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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Missing Malaysian Flight Mystery Deepens: Pilot Investigated, Foul Play Suspected
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Photo Takes Aim at Obama Skeet Shooting Mystery
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Fatal Birth Defects a Mystery in Rural Washington
Fatal Birth Defects a Mystery in Rural Washington
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(Newser) – Anencephaly is a “uniformly fatal” birth defect that leaves babies born without part of their brain or skull—and it’s been striking three counties in rural Washington state at a rate at least four times the national average. But the cluster—in Yakima, Franklin, and Benton counties—remains cloaked in mystery, with no single cause pinpointed. The state’s health department and the CDC in July issued a report that cited 23 cases of anencephaly between January 2010 and January 2013. A genetic counselor has since seen eight or nine more cases of it and spina bifida, NBC News reports. Officials were first alerted by a 58-year-old nurse who had seen no more than two cases of anencephaly in her decades-long career—and then experienced two cases in a six-month span, and learned of a third.
Officials dug into the cases of the women involved, and found “no common exposures, conditions, or causes”—having reviewed everything from their education and BMI to their water supply to any medications they took, the Yakima Herald Republic noted at the time. But some are faulting officials for not actually alerting the women that they were part of a perceived cluster, or actually interviewing them. Doing so could reveal “common environmental exposures,” says a Duke genetics professor who specializes in anencephaly; she notes that research has shown a correlation between the defect and mold and pesticide exposure, and that the Central Washington area is an agriculture-heavy one. The Seattle Times previously reported on other potential risk factors: A diet lacking in folic acid, a contaminant in cornmeal, and elevated nitrates levels in drinking water. Still, the CDC maintains it could just be a coincidence. A report on the number of cases recorded in 2013 is due this spring.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Maryland mystery: Why did mall shooter do it?
Investigators are still searching for a motive this morning behind a deadly shooting at a Maryland mall on Saturday that killed two workers. Police said the shooter, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, then killed himself. Investigators have not been able to find a link between Aguilar and the victims.
By Elisha Fieldstadt, Staff Writer, NBC News
As a Maryland mall prepared to reopen Monday two days after a gunman entered the shopping center and killed two store employees and then himself, many questions remain about the tragedy.
The attack has baffled investigators and acquaintances of the shooter, a quiet, skinny teenager who graduated from high school less than a year ago and had no previous run-ins with law enforcement.
Did Aguilar know his victims?
The shooter, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, is seemingly connected to the victims, Brianna Benlolo, 21, and Tyler Johnson, 25, in a couple of small ways. Friends of Aguilar described the teen as an avid skateboarder, and the store where he killed the two young employees was a skate shop called Zumiez. Additionally, he lived less than a mile away from Benlolo in College Park, Md.
Tyler Johnson, victim of shooting at The Mall in Columbia
Regardless of the possible overlap between Aguilar and his victims, Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon said Sunday, “We have no known relationship between the victims and our shooter.” Although Benlolo and Aguilar lived in the same area and were of similar ages, Benlolo did not attend Blake High School from which Aguilar graduated, said Dana Tofig, a school representative.
McMahon said there has been speculation about a romantic relationship between the gunman and Benlolo, but investigators have not been able to establish that.
He said Monday that if the shooting were “domestic-related” he thought investigators would know more about that by this point. But he also did not rule that out.
The chief also said there was no evidence so far that Aguilar ever applied for a job at Zumiez or worked there.
Did Aguilar show warning signs of violence?
Aguilar’s mother reported him missing about two hours after the shooting on Saturday, according to Prince George’s County Police Department. This may indicate she had some feeling that her son was capable of causing danger to others or himself, although Aguilar had no criminal record, according to Howard County Police.
When police arrived at Aguilar’s home to file the missing person’s report, they found his journal. According to Prince George’s County PD, entries in the journal made an investigator “concerned for the missing person’s safety.” McMahon later said that Aguilar “does express some general unhappiness with his life” within the journal’s pages.
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A memorial site has been set up at the Mall in Columbia, Md.
And Aguilar’s college plans were diverted. A Blake Highschool newspaper page highlighting the class of 2013 and their future plans, Aguilar indicated he intended on attending Montgomery College. Elizabeth S. Homan, Montgomery’s director of communications, told NBC News that Aguilar was accepted to his first choice school in February of 2013 but never registered for classes.
What did Aguilar do during his 60 minutes in the mall?
The shooter took a cab to the Mall in Columbia. He was dropped off near the Zumiez store on the second level and waited an hour before his attack on the store.
