Handwritten notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that had been inappropriately withheld from Flynn’s defense team for years show that a key goal of the agents investigating Flynn was “to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”We begin to see more clearly why President Trump fired FBI Director Comey. Comey is abnormally tall, I wonder if they make orange jumpsuits in his size?
In early 2017, FBI agents planned to question Flynn under false pretenses and without his attorneys present regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The note-taker, whose identity was not made clear in the document production, wrote that an alternate goal is to “get [Flynn] to admit breaking the Logan Act,” a reference to a 1799 law restricting communications between private citizens and foreign governments. The law is widely viewed as unconstitutional and has never been used to successfully prosecute a single American citizen.
The gap year is suddenly a hotter topic, as colleges face the possibility that the fall semester and maybe the entire 2020-21 academic year could be done remotely, or could face serious restrictions on campus educational, extracurricular, and social activities such as sports, science labs, theater, music, clubs, and parties. A McKinsey Consulting report warns that normal campus life may not return until the fall of 2021.What if close to half the kids are only there for the good times? In the absence of which, living at home and doing classwork on line may not appeal, and a fair number who don't continue will never finish.
ABC News reported that “Nearly one in six graduating seniors, according to a poll by the Baltimore-based Art & Science Group, now indicate that due to the coronavirus pandemic, they will likely revise their plans of attending a four-year college in the fall and take a gap year."
What happens if the richest students bail out? The entire economic model of campuses could be undermined, especially if nobody at all is paying room and board and there is no revenue to be had from athletic programs, while colleges are still paying for their sprawling real estate and the extensive bureaucratic overhead that supports modern campus life. (snip) Some schools on the margins may go out of business; others may finally face real pressure to trim back layers of administration and delay campus-life building projects.
To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.I'd really like to believe this is true, and it could in fact be true. However, Wikipedia describes the official-sounding Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in these words.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943. It is opposed to the Affordable Care Act and other forms of universal health insurance.[1][2] The group was reported to have about 4,000 members in 2005, and 5,000 in 2014.That description suggests not viewing the AAPS as experts. Their beliefs, if accurately described, are bunkum. This group is exactly who you do not want an endorsement from.
The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.
I would get much more engaged in the world, we can’t step back. If in fact, for example, we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don’t solve it in other parts of the world, you know what’s going to happen? You’re going to have travel bans, you’re going to not be able to do, have economic intercourse around the world.Biden's use of "economic intercourse" is absolutely correct English and makes perfect sense as used, as a synonym for "foreign trade." It could also accurately, if sarcastically, refer to prostitution.
I wanted to be a senator, I didn't want to sleep with one.
For nearly a century, Los Angeles’ urban form has infuriated urbanists who prefer a more concentrated model built around a single central core.My back-of-envelope calculation suggests NYC has had 20 times the deaths of LA County, with fewer people. Even the math-challenged can understand those numbers. Urban sprawl is healthier for people, if not for the planet, than is urban density, end of discussion.
Yet, in the COVID-19 pandemic, our much-maligned dispersed urban pattern has proven a major asset. Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs have had a considerable number of cases, but overall this highly diverse, globally engaged region has managed to keep rates of infection well below that of dense, transit-dependent New York City.
As of April 24, Los Angeles County, with nearly 2 million more residents than the five boroughs, had 850 coronavirus-related deaths compared with 16,646 in New York City.
“Here is a more affordable way of neutralizing heavy metals: Twice, I took a bath. I added ½ cup ONLY of Clorox to a full bath of warm water to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she suggests. “We want to neutralize heavy metals because they slow-up the electromagnetic frequency of our cells, which is our energy field, and we need a good flow of energy.”Domenech has a bunch more of this total nonsense, but a sample gives you the flavor without automatically triggering your gag reflex. It's looney tunes time.
At some point the coronavirus crisis will end, but one of the extraordinarily difficult lessons of this ordeal is that the catastrophic scenarios that sound like something out of science fiction can happen in real life, and that the vast majority of us are at the mercy of fate in these scenarios. (snip) Someday, humanity could encounter one (virus) that is even worseI’d take issue with his judgment of “urban life” being a “necessity” for the old. It’s really only necessary for the old who are poor unless one is so frail one needs to be five minutes from an emergency room. Even then, small city life works.
This outbreak is likely to accelerate the trend of seeing urban life as a luxury for the wealthy and young and a necessity for the poor and old.
Now we are learning, once again, that densely packed cities are particularly dangerous places to be during a disease outbreak.
Harvard is grudgingly giving up nearly $9 million in coronavirus relief after President Trump called out the elite university over federal aid awarded to schools as others are fighting for their economic lives.I join Hayward in adding we aren't yet tired of the winning, Mr. President.
