Waching daily Aug 31 2018

Hi, I'm Karin

and welcome to Our Human Planet,

If you live in a refugee camp

your entire life revolves around one single day.

A food shipment has arrived

and it needs to be distributed.

Before you can hand out bags of grain,

you have to know how many people need it.

It's not easy in a place

where there are no phones or internet

and most refugees are illiterate.

Relief agencies regularly send out teams

to survey every family in the camps.

Oxfam uses local props to help with simple math.

They gather information about their lives before the war

and what, if anything,

they managed to save when they were attacked.

And if any other family members have arrived

over the past month.

Feeding half a million people is no easy task

especially in a conflict zone.

The roads are nonexistent,

and everything has to be trucked in.

The UN provides the food

but the nonprofit "International Relief and Development"

is responsible for its distribution.

By US law,

any aid it provides must be grown in the United States.

So these bags might come from as far away as Texas,

and take six months,

at a price several times the local cost.

Once it finally arrives, the real work begins.

The food gets laid out the day before the distribution.

That thin rope is all the security they need.

Women make the final preparations

while the refugees wait patiently.

They've been gathering since dawn.

But how do you know who is getting what

when almost nobody has ID

and most can't even sign their names?

This is where all those surveys come in.

Only one member of each family

signs for the distribution,

If they don't know how to write,

a fingerprint will do.

They're then gathered in groups of 15

and led out to get their food.

Contrary to the mob scenes on the evening news,

everything is calm and peaceful.

The IRD is well organized

and the refugees follow all the rules.

By mid morning, it's starting to look like a festival.

The distribution includes - cooking oil,

salt,

The all-important sugar for their tea,

beans – a source of protein,

and flour –

either wheat, rye, sorghum, or a corn soybean blend.

The refugees like wheat the best.

They say that barely or sorghum gives them a tummy ache.

By lunchtime,

they've only given away a third of the food.

All of the paid workers are Chadian.

None of the Sudanese are allowed to earn money

while they're in the camp.

This causes even more resentment

between two countries who were once close friends.

But today, at least, everyone can afford to be generous.

It may seem like there's plenty to go around

but in fact the monthly distribution only

lasts a couple of weeks

so the kids grab whatever extra they can find.

though technically, it's against the rules.

If they don't get it

someone else will.

Around here, nothing goes to waste.

As the day wears on,

a mountain of food gradually disappears.

Everyone heads back to their huts.

Until next month.

Same time.

Same place.

When they get to do it all over again.

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A New Kind of Northern Light | SciShow News - Duration: 5:06.

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In places like southern Canada, a glowing, purple ribbon of light sometimes crosses the sky.

It's pretty faint, and it sometimes has these green spikes called the picket fence.

It's also pretty speedy, moving steadily east to west about six-and-a-half kilometers per second.

Citizen scientists and photographers have known about it for a long time,

because it keeps photobombing their pictures of auroras.

And after years of seeing it, they even gave it a name: Steve, after the scene from the movie Over the Hedge.

But they just assumed it was a funny kind of aurora, or at least something similar.

Then, in 2016, Steve caught the attention of professional scientists,

who realized this streak might be something new.

And last Monday, one team published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters with the newest explanation for it.

According to their results, Steve… is like nothing we've ever seen before.

It might be a whole new kind of northern light.

Even though citizens scientists kind of named this streak as a joke, scientists decided to roll with it,

and they formally called this light the Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement.

Which is pretty amazing.

They could immediately tell it was different from normal auroras for a few reasons.

First, auroras usually only appear at lower latitudes during periods of especially high solar activity,

but STEVE is a consistently lower-latitude event.

And its shape and speed don't really match other auroras, which tend to be broader, undulating structures.

Plus, auroras tend to be green or red; purple usually only shows up in extreme cases.

Because of this, scientists wondered if there was a unique mechanism at play.

Earlier this year, one team published the first explanation for STEVE.

They suggested it might be caused by something called a subauroral ion drift, or SAID.

SAIDs aren't auroras: Instead, they're fast, westward flows of charged gas associated with solar storms.

That sounds a lot like our purple streak, but STEVE doesn't only appear during solar storms,

and it moves much faster than SAIDs typically do.

