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In 1940, the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) built this 1,400,000-volt X-ray generator, the most powerful of its kind at the time. The machine was designed to deliver X-rays at an extremely stable voltage, a necessary attribute for the development of standard radiation dosage measurements as well as for research and testing of equipment to protect against X-ray radiation.

While X-rays were known to be dangerous much earlier than 1940, there wasn’t a good understanding of exactly how much exposure was bad for humans, or what kinds of materials offered effective amounts of protection. At the time, for example, concrete was commonly used to absorb and scatter X-rays, but nobody knew exactly how well it worked. Testing at NBS revealed that concrete responded differently depending on if the radiation was narrow beam or broad beam, and the results helped establish guidelines on radiation-resistant construction. The agency also established the first U.S. standards for X-ray exposure; the chalkboard in the 1959 photo above shows calculated tissue doses for safe radiation exposure.

The man at the chalkboard is Lauriston S. Taylor, chief of the NBS X-ray section. Taylor, who was born in 1902, became interested in X-rays as a boy, after Thomas Edison gave him a cold-cathode X-ray tube during a school trip to Edison’s lab. After dropping out of college because he couldn’t afford tuition, Taylor spent a year at Bell Telephone Laboratories and later finished his doctorate at Cornell, where he studied electronics and radiology. A one-year position studying the effects of X-rays at the National Bureau of Standards turned into 28 years working on radiation dosimetry and radiation protection. By 1951, Taylor was chief of the atomic and radiation physics division at NBS, which became the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1988.


http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/this-giant-xray-generator-helped-set-safe-doses-for-radiation

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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-middle-class-students-adv2016-story.html

If you're family makes so much money in California, it's likely that you don't belong here.

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LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/china-oysters-denmark.html

ARCHIVE: http://archive.is/l7BFD

"Are you gonna eat that?"

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Posting it here because, independent of your opinion on lolicon, this will have a huge impact on the anime community as a whole.

Copy paste bellow

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http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Two-years-jail-for-Carlisle-man-who-contacted-boy-7-3637733a-0a81-4bea-bb03-6a30866d8027-ds

This guy lives in my town. According to the article, he's retarded and doesn't understand that he's doing anything wrong (he called police).

Does he belong in jail or should he be institutionalised someplace specifically for tards?

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/france-is-facebook-s-fake-news-litmus-test-as-elections-near-end

>In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country’s social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.

>One example: Emmanuel Macron’s run was being financed by his former employer Rothschild & Co. and aimed solely at defending capitalism. Another gem asserted that the founder of Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Front is growing marijuana on his country estate.

>With France due to elect a new president May 7 and nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen making a strong showing in the polls, efforts by Facebook Inc. to Twitter Inc. to stop fake news from spreading on their platforms are being tested.

>“We see foreign meddling, people who offer their own version of the facts, and users who contest the veracity of reports by well-established media outlets,” said Jonathan Deitch, Chief Executive Officer of Bakamo.Social, a consulting firm that estimates a quarter of the links shared on social networks about the French elections probably point to fake news. The report, based on 8 million links from 800 sites between November and April, showed as many as 50 percent of sources of fake news were linked to Russian websites or accounts.

>France’s political establishment started expressing concerns that fake news might help propel Le Pen to a populist triumph months before the first round of the French vote on April 23. Voices amplified as Macron was hit by a fake news campaign earlier this year, and a U.S. senator accused Russia of trying to influence events in France among other places. Le Pen meanwhile is Russia’s favorite in the race, with many Russian officials regarding Macron as the candidate most hostile to their country’s interests.
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It is said that North Korea may drop the nuke tomorrow.
Do you guys think that North Korea will do it?
I'm a high school student.sorry for my clumsy English

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17399847

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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-masturbation-bill-is-now-in-the-hands-of-11052043.php

Good luck, my Texan friends. And enjoy while you still can afford it

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Trump Tries to Deflect Flynn Vetting Questions on Obama Administration

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tries-deflect-flynn-vetting-questions-obama-administration-n752786

>President Donald Trump in an interview Friday tried to turn some of the controversy around his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, on the administration of President Barack Obama, saying the retired general was previously vetted.

