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A teenager was shot to death at a New York City Housing Authority complex in Brooklyn Tuesday evening, cops said. The violence unfolded at 9 p.m. outside building eight of the Bay View Houses in Canarsie. Officers found the 15-year-old with a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to the NYPD

Most cancer screenings don’t ultimately give someone extra time beyond their regular lifespan, according to a new review of clinical trials involving more than 2.1 million people who had six kinds of common tests for cancer. But experts say this doesn’t mean you should cancel that colonoscopy or mammogram appointment. *** Depending on age, the American Cancer Society recommends regular screenings for breast cancer, cervical and colorectal cancer, and it recommends discussing screening for lung and prostate cancer with a doctor*** The strategy behind these recommendations is to catch cancer early enough — even before symptoms start — so that...

In my sub-40 years of existence, I’ve witnessed multiple market bubbles and collapses that in hindsight were predictable, but the warning signs of inevitable failure were obviously ignored. People disregard the few naysayers because their desire to be a part of an in-vogue fad outweighs any common sense.

Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts. In cycling through a sequence of shapes, an odd wheel propels itself up steep and bumpy terrain. In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling. This “odd wheel” looks simple: just six small motors linked together by plastic arms and rubber bands to form a ring about 6 inches in diameter. When the motors are powered on, it starts writhing, executing complicated squashing and stretching motions and occasionally flinging itself into the...

More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Air Force has yet to commence large-scale operations. Inactivity in the first few days could be ascribed to various factors, but the continued absence of major air operations now raises serious capability questions. One of the greatest surprises from the initial phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the inability of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) fighter and fighter-bomber fleets to establish air superiority, or to deploy significant combat power in support of the under-performing Russian ground forces. On the first day of the invasion, an...

It should be obvious to the casual observer that over the past two years, the entire planet has gone bat guano bonkers over Covid. Australia has reverted to its roots as a prison colony by herding people into covid quarantine camps. In August, 2021, New Zealand locked down its entire population of 5 million people based on a single covid case. Just last week, China’s “Covid-zero” policy caused the lockdown of the industrial city of Ningbo, home to the world’s third largest port, because of a handful of covid cases. Meanwhile, the vaccine-mandate-passport-mania continues unabated in too many countries to...

Cal Fire crews are building more confidence in getting the upper hand on the CZU fire, but despite their best efforts, evacuation orders are likely to remain in place for several days. “Over the course of the next 72-120 hours that’s anywhere from four to five days out. We will look hopefully of bringing some sort of normalcy back to the area. Obviously it’s all dependent on the weather conditions," said Incident Commander Billy See at the 6 a.m. fire briefing on Wednesday. Advertisement Crews are staging along Felton Empire Grade Road, in Felton, to begin a burnout operation Tuesday...

The world - under the god of this world - is ALWAYS at war with and fatally excludes their ETERNAL Creator's RIGHTEOUS position of ETERNAL authority when exercising their temporal existence here in time. Oh that Adam's fallen race would see that their godless workings and rebellion are for but a finite moment and will have the ETERNAL HORRIFIC consequences that will follow them after their exit from this temporal world (Eccl. 12:13-14, Acts 17:24-31, Rom. 1:18-31, Rev. 20:11-15). In fallen man's unbelief, they full right reject the ETERNAL Divine summons from on High and the Person and Work of...

The Case for Complex Dark Matter The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies. Jonathan Alcorn for Quanta MagazineJames Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, imagines what the universe would look like if dark matter interacted with itself. By: Liz KruesiAugust 20, 2015 Dark matter — the unseen 80 percent of the universe’s mass — doesn’t emit, absorb or reflect light. Astronomers know it exists only because it interacts with our slice of the ordinary universe through gravity. Hence the hunt for this...

Like megachurches, homeschooling, and Tim Tebow, “Merry Christmas” has become a religio-cultural Rorschach test. If you prefer that department stores greet you with a “Merry Christmas,” or at least wish they didn’t feel compelled to adopt the anodyne “Happy Holidays,” chances are good you’re a conservative Christian of some stripe. If, on the other hand, you prefer to talk about how ridiculous it is that anyone should care how a department store greets them, or if you prefer to mock that concern and say that people who feel that concern should (a) get a life or (b) stop trying...

As a biblical fundamentalist (one who believes in the realities and ETERNAL truths of the Holy Bible) I have one critique with those who give political commentary and analysis. The average media personality today - whether they be a Left-wing reprobate or a Conservative, REFUSES to see the world, the events at hand and the overall picture of why the world is the way it is from Almighty God’s ETERNAL perspective (2 Cor. 4:3-4, Eph. 6:12, 1 John 2:16-17). These blinded individuals (Left or Right), posses an unbelieving subjective world view which blinds them to the true realities at hand,...

The President says that “the best economic policy is one that produces more college graduates.” No doubt this is best for colleges, which have been able to increase tuition faster than inflation, year after year, secure in the knowledge that they can rake in ever-rising government subsidies and skyrocketing tuition. Students have little choice but to pay inflated tuition bills to the education industrial-complex, as they vie with each other for scarce entry-level jobs by acquiring ever more degrees that show their ability to jump through hoops and master difficult (but largely useless) skills. But is this educational arms race...

ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2010) — Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into a few, key laws described by a handful of parameters. Such simple descriptions have remained elusive for complex biological systems -- until now.Emory biophysicist Ilya Nemenman has identified parameters for several biochemical networks that distill the entire behavior of these systems into simple equivalent dynamics. The discovery may hold the potential to streamline the development of drugs and diagnostic tools, by simplifying the research models.

Induced abortion is the surgical or medical intervention in a pregnancy for the purpose of causing the death of the embryo or fetus. (If the procedure results in a live birth, the outcome is a preterm delivery, not an abortion.) Every abortion, then, is an iatrogenic death. Every post-abortion woman has undergone a real death experience - the death of her child. Grief is a natural consequence of death. Current obstetrical and psychiatric literature abounds with articles about grief following perinatal death - death due to spontaneous abortion, premature birth, stillbirth, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. However, it is only...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2010 – The complexity of the situation in northern Iraq means that more U.S. troops will remain in the region than elsewhere in the country after the March 7 elections, the commander of U.S. forces in the region said today. Video Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo, commander of U.S. Division North, said he expects more U.S. troops will be needed in Iraq’s seven northern provinces than elsewhere in the country. Cucolo commands the 21,000-member division that covers the area from the Baghdad suburbs to Iraq’s borders with Syria, Turkey and Iran. He spoke via teleconference with Pentagon...

Young Iraqi boxers give a demonstration for their peers during the Basrah Sports City Complex groundbreaking ceremony, July 20. Sports City will be a training facility for Olympians and world-class competitors, giving these children hopes and dreams of one day representing their country on the international sports stage. Photo by Sgt. Rodney Foliente, 4th Infantry Division. BASRAH — The provincial government here hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Basrah Sports City Complex, July 20. The project is slated to be completed in 2013, just in time for the city to host the 21st Gulf Cup Soccer Tournament. "I am proud...

Darwinists Topple Darwin’s Tree of Life Darwin’s “Tree of Life” is a myth. It’s based on circular reasoning. It is a pattern imposed on the data, not a fact emerging from the evidence. We should give up the search for a single tree of life (TOL) as a record of the history of life on earth, because it is a “quixotic pursuit” unlikely to succeed – and the evidence is against it. Who said this? Not creationists, but a new member of the National Academy of Sciences in his inaugural paper for the academy’s Proceedings.1 W. Ford Doolittle and Eric...

The Obama administration backed off Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s statement last week that China is “manipulating” its currency. In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden said the administration has made “no judgment” on whether the Chinese have manipulated their currency, an accusation that would have international legal ramifications. “The policy of this administration is going to be to say to China, which occasionally the last administration was reluctant to do. `You're a major player on the world scene economically, and you've got to play by the rules that

ADHAMIYAH, Iraq, Jan. 28, 2009 – As a two-time Olympian shouted instructions from the side, two boxers sparred for a crowd of onlookers to celebrate the reopening of the Adhamiyah Sports Complex in northeastern Baghdad yesterday. Two-time Olympian Farouk Changchun, left, and the Iraqi boxers he trains pose with gear donated by USA Boxing for the reopening of the Adhamiyah Sports Complex in northeastern Baghdad, Jan. 27, 2009. Changchun represented Iraq in the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zach Mott  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Following a $200,000 facelift funded through the coalition’s...

NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 8, 2007 – A new legal complex under construction here is incorporating concepts proven in forward field environments to provide a cost-effective way to support the military commissions process. Air National Guardsmen construct a commission building that will house the courtroom that’s the centerpiece of an expeditionary legal complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. About 100 Air National Guardsmen from six states are building the first known expeditionary legal complex. The complex will include a $10 million courtroom building and a 100-tent city that...