McMahon said surveillance video shows Aguilar made “very limited movement” during that hour. He walked down one level to the food court directly below the future crime scene and then ditched a bag in a Zumiez dressing room before he opened fire.
Did Aguilar intend to harm more people?
Aguilar fired between six and eight shots and hit four people — including one person who suffered a gunshot wound to the foot. When police found Aguilar’s body, they found “a large amount of ammunition on and about him,” McMahon said.
Officers also found “two crude devices that appeared to be an attempt at making explosives using fireworks,” a Howard County police statement read. Investigators were originally concerned they would find additional explosives on Aguilar’s body or in the mall, but did not. Police did find additional ammunition in the home he shared with his mother, McMahon said.
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A message is posted on the outside of the boarded up Zumiez store where two days earlier three people were shot and killed at the Mall in Columbia January 27, 2014 in Columbia, Maryland. Authorities say Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, killed two employees at the skateboarding and surfing clothing store in the mall before fatally shooting himself. Investigators still have no motive for the shooting.
Where’d he get the gun and ammo?
Aguilar purchased his 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun legally in December. State law says that a person over the age of 18 can purchase and possess a rifle or shotgun without a permit, according to the National Rifle Association. Federal law stipulates that a gun buyer must pass a background check.
During news conferences Saturday and Sunday, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman skirted any comments about possibly fighting for stricter gun laws in Maryland. He encouraged the community to focus on “doing what we can to make the world a better place,” adding, “There will be plenty of time for a broad public policy debate.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Maryland mystery: Why did mall shooter do it?
Monday, January 13, 2014
Mystery Gas Cloud On Course To Enter Supermassive Black Hole At Milky Way’s Heart
Francie Diep
Popular Science
January 13, 2014
Astronomers expect a mysterious gas cloud to cross paths with the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy in the next few months.
Then, one of two things could happen. The cloud could plunge on in, throwing off intense X-rays as it goes.
Or, if the cloud contains a star that astronomers cannot currently see, the star will pass by unaffected, while some of the cloud enters the black hole less spectacularly.
This article was posted: Monday, January 13, 2014 at 2:34 pm
Mystery Gas Cloud On Course To Enter Supermassive Black Hole At Milky Way’s Heart
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Director Who Released Obama Birth Certificate Dies in Mystery Plane Crash
Long form document stoked suspicions of forgery
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 12, 2013
The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in a plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today.
Was Fuddy’s plane crash just a tragic accident, or was it a case of dead birth certificate forgers tell no tales?
Did she have knowledge that the release of the birth certificate was nothing more than a staged PR stunt?
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Director Who Released Obama Birth Certificate Dies in Mystery Plane Crash
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Mystery ‘alien-like creature’ seen in Bristol harbour
Miranda Prynne
Telegraph.co.uk
December 5, 2013
Experts were baffled after video footage emerged of a glowing “alien-like creature” swimming in Bristol harbour.
Stunned eyewitnesses filmed a mystery luminescent, tentacled being, which was flashing a variety of colours, floating close to the top of the water
Videos of the strange marine object in the city’s historic docks were posted on Youtube and Twitter with many claiming to have seen an alien.
This article was posted: Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Mystery ‘alien-like creature’ seen in Bristol harbour
Friday, November 29, 2013
87 Hurt When High-Speed Ferry Hits Mystery Object
(AP) – A high-speed ferry heading from Hong Kong to Macau hit an unidentified object off an outlying island in the predawn today, leaving 87 people injured, authorities and the ferry company said. The hydrofoil, carrying 107 passengers and 10 crew, struck the object at 1:15am near Hei Ling Chau, a small island in waters on the western side of Hong Kong.
The ferry was towed back to the ferry pier in central Hong Kong and the injured taken to hospital. The Hospital Authority said in a statement that 58 people were discharged while two remained in serious condition and 27 others were stable. The Marine Department said it was investigating the accident.
87 Hurt When High-Speed Ferry Hits Mystery Object
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Who Shot JFK? - Where is the mystery or conspiracy?
Over the last 50 years, people have come up with countless conspiracies about the JFK assassinations.
Some go even so far as to state ridiculous things such as the driver or Jackie shot JFK. One of the most absurd theories I came across yesterday where someone claimed that JFK had a “device” planted into is head which was set-off by Jackie to make it “seem” like an assassination….which, obviously, as is the case for many conspiracy theorists, allegedly was only a “staged event”.
