will come within about 42 million km of the sun : closer than the scorched planet Mercury , just over a quarter of the average distance between Earth and the sun , and closer than any European spacecraft in history .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the center of the solar system , edging close to the sun ’ s poles instead of orbiting in a ‘ flat ’ plane , like the planets , teams at mission control in Darmstadt , Germany , have planned an intricate path .
Solar Orbiter is due to launch from Cape Canaveral , Florida , on an Atlas V 411 rocket supplied by NASA in early February .
Once it has separated from the launch vehicle , a 22- minute automatic activation sequence takes place , after which point the control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Launch and Early Orbit Phase ( LEOP ) .
These early moments in the life of a mission are critical .
It is now that the spacecraft wakes up , extends its solar arrays and teams on the ground check its health after the rigors of launch .
Elements of Solar Orbiter ’ s science instruments are located along a 4.4 meter ‘ boom , ” which keeps them away from the main body of the spacecraft and any potential interference .
This boom should be deployed before certain chemical thrusters are fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the instruments during maneuvres .
Once Solar Orbiter ’ s systems and instruments are up and running , it enters into the “ cruise phase , ” which will last until November 2021 .
During this time , it will perform two gravity-assist maneuvres around Venus and one around Earth to alter the spacecraft ’ s trajectory , guiding it towards the innermost regions of the solar system .
The first close solar pass will take place at the end of March 2022 at around a third of the distance between Earth and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the spacecraft will be in an elliptical orbit that initially takes 180 days to complete , making a close approach of the sun every six months .
Solar Orbiter ’ s path will see it travel out of the ‘ plane of the ecliptic.
” So , instead of orbiting in the same flat plane around the sun as the planets , moons and minor bodies of the solar system , it will ‘ leap ’ up from the solar equator , delivering views of the sun ’ s polar regions that have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this , Solar Orbiter will not travel in a ‘ fixed ’ orbit .
Instead , the spacecraft will follow a constantly changing elliptical path that will be continually tilted and squeezed , edging it higher and higher and closer to the sun ’ s poles .
As such , the spacecraft ’ s orbit has been chosen to be ‘ in resonance ’ with Venus , which means that it will return to the planet ’ s vicinity every few orbits and can again use the planet ’ s gravity to alter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Orbiter initially orbits in the same ‘ flat ’ plane as the planets of the solar system , each encounter with Venus will increase its inclination .
This means that each time Solar Orbiter encounters the sun , it will be looking at it from a different perspective .
By the end of 2021 , the spacecraft will reach its first nominal orbit for science , which is set to last for four years .
During this time , Solar Orbiter will reach 17° degrees of inclination , allowing the spacecraft to capture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poles , for the first time .
During its proposed extended mission phase , Solar Orbiter would lift into an even higher inclination orbit .
At 33° above the solar equator , the polar regions would come even more directly into view .
Data gathered by Solar Orbiter will be stored on the spacecraft , then beamed ( or , ‘ downlinked ’ ) to Earth during eight-hour communication windows , via the 35 m Malargüe ground station in Argentina .
Other Estrack stations such as New Norcia in Australia and Cebreros in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survive getting so up-close and personal with our star , experiencing a maximum temperature of 520 degrees Celsius and receiving a barrage of intense radiation , Solar Orbiter ’ s main body and vital instruments will be protected by a titanium heat shield that will face the sun at all times .
Even the spacecraft ’ s solar panels , designed to take in energy from the sun , will need to be protected .
As Solar Orbiter edges closer to the giant ball of heat and radiation , its panels—sticking out either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 18.9 m across—will need to tilt away from the sun , limiting the amount of light they take in to ensure they do not overheat .

Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star, the sun, observing it up close. It will take the first-ever direct images of its poles, while also studying the inner heliosphere—the bubble-like region around the sun created by the stream of energized, charged particles released in the solar wind.
At its closest, Solar Orbiter will come within about 42 million km of the sun: closer than the scorched planet Mercury, just over a quarter of the average distance between Earth and the sun, and closer than any European spacecraft in history.
To get it into this unique orbit at the center of the solar system, edging close to the sun’s poles instead of orbiting in a ‘flat’ plane, like the planets, teams at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, have planned an intricate path.
Solar Orbiter is due to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas V 411 rocket supplied by NASA in early February. Once it has separated from the launch vehicle, a 22- minute automatic activation sequence takes place, after which point the control team takes over the reins for the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP).
These early moments in the life of a mission are critical. It is now that the spacecraft wakes up, extends its solar arrays and teams on the ground check its health after the rigors of launch.
Elements of Solar Orbiter’s science instruments are located along a 4.4 meter ‘boom,” which keeps them away from the main body of the spacecraft and any potential interference. This boom should be deployed before certain chemical thrusters are fired, which have the potential to contaminate the instruments during maneuvres.


newswars--2020-01-27--Unborn Lives Matter – March For Life 2020

Millennial Millie attended the March For Life event held in Washington , D.C. last week .
Thousands and thousands of @ @ @ @ @ their support for the unborn and to see President Trump speak as the first sitting @ @ @ @ @ pro-life march .

Millennial Millie attended the March For Life event held in Washington, D.C. last week.
Thousands and thousands of pro-life supporters came to show their support for the unborn and to see President Trump speak as the first sitting president ever to attend the pro-life march.


newswars--2020-01-27--Wuhan Coronavirus Update: 44,000 Now Infected, Warn University of Hong Kong Researchers

Nearly 44,000 people are already infected by the Wuhan coronavirus , warned academic researchers from the University of Hong Kong over the weekend .
The “ official ” number of infections claimed by the communist Chinese government is only 2900 , revealing a desperate effort to cover up the true numbers and lie to the world about a dangerous , deadly pandemic .
“ University of Hong Kong academics on Monday estimated that the number of patients in Wuhan had reached 43,590 by Saturday , including those in the incubation stage of the virus , which causes pneumonia , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Lead researcher and dean of HKU ’ s faculty of medicine Gabriel Leung said his team estimated there were 25,630 patients showing symptoms in Wuhan and that the number would double in 6.2 days , according to mathematical modelling based on infection figures worldwide as of Saturday.
” Importantly , the Wuhan coronavirus is now known to be infectious during its incubation period , which means that people are spreading the pandemic even before they realize they ’ re sick themselves .
According to a recent analysis published in The Lancet , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ showed no symptoms for 8 days before finally being diagnosed with full-blown symptoms .
Additionally , about 2 % of those infected show no signs of fever or respiratory distress , meaning they are able to pass right through airport security screening measures .
Here are the official Chinese government numbers , via SCMP : Also from the SCMP : “ Leung said his team ’ s research showed self-sustaining human-to-human transmission was already happening in all major mainland cities and warned that a pandemic might be close .
‘ We have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be about to become a global epidemic , ’ he said.
” According to the researchers ’ model , the coronavirus pandemic will continue to spread rapidly across China ’ s major cities , peaking in “ late April or early May ” with “ 150,000 new cases ” every day .
Lead researcher Gabriel Leung called for “ draconian measures ” across China to stop the spread of the pandemic .
Flights from China are still arriving each hour into U.S. airports such as Los Angeles and Seattle .
Six coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States , with at least one of those confirmed in California .
All the confirmed cases involved air travel passengers who had recently visited Wuhan province .
It is almost certain that they exposed other travelers during their international flights .
According to The Lancet , 83 % of those who are exposed to coronavirus become infected with it .
With an incubation time of 2 – 14 days , it ’ s still too early to know how many other people may be carrying this pandemic in the United States .
Five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into effect Several days ago , Natural News reported that at least 300,000 residents of Wuhan had fled the city before the quarantine went into effect .
Now , Wuhan mayor Zhou Xianwang has confirmed that news , expanding it to five million residents who fled .
“ About 5 million residents left Wuhan before the lockdown because of the deadly coronavirus epidemic and the Spring Festival holiday , mayor Zhou Xianwang revealed on Sunday , as health officials warned the virus ’ ability to spread was getting stronger , ” reports the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , confirmed cases of coronavirus are now cropping up in Beijing .
It is not yet known exactly how many Chinese from Wuhan took international flights and may have carried the virus to other nations , but infection numbers continue to increase in the United States and Europe , although the number of officially confirmed cases still remains low .
Hong Kong University is calling on Chinese authorities to close all schools , workplaces and social gatherings in order to stop the pandemic from spreading .
The economic impacts of such decisions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and investors .
The U.S. stock market took a hit today as airline stocks plummeted , but the broader implications of China effectively cancelling all business operations for two weeks has not yet been factored into the markets .
If this pandemic continues to spread , the economic impacts will take a devastating toll on a global scale .