The university announced Wednesday afternoon the school “has decided not to seek or accept the funds allocated to it by statute” as part of the nation’s Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund.
Harvard’s decision to walk away from the money comes a day after Trump lambasted the Cambridge university for even considering the stipend — especially with the school sitting on a $40 billion endowment.
A cytokine is a short-lived signaling molecule that the body can release to activate inflammation in an attempt to contain and eradicate a virus. In a cytokine storm, the immune system floods the body with these molecules, essentially sounding a fire alarm that continues even after the firefighters and ambulances have arrived.Through most of the article, Dr. Hamblin grinds few axes. With the exception of the final paragraph, which I recommend skipping, he focuses on the medical, not the political.
At this point, the priority for doctors shifts from hoping that a person’s immune system can fight off the virus to trying to tamp down the immune response so it doesn’t kill the person or cause permanent organ damage.
But treating any infection by impeding the immune system is always treacherous. It is never ideal to let up on a virus that can directly kill our cells. The challenge is striking a balance where neither the cytokine storm nor the infection runs rampant.
Smithfield Foods blamed the migrant workers' ‘living circumstances’ that are ‘different than they are with your traditional American family.’The article never mentions that Smithfield Foods is “a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China.” What are the odds that a Chinese-owned plant in rural South Dakota would have a major outbreak of a disease originating in China?
In a shocking essay for Harvard Magazine, a professor of law and director of Harvard Law School’s child advocacy legal clinic, claims homeschooling is a threat to children’s rights, a method of promoting white supremacy, and a drain on democratic society — and even goes so far as to suggest a national “presumptive ban” on the practice.My question: did her children, if any, attend public schools? Most people cannot afford private academies. (Note: Details of Elizabeth Bartholet's personal life are not readily found online.)
"Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Many are determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives,” she claims.
The central argument seems to be that children should be wards of the state, and that the state — not individual parents — should be charged with deciding what is best.
China not only unleashed the deadly coronavirus pandemic on the world, but they "protected themselves" while doing it, closing down travel in their country from the city of Wuhan but permitting it internationally, according to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.The internal travel ban combined with denial of human-to-human transmission so foreign nations would not shut their borders, could be interpreted as intentional spread. Such intentionality, if it could be proven, would become a casus belli.
"They sent over a million people around the world – 1.5 million – almost like ambassadors carrying the disease," Giuliani told host John Catsimatidis on Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y.
Engineers at Virginia Tech University have developed a new, more efficient fog harp capable of harvesting water from even a light fog.I like the fact the fog harp requires no power of any sort to operate, and produces relatively pure water clearly meeting third world drinking/ cooking standards. I bet it works somewhat wherever there is dew, where the ambient temperature falls below the dew point.
The fog harp looks like a harp, with parallel wires that collect the fog's ambient water droplets. Similar devices use screen mesh, but analysis by engineers at Virginia Tech showed parallel wires more efficiently collected water and encourage drainage into the collector.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear tried to veto a proposed bill requiring voters to present photo ID at their polling location.The first sentence is retrospective, looking back after the fact he did try to veto it and that attempt failed. Other states need to make the photo ID requirement a part of their election law.
Governor Beshear earlier stated he vetoed the bill since it created an obstacle to voting rights and was “undermining our democracy.”
Republicans outnumber Democrats 29-9 in the senate and 61-37 in the house.
On April 14, Republicans overwhelmingly overrode the governor’s veto in both chambers.
DNA isn’t all that matters, but it matters more than everything else put together in terms of the stable psychological traits that make us who we are.Analysis: True. This finding has policy implications progressives hate, a lot.
The nature-nurture war is over. Nature wins, hands down.
This effort to destroy Trump no matter the cost of the country is getting a bit old and it’s pissing a lot of people off.Count me among those P.O.-ed.
Highway to the Danger ZoneThe Loggins video, appended to my DVD, tries to evoke the early scene from Apocalypse Now where Martin Sheen lies on a sweaty Saigon hotel mattress hallucinating. It doesn't succeed, I prefer the music as background to F-14 catapult launches amid swirling steam and roaring afterburners.
Ride into the Danger Zone
Densely populated areas create more contacts with others and more opportunities for a virus to spread. And New York City, with more than 28,000 people per square mile, is by far the most densely populated major US city. San Francisco is second at around 18,500, and cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington are in the 11,000 to 12,000 range.It turns out urban planners have been unwittingly trying their level best to get us killed via plague and pandemic. Their policy prescriptions - high density and public transport - are exactly what you'd call for to get an infectious disease to spread like wildfire.
