My Top News of the Week - MTNoW - Week 1 - July 25th- Aug 1st 2016

I Wish I had someone sorting through the muck compiling the good stuff - for now if you want, I'll do that for you <3

**Week of July 25th-Aug 1st **

Government

• In Secret Battle, Surveillance Court Reined in FBI Use of Information Obtained From Phone Calls

• Chelsea Manning Could Face Additional Punishment for Her Suicide Attempt

• U.S. Government Finally Pays Family of Italian Aid Worker Killed in Drone Strike

Computer Tech

• A famed hacker is grading thousands of programs - and it may revolutionize software in the process

Tech

• New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity

• Research team uses nanoparticles to break up plaque and prevent cavities

• Solar powered device that extracts water and fertilizer from urine used to make beer

• Portable device produces biologic drugs on demand

• Two-dimensional materials 'as revolutionary as graphene'

• Engineers discover highly conductive materials for more efficient electronics

Business

• Lessons From Yahoo's Fall: $125b to $5b (also refused to buy Google for $1 million in 1998)

Politics

• #Trolled: It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans - businessinsider.com

• In the Hillary Clinton Era, Democrats Welcome Lobbying Money Back Into the Convention

• Intelligence Chief Suffers Intelligence Failure Over His Own Team’s Willingness to Brief Donald Trump

• “The Two-Party System Is the Worst Case Scenario” — An Interview With the Green Party’s Jill Stein

• Hillary Clinton Talks Tough on Shadow Banking, But Blackstone Is Celebrating at the DNC

• As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More

• VIDEO SHOWS ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS BARRING BERNIE SANDERS DELEGATE FROM CONVENTION FLOOR

• Canada wants to ditch the American F-35 fighter jet—the most expensive weapons program ever

Medical & Bio

• Paralyzed Muscle Movement Can Be Restored Through Repeated Stimulation

• Novel drug therapy kills pancreatic cancer cells by reducing levels of antioxidants

• For the first time, researchers see structure that allows brain cells to communicate

• Scientists identify immunological profiles of people who make powerful HIV antibodies

• Study identifies two additional carcinogens not previously reported in e-cigarette vapor

Astronomy & The Universe

• Scientists observe a superluminous supernova that appears to have exploded twice

Environment/Climate Change

• In Siberia Hot Weather Melts Permafrost Releasing Dormant Anthrax Spores
  13 people hospitalized, 1500 reindeer dead

• Common pesticide appears to reduce live bee sperm

• A Fracking Pipeline Puts Tim Kaine’s Fossil Fuel Industry Ties to the Test

  • High chance that current atmospheric greenhouse gases commit to warmings greater than 1.5C over land: study

  • Scholars suggest China may have reached peak consumption of coal in 2013

  • CO2 can be stored underground for 10 times the length needed to avoid climatic impact: study

As this is the first Top World News of the Week I decided to throw some older 2 weeks+ articles that I think are important for everyone to see:

• Corrupt agent who investigated Silk Road suspected of another $700k heist that the inept Secret Service allowed to happen

• Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption From Dec 21, 2015 but very important

• GALLUP POLL - 62% of Americans think U.S. will likely be cashless society in their lifetime.

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