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The New York Times reports that the clusters of nerve cells were grown from stem cells at the University of California, San Diego, by biologist Alysson Muotri and his team. The AND ENDS scientists attached the mini-brains to spider- WEIRD NEWS like robots to read their neural activity and then sent them to the International Space Dateline: China Station to study the effects. What they A Chinese student was denied entry into the found could raise new concerns over the United States after he declared that he was ethics of experimenting with mini-brains. carrying a bulletproof vest—leading Chinese The report was published in the journal Cell. social media users to ask how they are According to Muotri’s team, the organoids supposed to protect themselves while visiting have begun to give off brain waves and show the US. Shanghaiist reports that the student signs of complex neural activity similar to had flown into the Detroit Metro Airport in that found in premature babies. The Michigan and told security officials at a biologist told reporters that this is a sign that checkpoint that he was carrying a bulletproof scientists are closer than ever to creating a vest. US Customs and Border Protection partially conscious life in a laboratory. But it reportedly allows the importation of “soft body also implies that mini-brains could be armor,” but officials decided to cancel the capable of consciousness, meaning they student’s visa and send him back to China. He told reporters that his cell phone and laptop could be able to feel pain and fear if were confiscated by security agents. The developed further. While the findings are student also reportedly held a gun license in unexpected, some experts are pointing out Michigan and it’s unclear if that had anything that the neural activity exhibited by the to do with the authorities’ decision. Chinese mini-brains was far from reaching human social media users were quick to decry the levels. University of Southern California student’s treatment, saying that bulletproof Biologist Giorgia Quadrato, who was not vests are an essential travel item in the US, involved in the study, told reporters “People considering the nation’s problems with mass will say, ‘Ah, these are like the brains of shootings. “Americans get to have guns, but preterm infants.’ No, they are not.” we don’t get to have body armor. How are we supposed to avoid getting shot?” wrote one Weibo user. In recent months, the Chinese Dateline: Indonesia government has warned its citizens against The Indonesian government is moving its traveling to the US. Authorities reminded capital from Jakarta to a new city, because travelers that “shootings, robberies and thefts Jakarta is sinking. According to CNN, the have occurred frequently in the United relocation was announced last week by States.” Uruguay, Venezuela and New Zealand Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The have also released similar travel warnings. president cited concerns of overcrowding and sustainability as the city begins to fall into the Dateline: Ireland ocean. “The burden Jakarta is holding right A car mechanic’s invoice went viral on social now is too heavy as the center of governance, media when the cause of a woman’s car business, finance, trade and services,” Widodo problems was revealed to be a “dildo … said in a televised speech. Ars Technica reports jammed in rails.” According to The Irish Post, that different sections of Jakarta are sinking the invoice was published on Reddit this week into the ocean at different rates of speed. by user MiggeldyMackDaddy. The document Most areas of the city are sinking by around indicates that a customer brought her car into one to four inches every year. These areas are a shop based in Kilbarrack, Ireland, open to flood levels that could endanger lives, complaining that she had been having issues infrastructure and homes. Jakarta is one of the following a previous repair made by the most overpopulated cities on Earth and is mechanic. From the invoice: “Ever since we home to more than 10 million people. The fitted a new wing mirror the driver’s seat will not move back or forward.” However, the issue city was built on river sediment deposited at did not seem to have been caused by any fault the coast. Over the years, the weight of on the mechanic’s part. In a section labeled buildings and infrastructure have slowly “Work carried out,” the culprit was identified. compressed the sediment, causing some areas “Found dildo belonging to customer jammed to sink. But excessive groundwater pumping is in rails that the seat slides on,” the invoice said to be the major cause. Underground reads. “Unwilling to carry out repair due to aquifer layers that helped support the city in hygeine [sic] concern. Instructed customer on the past have been drained, and the empty repairs required.” The customer—identified spaces have caved in. Widodo told the nation only as “Mary”—was charged €73 by the shop that the new capital will be located on an for labor. island near the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda, east of Borneo. The relocation is Dateline: International expected to cost around 486 trillion rupiah Space Station ($34 billion) and could take around 10 years Scientists who grew mini-human brains, to complete. a Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to attached them to robots and sent them into [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 5-11, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | COUNTY MATTERS BernCo Sheriff Called to Resign Bernalillo County residents gathered at the Sheriff’s Office last week to call for the The Dog Days of BernCo resignation of Sheriff Manuel Gonzales. They say the sheriff’s repeated refusals to utilize body camera and dashcam technologies place County Commission meets to govern the public at risk. According to KRQE, County Commissioners are once again pressing Gonzales to begin BY CAROLYN CARLSON outfitting deputies with body cameras. Commissioner Debbie O’Malley is reportedly proposing that the county set aside he dog days of summer found Bernalillo $500,000 to purchase the cameras. County government folks making some But the county already earmarked T cool governance moves at recent $500,000 to place dashcams in patrol cars last Bernalillo County Commission meetings.