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21 Jul 2016
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“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”

– Karen Joy Fowler

Story of the Day

Bigger than the weather: A corporate cover-up on the high seas 

In 2015, after three South African seamen went missing somewhere in the vastness of the Southern Ocean, their families tried to trace their final movements. Uncovering the truth would require going to war with the world’s largest tourism conglomerate, a €20-billion-a-year monolith that had no interest in fielding questions. An investigative feature by KEVIN BLOOM.
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While you were sleeping

Erdo?an declares state of emergency

Addressing the Turkish people on Wednesday night, President Tayyip Erdo?an declared a three-month state of emergency. Although shorter than the 15-year state of emergency maintained until 2002, the announcement was rather extreme. Regardless, a travel ban on academics and over 50,000 arrests are cause for concern. Read more

Saudi bans Pokémon Go

Haters of everything fun, the Saudi Arabian Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research has revived a 2001 fatwa banning Pokémon. Damning the game for its dastardly insinuation that evolution is a thing, promoting gambling, and generally encouraging deviant youths to join Satan's fiery embrace, Saudi kids and kids-at-heart should not expect the fatwa to be overturned anytime soon. Read more

New dinosaur discovered

An 80-million-year-old fossil has been discovered in Patagonia, unveiling an entirely new carnivorous dinosaur. Known as 'Murusraptor barrosaensis', the fossil belongs to the 'Giant Thieves' type of species. Additionally, the Murusraptor is a member of the megaraptoids family, also commonly known as the best-named dinosaur family to belong to. Read More

Tesla unveiled plans for new vehicles

Elon Musk announced on Wednesday intentions to develop a bus and pick-up truck. Stressing the need for the world to move to electric vehicles, Tesla intends to unveil early stage versions of these vehicles in 2018. Self-driving technology for said vehicles, Musk stressed, was the next logical step. Read more

In Numbers

13

The number of times when a nuclear weapon was almost used due to false alarms or accidents.

Facts of the Day

Today in 1967 Nobel Laureate Albert Luthuli died.

Fact of the Day: Neptune possibly snows diamonds.

Weather & Financial Data

BFN: min: 3° max: 21°, sunny
CPT: min: 12° max: 16°, rainy
DBN: min: 18° max: 24°, cloudy
EL: min: 15° max: 19°, rainy
JHB: min: 3° max: 22°, sunny
KIM: min: 6° max: 22°, sunny
NLP: min: 6° max: 28°, sunny
PMB: min: 10° max: 25°, cloudy
PKN: min: 6° max: 24°, sunny
PE: min: 13° max: 16°, rainy
PTA: min: 4° max: 23°, sunny

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Gold=$1,317.15
Platinum=$1,086.95
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