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Oklahoma Police Uses New Device To Seize Money from cards

You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.

That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime.

Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.

It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month.

Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.

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http://www.news9.com/story/32168555/ohp-uses-new-device-to-seize-money-used-during-the-commission-of-a-crime
They'll be pulling teeth next.

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Origin of mystery deep-sea 'mushroom' revealed

By Myles Gough


Dendrogramma was named for the branching channels visible in its body mass


Australian scientists have used genetic material to pinpoint the origin of the deep-sea mushroom, an unusual gelatinous creature first dredged up near Tasmania in 1986.

The organisms have a cylindrical stalk capped by a flat, semi-transparent disc that houses visible channels branching outwards.

These channels, which resemble tree-like diagrams known as dendrograms, are the basis for its scientific name - Dendrogramma.

The original specimens were described for the first time in 2014 by a team of Danish scientists, one of whom had been aboard the 1986 voyage and later transported the samples to Copenhagen.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36457841

Black holes offer a way to another universe, Stephen Hawking says in newly-published paper

by Andrew Griffin

Things might fall through black holes into alternate universe, according to a newly-published paper by Stephen Hawking.

The professor has laid out a theory that suggests that the holes aren’t quite as black as previously thought.

Rather than destroying everything that goes near them, we might not need to be so afraid of black holes, he said in a paper published this week in Physical Review Letters, written with colleagues Andrew Strominger from Harvard and Malcolm Perry from Cambridge University.

If the work is correct – and the new paper means that the theory, only suggested, has now received approval from other experts – then it could solve a central paradox of black holes.



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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-holes-offer-a-way-to-another-universe-stephen-hawking-says-in-newly-published-paper-a7068756.html

Paving Way for Glyphosate Recall, EU Punts on Relicensing Weed Killer

If no decision is made by June 30, products containing glyphosate like Monsanto's Roundup will have to be pulled from European shelves.

by Deirdre Fulton,

In yet another setback for Monsanto and other agri-chemical companies, EU member states on Monday refused to back a limited extension of the herbicide glyphosate's use, prolonging a continent-wide stalemate over the controversial weed killer.

Reuters reports: