This week in science: the reality tour
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The reality of assault weapon wounds, aka clinical info gun rights advocates refuse to aknowledge and often work tooth and nail against: I was looking at a CT scan of one of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had beenThis week in science: the reality tour
The reality of assault weapon wounds, aka clinical info gun rights advocates refuse to aknowledge and often work tooth and nail against: I was looking at a CT scan of one of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had been brought to the trauma center during my call shift. The organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer … One of the trauma surgeons opened a young victim in the operating room, and found only shreds of the organ that had been hit by a bullet from an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle which delivers a devastatingly lethal, high-velocity bullet to the victim. There was nothing left to repair … the injury was fatal. Bigelow Aero has big commercial plans for space habitats. Which brings up a slightly related question, what is to become of the ISS? A radical story. Big Data comes to NASA climate researchers and finds ice loss underway in the Antarctic: A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean. The findings confirm accelerating ice losses from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and reveal surprisingly steady rates of flow from its much larger neighbor to the east. There’s some gun commentary below the fold for anyone who is interested. Read more