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The ex-CIA scientist brothers perfecting Halloween
Crowley Place is a sleepy street in the Waynewood area of south Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb 30 minutes from DC. The unassuming homes are well-tended, and it’s a quick walk to six different churches.
But each year at Halloween the police shut down the street as thousands of visitors flock to the area. It’s all due to two ageing brothers who spent 40 years working together in secret at a laboratory in the CIA.
For six weeks, no matter what was going on in the world, the Park brothers would take leave from the agency – using vacation, sick days, and anything else they could think of— and construct an elaborate front-yard Halloween display, often using CIA-inspired technology.
Nazi scientist linked to thalidomide signed off on penicillin imports into Ireland
A Nazi scientist working at the company which made controversial compound thalidomide found in pregnancy drugs signed off on imports of penicillin and other drugs into Ireland during the 1950s, the Irish Thalidomide Association (ITA) has discovered.It is now even more urgent the State shares its papers on the thalidomide controversy to unveil all links with the company now called Grünenthal, the association urged on Thursday.Heinrich Mückter, a Nazi party member, experimented during the Second World War on prisoners in camps including Buchenwald. It is said hundreds died after being injected with the killer disease typhus.Despite being wanted in Poland for war crimes, he escaped and later became chief scientist at Grünenthal. Links between Nazism and thalidomide have been previously documented.In 2012 American outlet Newsweek wrote: “It was in this company of men, indifferent...
The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris
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World-Renowned Scientist Wah Chiu, Stanford University Professor and Honorary Advisor to Pohang City, visited Korea at the invitation of the Coree Group, Business News
Business new tamfitronics - Seminar presentation at the invitation of Dx&Vx and Coree Group SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Wah Chiu, who visited Korea at the invitation of the Coree Group, led by Chairman Lim Chong Yoonan inside director of Hanmi Pharmaceutical and the largest shareholder of Dx&Vx, holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from UC Berkeley and is the world's leading authority in the field of molecular imaging that combines AI technology with cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) technology. On the 21st, Professor Wah Chiu, a world-renowned scientist at Stanford University in the United States known for his work on molecular structure, was appointed as honorary advisor...