New York’s mass transit system–mostly its subways–is, by a huge margin, the most relied-upon public transportation system in the U.S. It carries a remarkable 2,275,000,000 riders per year. The second most-used public transit system is the Washington Metro, which carries only 238,000,000 riders per year, just over 10% of New York’s total. Chicago’s “L” carries fewer than 10% as many riders as New York’s subways.
When a new disease like COVID-19 comes along, a virus to which no one has built up immunity, the population density and public transportation factors come to the fore and New York becomes a very sick city, compared to anywhere else.
Liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition.We already understood this anecdotally, but it's nice to have data to buttress our impressions.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a newly discovered coronavirus (SARS-CoV). No effective prophylactic or post-exposure therapy is currently available.And as Hinderaker notes, Covid-19 is another coronavirus, like SARS. I wonder how many thousands of Americans have died because TDS made considering chloroquine use so very unPC?
We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage. In addition to the well-known functions of chloroquine such as elevations of endosomal pH, the drug appears to interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. This may negatively influence the virus-receptor binding and abrogate the infection, with further ramifications by the elevation of vesicular pH, resulting in the inhibition of infection and spread of SARS CoV at clinically admissible concentrations.
Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. In addition, the indirect immunofluorescence assay described herein represents a simple and rapid method for screening SARS-CoV antiviral compounds.
Last year, a Chinese Government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.”Pompeo infers he's read the report and knows who the fellow travelers are, who has sold out. In the event that conflict with China becomes more open, those quislings could end up in orange jumpsuits or hanging from lampposts.
I’ll let you decide where you think you belong. Someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report are referenced by name.
So here’s the lesson: The lesson is that competition with China is not just a federal issue.
Roman Authorities Investigating Jesus For Violating Stay-In-Tomb OrderHat tip to Ed Driscoll, who regularly blogs at Instapundit, for the link.
Trump has not always been articulate in his rightness, and often it has been instinctive rightness rather than philosophical, which has made it easy to dismiss. But he has been right so often and about so much that it is time to confer on him what no one but his most mindless followers have conferred on him yet: the benefit of the doubt.If you go back and view his 1990 TV interviews, available on Youtube, you'll see Trump has thought deeply about national affairs for decades. What looks like "instinct" is actually stuff he's understood for so many years he assumes incorrectly it's as obvious to us as it seems to him.
Lesson to be learned by all: All models are wrong, but some are useful.To which I’d add, avoid crowds and thank the cashier at your supermarket and those who’ve kept the food pipeline filled. As a society we need to be better prepared next time, see above.
Either one is dead or alive (none of the Schrodinger’s cat business). Either one is employed or not….Lesson to be learned not soon enough: economic and mental health concerns need to be factored into public health policy. This is not just an infectious disease pandemic.
Keep calm. Wash your hands. Avoid sick people. Avoid physical contact with high risk people. Get rest. Eat well. Keep hydrated. Take zinc. Wear a mask. Support your local businesses. Thank a healthcare worker. Be kind.
In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.In 2081, those who refuse "handicaps" can be shot by a government equality bureau. Wikipedia describes the plot in some detail, Harrison Bergeron is as bleak as Orwell's 1984, but shorter.
Outside the Beltway, the coronavirus crisis is actually bringing Americans together on the China issue. Republicans and Democrats now largely agree that the Chinese government bears responsibility for the spread of the pandemic, that it can’t be trusted on this or any other issue, and that the U.S. government should maintain a tough position on China on trade and overall, especially if Beijing again falters in its commitments.If nothing else good comes out of this miserable pandemic, the coalescing of negative opinion toward the current leadership of China is a very good thing.
The national poll found 56 percent of Democrats prefer Cuomo, with 44 percent wanting to stick with presumptive nominee Biden — a 12-point margin well outside the 4.8 percent margin of error for the Democratic sample.Black voters, an important Biden constituency, also preferred Cuomo. Regardless of preferences, given party rules it is unclear how this could come about unless Biden voluntarily withdraws for “health reasons.”
Hispanic voters, young people, women and self-identified liberals are most likely to favor dumping the former vice president for Cuomo.
"We see huge differences in clinical outcomes and across countries. How much of that is explained by genetic susceptibility is a very open question,” says geneticist Andrea Ganna of the University of Helsinki’s Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM).To which Hayward sagely adds:
Italian geneticist Alessandra Renieri of the University of Siena expects at least 11 hospitals in the nation to give ethics approval for her team to collect DNA samples from willing patients. “It is my opinion that [host] genetic differences are a key factor … for susceptibility to severe acute pneumonia.”