>"When they say we didn't vet, well, Obama I guess didn't vet, because he was approved at the highest level of security by the Obama administration," Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum.

>"So when he came into our administration for a short period of time, he came in, he was already approved by the Obama administration and he had years left on that approval," Trump said.

>Flynn was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, before being pushed out and retiring from the Army with the rank of lieutenant general.

>Flynn is under fire for receiving nearly $34,000 in December 2015 for speaking at a gala celebrating Russian TV, and more than $500,000 for lobbying work on behalf of the Turkish government in 2016, after he left the Obama administration.

>The Pentagon is investigating whether Flynn broke the law for the payments, Democratic lawmakers said Thursday.

>A Defense Intelligence Agency letter released by Rep. Elijah Cummings which was sent in 2014 when Flynn retired specifically says Flynn cannot accept fees and gifts from foreign governments "unless congressional consent is first obtained."

>A second letter released by Cummings shows the Inspector General of the Department of Defense is investigating whether Flynn received proper permission to take the funds. A Defense Department spokesman confirmed the Flynn probe opened April 4.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-seeks-15-percent-corporate-tax-rate-even-if-it-swells-the-national-debt/2017/04/24/0c78a35c-2923-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html?utm_term=.0b8930fc07d0

>President Trump is pursuing a drastic cut in the corporate tax rate, a move that is likely to grow the national debt and breach a long-held Republican goal of curbing federal borrowing.

>The president has instructed advisers to propose cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, according to White House officials who said they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plan. The rate reduction — which independent budget experts say could cost the federal government $2.4 trillion over a decade — is larger than what House Republicans had proposed in their own plan.

>White House officials said the president would make the announcement Wednesday as part of a release of broad principles to overhaul the tax code — days before a 100-day deadline Trump had given himself for achieving most top campaign goals. They are also expected to discuss changes to the personal income tax, among other aspects of the tax code, said two White House officials.

>Trump has pledged that the tax cut in total would be the largest in U.S. history, and his advisers have said that the economic growth it stimulates would make up for any shortfall in revenue.

>“The tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday.

>But any changes would have to be backed by Congress, and passing a sweeping tax cut plan that widens the deficit would be virtually impossible on Capitol Hill without bipartisan support, in the view of key players in both parties. Many Democrats have said they will not support such a plan, making Trump’s proposal a tough political sell from the start.

>Businesses are projected to pay $340 billion in corporate taxes in 2018, roughly 10 percent of all revenue collected by the government.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39744007

>Mods and data workforce gets scammed just like the simple folk

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Oxford University sorry for eye contact racism claim - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39742670

Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be "everyday racism" after it was accused of discriminating against autistic people.

The claim was included in a list of "racial micro-aggressions" in an equality and diversity unit newsletter.

But the university was criticised for being "insensitive" to autistic people who can struggle making eye contact.

It said it had made a mistake and not taken disabilities into account.

The university originally said "racial micro-aggressions" might include: "Not making eye contact or speaking directly to people."
It described the behaviours as "subtle, everyday racism" which can be alienating.

'Discrimination'
But Twitter users criticised the newsletter and academics argued the guidance was "trivialising racism".
David M. Davis tweeted: "This is just discrimination against autistic people. One sign of autism is avoiding eye contact. How dare Oxford be so insensitive."

In a series of tweets, the university replied: "We made a mistake. Our newsletter was too brief to deal adequately and sensibly with the issue.

"We are sorry that we took no account of other reasons for difference in eye contact and social interaction, including disability.

"Oxford deeply values and works hard to support students and staff with disabilities, including those with autism or social anxiety disorder."

Emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, Prof Frank Furedi, said the newsletter's authors "need a reality check".

I can't tell if they were trolled or if this was for real?

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http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/27/525081998/scientists-hunt-hard-evidence-on-how-cop-cameras-affect-behavior?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

>New York City is set to begin giving body cameras to its police officers on Thursday.

