Earlier in the week, Politico reported that CMS was steering communications work to multiple Republican subcontractors to promote Administrator Seema Verma and her work within the administration. The contracts, while legal, did raise ethical questions and prompted leading Democratic lawmakers to immediately call for and investigation.

If the products do not contain ruminant proteins or seafood (and sometimes, even when they do), these organics can have substantial value in the animal feed industry. For example, bakery waste has a very efficient recycling industry focused on this specific stream. This material is collected and processed into animal feed, often with a rebate coming back to the generator.

Every time somebody asked me about OCC, I’m wrong. So just hammer that what I say, what I’m about to say, and this will be a beating — you’re beating Adam to the punch. So we — has it hit bottom. I’m not sure that it’s hit bottom yet. I won’t be surprised if we see further decline as we head into May. But then I would expect it to start creeping back up when things get a little tight in July, August, September and probably into October and then we typically see a bit of a downturn. So — do I think it will discourage collection? No. And the reason I don’t believe it’s going to discourage collection is, China still has a problem and they need to get their fiber through some other methodology. And so that we’re seeing Chinese investment in old mills and they’re looking to convert those to create pulpable material that they can ship back in — if you will work through the environmental issues of ascending OCC over. So I don’t think that collection will be curtailed.

Oh, and don’t worry: you can tell all your friends that you found these products yourself. Because you may not have invented them, but you might as well get credit for some of the brilliance.

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As well as making new proteins, it is also possible to make new RNAs. This is how CRISPR gene-editing works. A molecule of RNA is created that velcroes itself to a specific sequence in the genome; a companion protein then slices through the bit of DNA thus highlighted. Once the DNA is broken, a new gene, or gene fragment, can be inserted into the gap. If you put a gene describing the CRISPR RNA and its protein into a cell in such a way that it gets expressed only under certain conditions, you have a cell whose genome can be reprogammed by remote control.

Elise Craig is a freelance writer and the managing editor of Pop-Up Magazine. She has written for Wired, Marie Claire, The California Sunday Magazine and The New York Times for Kids.

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It is into the cosmically vast sea of proteins nature has never made that David Baker of the University of Washington has set his course. In the 2000s Dr Baker was a world leader in the field of predicting what the structure of a natural protein would be on the basis of the order of its amino acids. This is a fiendishly difficult problem; the way the chains fold up is subject to incredibly subtle chemical forces that have very large effects. But the Baker lab got pretty good at it—good enough to spin out Arzeda, the proteindesign company. Five years ago Dr Baker decided it was time to use what he had learned not to understand old proteins, but to design absolutely new ones in shapes of his choosing which nature has never explored.

The New York Times: The Army Thought He Was Faking His Health Issues. Turns Out He Had Chronic Lead Poisoning. At age 30, Stephen Hopkins was back in the Army for a second time. After serving as an enlisted soldier from 1991 to 1995, he returned as an officer in 2000. He was a man who routinely maxed fitness tests and endured physical hardship while deployed to rural locales in Afghanistan. Selected for Special Forces training, Hopkins tackled the demanding courses with gusto, later returning to combat for a total of seven deployments. He had a job he loved and excelled at, and his star was ascending. But in 2005, Hopkins began experiencing wild swings in blood pressure. (Kime, 4/3)

“There you go,” he tells Durham, pointing again to the computer screen. “Everything else looks good.”

Star Wars teamed up with FurReal to bring everybody’s favorite Wookie to life. Chewie has been brought to life with his famous expressions and signature roar. When you talk to him, he will respond to your voice. With a built-in accelerometer, he responds to movement too when you pick him up. You probably didn’t know this, but he is incredibly ticklish. The cutest part? After fighting the Empire all day, he even can be put to sleep.