Archive for the 'Media' Category
Pentagon to Begin Training Women for Combat Roles by 2015
June 18th, 2013Anybody’s Son (Or Daughter) Will Due Via: CBS: Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces. Details of […]
Sesame Street Designs Online Kit for Kids Who Have Parents in Prison
June 14th, 2013Via: KSLA: With the highest incarceration rate in the world, nearly 2 million children in the U.S. have a parent behind bars. In response, Sesame Street has designed an online kit to help children deal with the emotional problems of having incarcerated parents. The kit is targeted towards children between 3 and 8 years of […]
Stem Cells Produced from Cloning Technique for First Time
May 16th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of human cloning. If replicated in other […]
Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan
May 6th, 2013This is from 2012, but it’s a keeper. Would someone out there please email this story to Joel and Ethan Coen? This could make Miller’s Crossing look like Sunday School. Via: Bloomberg: Everyone looking to unload overleveraged or overpriced property, another broker who dealt with Rovt told me, is now chasing a stereotype: the Ukrainian […]
(Update: Fraud) ‘Unclaimed’ Documentary Film About a U.S. Army Veteran Left Behind in Vietnam for 44 Years
April 27th, 2013‘Missing’ U.S. Soldier Story Exposed as Fraud Via: Independent: Had it been true, it would have been one of the most gripping war stories of all time. But sadly it looks as if the man found living in the Vietnam jungle, who a new documentary claims is ‘long dead’ US army veteran Sgt John Hartley […]
Elysium
April 14th, 2013The Brussels Business: Who Runs The European Union?
April 2nd, 2013Via: The Brussels Business: Research Credit: RP
In Search Of… The Complete Series
March 30th, 2013This is how it all started for me, the trailhead, if you will. I wonder if there’s a picture of me as a five-year-old watching this… on our orange shag carpet… In Search Of… The Complete Series (1976): Leonard Nimoy, hosts and narrates this documentary series that takes you to the world of Unsolved Mysteries […]
Midway: Message from the Gyre
February 22nd, 2013Via: Midway Journey:
‘The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed’
January 16th, 2013Comments open on the main Sandy Hook thread. Via: ThinkOutsideTheTV YouTube Channel:
