November 2015 is going down as a sleeper in global politics and science.  While many expected a changing of the guard in Canada's national elections with the new PM Justin Trudeau and his party sweeping the polls for the win, and a new majority in Parliament.  However, the world was caught off-guard with the almost unanimous decision by Mexico's Supreme Court that set an international precedent where the "Criminal Chamber of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the prohibition of consumption and cultivation of cannabis for personal use is unconstitutional, voiding five articles of the country's principal narcotics statute, the General Health Law. The court found that prohibition of cannabis consumption—or of cultivation for non-commercial purposes—violates the right to "free development of the personality," enshrined in Article 19 of the Mexican Constitution." 

As a former student of Global Studies and International Affairs, and a self-proclaimed jet-setter I commend the Court for confirming the principles of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" championed by the late First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt decades ago who would be proud of Mexico for continuing to champion human rights.

On an even higher plain no pun intended "NASA's Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst.
GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole."  This significant milestone coincides with the quest to prove Einstein's theory of general relativity because it is theorized that "gravitational wave observatories will detect the first ripples in space-time, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's relativity theory." Source: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-swift-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst.

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