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• Robotics surveillance: Can robots help in fighting terror in Kashmir?



• Cow poop to electricity: World’s first commercial solution to generate electricity from dairy waste. The CalBio-Bloom Energy system also removes methane that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere. Cow manure contains approximately 65% methane, which has a 25 times greater impact on global warming than CO2 emissions.



• Bengaluru sitting on groundwater time bomb: Groundwater supply in the IT city will decrease from 146 billion litres in 2018 to 36 billion litres in 2041 due to over-exploitation.



• Why fasting bolsters brain power: Fasting improves energy metabolism in neurons and stimulates the production of 'Neurotrophic factors'. Improves the number of mitochondria in your nerve cells. Ketones provide an alternative fuel that boost the energy levels of neurons.




• Cut the cutlery: Plastic with your home-delivered meal adds up to 22,000 tonnes waste every month. . . . . . . Where plastic outnumbers fish by seven to one



• Overseas universities are China's new front line: Confucius Institutes are just one example of how Western universities have increasingly relied on Chinese money. From tuition dollars to R&D partnerships with institutions on the mainland, Chinese financial support is increasingly important to cash-strapped universities.



• China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Has F-35 'DNA': Beijing has heavily invested in industrial and military espionage. In 2007, Chinese hackers stole technical documents related to the development of the F-35. The details on the hack, eventually revealed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, are just one example of Chinese attempts to steal foreign aviation technology; as recently as 2017, Chinese hackers went after Australian F-35 defense contractors, nabbing even more info on the cutting-edge fighter.



• The worse he behaves, the greater his weight in Europe: Erdogan has been expanding Turkey beyond its borders – starting with Cyprus, the Greek Islands, Suakin Island (Sudan) and Syria. In Germany, Turkey controls 900 mosques out of a total of 2,400. Speaking with Turks in Germany, Erdogan urged the Turkish diaspora not to assimilate, and called the assimilation of migrants in Europe "a crime against humanity."  He has spies throughout Europe through a network of mosques, associations and cultural centers. By keeping migrants in Turkish refugee camps, he controls immigration to Europe.



• MNC overlords: 60 of America's biggest companies paid no federal income tax in 2018. Amazon won't pay a cent in federal income tax on $11.2 billion in profits in 2018. In fact, Amazon claimed a federal income tax rebate of $129 million.



• Brilliant law in the Philippines: Students have to plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate.

This law requires students to plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate. Brilliant law in the Philippines 🇵🇭! Other nations - please follow!

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— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) September 30, 2019




• Difference between Halloween and Christmas:

Q: Why can't programmers tell the difference between Halloween and Christmas?

A: Because oct 31 = dec 25.#oldiebutgoodie

— Computer Science (@CompSciFact) October 31, 2019