Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Asia’s Smartphone Addiction
September 7th, 2015Really? Via: BBC: Nomophobia – or no mobile phone phobia – the onset of severe anxiety on losing access to your smartphone has been talked about for years. But in Asia, the birthplace of the selfie stick and the emoji, psychologists say smartphone addiction is fast on the rise and the addicts are getting younger. […]
17,500 Refugees Arrived in Germany Over Weekend
September 7th, 2015Via: CNN: The massive flood of refugees in Europe is pushing Germany and Austria to a tipping point. Thousands of refugees have poured into the two countries in just the past two days, trying to escape the bombings, terrorists and dire conditions ravaging their homelands. More than 16,000 have streamed into Austria since Saturday, Burgenland […]
“The mission I have to educate everybody is really an attempt to delay what AI will eventually do to us”
September 4th, 2015In ten or twenty years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the majority of paid work in companies, that is, work that isn’t done by machines, being done by these “certificate” holders. —Top U.S. Colleges to Offer Free Classes Online And now: “Nanodegrees.” Yeah, that’s the ticket. Also see: Humans Need Not Apply: Via: The […]
Refugees Pour Into Budapest Train Station
September 3rd, 2015If you’re going to run for your life, it’s best to do so before everyone else tries to do the same thing. Via: Reuters: Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest’s main railway station on Thursday but authorities canceled all trains to western Europe, triggering chaos and confusion. Hundreds of people, many […]
Long Exposure to Tiny Amounts of Monsanto’s Roundup May Damage Liver, Kidneys
September 2nd, 2015Via: Russia Today: Long-term intake of the Monsanto’s most popular Roundup herbicide, even in very small amounts lower than permissible in US water, may lead to kidney and liver damage, a new study claims. The research, conducted by an international group of scientists from the UK, Italy and France, studied the effects of prolonged exposure […]
The Surging Ranks of America’s Ultrapoor
September 2nd, 2015Via: CBS: By one dismal measure, America is joining the likes of Third World countries. The number of U.S. residents who are struggling to survive on just $2 a day has more than doubled since 1996, placing 1.5 million households and 3 million children in this desperate economic situation. That’s according to “$2.00 a Day: […]
On Average, People Who Obtain Degrees from Quarter of Colleges Never Recover Cost of Education
August 31st, 2015Via: The New Yorker: These types of studies, and there are lots of them, usually find that the financial benefits of getting a college degree are much larger than the financial costs. But Cappelli points out that for parents and students the average figures may not mean much, because they disguise enormous differences in outcomes […]
Up to 90% of Seabirds Have Plastic in Their Guts
August 31st, 2015Via: Guardian: As many as nine out of 10 of the world’s seabirds are likely to have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. An Australian team of scientists who have studied birds and marine debris found that far more seabirds were affected than the previous estimate of 29%. Their results were […]
Maryland Man Fined $50 for Picking Berries in Park
August 30th, 2015Via: Reason: To me, nothing screams summer like picking and eating fresh berries. I know I’m not alone. Greg Visscher, head of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Young Republicans Club, has been picking berries with his family for years. So it was with some degree of surprise that Visscher found himself confronted last month by a […]
San Francisco as Open Sewer
August 28th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: City officials say corrosion from urine — human and canine — contributed to the collapse of a light pole that fell on a car at Taylor and Pine streets in San Francisco. … In the Tenderloin, at Eddy and Jones streets, I watched a group of small schoolchildren ushered across the […]
