Archive for February, 2016

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India: Ten Million Without Water in Delhi

February 22nd, 2016

Via: BBC: More than 10 million people in India’s capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say. Keshav Chandra, head of Delhi’s water board, told the BBC it would take “three to four days” before normal supplies resumed to affected areas. Jat community protesters demanding […]

Virtual Reality and Zuckerberg’s, “Rictus Grin”

February 22nd, 2016

Har! Via: The Verge: The image above looks like concept art for a new dystopian sci-fi film. A billionaire superman with a rictus grin, striding straight past human drones, tethered to machines and blinded to reality by blinking plastic masks. Golden light shines down on the man as he strides past his subjects, cast in […]

Israeli Researchers Find Mobile Phones Cause Male Fertility Problems

February 22nd, 2016

Via: Daily Mail: Men who carry their mobile phone in a trouser pocket or talk on it for just an hour a day risk suffering with fertility problems, scientists warn. Research shows that sperm count can also be reduced by talking on a phone that is charging, or even keeping it close by on a […]

Chinese Companies Buying Foreign Businesses

February 22nd, 2016

Via: Business Insider: Chinese companies have been buying up foreign businesses — including American ones — at a record rate, and it’s freaking out lawmakers. There is General Electric’s sale of its appliance business to Qingdao-based Haier, Zoomlion’s bid for the heavy-lifting-equipment maker Terex Corporation, and ChemChina’s record-breaking deal for the Swiss seeds and pesticides […]

Singapore Math and Zaner-Bloser Textbooks in New Zealand

February 21st, 2016

We keep meeting homeschooling families who are having math and writing curricula issues in NZ, so here’s a quick post for anyone else going through this: If you’re a homeschooling parent in New Zealand, you probably realize that getting quality materials here can be a challenge. Lots of us know that Singapore Math and Zaner-Bloser […]

America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria

February 20th, 2016

Via: BuzzFeed: American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The infighting between American proxies is the latest […]

Beijing Is Banning All Foreign Media from Publishing Online in China

February 19th, 2016

Via: Quartz: In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in Chinese) could, if they were enforced […]

Houston Man Arrested by Seven U.S. Marshals For Unpaid $1,500 Student Loan from 1987

February 19th, 2016

Via: NY Daily News: Seven U.S. Marshals armed with automatic weapons arrested a Texas man for not paying a $1,500 student loan from three decades ago, he claims. … Aker said he was put in the back of a truck and placed in a cell at the federal building in downtown Houston. Later, he was […]

‘See Something Suspicious Online? Homeland Security Wants to Know About It’

February 18th, 2016

Via: NextGov: The Department of Homeland Security wants an extra $1 million next year to develop a public-service campaign designed to increase awareness of online threats. The new initiative will be modeled on the “If You See Something, Say Something” effort rolled out after the Sept. 11 attacks. The new cyber PSA “will look to […]

Hawaii Getting 52-Megawatt-Hour Tesla Powerpack System (Hint: That’s a Very BIG Battery)

February 17th, 2016

Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Wow! As far as I can tell, Japan’s Hokkaido Battery Storage Project is the largest battery bank in the world. This new one in Hawaii will be #2. Via: Pacific Business News: Tesla Energy, a division of California serial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors, will […]

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