Archive for December, 2011
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
December 21st, 2011Via: Green Is The New Red: The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout [???]
December 21st, 2011Update: Editor at Scientific American Claims This Research Is Flawed —End Update— Via: Press Release / International Journal of Health Services: An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December […]
Russian Space Agency Bans Employees from Traveling Abroad
December 21st, 2011The past is never dead. It’s not even past. —William Faulkner Coming up next: Consequences for the families of those who leave anyway. Via: AFP: They may be working to reach the final frontier, but employees of Russian space agency Roscosmos face going no further than Russia for their holidays. Roscosmos’ new chief Vladimir Popovkin […]
University Prepares to Publish Details of How it Created Flu That Could Kill Millions
December 20th, 2011Is this laying the groundwork for the release of the real one that .mil has probably had sitting around for years??? Flashback: U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu. Via: Independent: A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by […]
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy — Martin Lindstrom
December 20th, 2011This looks like a good one. (As I link to it using my Amazon affiliate code. *chuckle*) Via: Amazon: From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.
Iran Hijacked U.S. Drone by Exploiting Long Known Vulnerability, According to Iranian Engineer
December 20th, 2011Via: Christian Science Monitor: In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. Iran guided the CIA’s “lost” stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known […]
Gigapixel Photography of Crowds
December 20th, 2011If you thought the one of Obombya’s inauguration was impressive/terrifying, try zooming in on this one. Via: gigapixel.com: The Vancouver Canucks Fan Zone along Georgia St. for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final was captured at 5:46 pm on June 15, 2011. It is made up of 216 photos (12 across by 18 […]
Nano-Scale Anti Counterfeiting Technique for Looks Like Electronic Display; Will Be Used on Cash and Pharmaceuticals
December 20th, 2011Via: FastCompany: Imagine a bill covered with microscopic holes that make it glow slightly in the light. It’s tech borrowed from a butterfly, and it may soon be foiling counterfeiters around the world. If all goes as planned, the world’s supply of cash will soon be secured with a nano-scale optical defense that is as […]
Thousands of Rare Documents Burned in Egypt Clash
December 20th, 2011Via: AP: Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood on the back of a pickup truck Monday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris. The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the […]
Many Foods Made with High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contain Mercury
December 20th, 2011Lots of people are submitting this two year old story.
