Archive for the 'Kill Off' Category
DARPA Wants to Create Almanacs of Every Possible Virus Mutation
June 2nd, 2010If ever a story belonged in the Kill Off category, this is it. Via: Wired: Right now, preparing for new viral threats means looking to the past, creating hypotheses based on how pathogens have changed before. Now Darpa wants to reverse that strategy: test every possible outcome, to create a prophetic almanac that warns of […]
Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result
May 31st, 2010See: Obama Sends Bomb, Mars Experts to Fix BP Oil Spill: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled his lack of confidence in the industry experts trying to control BP Plc’s leaking oil well by hand-picking a team of scientists with reputations for creative problem solving. Dispatched to Houston by President Barack Obama to deal with […]
Flashback 2002: Australian Scientist Urged Government to Use Biological Weapons Against “Overpopulated” Countries
May 24th, 2010Via: The Age: World-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel prize winner revered as Australia’s greatest medical research scientist, secretly urged the government to develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other “overpopulated” countries of South-East Asia. The revelation is contained in top-secret files declassified by the National Archives of Australia, despite resistance from […]
House Votes to Expand National DNA Arrest Database
May 23rd, 2010Via: CNet: Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to require […]
‘Artificial Life’
May 20th, 2010Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us Via: BBC: Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated” by the synthetic DNA. The advance, published in Science, […]
ADHD Linked to Pesticide Exposure
May 17th, 2010Via: CNN: Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests. Researchers measured the levels of pesticide byproducts in the urine of 1,139 children from across […]
Doctors Sterilise Uzbek Women by Stealth
April 30th, 2010Via: Times Online: WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had been sterilised. The procedure had been performed immediately after she […]
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Buying KFC Buckets Fights Breast Cancer?
April 23rd, 2010The article below doesn’t mention this, but the KFC menu is heavily laden with Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Finger lickin’ death. Via: Washington Post: I try to keep an open mind, but my brain is just boggled by the Buckets for the Cure partnership between KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. I try to […]
China Holds Relatives of One Child Rule Breakers Hostage
April 22nd, 2010Via: Times Online: Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they […]
