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1 in 68 U.S. Children Has Autism
March 28th, 2014Via: CNN: One in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a 30% increase from 1 in 88 two years ago, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This newest estimate is based on the CDC’s evaluation of health and educational records of all 8-year-old […]
Sinkhole of Bureaucracy
March 24th, 2014Via: Washington Post: The trucks full of paperwork come every day, turning off a country road north of Pittsburgh and descending through a gateway into the earth. Underground, they stop at a metal door decorated with an American flag. Behind the door, a room opens up as big as a supermarket, full of five-drawer file […]
Malaysia Airlines Pilot Filmed Being Trained in Boeing 777-200 a Month Before Flight Disappeared
March 18th, 2014This is definitely Coincidence Gold. Via: New York Post: A month before he was a co-pilot in a bizarre plane disappearance, Malaysia Airlines pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid was happy to finally be getting his chance to fly a Boeing 777-200. CNN aviation expert Richard Quest had coincidentally filmed a training session for the 27-year-old co-pilot […]
Could MH370 Have Been ‘Swapped’ Mid-Air?
March 18th, 2014Via: Yahoo!7 News: Could the aircraft have been ‘swapped’ mid-air? Generally air traffic radars use something called a “Squawk” code – this is 4 digits, say ‘1234’ – that is then used to transmit information to the ground radar of the aircraft’s position and other relevant detail. This is very easily disabled – it is […]
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Flew for About Four Hours Past Last Confirmed Location
March 13th, 2014Update: Plane’s Communications System Was Pinging Inmarsat Satellite So both the engines and communications systems were pinging two different companies’ satellites. Via: New York Times: David Coiley, a vice president of Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications provider, said the missing plane had been equipped with an Inmarsat signaling system that sends out a “keep-alive message” […]
Department of Homeland Security Conducting Drug Raids?
March 12th, 2014Via: Gothamist: A number of East Williamsburg and Bushwick residents were surprised by a combined federal and NYPD raid on Devoe Street early Sunday morning. Some were disturbed by a loud, low-flying helicopter, while others were simply stopped from going home because the street was blocked off. Witnesses spotted a big Department of Homeland Security […]
New H5N8 Avian Influenza Penetrated Biosecurity Defenses at Korea’s Premier Poultry Research Center
March 5th, 2014Via: Science: A new, deadly H5N8 strain of avian influenza penetrated the biosecurity defenses of a National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) campus near Seoul, prompting authorities to cull all of the facility’s 11,000 hens and 5000 ducks. The devastating loss could set back poultry experiments at the NIAS lab for 2 years. “It will […]
Use of Prescription Drugs in Kentucky and West Virginia [???]
February 23rd, 2014I was reading this piece about the most miserable states in the U.S. when I came across this sentence in the section on Kentucky: The state’s population was the nation’s most reliant on prescription drugs, with 19.3 prescriptions filled per capita in 2011, tied with West Virginia. 😯 Would that be a world leading statistic? […]
Chief of the Korea Division of the National Security Agency Charged with Murder of Adopted Son
February 19th, 2014The person who heads the “Korea Division” of the NSA is only thirty six years old? Via: NBC: A Maryland man has been charged with the murder of his adopted 3-year-old son, Montgomery County police said Tuesday. Brian Patrick O’Callaghan, 36, of Damascus has been charged with first degree murder and child abuse. In court, […]
Eerie Parallels: Chart of Dow Jones Industrial Average 1928-1929 vs. Today
February 12th, 2014Queue your Twilight Zone mood music… Via: CBS: There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash. That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market’s recent performance on […]
