Health & Fitness

Scribe: Samuel Otis

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One day after burning his wife of 74 years former US President George H W Bush is in the hospital being treated in an intensive care unit. The 93 year old former president has had a difficult few days just days ago Mrs Barbara Bush was laid to rest after enjoying a life that allowed her to see both her husband and her son sworn in as president of the United States.

Reports suggest HW Bush is being treated for an infection that spread to his blood, as of Tuesday morning his body was responding to treatment.

HW, became the VP of the US in 1980 during the Ronald Reagan administration. Bush Sr as he is often refered was not wildly popular as a president and was acceded by Bill Clinton.

Scribe: N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

Another day, another shooting –this time at a Tennessee Waffle House restaurant, as four peope lie dead in its wake. The four people killed have been identified as De Ebony Groves, 21, Akiliah Dasilva, 23, Joe Perez, 20 and Taurean Sanderlin,29.

A manhunt continues as authorities continue to search for the man responsible for gunning down and killing the four people.

Travis Reinking, 29, of Morton, Illinois, was naked with the exception of a green jacket when he entered the popular eatery around 3:30 am on Sunday morning just outside Nashville. The alleged killer has not yet been apprehended and a reward of $2,500 has been offered.

Scribe: Samuel Otis

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On 14 December 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 Elementary School Students all six and seven years of age and six adults staff members.

Popular media specialist Alex Jones is being sued for his controversial stance that the incident never happened and the accounts were faked. Three parents of children killed by the then 20-year-old, have filed defamation suites against the conspiracy theorist and Infowars host.

The two lawsuits were filed on Monday on behalf of 6 year old Noah Pozner and Jesse Heslin.

Jones’ cast the parents as conspirators in a fake killing spree, and has insisted on continuing and elaborating on this idea for years.

Scribe: N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

Technology has neaver ceased its march forward. Welcome the Bionic Wheel Bot spider.

Professor Ingo Rechenberg a bionics processor at the TU Berlin, discovered the flic-flac spider or cebrennus rechenberg. Movement is always a problem with biological models and the BionicWheelBot is no different. Researchers have created two separate modes of movement. One for even ground and the other for uneven ground The bot employs arachnid like walking on uneven ground while switching into wheel mode for even ground to achieve top speed.

Professor Rechenbern and other researchers are transferring its movement technologies to the technical field to be adapted to other technologies likely military use.

In walking mode the artificial spider can handle uneven ground and overcome inclines of up to five percent uphill. 

Scribe: Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thehtinkering.com

Russian president Vladimir Putin talked to international changes to the countries nuclear policies and arsenal. In his annual state of the nation speech last month he made clear that an attack on Russia or any of its allies would elicit an immediate response from Moscow.

Putin, ran video footage of the new weapons projected over his shoulder during the speech.

Russia and the US are at odds most notably in Syria, where the US is against President Bashar al-Assad, while Russian is for. Crimea is supported in their efforts to be free from the Ukraine. The US supports Ukrain and have placed sanctions against Crimean rebels.

Scribe: N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

Have you ever wondered why the actor who has rehearsed the play perfectly just cant get it together during the actual performance? Or why the basketball player who shoots 94% from the line tends to miss the game winning shot from the stripe.

Then let’s look at the whys.

There are two types of memory Declarative memory which is when you can consciously recall information, or explicit memory that’s easily retrieved. And Procedural memory or muscle memory or instinctive memory.

Experts suggest when you see a guitar play that has played a rift over and over perfectly in practice and chokes at the performance it’s because he got in his own way. He over thought the situation, by forcing in the be a declarative memory vs. an implicit one.

Scribe: Samuel Otis

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A terrible lapse of judgment caused an 12-year old to be arrested and jailed over night due to a threat to a Chicopee, Massachusetts. Chicopee Police arrested a young girl for posting on her social media page, **WARNING** IF YOU GO TO DUPONT, DO NOT GO ON MARCH 19TH 2018, THERE WILL BE A SHOOTING THERE UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TAKEN DO NOT GO, THIS IS NOT A JOKE IF YOU THINK IT IS GOOD LUCK TMR MY GOAL IS TO SHOOT 32 STUDENTS AND 13 TEACHERS AND ESCAPE, THANK YOU FOR BULLING ME, NOW I GET REVENGE, GOOD LUCK!!

On Monday the incident proved to be a hoax. The child did not attend the Dupont Middle School that she where she sent the threat. An extra police presence was available on the schools campus as a precaution.

Scribe: Samuel Otis

Email: samuel@thethinkering.com

Space teaches NASA. In the twins study, unexpected changes were made in the DNA and RNA of of Scott Kelly, while his brother Mike on earth remained.

During the 2018, Investigators Workshop for NASA’s Human Research Program, the first round of the twins study was released. The study tracked physical changes caused by time in space, down to the cellular level. The study proved space made changes in the DNA, to adjust to oxygen deprivation stress in the cells forcing Scotts’ “space genes’ to activate.

According to a recent article from an ABC affiliate, “Although 93% of Scott's genetic expression returned to normal once he returned to Earth, a subset of several hundred "space genes" remained disrupted. Some of these mutations, found only after spaceflight, are thought to be caused by the stresses of space travel.”

Scribe: N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

A racist white teacher has bragged on a public podcast about being a racist and promoting others to infiltrate the public school system to spread nationalist rhetoric.

Dayanna Volitich teaches social studies at Crystal River, Florida she admitted to lying to administrators about her Neo Nazi beliefs and for interjecting her ideology covertly. When parents complained to the schools principal about how she dropped her ideology on unsuspecting students the 25 year old lied. During her podcast she said of Muslims they should be “eradicated from the face of the earth.”

The Citrus County School District Superintendent said in a statement Volitich had been fired as of last week. The Human Resources department was notified and an investigation was initiated immediately. She was then removed from the classroom and the investigation was initiated.

Scribe: N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

A Georgia teacher barricaded himself in his classroom and placed the students in the hallway. When the headmaster attempted to use his key to enter the classroom the man discharged a round.

Jesse Randal Davidson, 53, a social studies teacher in Dalton, Georgia. Shot the weapon in the empty class room sparking a standoff. The man held the classroom for nearly an hour before he was taken into custody by police. Mr. Steve Bartoo, the headmaster said the teacher made nonsensical noises as the standoff continued.

The teacher has been charged with aggravated assault, carrying a weapon on school grounds and terroristic threats, reckless conduct, possession of a gun during commission of a crime an disrupting public school.

Davidson was also the football teams public address announcer during football games.