SAIDs also rarely produce visible light emissions.

So in last week's paper, another team took a different approach to the mystery.

Since the SAID hypothesis already had some holes in it,

the group wanted to see if STEVE could be formally considered an aurora, even if it was an unusual one.

Auroras happen when energetic electrons and protons from the Sun precipitate through the Earth's atmosphere,

exciting those gases and making them glow.

So if STEVE is an auroral event, then scientists should be able to detect these particles when the streak appears.

The paper's authors used ground-based and satellite data taken during one of STEVE's 2008 appearances to try and hunt them down.

Except, there wasn't much, at least, in the way of energetic particles.

So that rules out STEVE as an aurora.

That means, at least right now, this purple light is in a class all its own.

It's just… a STEVE, probably driven by its own special mechanism.

But that doesn't mean we'll stop investigating it.

The next steps are to study more STEVE events,

since scientists have only really looked at two of them so far.

And ideally, that will help us not just understand this light,

but how the Sun creates different kinds of auroras in general.

While those scientists keep working on that mystery, another team is celebrating a new discovery.

According to a paper published in PNAS last Monday,

researchers have found direct evidence of water ice on the surface of the Moon!

And that could be big news for future explorers.

The new discovery was made thanks to Chandrayaan-1,

a lunar orbiter launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization.

Its payloads mostly focused on mapping and studying the Moon's composition,

and it did some really cool science for almost a year before a communication failure ended the mission.

The data for this new paper specifically came from the orbiter's M3 instrument,

or the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

It's a type of spectrometer,

which means it measured the wavelengths of light that reflected off the Moon's surface

and used them to determine composition.

About ten years ago, back when Chandrayaan-1 was still active,

M3 found some evidence for water ice on the surface, which was really exciting.

But the evidence was pretty indirect, and it wasn't obvious just how much ice there was.

Plus, that data included water that was part of hydrated minerals,

so it wasn't pure ice or anything.

But now, things seem different.

This newly-analyzed data directly confirmed the presence of that ice,

and it also suggests that at least some of it could be pure water,

although more observations would help pin that down.

These ice deposits are scattered around the Moon's north and south poles,

and a lot of it is in shadowy southern craters.

There, it never sees the light of day, thanks to how the Moon is tilted relative to the Sun.

That keeps the ice from melting and makes the deposits relatively nice and accessible.

So far, we don't really know how all that ice got there or how old it is.

But this icy discovery is really promising for future missions.

As of right now, NASA is planning to send people back to the Moon,

so this ice could potentially become a source of drinking water.

But maybe more importantly, if we can split it into hydrogen and oxygen on a large scale,

it could also be used for rocket fuel.

The Moon could be an interplanetary gas station! Well, someday.

There's still a long way to go, but thankfully, that ice doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Space News!

And thanks especially to our Patrons who make it possible for us to research new science and create this videos for you.

Thank you!

And if your name is Steve or Chandrayaan, let us know in the comments, because awesome.

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South Dakota Native Shares "Whistleblower" Story With CBS News - Duration: 2:31.

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Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Investigation Blocked By NBC, Says Ex-Producer | THR News - Duration: 2:44.

According to former NBC producer Rich McHugh, the network attempted

to prevent Ronan Farrow's investigation into Harvey Weinstein.

On Thursday 'The New York Times' printed McHugh's claim that Farrow's investigation

into multiple sexual assault and rape allegations made against Weinstein was stymied

by "the very highest levels of NBC." Farrow ultimately left NBC News and published the

story in 'The New Yorker' in October while McHugh left his position at NBC

two weeks ago. McHugh told the 'Times' that the network's attempts to impede Farrow's

investigation into Weinstein is "a massive breach of journalistic integrity" and

described NBC as "resistant" to the eight-month investigation. Says the former

NBC employee, "by August 2017 they were no longer supportive" and, in his view,

were "killing the Harvey Weinstein story." McHugh continues, "Three days before

Ronan and I were going to head to Los Angeles to interview a woman with a

credible rape allegation against Harvey Weinstein, I was ordered to stop,

not to interview this woman. And to stand down on the story altogether."