Nearly 44,000 people are already infected by the Wuhan coronavirus, warned academic researchers from the University of Hong Kong over the weekend. The “official” number of infections claimed by the communist Chinese government is only 2900, revealing a desperate effort to cover up the true numbers and lie to the world about a dangerous, deadly pandemic.
“University of Hong Kong academics on Monday estimated that the number of patients in Wuhan had reached 43,590 by Saturday, including those in the incubation stage of the virus, which causes pneumonia,” reports the South China Morning Post.
“Lead researcher and dean of HKU’s faculty of medicine Gabriel Leung said his team estimated there were 25,630 patients showing symptoms in Wuhan and that the number would double in 6.2 days, according to mathematical modelling based on infection figures worldwide as of Saturday.”
Importantly, the Wuhan coronavirus is now known to be infectious during its incubation period, which means that people are spreading the pandemic even before they realize they’re sick themselves. According to a recent analysis published in The Lancet, family members of victims exposed to coronavirus showed no symptoms for 8 days before finally being diagnosed with full-blown symptoms. Additionally, about 2% of those infected show no signs of fever or respiratory distress, meaning they are able to pass right through airport security screening measures.
Here are the official Chinese government numbers, via SCMP:
“Self-sustaining human-to-human transmission… in all major mainland cities”
Also from the SCMP: “Leung said his team’s research showed self-sustaining human-to-human transmission was already happening in all major mainland cities and warned that a pandemic might be close. ‘We have to be prepared, that this particular epidemic may be about to become a global epidemic,’ he said.”
According to the researchers’ model, the coronavirus pandemic will continue to spread rapidly across China’s major cities, peaking in “late April or early May” with “150,000 new cases” every day.
Lead researcher Gabriel Leung called for “draconian measures” across China to stop the spread of the pandemic.
Flights from China are still arriving each hour into U.S. airports such as Los Angeles and Seattle. Six coronavirus cases are now confirmed in the United States, with at least one of those confirmed in California. All the confirmed cases involved air travel passengers who had recently visited Wuhan province. It is almost certain that they exposed other travelers during their international flights. According to The Lancet, 83% of those who are exposed to coronavirus become infected with it. With an incubation time of 2 – 14 days, it’s still too early to know how many other people may be carrying this pandemic in the United States.
Five million people left Wuhan before quarantine went into effect
Several days ago, Natural News reported that at least 300,000 residents of Wuhan had fled the city before the quarantine went into effect. Now, Wuhan mayor Zhou Xianwang has confirmed that news, expanding it to five million residents who fled.
“About 5 million residents left Wuhan before the lockdown because of the deadly coronavirus epidemic and the Spring Festival holiday, mayor Zhou Xianwang revealed on Sunday, as health officials warned the virus’ ability to spread was getting stronger,” reports the SCMP.
According to official sources in China, confirmed cases of coronavirus are now cropping up in Beijing. It is not yet known exactly how many Chinese from Wuhan took international flights and may have carried the virus to other nations, but infection numbers continue to increase in the United States and Europe, although the number of officially confirmed cases still remains low.
Hong Kong University is calling on Chinese authorities to close all schools, workplaces and social gatherings in order to stop the pandemic from spreading.
The economic impacts of such decisions are barely being realized yet by journalists and investors. The U.S. stock market took a hit today as airline stocks plummeted, but the broader implications of China effectively cancelling all business operations for two weeks has not yet been factored into the markets. If this pandemic continues to spread, the economic impacts will take a devastating toll on a global scale.


newswars--2020-01-27--Inside The Fog That Killed Kobe Bryant

Inside The Fog That Killed Kobe Bryant

Alex Jones discusses the conditions surrounding Kobe Bryant ’ s tragic helicopter crash while standing in the midst of a @ @ @

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newswars--2020-01-27--Palestinian Leader Rejects Trump’s Offer to Discuss ‘Deal of the Century’ Peace Plan – Report

Previously , Palestinian lawmaker and former chief negotiator Saeb Erekat warned that the PLO could withdraw from the Oslo Accords , signed in 1993 and 1995 , if Trump publishes his plan .
These agreements marked the start of a peace process between the Palestinians and Israel , while also establishing the Palestinian Authority .
The head of the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA ) , Mahmoud Abbas , has turned down an offer from US President Donald Trump to discuss his “ deal of the century ” peace plan , AFP reported , citing anonymous Palestinian officials .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made several attempts to reach Abbas in recent months , including via third-parties , but to no avail .
According to one of the news agency ’ s sources , the PNA leader is not planning to discuss any plan until a two state-solution envisaging the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel is recognized by the US .
This goes in line with earlier PNA fears that Trump ’ s deal seeks to bury its dreams of establishing a Palestinian state .
Palestinian leaders have claimed that they have not been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the peace plan , according to Reuters .
Trump earlier announced that the plan would be published ahead of his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
The discussions are scheduled to be held on 28 January , but media reports have claimed that the two might meet as early as 27 January .
Trump is also planning to discuss the deal with the Israeli prime minister ’ s main political rival , head of the Blue and White Alliance Benny Gantz , on 27 January .
The imminent publication of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the PNA .
One of its lawmakers and former chief negotiator during the 1990s , Saeb Erekat , warned on 26 January that the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) could withdraw from the Oslo Accords , which saw the organization denounce the use of violence against Israel and recognize its right to exist .
Deal of the Century About to Be Released The release of Trump ’ s peace plan , dubbed the “ deal of the century ” , has been postponed on several occasions , with the president ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic portion of it in June 2019 .
According to it , the US suggests investing $ 50 billion in the Palestinian territories and neighboring Arab states to resurrect the local economy and build a transport line between the Gaza Strip and the PNA-controlled parts of the West Bank .
The political part of the deal remains unknown , including whether or not it involves the creation of a Palestinian state , something that the PNA requires from any peace deal .
Some media reports have claimed that the draft deal includes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without its own military and without its capital in Jerusalem .
The deal has already been denounced by two major negotiating parties , the PNA and Hamas , who stated that the US is not fit to be a mediator after it allegedly showed bias towards Israel with its decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state .
As China attempts to maintain information dominance over the release of the Coronavirus and while rumors of President Trump spreading a bio weapon swirl around from the belly of the mainstream media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insight into the culture of the elite .

Previously, Palestinian lawmaker and former chief negotiator Saeb Erekat warned that the PLO could withdraw from the Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 and 1995, if Trump publishes his plan.
These agreements marked the start of a peace process between the Palestinians and Israel, while also establishing the Palestinian Authority.
The head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, has turned down an offer from US President Donald Trump to discuss his “deal of the century” peace plan, AFP reported, citing anonymous Palestinian officials. The sources say that the Trump administration has made several attempts to reach Abbas in recent months, including via third-parties, but to no avail.
According to one of the news agency’s sources, the PNA leader is not planning to discuss any plan until a two state-solution envisaging the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel is recognized by the US. This goes in line with earlier PNA fears that Trump’s deal seeks to bury its dreams of establishing a Palestinian state.
Palestinian leaders have claimed that they have not been invited to Washington for any discussions of the peace plan, according to Reuters.
Trump earlier announced that the plan would be published ahead of his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The discussions are scheduled to be held on 28 January, but media reports have claimed that the two might meet as early as 27 January. Trump is also planning to discuss the deal with the Israeli prime minister’s main political rival, head of the Blue and White Alliance Benny Gantz, on 27 January.
The imminent publication of the plan has not been well received by the PNA. One of its lawmakers and former chief negotiator during the 1990s, Saeb Erekat, warned on 26 January that the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) could withdraw from the Oslo Accords, which saw the organization denounce the use of violence against Israel and recognize its right to exist.
Deal of the Century About to Be Released
The release of Trump’s peace plan, dubbed the “deal of the century”, has been postponed on several occasions, with the president’s adviser, Kushner, revealing only the economic portion of it in June 2019. According to it, the US suggests investing $50 billion in the Palestinian territories and neighboring Arab states to resurrect the local economy and build a transport line between the Gaza Strip and the PNA-controlled parts of the West Bank.
The political part of the deal remains unknown, including whether or not it involves the creation of a Palestinian state, something that the PNA requires from any peace deal. Some media reports have claimed that the draft deal includes the establishment of a Palestinian state, but without its own military and without its capital in Jerusalem.
The deal has already been denounced by two major negotiating parties, the PNA and Hamas, who stated that the US is not fit to be a mediator after it allegedly showed bias towards Israel with its decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
As China attempts to maintain information dominance over the release of the Coronavirus and while rumors of President Trump spreading a bio weapon swirl around from the belly of the mainstream media, John McCain’s widow shared insight into the culture of the elite.


newswars--2020-01-27--Watch: Kaitlin Bennett Invades Women’s March

Infowars ’ Kaitlin Bennett attended the Women ’ s March in Washington , D.C. to interview demonstrators on a variety @ @ @ @ @ first video , Bennett asks marchers if they ’ re bothered by the fact that @ @ @ @ @ frontrunners are all white .
Predictably , the majority of the liberal voters were upset @ @ @ @ @ party and care more about their candidate ’ s skin color than their platform .
@ @ @ @ @ find out if women ’ s rights include the right to defend themselves with whatever @ @ @ @ @ so .
The majority of march attendees support a woman ’ s “ right to @ @ @ @ @ abortion , but not their right to choose how to protect themselves .
Lastly , @ @ @ @ @ demonstrators get triggered by Kaitlin ’ s presence as she walked through the protest alongside @ @ @

Infowars’ Kaitlin Bennett attended the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. to interview demonstrators on a variety of topics.
In the first video, Bennett asks marchers if they’re bothered by the fact that the Democratic Party’s frontrunners are all white.
Predictably, the majority of the liberal voters were upset by the whiteness of the party and care more about their candidate’s skin color than their platform.
Next, Bennett wanted to find out if women’s rights include the right to defend themselves with whatever firearm deemed necessary to do so.
The majority of march attendees support a woman’s “right to choose” to have an abortion, but not their right to choose how to protect themselves.
Lastly, watch Women’s March demonstrators get triggered by Kaitlin’s presence as she walked through the protest alongside Alex Jones.


newswars--2020-01-27--How Earth climate models help picture life on unimaginable worlds

