Archive for March, 2012
MIT Researchers Put 30 Picowatts of Electricity Into LED, Get 69 Picowatts of Light Out – An Efficiency of 230%
March 9th, 2012Via: PhysOrg: For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes. Although scientifically intriguing, the results won’t immediately result in ultra-efficient commercial LEDs since the demonstration works only for LEDs with very low input power that produce very small amounts of light. The […]
iPass Away – Do My Digital Downloads Die with Me?
March 8th, 2012Never mind the fact that there are no used e-book stores, check this out! Via: Which?: As it stands, the rights of iTunes and Amazon customers look pretty shaky when it comes to passing on downloads. If you buy a music track from a digital store, you’re essentially buying a licence to play that track […]
Justice Department May Sue Apple, Publishers for Colluding to Raise Prices of E-Books
March 8th, 2012Via: Reuters: The Justice Department has warned Apple (AAPL.O) and five major publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of electronic books, a person familiar with the probe said on Thursday. Several parties have held talks to settle the potential antitrust case, said the person, who was […]
UK ‘Must Plan for Euro Collapse’
March 8th, 2012Via: BBC: Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone “as a matter of urgency”, a committee of MPs and peers has warned. The joint committee on the government’s National Security Strategy (NSS) said the full or partial collapse of the single currency was “plausible”. It said political unrest and […]
U.S. Gives Israel Advanced Weapons to Delay War with Iran
March 8th, 2012Via: AFP: THE US offered Israel advanced weaponry in return for it committing not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities this year, according to an Israeli report last night. Citing unnamed Western diplomats and intelligence sources, the report in the Maariv daily said that during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week, the US […]
Open Thread: Space Doom
March 8th, 2012Lots of people like to submit Space Doom stories. Even though I wouldn’t normally post about this stuff, some of the boards I read (which rarely have any credible information on them anyway) are losing their minds over this solar flare event, which I doubt will amount to much, if anything at all. I think […]
Respiratory Illness Kills Three Members of Family in Maryland
March 8th, 2012Via: NBC: Lab testing identified the same strain of influenza in two of the three victims who died with respiratory sickness last week in Calvert County. The county’s health department has been investigating a cluster of illnesses that led to three deaths in Lusby, MD, near the Calvert Cliffs nuclear facility. The Maryland Department of […]
Letter from Aldous Huxley to George Orwell About 1984
March 8th, 2012Via: Letters of Note: Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and […]
Indian Slums Provide Pharmaceutical Companies with Endless Supply of Human Guinea Pigs
March 7th, 2012Bargains. Via: MSNBC: Few people in the slums of Ahmedabad, India, know more about the supply of human guinea pigs for clinical drug trials than Rajesh Nadia. When Indian firms working for pharmaceutical companies need test subjects, they often turn to Nadia, who has carved a small niche for himself as a recruiter in the […]
Man Demonstrates Why TSA Body Scanners Are Worthless for Security Purposes
March 7th, 2012Update: TSA Threatens Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story Via: TSA Out of Our Pants: I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida reporter told me that he had been “strongly cautioned” by the TSA […]
