Biological Warfare

(Tribune News Service) As a 1-AO conscientious objector, William Twombly of Collegedale, Tennessee, served his country alongside caged guinea pigs in the Utah desert, where he and a dozen fellow non-combatant soldiers with their own complement of guinea pigs …

Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanct…

Dewey Fidalgo:Dewey Fidalgo: potierrh: I'm not sure how the laws are in Australia, but I'm pretty sure this also counts as biological warfare and terrorism. Food tampering, up to 15 years in prison.  Which would be nice. https://thehill.com/policy/internati??? Read More

As historians have shown, the highly racialized division between licit and illicit drugsepitomized by the verbiage of white and black marketsbecame even more pronounced in the Reagan Era, paving the way for the opioid epidemic of the present.  During his pre…

The bizarre move worries public health experts Donald Trump's administration will end a federal program that monitors dangerous animal diseases that could spread to humans. This news alarms public health experts, and those who are concerned that America's …

At 73, Deepak Chopra is in what he calls “the final season” of his life. “I have no medical issues whatsoever, but nevertheless, when you get to a certain age, your next chapter is going to be death,” he says. But rather than slowing down, the trained interni…

Amherst is out, Atateken is in. The name has officially started being changed on street signs in the eastern part of downtown Montreal. The old Amherst signs will stay up for some time, to avoid confusion, before they are removed. The STM named a bus line …

Insights Daily Current Affairs + PIB: 21 October 2019 Table of contents: GS Paper 1: Azad Hind Government.GS Paper 2: Indian Penal Code.Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner. Anthrax.Interpol.…

Topics covered: Issues related to health.Anthrax What to study? For prelims and mains: Anthrax- causes, effects, symptoms and prevention, location of Pobitora sanctuary. Context: Anthrax scare at Assams Pobitora sanctuary after death of …

Japan’s rugby dream finally ended on Sunday. The Brave Blossoms lost to South Africa in the quarterfinals of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. “I take my hat off to the team. We’re really proud of what we have achieved,” said Japan’s head coach Jamie Joseph, and so i…