NBC denied McHugh's account of what happened, claiming that the story was

not broadcast ready and that Farrow decided to take it to 'The New Yorker'.

Noah Oppenheim, the president of NBC News, told the 'Times': "He was never told

to stop in the way [McHugh is] implying." Oppenheim felt that Farrow's story lacked

on-the-record and on-camera interviews. "We repeatedly made clear to Ronan and

Rich McHugh the standard for publication is we needed at least one credible

on-the-record victim or witness of misconduct," Oppenheim told the 'Times'.

He added: "And we never met that threshold while Ronan was reporting for us."

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter an NBC News spokesperson said:

"The assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was

at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie."

The statement continued, in part, "In August of 2017, after NBC News assigned

Ronan Farrow to investigate Weinstein and supported his reporting efforts for eight

months, Farrow believed his reporting was ready for air. NBC disagreed because,

unfortunately, he did not yet have a single victim of — or witness to — misconduct

by Weinstein who was willing to be identified."

Multiple sources told THR that Farrow had secured an on-camera interview

with Rose McGowan who was willing to go on-the-record and on-camera until July 2017.

But McGowan, who has since become a prominent figure in the MeToo movement,

was advised to not participate in the interview because it could have put her in legal

jeopardy due to the terms of the settlement agreement she had reached with Weinstein.

Since Farrow's expose on Weinstein was published in 'The New Yorker', over 80 women

have come forward with claims of sexual assault, harassment

and rape against the once powerful Hollywood mogul.

To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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Real Madrid news: Lopetegui and Perez appear SPLIT on Thibaut Courtois - Duration: 4:07.

 Courtois sealed his move to the Bernabau from Chelsea in a deal worth up to £35m but the honeymoon quickly ended with the Belgian goalkeeper yet to make his debut for Los Blancos

 The 26-year-old, who helped Belgium reach the semi-finals of the World Cup, has found himself on the bench for the first two La Liga matches of the season

 Madrid's manager Julen Lopetegui appears no closer to revealing his intentions to pick Courtois to start over the Costa Rican shot-stopper Navas

 "My confidence in my goalkeepers is at the maximum," Lopetegui said.  "I can only play one but it doesn't mean that I don't have confidence in the others

 "We're calm and convinced that we have good solutions in that position. "I'm not going to tell you who the goalkeeper is because every circumstance is different

" With Lopetegui appearing to take a diplomatic approach in keeping two goalkeepers happy, Madrid's president Florentino Perez appears to have backed the club's new signing to take over between the sticks, as he lavished praise on Courtois

 "The best goalkeeper of the World Cup, Courtois has arrived," Perez said during the unveiling of the clubs latest signing Mariano

 "We had an exceptional squad already and we took advantage of this time to reinforce various areas

" Perez made the revelation as he spoke about the club's transfer policy. The president also made a plea to the Real Madrid fans that the club had not strayed from its historic policy of signing the best players in the world

 "We know that the road is the path traced by our president Santiago Bernabeu," Perez said

 "The best players in the world, the best in Spain and the best from our academy. "We will remain loyal to our history

" The arrival of Courtois has seen Navas step up and fight for his position. The 31-year-old has even been left out of the Costa Rica squad, for the friendlies against South Korea and Japan, to allow him time to focus on keeping his place as Madrid's first-choicegoalkeeper

 Speaking before last week's 4-1 win away to Girona, Lopetegui hinted that he could implement a rotation policy for his goalkeepers between La Liga and the Champions League

 "We have very good goalkeepers, very good solutions. Some have arrived slightly later but they are all good," Lopetegui said

 "We will make a decision and the one we pick will be good.  "With the Champions League, it could be a different solution but tomorrow, we know what we will do

" Madrid's next La Liga game is on Saturday at home to Leganes andCourtois appears no closer to making his debut for the club

 Lopetegui has warned his players not to underestimate a side that knocked out Madrid from the Copa del Rey at the Bernabau last season

 "We've been working together for a long time but we have to keep working hard, like all teams at this stage of the season," Lopetegui said

 "It will be a difficult game. "They are well structured and with better players than last year

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