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA ’ s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt , Maryland , thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching .
Day and night , they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second .
These machines collectively are known as NASA ’ s Discover supercomputer and they are tasked with running sophisticated climate models to predict Earth ’ s future climate .
But now , they ’ re also sussing out something much farther away : whether any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planets beyond our solar system discovered in the past two decades could support life .
Scientists are finding that the answer not only is yes , but that it ’ s yes under a range of surprising conditions compared to Earth .
This revelation has prompted many of them to grapple with a question vital to NASA ’ s search for life beyond Earth .
Is it possible that our notions of what makes a planet suitable for life are too limiting ?
The next generation of powerful telescopes and space observatories will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instruments will allow scientists for the first time to analyze the atmospheres of the most tantalizing planets out there : rocky ones , like Earth , that could have an essential ingredient for life—liquid water—flowing on their surfaces .
For the time being , it ’ s difficult to probe far-off atmospheres .
Sending a spacecraft to the closest planet outside our solar system , or exoplanet , would take 75,000 years with today ’ s technology .
Even with powerful telescopes nearby exoplanets are virtually impossible to study in detail .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small and too drowned out by the light of their stars for scientists to make out the faint light signatures they reflect—signatures that could reveal the chemistry of life at the surface .
In other words , detecting the ingredients of the atmospheres around these phantom planets , as many scientists like to point out , is like standing in Washington , D.C. , and trying to glimpse a firefly next to a searchlight in Los Angeles .
This reality makes climate models critical to exploration , said chief exoplanetary scientist Karl Stapelfeldt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California .
“ The models make specific , testable predictions of what we should see , ” he said .
“ These are very important for designing our future telescopes and observing strategies.
” In scanning the cosmos with large ground-based and space telescopes , astronomers have discovered an eclectic assortment of worlds that seem drawn from the imagination .
“ For a long time , scientists were really focused on finding Sun- and Earth-like systems .
That ’ s all we knew , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ astrophysicist who led the 2014 discovery of Earth-sized planet Kepler-186f .
“ But we found out that there ’ s this whole crazy diversity in planets .
We found planets as small as the Moon .
We found giant planets .
And we found some that orbit tiny stars , giant stars and multiple stars.
” Indeed , most of the planets detected by NASA ’ s Kepler space telescope and the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , as well as ground-based observations , don ’ t exist in our solar system .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrestrial Earth and a gaseous Uranus , which is four times bigger than this planet .
Planets closest in size to Earth , and most likely in theory to have habitable conditions , so far have been found only around “ red dwarf ” stars , which make up a vast majority of stars in the galaxy .
But that ’ s likely because red dwarfs are smaller and dimmer than the Sun , so the signal from planets orbiting them is easier for telescopes to detect .
Because red dwarfs are small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than Mercury is to the Sun—to stay gravitationally attached to them .
And because red dwarfs are cool , compared to all other stars , planets have to be closer to them to draw enough heat to allow liquid water to pool on their surfaces .
Among the most alluring recent discoveries in red dwarf systems are planets like Proxima Centauri b , or simply Proxima b.
It ’ s the closest exoplanet .
There are also seven rocky planets in the nearby system TRAPPIST-1 .
Whether or not these planets could sustain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Scientists point out that red dwarfs can spew up to 500 times more harmful ultraviolet and X-ray radiation at their planets than the Sun ejects into the solar system .
On the face of it , this environment would strip atmospheres , evaporate oceans and fry DNA on any planet close to a red dwarf .
Yet , maybe not .
Earth climate models are showing that rocky exoplanets around red dwarfs could be habitable despite the radiation .
The Magic is in the Clouds Anthony Del Genio is a recently retired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City .
During his career he simulated the climates of Earth and of other planets , including Proxima b. Del Genio ’ s team recently simulated possible climates on Proxima b to test how many would leave it warm and wet enough to host life .
This type of modeling work helps NASA scientists identify a handful of promising planets worthy of more rigorous study with NASA ’ s forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope .
“ While our work can ’ t tell observers if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can tell them whether a planet is smack in the midrange of good candidates to search further , ” Del Genio said .
Proxima b orbits Proxima Centauri in a three-star system located just 4.2 light years from the Sun .
Besides that , scientists don ’ t know much about it .
They believe it ’ s rocky , based on its estimated mass , which is slightly larger than Earth ’ s .
Scientists can infer mass by watching how much Proxima b tugs on its star as it orbits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that it ’ s 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun .
Therefore , it takes the planet only 11.2 days to make one orbit ( Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun once ) .
Physics tells scientists that this cozy arrangement could leave Proxima b gravitationally locked to its star , like the Moon is gravitationally locked to Earth .
If true , one side of Proxima b faces the star ’ s intense radiation while the other one freezes in the darkness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t bode well for life on either side .
But Del Genio ’ s simulations show that Proxima b , or any planet with similar characteristics , could be habitable despite the forces conspiring against it .
“ And the clouds and oceans play a fundamental role in that , ” Del Genio said .
Del Genio ’ s team upgraded an Earth climate model first developed in the 1970s to create a planetary simulator called ROCKE-3-D .
Whether Proxima b has an atmosphere is an open and critical question that will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But Del Genio ’ s team assumed that it does .
With each simulation Del Genio ’ s team varied the types and amounts of greenhouse gases in Proxima b ’ s air .
They also changed the depth , size , and salinity of its oceans and adjusted the ratio of land to water to see how these tweaks would influence the planet ’ s climate .
Models such as ROCKE-3-D begin with only grains of basic information about an exoplanet : its size , mass , and distance from its star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watching the light from a star dip as a planet crosses in front of it , or by measuring the gravitational tugging on a star as a planet circles it .
These scant physical details inform equations that comprise up to a million lines of computer code needed to build the most sophisticated climate models .
The code instructs a computer like NASA ’ s Discover supercomputer to use established rules of nature to simulate global climate systems .
Among many other factors , climate models consider how clouds and oceans circulate and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interacts with a planet ’ s atmosphere and surface .
When Del Genio ’ s team ran ROCKE-3-D on Discover they saw that Proxima b ’ s hypothetical clouds acted like a massive sun umbrella by deflecting radiation .
This could lower the temperature on Proxima b ’ s sun-facing side from too hot to warm .
Other scientists have found that Proxima b could form clouds so massive they would blot out the entire sky if one were looking up from the surface .
“ If a planet is gravitationally locked and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of clouds forms in front of the star , always pointing towards it .
This is due to a force known as the Coriolis effect , which causes convection at the location where the star is heating the atmosphere , ” said Ravi Kopparapu , a NASA Goddard planetary scientist who also models the potential climates of exoplanets .
“ Our modeling shows that Proxima b could look like this.
” In addition to making Proxima b ’ s day side more temperate than expected , a combination of atmosphere and ocean circulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planet , thereby transporting heat to the cold side .
“ So you not only keep the atmosphere on the night side from freezing out , you create parts on the night side that actually maintain liquid water on the surface , even though those parts see no light , ” Del Genio said .
Taking a New Look at an Old Role Model Atmospheres are envelopes of molecules around planets .
Besides helping maintain and circulate heat , atmospheres distribute gases that nourish life or are produced by it .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists will look for in the atmospheres of exoplanets .
But what exactly they should be looking for is still undecided .
Earth ’ s is the only evidence scientists have of the chemistry of a life-sustaining atmosphere .
Yet , they have to be cautious when using Earth ’ s chemistry as a model for the rest of the galaxy .
Simulations from Goddard planetary scientist Giada Arney , for instance , show that even something as simple as oxygen—the quintessential sign of plant life and photosynthesis on modern Earth—could present a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something interesting .
Had alien civilizations pointed their telescopes toward Earth billions of years ago hoping to find a blue planet swimming in oxygen , they would have been disappointed ; maybe they would have turned their telescopes toward another world .
But instead of oxygen , methane could have been the best biosignature to look for 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago .
This molecule was produced in abundance back then , likely by the microorganisms quietly flourishing in the oceans .
“ What is interesting about this phase of Earth ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alien compared to modern Earth , ” Arney said .
“ There was no oxygen yet , so it wasn ’ t even a pale blue dot .
It was a pale orange dot , ” she said , referencing the orange haze produced by the methane smog that may have shrouded early Earth .
Findings like this one , Arney said , “ have broadened our thinking about what ’ s possible among exoplanets , ” helping expand the list of biosignatures planetary scientists will look for in distant atmospheres .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theoretical—meaning scientists haven ’ t had an opportunity to test them in the real world—they offer a blueprint for future observations .
One major goal of simulating climates is to identify the most promising planets to turn to with the Webb telescope and other missions so that scientists can use limited and expensive telescope time most efficiently .
Additionally , these simulations are helping scientists create a catalog of potential chemical signatures that they will one day detect .
Having such a database to draw from will help them quickly determine the type @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decide whether to keep probing or turn their telescopes elsewhere .
Discovering life on distant planets is a gamble , Del Genio noted : “ So if we want to observe most wisely , we have to take recommendations from climate models , because that ’ s just increasing the odds .
”

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching.
Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second. These machines collectively are known as NASA’s Discover supercomputer and they are tasked with running sophisticated climate models to predict Earth’s future climate.
But now, they’re also sussing out something much farther away: whether any of the more than 4,000 curiously weird planets beyond our solar system discovered in the past two decades could support life.
Scientists are finding that the answer not only is yes, but that it’s yes under a range of surprising conditions compared to Earth. This revelation has prompted many of them to grapple with a question vital to NASA’s search for life beyond Earth. Is it possible that our notions of what makes a planet suitable for life are too limiting?
The next generation of powerful telescopes and space observatories will surely give us more clues. These instruments will allow scientists for the first time to analyze the atmospheres of the most tantalizing planets out there: rocky ones, like Earth, that could have an essential ingredient for life—liquid water—flowing on their surfaces.
For the time being, it’s difficult to probe far-off atmospheres. Sending a spacecraft to the closest planet outside our solar system, or exoplanet, would take 75,000 years with today’s technology. Even with powerful telescopes nearby exoplanets are virtually impossible to study in detail. The trouble is that they’re too small and too drowned out by the light of their stars for scientists to make out the faint light signatures they reflect—signatures that could reveal the chemistry of life at the surface.
In other words, detecting the ingredients of the atmospheres around these phantom planets, as many scientists like to point out, is like standing in Washington, D.C., and trying to glimpse a firefly next to a searchlight in Los Angeles. This reality makes climate models critical to exploration, said chief exoplanetary scientist Karl Stapelfeldt, who’s based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“The models make specific, testable predictions of what we should see,” he said. “These are very important for designing our future telescopes and observing strategies.”
When a planet crosses directly between us and its star, we see the star dim slightly because the planet is blocking out a portion of the light. Measuring these dips in starlight is one technique, which is known as the “transit method,” that scientists use to identify exoplanets. Scientists make a plot called a “light curve” which shows the brightness of the star over time. Using this plot, scientists can see what percentage of the star’s light the planet blocks and how long it takes the planet to cross the disk of the star, information that helps them estimate the planet’s distance from the star and its mass. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Is the Solar System a Good Role Model?
In scanning the cosmos with large ground-based and space telescopes, astronomers have discovered an eclectic assortment of worlds that seem drawn from the imagination.
“For a long time, scientists were really focused on finding Sun- and Earth-like systems. That’s all we knew,” said Elisa Quintana, a NASA Goddard astrophysicist who led the 2014 discovery of Earth-sized planet Kepler-186f. “But we found out that there’s this whole crazy diversity in planets. We found planets as small as the Moon. We found giant planets. And we found some that orbit tiny stars, giant stars and multiple stars.”
Indeed, most of the planets detected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope and the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, as well as ground-based observations, don’t exist in our solar system. They fall between the size of a terrestrial Earth and a gaseous Uranus, which is four times bigger than this planet.
Planets closest in size to Earth, and most likely in theory to have habitable conditions, so far have been found only around “red dwarf” stars, which make up a vast majority of stars in the galaxy. But that’s likely because red dwarfs are smaller and dimmer than the Sun, so the signal from planets orbiting them is easier for telescopes to detect.
Because red dwarfs are small, planets have to lap uncomfortably close—closer than Mercury is to the Sun—to stay gravitationally attached to them. And because red dwarfs are cool, compared to all other stars, planets have to be closer to them to draw enough heat to allow liquid water to pool on their surfaces.
Among the most alluring recent discoveries in red dwarf systems are planets like Proxima Centauri b, or simply Proxima b. It’s the closest exoplanet. There are also seven rocky planets in the nearby system TRAPPIST-1. Whether or not these planets could sustain life is still a matter of debate. Scientists point out that red dwarfs can spew up to 500 times more harmful ultraviolet and X-ray radiation at their planets than the Sun ejects into the solar system. On the face of it, this environment would strip atmospheres, evaporate oceans and fry DNA on any planet close to a red dwarf.
Yet, maybe not. Earth climate models are showing that rocky exoplanets around red dwarfs could be habitable despite the radiation.
In 2014, NASA’s Swift mission detected a record-setting series of X-ray flares unleashed by DG CVn, a nearby binary consisting of two red dwarf stars, illustrated here. At its peak, the initial flare was brighter in X-rays than the combined light from both stars at all wavelengths under normal conditions. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
The Magic is in the Clouds
Anthony Del Genio is a recently retired planetary climate scientist from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. During his career he simulated the climates of Earth and of other planets, including Proxima b.
Del Genio’s team recently simulated possible climates on Proxima b to test how many would leave it warm and wet enough to host life. This type of modeling work helps NASA scientists identify a handful of promising planets worthy of more rigorous study with NASA’s forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
“While our work can’t tell observers if any planet is habitable or not, we can tell them whether a planet is smack in the midrange of good candidates to search further,” Del Genio said.
Proxima b orbits Proxima Centauri in a three-star system located just 4.2 light years from the Sun. Besides that, scientists don’t know much about it. They believe it’s rocky, based on its estimated mass, which is slightly larger than Earth’s. Scientists can infer mass by watching how much Proxima b tugs on its star as it orbits it.