Woe unto the researchers if they find any racial differences emerging from the data.Because DNA is definitely racist? Or because we choose to ignore science when it conflicts with what is politically correct?
Trump is the first president to challenge that order in principle. His practice has been more interesting. In negotiations with Mexico, Canada, and China, the president has used the credible threat of closing America’s huge market to pry open theirs, giving American producers fair access. Europe is next in line for that bracing treatment. Although Trump’s rhetoric has been nationalist, the net effect has actually been globalist.At the end of World War II, the U.S. was the only large developed nation which sustained essentially no domestic damage. We could afford to settle for disadvantageous-to-us trade arrangements as a subsidy to the many bombed-all-to-hell nations elsewhere, effectively as a part of our Marshall Plan for post-war reconstruction. European (and other) nations were only too glad to take advantage of these arrangements, became accustomed to them, and over time assumed they were permanent.
Anyone can publish on Medium per our Policies, but we don’t fact-check every story. For more info about the coronavirus, see cdc.gov.In other words, the connections made are interesting, seemingly logical, but perhaps no more than guesses. As we noted weeks ago, Coronavirus has a lot of people guessing about how it does its damage, us included. Some of those guesses will prove accurate, most won’t be.
In both Louisiana and Chicago, for example, recent statistics showed that roughly 70% of COVID-19 deaths occurred among blacks, even though they are a minority in both areas.Reading several stories with this focus, and hearing what was said on TV by the President and others this afternoon, I found fascinating the clear PC effort being made to avoid blaming the victims for their plight. I expect all to say the disparate impact is the result of racism. I wonder whether many of those blaming racism believe what they're saying?
In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, blacks make up about 27% percent of the population but comprised almost half of all COVID-19 infections – and, as of data early Tuesday afternoon, 71% of all fatalities.
Recently the Daily Telegraph has published a number of reports and opinions about China’s response to COVID-19 that are full of ignorance, prejudice and arrogance.Nice how un-PC Ozzies are, China loses face big time. The rebuttal is both bitterly funny and substantially accurate, go read it all. Note: Oz uses the Brit spelling of "organisation" while the Chinese use the American spelling - "organization."
If a state-owned newspaper in China received this kind of complaint, subsequent days would involve journalists waking up in prison with their organs harvested.
The origin of the virus is still undetermined, and the World Health Organization has named the novel coronavirus “COVID-19”.
The World Health Organisation also appointed Zimbabwean murderer Robert Mugabe as its Goodwill Ambassador and declared on March 2 that the “stigma” of the coronavirus “is more dangerous than the virus itself”. The World Health Organisation does a lot of stupid stuff.
The effectiveness of China's epidemic prevention and control has fully underlined the people-centred philosophy of the Communist Party of China and the strong advantages of the Chinese system.
In 2018, Amnesty International reported that China executed more citizens than the rest of the world combined. Please tell us more about your “people-centred philosophy” and how many bullets it requires.
Following up on yesterday’s post on the low level of Covid-19 infections in Australia… Hawaii, population 1.5 million, has only 351 confirmed Covid-19 cases, and three deaths, despite Honolulu being a densely-packed urban area and tons of tourist traffic from Asia in December and January. Puerto Rico, population 3.2 million, has only 452 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 18 deaths, despite a huge amount of traffic between the New York area and the island, and San Juan being a densely-packed city.I’ve left out the links to the various sources for his data, which are in the Instapundit original if you would like to check them. At the risk of over generalization, I’d characterize Bernstein’s view as “hopeful but far from confident.”
Like I said, I’m not an epidemiologist, but I’d love to know if someone who is has provided an explanation for these statistics beyond sunshine, humidity, and hot weather. (Note: New Orleans has been consistently hot since March 10, and if that doesn’t slow the spread of the virus, it would definitely throw a monkey wrench into the weather theory, though not necessarily into the “protective nature of Vitamin D” theory, as I suspect residents of San Juan and Honolulu get a lot more sun in the Winter than do residents of New Orleans.
P.S. I’m aware that Mardis Gras was likely a “super spreader event,” but if hot weather is protective, the rate of spread in March and April should be slower than in colder climates).
UPDATE: Yes, I know that Guayaquil, Ecuador, right on the equator, has been hard-hit. But conditions in a Third-World country (per capita GPD $6,000) are quite different than the U.S. and Australia, and it’s doubtful in any event that we can get useful data out of their public health system.
Temperatures in Singapore have been around 80 degrees lately. Yet, the virus is making a comeback. Hot weather doesn’t appear to be bringing Singapore relief from this particular virus.
