1…………> Deadly Radioactivity: Russia
The light radioactive cloud that has been detected over EU over the last year may be due to confirmed “extremely high” concentrations of a radioactive chemical element in parts of Russia. The Rosgidromet service confirmed that “probes of radioactive aerosols from monitoring stations Argayash and Novogorny were found to contain radioisotope Ru-106” between September 25 and October 1.
2…………> App w/o Code: Tara Reed
Tara Reed’s first company, Kollecto, is a Netflix-style app, which recommends personalised, affordable art to people.
“I built our app, our algorithm, our entire business and entire technology without having any technical people on my team and without writing any code,” she says. And there were a lot of people who were very interested in how I had done that.”
3…………> Yellen To Resign: Finally
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, the first woman to lead the U.S. central bank, says she will step down from its Board of Governors once her successor Jerome Powell is sworn into office, resolving a key question as to whether she would stay on in a diminished role.
4…………> Applied Global Warming: Glacier Tracking
New radar images reveal the mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) to be sitting on a rugged rock bed populated by big hills, tall cliffs and deep scour marks due to
the melting Antarctic ice stream that is currently adding most to sea-level rise than previously recognized.
5…………> Burned At The Stake: PNG Style
A young girl, the daughter of a woman who was murdered in 2013 over sorcery accusations, has been brutally tortured in Papua New Guinea after being falsely accused of practicing sorcery due to a popular belief that ‘witchcraft’ passes from mother to child.
Research shows 30 ‘witches’ are killed every year in PNG.