One of the earliest and most often asked “mysteries” is that Oswald allegedly couldn’t have shot JFK, for whatever claimed reasons.
The closer I examine the JFK assassination, the less a mystery it really is. I am afraid to say that really NOTHING about it seems like a mystery or conspiracy to me since the evidence and the events which happened (IN MY OPINION) are pretty consistent.
* Claim that it was impossible that Oswald shot JFK, or claims about the path of the bullet etc…NOTHING mysterious about it:
There is no reason to believe that Oswald was an “impossibly perfect” shot who could not have killed Kennedy
We know that Oswald shot THREE times.
The first bullet entirely missed.
The second bullet hit JFK in the back and exited at the throat, also injured Connally.
The third bullet hit JFK’s head.
The fact that two bullets basically missed already discounts the theory that Oswald was an impossibly good shot and he couldn’t have done it.
The autopsy and all the findings are entirely consistent with that the shooter/Oswald was located in the school book depository. One can trace the path of the bullet(s) back, it’s a straight line from where Oswald was hiding, the back of Kennedy, throat –> governor.
The fatal shot is also consistent with the autopsy and Oswald’s location, with a bullet hitting the back and exiting the president’s head. (Which is *clearly* evidenced in the Zapruder film).
Any conspiracy theory involving Jackie, the driver or whoever would have to take the autopsy into account (which obviously must be faked so as to conform to the “staged event”)…not only would it need to take the autopsy into account, it would ALSO have to take the Zapruder film into account. The film ALSO is consistent with that Oswald was hiding in the book depository and it’s also consistent with the path of the bullet, there is no mystery whatsoever.
Some argue that it was impossible that Oswald fired three shots in the time (4.8s – 5.6s between shots)…which is a ridiculous argument. We KNOW that the first two shots actually missed and only the third one fatally hit.
Oswald had the “perfect” hide-out space with the president’s car below parading very slow, presenting JFK with the back to him as a target with plenty, plenty of time to fire the shots. I am not a weapon experts in the slightest but I can well picture that this would not pose a problem to anyone who is halfway familiar with firearms like he was.
What I am saying…there is a 50 year old “conspiracy” but upon closer examination I don’t see the mystery at all.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Why Can We Taste Bitter Flavors? Turns Out, It"s Still A Mystery
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Love at first bite? Watch these kids react as they take their first bites of some “challenging” food flavors in this slow-motion video.
For most of us, bitter foods aren’t love at first bite. (Not convinced? Just watch the little girl in the video above taste an olive for the first time.)
But after a few espressos or IPAs, most of us warm up to bitter flavors and eventually throw our arms in the air, like the little girl in the video, declaring, “Yes, I love bitter foods!”
Of course, people didn’t evolve an ability to taste bitterness just so we could appreciate hoppy beer or macchiatos. So then, what are our bitter receptors good for?
More than a million years ago, our ancestor Homo erectus probably gained the ability to detect bitter flavors. So would he have enjoyed an espresso macchiato?
About a million years ago, one tiny change in DNA gave our ancestors the ability to perceive a bitter compound common in olives, nuts and seeds, scientists reported recently in the journal Molecular Biology Evolution.
That means the bitter-tasting mutation was present long before modern humans existed. And it stuck around as we evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
But here’s the twist: The mutation probably didn’t arise — and persist — for the reason that most of think.
“People in the past have thought that bitter taste perception may have evolved for avoiding toxic substances,” says biologist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania, who led the study. “If you’re a hunter-gatherer, you don’t want to eat a poisonous plant. A bitter taste tells [you to] immediately to avoid it.”
But that’s not what she and her postdoc Michael Campbell found when they analyzed taste genes across indigenous populations in Africa.
Campbell and her team tracked down 74 ethnic groups that still practice ancient methods of subsistence, such as hunter-gatherers and nomadic herders.
The team measured how easily people in each group could taste two bitter compounds, including the chemical in aspirin. They also sequenced two genes involved in detecting bitter flavors on the tongue.
“We had to haul huge numbers of bottles and chemicals to remote areas all across Africa,” Tishkoff tells The Salt. “This was a ton of work.”
She thought that hunter-gatherers would be more likely to carry the mutation that boosts their sensitivity to the aspirin compound because they and their ancestors foraged for food.
“We thought we’d see a difference in the bitter genes between the hunter-gatherers and pastoralists because of their diet,” Tishkoff says. “But there was no correlation all.”
