Archive for March, 2012
Homework Is Useless for Children
March 28th, 2012We’re going to take Owen on his first outing with other local homeschooling families to visit a geothermal power plant. It would be an understatement to say that he is going to enjoy this very much. Via: The Daily Telegraph: CHILDREN are being lumbered with hours of homework every week – but the extra slog […]
Another One for Your Too-Much-Sitting-Is-Lethal File Folder
March 28th, 2012Via: Health Day: For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say. Analyzing self-reported data from more than 222,000 people aged […]
The Death of Neil Heywood in China
March 28th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Immaculately dressed, often in cream linen, Neil Heywood was the epitomy of a British gentleman abroad, but his death in a hotel room in China has left those who knew him asking what secrets he may have taken to his grave. The 41-year-old Old Harrovian was a vastly experienced China hand, who advised […]
U.S. Could Fly Spy Drones from Australian Territory
March 28th, 2012Via: Chanel News Asia: Australia said Wednesday it may allow the United States to use its territory to operate long-range spy drones, as part of an increased US presence in the Asia-Pacific that has rankled China. Washington and Canberra could also reportedly station US aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered attack submarines in the western Australian city […]
Radiation Inside Fukushima Reactor So High That New Machines Must Be Designed to Monitor It
March 28th, 2012Via: Washington Post: One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s stability. A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a thermometer, a dosimeter and a water gauge was used to assess […]
MIT Stacks Solar Panels, Gets More Power Out of Smaller Footprint
March 28th, 2012Via: ExtremeTech: What’s better than one pancake? A whole stack of pancakes! Using the same logic, a team of MIT researchers have stacked a bunch of photovoltaic solar cells together to produce up to 20 times the power output of conventional solar power installations. Normally I’m the first to drop my jaw in awe at […]
TSA Bars Bruce Schneier from Giving Testimony on Full Body Scanners
March 27th, 2012Maybe he should go on the Kim Hill show instead. Via: Register: Security expert Bruce Schneier was been banned at the last minute from testifying in front of congress on the efficacy – or otherwise – of the US Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) much-maligned perv scanners. Schneier is a long-time critic of the TSA’s policies […]
FBI Explanation of Missing Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Not Credible, Judge Says
March 27th, 2012Why not just produce it? If you know what I mean by produce it. Maybe they could get the birdman on the job. It shouldn’t take long. Via: Deseret News: A federal judge on Wednesday continued to question the FBI’s explanation for not producing videotapes associated with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that a Salt […]
Update: Email Response from Mark Cubey, Producer, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand National
March 27th, 2012Be sitting down. Radio New Zealand’s Censorship of Sally Fallon Morell
Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents
March 26th, 2012Via: AP: The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers. The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian […]