>Under the police department's pilot program, 1,200 officers in 20 precincts will receive the cameras. The officers will also be studied by scientists to see what effect the cameras have on policing.

>As police don body cameras across the country, scientists are increasingly working with departments to figure out how the cameras change behavior — of officers and the public.

>"Is the camera having an impact on the way officers use force? Is it reducing the number of citizens' complaints? Is it having a negative impact? All of those types of things I would like to know about these cameras," says Peter Newsham, the chief of police in Washington, D.C., where a similar study is just weeks from providing its first answers.

>When officials in D.C. decided to deploy cameras a few years ago, the city happened to have a bunch of researchers who were just waiting to do a big, well-controlled study.

>The researchers designed a field experiment to systematically compare cops wearing cameras to officers without cameras in one police force, in a major American city.

>"We are a newer scientific team," says David Yokum, who works in the D.C. mayor's office. "We've got about 15 folks right now — Ph.D.s in psychology, economics, statistics, and so forth." Yokum directs the The Lab @ DC, which is an effort to bring the scientific method to government. Studying body-worn cameras is one of the lab's first projects.

>"It's a massively important social issue," Yokum says. "Cameras are spreading across the country at a very rapid rate."

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Russia has questioned the integrity of a French intelligence report, which blames the Syrian government for the Idlib chemical attack, emphasizing that no amount of national probes will ever make up for the absence of an impartial international investigation.

“It seems that these countries either do not trust the OPCW, or trying to influence its work in the direction they need,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday referring to the latest French report that echoed previous claims by British and Turkish experts.

On Wednesday, France ‘declassified’ a 5-page document accusing Syrian government forces of carrying out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria, which reportedly killed up 100 people and injured hundreds more.

The French report in its conclusions stated that only President Bashar Assad or members of his inner circle could have ordered the strike on the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province.

The document claims the conclusions are based on samples obtained from the impact strike on the ground and a blood sample from a victim.

Earlier, the UK and France claimed that their experts have “received” samples from the site of the incident, which they passed on to OPCW labs who then identified the chemical agent used in the attack as sarin gas.

The Russian Foreign Ministry questioned the validity of the evidence and consistency of the French intelligence report in general.

Moscow also questioned the validity of the French claim that the chemical found in the sample – hexamine – was a hallmark of sarin produced by the Syrian government.

The Russian Foreign Ministry queried how the French established the “full recipe” when no ready-to-use form of sarin was ever found in the hands of Damascus and all the “precursors” of the deadly gas were exported outside Syria per 2013 agreement.

https://www.rt.com/news/386404-french-syria-chemical-attack-report/

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-class-action-lawsuit-racial-discrimination/

>An expanded lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Fox News Channel of racial discrimination “that appears more akin to Plantation-style management than a modern-day work environment.”

>The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court, adds eight former and current Fox employees to a case involving three former Fox workers and their accusations against a since-fired Fox financial executive. It also expands the case to include Dianne Brandi, Fox’s chief counsel.

>Speaking at a news conference Wednesday morning, Kelly Wright, an on-air Fox News personality and a plaintiff in the case, said he was joining the lawsuit because of “indefensible and inexcusable” alleged discrimination across departments at the network.

>“We have a culture of systemic and institutional racial bias,” Wright said. “I can no longer sit in silence.”

>Wright is the only on-air black anchor at the network, according to his attorney Douglas Wigdor. Wigdor said he expects additional plaintiffs to join the lawsuit.

>Fox News said it vehemently denies the allegations, calling them “copycat complaints.” It said Brandi denies the claims against her.

>“The allegations -- and we must remember they’re allegations -- show a systemic, pervasive problem in Fox News culture,”CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman said on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday, adding the class-action lawsuit “has incredible potential to really hurt Fox News’ bottom line.”

>The original lawsuit was filed in late March by two black women who worked in the network’s payroll department, and a third colleague later joined it. The expanded lawsuit, incorporating the other employees, seeks unspecified compensatory damages and an elimination of unlawful employment practices at Fox.