Midday open thread. Confirmed: 2015 hottest year yet; Super Bowl champ wishes he'd never played
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is The five stages of social media grief:
• Confirmed: 2015 hottest year ever recorded:
Data released on Wednesday by the UK Met Office shows the average global temperature in 2015 was 0.75C higher than the long-term average between 1961 and 1990, much higher than the 0.57C in 2014, which itself was a record. The Met Office also expects 2016 to set a new record, meaning the global temperature records will have been broken for three years running.
Temperature data released in the US on Wednesday by Nasa and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also showed 2015 shattered previous records.
• Jebya mangles Malia’s name while trashing Obama family:
Bush slammed Michelle Obama for failing to attend a California summit between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping that took place in 2013, Politico reported.
"The scandal in China was that Mrs. Obama and the United States government, and the United States, therefore, were insulting China and its first couple by not being there," Bush said. "And every meeting I had in Beijing started out for the first 10 minutes lambasting me about why it was, as an American, why it was that we insulted China. And I’m thinking, you know what, it could be that Mrs. Obama was worried about the science project of Malayla."
• Dissolvable electronics implanted in brain monitor health and then vanish:
From the folds and crinkles of a living brain, a fleeting fleck of electronics smaller than a grain of rice can wirelessly relay critical health information and then gently fade away.
The transient sensors, which can measure pressure, temperature, pH, motion, flow, and potentially specific biomolecules, stand to permanently improve patient care, researchers said. With a wireless, dissolving sensor, doctors could ditch the old versions that require tethering patients to medical equipment and performing invasive surgery to remove, which adds risks of infections and complications to already vulnerable patients.
• Super Bowl champion Antwaan Randle El wishes he hadn’t decided to play football for a living:
The former Thornton and Indiana star realizes that means he wouldn’t have a Super Bowl ring. And he wouldn’t have the fame that comes with having thrown a touchdown pass in the NFL’s championship game.
But the former receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins also knows there’s a good chance he wouldn’t be suffering memory lapses or having trouble walking down the stairs at age 36 if he had taken another career path.
• Ninth baby orca in a year confirmed in Puget Sound:
A group of killer whales that frequent B.C. waters have welcomed a new calf into the fold.
Researchers spotted the baby orca, dubbed J55, swimming with the J pod of southern resident killer whales in Puget Sound Monday.
• Most of America's largest police departments allow officers to choke, strangle, and hog-tie people.
• Is the United States on the verge of another recession? Depends on whom you talk to: But “it goes without saying that the state of the economy has implications for that little election thing we’ll be doing in about 10 months. It would behoove everyone involved—particularly on the Democratic side —to pay attention to what’s going on, and formulate a response. I hope it won’t be needed, and I hope it’s not too late. But you never know.”
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Palin dumpster tossed onto Trump fire, while Track flirts with GunFAIL. The world’s oceans might soon be more plastic than fish. Republican legislators still fascinated with kiddie parts. Joan McCarter rounds up the latest Congressional Gop foibles.
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