Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Future Scope:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- In search of the truth, Sojourner Truth, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Zika: This summer’s blockbuster, by Susan Grigsby
- ‘Reverse racism?’ New research on police thuggery and brutality against black Americans, by Chauncey DeVega
- The difference between ‘I’m a businessman’ Trump and the Domino’s owners who stole wages? Not much, by Ian Reifowitz
- When did the United States get so damn uptight, by Mark E Andersen
- The good future: Reclaiming utopia, by Mark Sumner
- Economists discover people don’t behave rationally, by David Akadjian
- What if Appalachia were its own state? Trump dominated the primaries there while Clinton barely won, by Stephen Wolf
- Why #GambiaRising matters to Americans, by Jon Perr
- SpaceX could help with military launches, but their primary goal is far more ambitious, by DarkSyde
• Iran is doing what it said it would do in nuclear accord:
Iran held to its accord with world powers by keeping the amount of nuclear material it produces below agreed thresholds and continuing to allow monitors wide access to facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Friday.
“The agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material at the nuclear facilities and locations outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used,” the IAEA wrote in a 5-page restricted report distributed to member governments and obtained by Bloomberg News. Iran has additionally taken steps required to allow more inspectors into the country, according to the IAEA.
• A pair of glasses were left on floor at museum and everyone thought it was an art exhibit: Teenager pulled off a similar prank with a baseball cap and a trashbin.
• 1800s shipwreck found in what used to be a part of Boston Harbor: City archaeologist Joe Bagley said it was the first time a shipwreck has been discovered in the city’s Seaport District. The area used to alternate between mudflats and dry land because of the movement of the tides. Now it’s filled in with buildings. The partially burnt wreck was discovered during construction of a 17-story building on the site. Its cargo of lime is mostly intact. No real surprise since, once wet, the lime would have been unusable for masonry and other construction.
• Searching for the brightest bioluminescent creatures:
The ability to emit light is thought to have evolved independently up to 50 times among living organisms. They use it to flirt, to defend themselves and even to deceive one another.
For reasons that will become clear, there is no definitive answer to the question "what is the brightest living thing". But here are the best candidates.
• Granddaughter of Exxon scientist who warned about climate change four decades ago shows up with questions at company’s annual meeting: The Dallas meeting was the first since InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon had concealed findings that carbon emissions would cause climate change. Shareholders rejected a series of resolutions Wednesday calling for climate action. Anna Kalinsky had a question for CEO Rex Tillerson about Exxon’s record. First, she introduced herself to everyone present.
It’s good to have the opportunity to speak to you. So, my name is Anna Kalinsky.And my grandfather, James F. Black, was a scientist for Exxon for over 40 years. He started with Standard Oil during World War II, later earned dozens of patents for Esso and, later, Exxon. In 1977, he briefed the company’s top executives on the scientific realities of climate change. He said that present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to 10 years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical, like you acknowledged on your slides. This is over 30, almost 40, years ago.
• Nestlé wants to build a water bottling plant in the middle of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert.
• Second report on GDP for the first quarter of 2016 slightly up over first report. Growth in real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product was an annualized 0.8 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to the Commerce Department. This is the second of three monthly reports on real GDP growth, each report having the advantage of more detailed information as time goes on. GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2015 was 1.4 percent. Various forecasts for the second quarter range from 2.1 percent to 2.9 percent. Most forecasters predict that real GDP for the entire year will be a few points lower than the 2.4 percent growth in 2015.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin rounds up the latest polling data & number-crunching on the delegate chase. “Regular order” is a total flop in the House. The antiquated computers running our gov’t. UT Dems enter the superdelegate reform game, but seek instant gratification.
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