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When a young sperm whale washed up on a beach in southern Spain, scientists wanted to know what killed it. They now know: waste -- 64 pounds of it. Most of it plastic, but also ropes, pieces of net and other debris lodged in its stomach.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/health/sperm-whale-plastic-waste-trnd/index.html


Final numbers on Maria in Puerto Rico: $90 billion in damage, some Cat 5 winds
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article208350879.html


More than half your body is not human
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270


The states where disease and death are highest: A visual guide
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/health/states-life-expectancy-study/index.html


Fake marijuana likely contaminated with rat poison has killed three people in Illinois and caused severe bleeding in more than 100 others, including a few in four other states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fake-pot-likely-tainted-with-rat-poison-kills-3-sickens-100/2018/04/10/8fbf04d8-3cfd-11e8-955b-7d2e19b79966_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a917472c439


The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/09/technology/fake-black-lives-matter-facebook-page/index.html


Trump Tower Fire Death Update: Trump Lobbied Against Proposal to Make Sprinklers Mandatory
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-tower-fire-no-sprinklers-lobbied-against-bill-876537


This Mysterious Marijuana Syndrome Is Relieved by Hot Showers
https://www.livescience.com/62251-marijuana-syndrome-hot-showers.html


The Era of Fake Video Begins
[No doubt at all that this will be used for political purposes.
And that many people will fall for them, regardless of political orientation.
Also, it will make it easier for wrong doers who are caught on video to deny it, claim it is not real.]
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/realitys-end/556877/


March 2018 is 3rd warmest on record, many contrasts
https://skepticalscience.com/2018-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_14.html


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