I kind of wish I hadn’t looked into the Singapore experience. To me, it suggests the futility of even best practices to combat the spread of this virus over the long term. Singapore beat it back, only to be treated to a second wave.
Goldsmith assesses the situation this way: "I think we've gotten relatively good as a country - local, state and federal government - at the professional performance of routines. Our ability to accomplish the important routines of government on a daily basis is very high."Balz concludes, somewhat vaguely, that as a nation we're not as good at "getting the job done pragmatically" as we once were. No kidding.
But there are limitations, he said. "One is, are they conducive to imagination? Second, do they value the exercise of discretion throughout the system? And third, are they good at calculating the risk across agencies? What are the trade-offs of closing a country?"
The debate over immigration is over: restriction wins.I see much there with which to agree. Perhaps a few international institutions have limited utility. Reynolds doesn't give us a link to his source, so we'll 'credit' him with it.
The debate over borders is over: they are needed.
The debate over globalization is over: the era of autarky begins.
The debate over Europe is over: it is a geographic expression, not a polity.
The debate over global warming is over: it is irrelevant.
The debate over international institutions is over: only nations matter.
The debate over the People’s Republic of China is over: it is a menace to the community of nations, not a member in good standing.
Crisis is clarity.
Without sanctions or restrictions, Portugal is (relatively) spared by #coronavirus.Her reaction is 'interesting':
Portugal has far fewer fatalities than Spain or Italy, which is inexplicable. Unless you assume that the Portuguese aren’tHowever obnoxious I find many New Yorkers, I'd never accuse them collectively of senicide. Her attitude reinforces our view that, unlike the US, the EU hasn't much future.throwing grandma from the train, that istaking the opportunity to rid themselves of elders, while the other two nations almost certainly are.
The coronavirus is experienced in a fundamentally different way in densely populated urban areas than it is in exurban areas. (snip) In non-urban areas, social distancing doesn’t necessarily change one’s life much.This relates to what we wrote on Tuesday. All of which reminds me of a wise saying - Miles' law - I learned years ago while doing consulting in the DC area, "Where you stand depends on where you sit." Trende has essentially modified this to read, "Where you stand depends on where you live," an obvious extension of the original.
If you live in the type of densely populated urban areas where coronavirus fears are at the forefront of your mind as you go about your daily business, you’re also disproportionately likely to be a Democratic voter. On the other hand, voters in rural and exurban areas are more likely to be Republican, and are simply experiencing a different reality right now.
Documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011 show Soros Fund Management LLC invested heavily into WUXI Pharmatech Caymen, Inc.Holt reproduces what are alleged to be photocopies of the relevant SEC documents as well as WuXi advertising copy (in English) plugging the services they offer. I'm not sure what this means exactly, maybe nothing except a financier making money.
WuXi AppTec, as it is now called, has a facility in Wuhan, China. The company provides validated research including in vitro (HTS, SAR screening support) and in vivo disease models in cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and infectious diseases.
In 2010, before Soros invested in the company WuXi Pharmatexh announced plans to build a $100 million R&D center in Wuhan, China.
In the specific case of WuXi AppTec, it is almost certain that their work was supervised by the Chinese Intelligence services because of the company’s tight business connections to the US.
1. Covid-19 is very highly transmissible. There are numerous news stories of a single event where probably a single infected individual caused dozens or hundreds of infections and numerous deaths.When my mom was a little girl in 1917, she had the Spanish flu and was so sick all her pretty straight hair fell out. It grew back in curly and stayed that way the rest of her long life.
2. Covid-19 causes severe illness in medical professionals and otherwise healthy young people. (snip) This almost never happens in other diseases.
3. It is hard to compare deaths from COVID-19 to deaths from influenza. The data on influenza deaths are of limited value as we do not routinely test for influenza virus infection or other respiratory infections.
4. I do not believe that we are overreacting to COVID-19. (snip) A stronger response today could still save far more people than a more mild response.
5. Until we have treatments and vaccines, preventing transmission is the only way to go. Every blocked transmission could be a life saved—or many lives, given how transmissible the virus is.
A team from the UK and Germany, which includes experts from Northumbria University's Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, discovered a forest soil from the Cretaceous period in the seabed near the South Pole.The soil dates to 90 million years ago. If you're not familiar with New Zealand, think of the forests of the Olympic peninsula in Washington State or the coast of British Columbia, which are similar.
Their analysis of the pristinely preserved roots, pollen and spores show that the world at that time was a lot warmer than previously thought, with rainforests in Antarctica similar to the forests we have in New Zealand today.
The international team's findings are published today (1 April) as the lead story in the scientific journal Nature.