In fact, while the ability to perceive bitter flavors is ubiquitous in people outside of Africa, that was not the case inside the continent, she says. In Africa, she found that people’s ability to detect bitter tastes varied by geography — but it had nothing to do with what they ate or how they got their food.
So if bitter sensing didn’t help our ancestors avoid poisonous plants, why have the genes stuck around for so long?
No one is really sure yet, Tishkoff says.
“These genes could be detecting a compound we don’t know anything about,” she says. Or they could be performing a task that’s completely unrelated to taste all together.
In the past few years, scientists have started to realize that bitter taste receptors are all over the body, Tishkoff says. These receptors have turned up in cells in the gut, lungs and even the testes.
“So the receptors are not only altering how we perceive food,” she says, “but probably also our physiology, in ways we have no idea about.”
Why Can We Taste Bitter Flavors? Turns Out, It"s Still A Mystery
Why Can We Taste Bitter Flavors? Turns Out, It"s Still A Mystery
YouTube
Love at first bite? Watch these kids react as they take their first bites of some “challenging” food flavors in this slow-motion video.
For most of us, bitter foods aren’t love at first bite. (Not convinced? Just watch the little girl in the video above taste an olive for the first time.)
But after a few espressos or IPAs, most of us warm up to bitter flavors and eventually throw our arms in the air, like the little girl in the video, declaring, “Yes, I love bitter foods!”
Of course, people didn’t evolve an ability to taste bitterness just so we could appreciate hoppy beer or macchiatos. So then, what are our bitter receptors good for?
More than a million years ago, our ancestor Homo erectus probably gained the ability to detect bitter flavors. So would he have enjoyed an espresso macchiato?
About a million years ago, one tiny change in DNA gave our ancestors the ability to perceive a bitter compound common in olives, nuts and seeds, scientists reported recently in the journal Molecular Biology Evolution.
That means the bitter-tasting mutation was present long before modern humans existed. And it stuck around as we evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
But here’s the twist: The mutation probably didn’t arise — and persist — for the reason that most of think.
“People in the past have thought that bitter taste perception may have evolved for avoiding toxic substances,” says biologist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania, who led the study. “If you’re a hunter-gatherer, you don’t want to eat a poisonous plant. A bitter taste tells [you to] immediately to avoid it.”
But that’s not what she and her postdoc Michael Campbell found when they analyzed taste genes across indigenous populations in Africa.
Campbell and her team tracked down 74 ethnic groups that still practice ancient methods of subsistence, such as hunter-gatherers and nomadic herders.
The team measured how easily people in each group could taste two bitter compounds, including the chemical in aspirin. They also sequenced two genes involved in detecting bitter flavors on the tongue.
“We had to haul huge numbers of bottles and chemicals to remote areas all across Africa,” Tishkoff tells The Salt. “This was a ton of work.”
She thought that hunter-gatherers would be more likely to carry the mutation that boosts their sensitivity to the aspirin compound because they and their ancestors foraged for food.
“We thought we’d see a difference in the bitter genes between the hunter-gatherers and pastoralists because of their diet,” Tishkoff says. “But there was no correlation all.”
In fact, while the ability to perceive bitter flavors is ubiquitous in people outside of Africa, that was not the case inside the continent, she says. In Africa, she found that people’s ability to detect bitter tastes varied by geography — but it had nothing to do with what they ate or how they got their food.
So if bitter sensing didn’t help our ancestors avoid poisonous plants, why have the genes stuck around for so long?
No one is really sure yet, Tishkoff says.
“These genes could be detecting a compound we don’t know anything about,” she says. Or they could be performing a task that’s completely unrelated to taste all together.
In the past few years, scientists have started to realize that bitter taste receptors are all over the body, Tishkoff says. These receptors have turned up in cells in the gut, lungs and even the testes.
“So the receptors are not only altering how we perceive food,” she says, “but probably also our physiology, in ways we have no idea about.”
Why Can We Taste Bitter Flavors? Turns Out, It"s Still A Mystery
Saturday, October 26, 2013
MYSTERY: Secret GOOGLE Facility Found Floating On San Fran Bay...
Sources told KPIX 5 that that Google is building a floating marketing center for Google Glass off Treasure Island. (CBS)
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The U.S. Navy had its share of secrets on Treasure Island, but few were better kept than what’s taking place on a mysterious barge just off the island.
The barge, with a four-story stack of shipping containers, is out in the open for all to see. But the project’s purpose has been kept under wraps, and virtually no one wants to talk about it for the record, from the harbor office at Clipper Cove to the Treasure Island Development Authority to the U.S. Coast Guard.