The problem with Proxima b is that it’s 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun. Therefore, it takes the planet only 11.2 days to make one orbit (Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun once). Physics tells scientists that this cozy arrangement could leave Proxima b gravitationally locked to its star, like the Moon is gravitationally locked to Earth. If true, one side of Proxima b faces the star’s intense radiation while the other one freezes in the darkness of space in a planetary recipe that doesn’t bode well for life on either side.
But Del Genio’s simulations show that Proxima b, or any planet with similar characteristics, could be habitable despite the forces conspiring against it. “And the clouds and oceans play a fundamental role in that,” Del Genio said.
Del Genio’s team upgraded an Earth climate model first developed in the 1970s to create a planetary simulator called ROCKE-3-D. Whether Proxima b has an atmosphere is an open and critical question that will hopefully be settled by future telescopes. But Del Genio’s team assumed that it does.
With each simulation Del Genio’s team varied the types and amounts of greenhouse gases in Proxima b’s air. They also changed the depth, size, and salinity of its oceans and adjusted the ratio of land to water to see how these tweaks would influence the planet’s climate.
Models such as ROCKE-3-D begin with only grains of basic information about an exoplanet: its size, mass, and distance from its star. Scientists can infer these things by watching the light from a star dip as a planet crosses in front of it, or by measuring the gravitational tugging on a star as a planet circles it.
These scant physical details inform equations that comprise up to a million lines of computer code needed to build the most sophisticated climate models. The code instructs a computer like NASA’s Discover supercomputer to use established rules of nature to simulate global climate systems. Among many other factors, climate models consider how clouds and oceans circulate and interact and how radiation from a sun interacts with a planet’s atmosphere and surface.
When Del Genio’s team ran ROCKE-3-D on Discover they saw that Proxima b’s hypothetical clouds acted like a massive sun umbrella by deflecting radiation. This could lower the temperature on Proxima b’s sun-facing side from too hot to warm.
Other scientists have found that Proxima b could form clouds so massive they would blot out the entire sky if one were looking up from the surface.
“If a planet is gravitationally locked and rotating slowly on its axis a circle of clouds forms in front of the star, always pointing towards it. This is due to a force known as the Coriolis effect, which causes convection at the location where the star is heating the atmosphere,” said Ravi Kopparapu, a NASA Goddard planetary scientist who also models the potential climates of exoplanets. “Our modeling shows that Proxima b could look like this.”
In addition to making Proxima b’s day side more temperate than expected, a combination of atmosphere and ocean circulation would move warm air and water around the planet, thereby transporting heat to the cold side. “So you not only keep the atmosphere on the night side from freezing out, you create parts on the night side that actually maintain liquid water on the surface, even though those parts see no light,” Del Genio said.
This is an excerpt of Fortran code from the ROCKE-3D model that calculates the details of the orbit of any planet around its star. This has been modified from the original Earth model so that it can handle any kind of planet in any kind of orbit, including planets that are “tidally locked,” with one side always facing the star. This code is needed to predict how high in the sky of a planet the star is at any time, and thus how strongly heated the planet is, how long day and night are, whether there are seasons, and if so, how long they are. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Anthony Del Genio
Taking a New Look at an Old Role Model
Atmospheres are envelopes of molecules around planets. Besides helping maintain and circulate heat, atmospheres distribute gases that nourish life or are produced by it.
These gases are the so-called “biosignatures” scientists will look for in the atmospheres of exoplanets. But what exactly they should be looking for is still undecided.
Earth’s is the only evidence scientists have of the chemistry of a life-sustaining atmosphere. Yet, they have to be cautious when using Earth’s chemistry as a model for the rest of the galaxy. Simulations from Goddard planetary scientist Giada Arney, for instance, show that even something as simple as oxygen—the quintessential sign of plant life and photosynthesis on modern Earth—could present a trap.
Arney’s work highlights something interesting. Had alien civilizations pointed their telescopes toward Earth billions of years ago hoping to find a blue planet swimming in oxygen, they would have been disappointed; maybe they would have turned their telescopes toward another world. But instead of oxygen, methane could have been the best biosignature to look for 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago. This molecule was produced in abundance back then, likely by the microorganisms quietly flourishing in the oceans.
“What is interesting about this phase of Earth’s history is that it was so alien compared to modern Earth,” Arney said. “There was no oxygen yet, so it wasn’t even a pale blue dot. It was a pale orange dot,” she said, referencing the orange haze produced by the methane smog that may have shrouded early Earth.
Findings like this one, Arney said, “have broadened our thinking about what’s possible among exoplanets,” helping expand the list of biosignatures planetary scientists will look for in distant atmospheres.
NASA scientists now have the most complete global picture of life on Earth to date. From the unique vantage point of space, NASA observes not only Earth’s landmasses and oceans but also the organisms that live among them. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Building a Blueprint for Atmosphere Hunters
While the lessons from planetary climate models are theoretical—meaning scientists haven’t had an opportunity to test them in the real world—they offer a blueprint for future observations.
One major goal of simulating climates is to identify the most promising planets to turn to with the Webb telescope and other missions so that scientists can use limited and expensive telescope time most efficiently. Additionally, these simulations are helping scientists create a catalog of potential chemical signatures that they will one day detect. Having such a database to draw from will help them quickly determine the type of planet they’re looking at and decide whether to keep probing or turn their telescopes elsewhere.
Discovering life on distant planets is a gamble, Del Genio noted: “So if we want to observe most wisely, we have to take recommendations from climate models, because that’s just increasing the odds.”


newswars--2020-01-27--Pseudo-Psychiatrist “Diagnoses” Trump Supporters with Mental Disorders

Back in October of 2017 , Bandy Lee—a forensic psychiatrist at Yale who doubles as a self-anointed political schoolmarm—notoriously diagnosed President Trump as having so-called narcissistic personality disorder .
Having done this without “ examining ” him , Lee violated the American Psychological Association ’ s Goldwater rule , which states that “ it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.
” Lee was widely rebuked by people throughout her profession , which , needless to say , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has gone after Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz for criticizing the view that Donald Trump is guilty of obstructing justice or other impeachable conduct .
Dershowitz , according to Lee , suffers from the same “ mental disorder ” as the president .
What makes “ experts ” like Lee so dangerous is their blithe use of “ science ” to advance what is really a kind of moral crusade .
In her introduction to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President , Lee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my career as a psychiatrist has been to find that the only people not allowed to speak about an issue are those who know the most about it .
How can I , as a medical and mental health researcher , remain a bystander in the face of one of the greatest emergencies of our time , when I have been called to step in everywhere else ?
Although she is terribly lacking in analytical rigor and has , to put it generously , a middling intellect , Lee is nonetheless bursting with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all domains and contexts other than what she calls “ one of the greatest emergencies of our time ” —namely , the Trump administration .
Quite a busy life , Bandy Lee ’ s !
Reading Lee on Lee , one is reminded of St. Paul : “ I have become all things to all men , that I might by all means save some.
” And yet , there is nothing at all scientific , objective , or falsifiable in the loose talk used by Lee to “ diagnose ” people she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we can examine the concept of narcissistic personality disorder itself , with which Lee is so keen to diagnose her political enemies .
In order to understand her claims , consider diagnostic criteria given in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-5 ) for so-called narcissistic personality disorder : A pervasive pattern of grandiosity ( in fantasy or behavior ) , need for admiration , and lack of empathy , beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts , as indicated by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ following • Has a grandiose sense of self-importance ( e.g.
, exaggerates achievements and talents , expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements ) .
• Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success , power , brilliance , beauty , or ideal love .
• Believes that he or she is “ special ” and unique and can only be understood by or should associate with , other special or high-status people ( or institutions ) .
• Has a sense of entitlement ( i.e.
, unreasonable expectation of especially favorable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her expectations ) .
• Is interpersonally exploitative ( i.e.
, takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends ) .
• Lacks empathy : is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others .
• Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her .
There are few people , I venture to say , who , if they are self-aware and honest , would not check at least a few of these , and the arbitrariness of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it takes just five out of nine checks ( nor are the odd numbers an accident ) to be diagnosed as having the “ disorder.
” Nor will every “ expert ” —each of whom has a particular subjective perspective , shaped by his own beliefs , experiences , and history — agree about what traits and behaviors fall under a category or categories .
In many circumstances , no doubt , 1–9 would all be negative traits and behaviors , but of course we don ’ t need “ science ” to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the conception of negative is a value judgment — that is to say , epistemically external to science .
Still more , it ’ s not obvious that these traits and behaviors are entirely negative by definition .
A person who is “ preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success , power , brilliance , beauty , or ideal love ” may well be narcissistic , but that doesn ’ t mean that his “ preoccupation ” won ’ t produce excellence in his endeavors .
Michael Jordan , by many accounts , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days , he was so obsessed with winning that he was frequently cruel to teammates .
But for all that , he remains possibly the greatest basketball player of all time .
As for number 5 , it is rather ironic that about fifty years into therapy culture , with all its emphasis on the importance of the self and its feelings , there are almost certainly millions of Americans who have “ a sense of entitlement.
” One could , perhaps , pluck out most people under fifty from any number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Francisco and be hard put to find someone who does not have “ a sense of entitlement.
” At what point does it become impossible , in principle , to distinguish the vice of entitlement from what has become a cultural norm ( though only in the last fifty years or so ) ?
Note that the very concept of entitlement is intrinsically relative and comparative .
Like number 2 , already touched on , number 6 , being “ interpersonally exploitative , ” recalls Montaigne ’ s insight that the achievements of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his vices .
“ Medical diagnoses , ” observed the late psychiatrist Thomas Szasz , “ deal with objective and demonstrable lesions of the body , broken bones , diseased livers , kidneys , and so on.
” By contrast , Psychiatric diagnoses deal with behaviors that human beings display , and they have to be interpreted in moral , cultural , and legal terms and , therefore , different interpreters will arrive at different judgments .
“ Unlike the conditions treated in most other branches of medicine , ” says Marcia Angell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Journal of Medicine , there are no objective signs or tests for mental illness—no lab data or MRI findings—and the boundaries between normal and abnormal are often unclear .
That makes it possible to expand diagnostic boundaries or even create new diagnoses , in ways that would be impossible , say , in a field like cardiology .
And drug companies have every interest in inducing psychiatrists to do just that .
There is an important epistemic distinction here , indicated by both persons .
“ Lesions of the body , broken bones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so on ” are all objects in the world .
Like the brain , they are essentially bodily .
It is not so with the mind , or with so-called mental disorders , though .
Although the mind surely depends on the brain , it is , in essence , a mental process , and it follows that we can not locate concepts such as “ pattern of grandiosity ( in fantasy or behavior ) , need for admiration , and lack of empathy ” in what we ( somewhat misleadingly ) call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and precise way that a physician can determine whether you have diabetes or a diseased liver .
This limitation is clear , fortunately , from the statements and writings of some of the better psychiatrists themselves .
“ There is no definition of a mental disorder , ” says Allen Frances , lead editor of DSM–4 .
“ It ’ s bulls—t .
I mean , you just can ’ t define it.
” Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health , told psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ has 100 percent reliability and zero percent validity , ” for the diagnostic criteria lack robust justification .
University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist David Kupfer , who chaired the panel that produced the DSM–5 , told the New York Times that The problem that we ’ ve had in dealing with the data that we ’ ve had over the five to 10 years since we began the revision process is a failure of our neuroscience and biology to give us the level of diagnostic criteria , a level of sensitivity and specificity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the diagnostic manual .
“ Contemporary ‘ biological ’ psychiatrists tacitly recognized that mental illnesses are not , and can not be , brain diseases , ” wrote Szasz .
Once a putative disease becomes a proven disease , it ceases to be classified as a mental disorder and is reclassified as bodily disease .
For Szasz , psychiatry , in order to be legitimate , needs to become part of neurology .
But that is never going to happen , because psychiatry is not a science so much as a humanistic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever edition , is hardly more “ scientific ” than The Nicomachean Ethics .
Psychiatry aims to help people and , for better or worse , many want that help .
Psychiatry also facilitates social order .
But in doing all this psychiatry is entangled with lots of normative , moral , and legal issues and considerations .
Being at once of great importance and quite imperfect , psychiatry needs to be regarded with a prudent skepticism .
This brings us back to Bandy Lee .
“ I started ‘ translating ’ Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sometime in the summer , because I could see his negative influence as he tries to reform others ’ thoughts , ” she says in the Salon interview .
“ [ J ] ust about all of Donald Trump ’ s followers , ” she claims on Twitter , suffer from a “ shared psychosis.
” The vague and stilted term denotes nothing but what Lee , the “ public servant , ” doesn ’ t like .
Last year , the American Psychological Association pathologized masculinity itself , a subject I covered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Takimag column .
In my December 6 , 2019 , Takimag column , I showed how “ psychiatric experts ” try to use the fallacious brain disease model of addiction to negate the concept of free will and to absolve people from facing the consequences of their actions .
As we have seen , Bandy Lee wants to use her pseudoscience to realize partisan political ends .
There are plenty of others like her .
So , we need to keep a close eye on such “ experts , ” because they seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemies , and that means conservatives and libertarians in particular .

