An estimated 800 sub-Saharan migrants attempted to cross the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta through a 23-foot high fence. The invaders with homemade shields threw stones, Molotov cocktails, and feces at police. They also used gasoline sprays to make flamethrowers. [...]
Trade secrets, cybersecurity startups and robo prototypes + this day in history w/the Port Chicago disaster and our song of the day by the Beastie Boys on your Morning Monarchy for July 17, 2018.
San Francisco has the most expensive housing in America, which has led to a rise in the homeless population who are living in the streets, creating a problem with human waste on the streets. The city is offering a new app to report feces and needles left behind by drug addicts on the floors inside the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station instead of creating a solution to the homeless problem. [...]
Hit-and-run down, jetset Jesus and suicide by scarf + this day in history w/Operation Opera and our song of the day by Kanye West on your Morning Monarchy for June 7, 2018.
People pee in swimming pools – that probably doesn’t come as a shock to you. You tuck it in the back of your mind when you go swimming; but you when you accidentally swallow a mouthful of pool water, you know you’re getting more than H2O and chlorine. Well, there’s another threat lurking in public swimming pools. It’s a diarrhea-inducing parasite called cryptosporidium, and federal officials said back in May that cases of the bug are on the rise.
Source: CDC
Chagas disease, or “kissing bug disease,” could have a higher mortality rate than previously thought. Why? Because it often goes unreported, and more than half of the U.S. is reporting new cases. [1] [2]
Source: Good Housekeeping
Public pools ready to open across the U.S. Memorial Day weekend signifies the unofficial start of summer, and kids and adults alike can’t wait to lounge in the sun and take a dip to cool off.
Going to the bathroom has deep meaning in the Netherlands – now that its first “poop bank” has opened.
The Dutch Donor Feces Bank (NDFB) is open for business at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), bringing new reason and meaning to relieving oneself. The bank was set up in an effort to reduce the prevalence of infection by Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, bacteria in the human digestive tract.