“I don’t know anything about it, honestly I don’t,” a voice on the intercom at the Clipper Cove told KPIX 5. “It’s a complete mystery to me.”
There has, of course, been speculation about the barge’s purpose, much of it centering on the belief that it’s a water-based data center for Google.
KPIX 5 has learned that Google is actually building a floating marketing center, a kind of giant Apple store, if you will — but for Google Glass, the cutting-edge wearable computer the company has under development.
Although Google wouldn’t respond to requests for comment for this story, sources close to the project told KPIX 5 that Google hopes to tow the completed structure from Treasure Island across the Bay to San Francisco’s Fort Mason, where it would be anchored and open to the public.
But as mysteriously as the barge-and-container structure began appearing several months ago, work on the project suddenly stopped a few weeks ago.
The reason: Google does not have a permit for a floating anything.
“Google has spent millions on this,” said an insider close to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “But they can’t park this barge on the waterfront without a permit, and they don’t have one.”
A BCDC official confirmed the agency has held discussions with Google about “hypothetical operations” on the water, but he complained the tech giant has been vague about how the barge would be used.
Larry Goldzband, BCDC executive director, said Google is free to build whatever it wants but the company needs to define the structure’s purpose if it wants a permit.
And that’s not the only hurdle Google faces in its quest for a permit. Docking the barge for an extended period of time at Fort Mason would qualify as “bay fill,” said a source with long experience in waterfront issues.
“The law is crystal clear in this case: The Bay is not to be used for something that can be built on land,” Goldzband said.
Further complicating the picture for Google, the BCDC is already facing heat over the plan to build a new waterfront arena for the Golden State Warriors. Although the arena would be built on existing Piers 30 and 32, the piers would have to be enlarged to accommodate the structure.
“Given that controversy, it’s not at all certain that BCDC approves the Google structure,” the waterfront expert said. “They may end up with egg on their face and a lot of money lost in the drink.”
(Copyright 2013 by CBS San Francisco. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
MYSTERY: Secret GOOGLE Facility Found Floating On San Fran Bay...
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Greece riveted by mystery of "blonde angel"
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1 of 3. A four-year-old girl, found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, is seen in a handout photo distributed by the Greek police and obtained by Reuters October 18, 2013.
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police have asked Interpol to help them track down the real parents of a blonde girl with green eyes who was found in a Roma camp in central Greece.
Known as Maria, the four-year-old was spotted peeking out from under a blanket at a Roma settlement near the town of Farsala during a police sweep on Wednesday for suspected drug trafficking.
She speaks just a few words in the Roma dialect and Greek, and police think she may be of northern or eastern European origin, possibly from Scandinavia or Bulgaria.
Police have sent Interpol a file with all the evidence they have on the girl, including DNA samples, to seek a possible match with its records on missing children, a police official said. They have also contacted international groups and charities that deal with lost or abducted children.
“Mystery – a blonde angel without an identity,” top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Saturday.
Photos released by police of Maria staring blankly at the camera with muddy hands and scruffy pigtails have dominated the media. Parallels were drawn to the case of Briton Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old.
DNA tests have shown the couple in the Roma camp with whom Maria was living were not her biological parents. The 40-year-old woman and 39-year-old man have been arrested and charged with abducting a minor, and police are investigating whether the girl was a victim of trafficking.
CRYING AND FRIGHTENED
During questioning, the couple gave at least five conflicting accounts of how the child ended up with them, including that she was found outside a supermarket, police said.
The woman had two different identification documents and other papers suggested the couple had up to 14 children, but six were registered as having been born within less than 10 months. They received 2,790 euros ($ 3,800) a month in child benefits, a police source said.
“This has never happened before – to have found the child and to be looking for the parents,” said Natalie Karakouliafi of the Smile of the Child charity, which is looking after the girl. In response to an international appeal, it has received more than 5,000 calls since Friday from people looking for their missing children or offering clues.
The charity received reports that the girl was forced to beg for money in the streets but its director, Costas Giannopoulos, said she was in good health.
“She was frightened and cried herself to sleep. She is not looking for anyone and she is devoted to play,” he told Reuters. “It has shaken everyone and has helped bring to light a major problem – just how easy it is to traffic children”.
Local police chief Vasilis Halastis told Greek TV: “We’re always searching for lost children. In this case we’re searching for the opposite: the biological, natural parents. This is unprecedented.”
($ 1 = 0.7302 euros)
(Editing by Deepa Babington and Mark Trevelyan)
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