Back in October of 2017, Bandy Lee—a forensic psychiatrist at Yale who doubles as a self-anointed political schoolmarm—notoriously diagnosed President Trump as having so-called narcissistic personality disorder.
Having done this without “examining” him, Lee violated the American Psychological Association’s Goldwater rule, which states that “it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.” Lee was widely rebuked by people throughout her profession, which, needless to say, is hardly a MAGA crowd.
Now Lee has gone after Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz for criticizing the view that Donald Trump is guilty of obstructing justice or other impeachable conduct. Dershowitz, according to Lee, suffers from the same “mental disorder” as the president. What makes “experts” like Lee so dangerous is their blithe use of “science” to advance what is really a kind of moral crusade. In her introduction to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, Lee writes:
Possibly the oddest experience in my career as a psychiatrist has been to find that the only people not allowed to speak about an issue are those who know the most about it. How can I, as a medical and mental health researcher, remain a bystander in the face of one of the greatest emergencies of our time, when I have been called to step in everywhere else?
Although she is terribly lacking in analytical rigor and has, to put it generously, a middling intellect, Lee is nonetheless bursting with hubris. “Everywhere else” means all domains and contexts other than what she calls “one of the greatest emergencies of our time”—namely, the Trump administration. Quite a busy life, Bandy Lee’s! Reading Lee on Lee, one is reminded of St. Paul: “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”
And yet, there is nothing at all scientific, objective, or falsifiable in the loose talk used by Lee to “diagnose” people she has never met. To illustrate this, we can examine the concept of narcissistic personality disorder itself, with which Lee is so keen to diagnose her political enemies. In order to understand her claims, consider diagnostic criteria given in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) for so-called narcissistic personality disorder:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following
Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements). Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions). Requires excessive admiration. Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectation of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations). Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends). Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes.
There are few people, I venture to say, who, if they are self-aware and honest, would not check at least a few of these, and the arbitrariness of the criteria is suggested by the fact that it takes just five out of nine checks (nor are the odd numbers an accident) to be diagnosed as having the “disorder.” Nor will every “expert”—each of whom has a particular subjective perspective, shaped by his own beliefs, experiences, and history — agree about what traits and behaviors fall under a category or categories.
In many circumstances, no doubt, 1–9 would all be negative traits and behaviors, but of course we don’t need “science” to know that. Here, moreover, the conception of negative is a value judgment — that is to say, epistemically external to science. Still more, it’s not obvious that these traits and behaviors are entirely negative by definition. A person who is “preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love” may well be narcissistic, but that doesn’t mean that his “preoccupation” won’t produce excellence in his endeavors. Michael Jordan, by many accounts, is a world-class jerk. In his playing days, he was so obsessed with winning that he was frequently cruel to teammates. But for all that, he remains possibly the greatest basketball player of all time. As for number 5, it is rather ironic that about fifty years into therapy culture, with all its emphasis on the importance of the self and its feelings, there are almost certainly millions of Americans who have “a sense of entitlement.” One could, perhaps, pluck out most people under fifty from any number of bars or cafes in Brooklyn or San Francisco and be hard put to find someone who does not have “a sense of entitlement.” At what point does it become impossible, in principle, to distinguish the vice of entitlement from what has become a cultural norm (though only in the last fifty years or so)? Note that the very concept of entitlement is intrinsically relative and comparative. Like number 2, already touched on, number 6, being “interpersonally exploitative,” recalls Montaigne’s insight that the achievements of Alexander the Great derived in part from his vices.
“Medical diagnoses,” observed the late psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, “deal with objective and demonstrable lesions of the body, broken bones, diseased livers, kidneys, and so on.” By contrast,
Psychiatric diagnoses deal with behaviors that human beings display, and they have to be interpreted in moral, cultural, and legal terms and, therefore, different interpreters will arrive at different judgments.
“Unlike the conditions treated in most other branches of medicine,” says Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine,
there are no objective signs or tests for mental illness—no lab data or MRI findings—and the boundaries between normal and abnormal are often unclear. That makes it possible to expand diagnostic boundaries or even create new diagnoses, in ways that would be impossible, say, in a field like cardiology. And drug companies have every interest in inducing psychiatrists to do just that.
There is an important epistemic distinction here, indicated by both persons. “Lesions of the body, broken bones, diseased livers, kidneys, and so on” are all objects in the world. Like the brain, they are essentially bodily. It is not so with the mind, or with so-called mental disorders, though. Although the mind surely depends on the brain, it is, in essence, a mental process, and it follows that we cannot locate concepts such as “pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy” in what we (somewhat misleadingly) call the external world in the relatively straightforward and precise way that a physician can determine whether you have diabetes or a diseased liver.
This limitation is clear, fortunately, from the statements and writings of some of the better psychiatrists themselves. “There is no definition of a mental disorder,” says Allen Frances, lead editor of DSM–4. “It’s bulls—t. I mean, you just can’t define it.” Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, told psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2005 convention that the DSM “has 100 percent reliability and zero percent validity,” for the diagnostic criteria lack robust justification. University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist David Kupfer, who chaired the panel that produced the DSM–5, told the New York Times that
The problem that we’ve had in dealing with the data that we’ve had over the five to 10 years since we began the revision process is a failure of our neuroscience and biology to give us the level of diagnostic criteria, a level of sensitivity and specificity that we would be able to introduce into the diagnostic manual.
“Contemporary ‘biological’ psychiatrists tacitly recognized that mental illnesses are not, and cannot be, brain diseases,” wrote Szasz.
Once a putative disease becomes a proven disease, it ceases to be classified as a mental disorder and is reclassified as bodily disease.
For Szasz, psychiatry, in order to be legitimate, needs to become part of neurology. But that is never going to happen, because psychiatry is not a science so much as a humanistic art, and the DSM, of whatever edition, is hardly more “scientific” than The Nicomachean Ethics. Psychiatry aims to help people and, for better or worse, many want that help. Psychiatry also facilitates social order. But in doing all this psychiatry is entangled with lots of normative, moral, and legal issues and considerations. Being at once of great importance and quite imperfect, psychiatry needs to be regarded with a prudent skepticism.
This brings us back to Bandy Lee. “I started ‘translating’ Trump’s tweets as a public service sometime in the summer, because I could see his negative influence as he tries to reform others’ thoughts,” she says in the Salon interview. “[J]ust about all of Donald Trump’s followers,” she claims on Twitter, suffer from a “shared psychosis.” The vague and stilted term denotes nothing but what Lee, the “public servant,” doesn’t like. Last year, the American Psychological Association pathologized masculinity itself, a subject I covered in my January 11, 2019, Takimag column. In my December 6, 2019, Takimag column, I showed how “psychiatric experts” try to use the fallacious brain disease model of addiction to negate the concept of free will and to absolve people from facing the consequences of their actions. As we have seen, Bandy Lee wants to use her pseudoscience to realize partisan political ends. There are plenty of others like her. So, we need to keep a close eye on such “experts,” because they seek to use state power to control their enemies, and that means conservatives and libertarians in particular.


newswars--2020-01-27--Analyst Says Cases of Coronavirus Probably 10 Times Higher Than Official Number

A health care analyst says that the number of coronavirus cases is probably ten times higher than is being reported by Chinese authorities .
Raymond James health care policy analyst Chris Meekins said that the official numbers of those killed and infected by the virus is “ really a fraction ” of those who actually have contracted the disease due to China ’ s history of underreporting public health crises .
“ Based on conversations I ’ ve had with individuals both in the U.S. government and more importantly [ in China ] is that the number that have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are really a fraction of the number of people who have probably had the disease , ” Meekins told Yahoo Finance .
“ If China ’ s been reporting about 800 [ infections ] with 25 deaths , we think the number is probably 10 times that number in China right now because you had a number of misdiagnoses , ” he added .
Meekins said that in China the virus was “ a much bigger issue than people realize ” and that there will be a spike in cases within the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ count currently stands at 80 with 3,000 confirmed infections , although the virus has a two week incubation phase and can be spread during this period despite victims not having symptoms .
With tens of millions of Chinese citizens already under a de facto quarantine , lead researcher and dean of HKU ’ s faculty of medicine Gabriel Leung said that the outbreak “ may be about to become a global epidemic ” and that “ substantial , draconian measures limiting population mobility should be taken immediately.
” Leung is calling for people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ school closures and work-from-home arrangements .
Many cases of the virus could be going unreported because a lot of people caught the virus but stayed at home and recovered without going to hospital .
Mongolia announced today that it was closing its border with China and over the weekend Taiwan announced that it would bar all visitors from China in an effort to stop the spread of the virus .
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A health care analyst says that the number of coronavirus cases is probably ten times higher than is being reported by Chinese authorities.
Raymond James health care policy analyst Chris Meekins said that the official numbers of those killed and infected by the virus is “really a fraction” of those who actually have contracted the disease due to China’s history of underreporting public health crises.
“Based on conversations I’ve had with individuals both in the U.S. government and more importantly [in China] is that the number that have been reported out of China on this disease are really a fraction of the number of people who have probably had the disease,” Meekins told Yahoo Finance.
“If China’s been reporting about 800 [infections] with 25 deaths, we think the number is probably 10 times that number in China right now because you had a number of misdiagnoses,” he added.
Meekins said that in China the virus was “a much bigger issue than people realize” and that there will be a spike in cases within the United States very soon.
The official death count currently stands at 80 with 3,000 confirmed infections, although the virus has a two week incubation phase and can be spread during this period despite victims not having symptoms.
With tens of millions of Chinese citizens already under a de facto quarantine, lead researcher and dean of HKU’s faculty of medicine Gabriel Leung said that the outbreak “may be about to become a global epidemic” and that “substantial, draconian measures limiting population mobility should be taken immediately.”
Leung is calling for people to avoid mass gatherings as well as school closures and work-from-home arrangements.
Many cases of the virus could be going unreported because a lot of people caught the virus but stayed at home and recovered without going to hospital.
Mongolia announced today that it was closing its border with China and over the weekend Taiwan announced that it would bar all visitors from China in an effort to stop the spread of the virus.
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