Archive for October, 2013
America’s Police Are Looking More and More Like the Military
October 8th, 2013Via: Guardian: America’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff. Between […]
Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years
October 8th, 2013Via: CBS: An aerospace company has presented its design “atmospheric satellites” that fly at 65,000 feet and provide drone-like services such as live-mapping and monitoring narcotics trafficking. Titan Aerospace recently offered the Solara series of such drones: which can fly continuously for nearly five years, charging its own battery high above commercial aircraft through the […]
New Advertiser: Conspiracyflix.com
October 8th, 2013I’d like to thank Conspiracyflix.com for leasing the big banner space on Cryptogon for a month.
Nuclear Fusion Milestone Passed at U.S. Lab
October 7th, 2013Via: BBC: Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the Sun – could provide an unlimited and cheap source of energy. But to be viable, fusion power plants would have to produce more […]
Chinese Jitters Over Absurd $1.3 Trillion Gamble in U.S. Debt
October 7th, 2013Via: Independent: China, the biggest foreign creditor of the United States, has waded into the American budget crisis, warning Congress that it must resolve the political impasse over the debt ceiling without further delay. The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Zhu Guangyao, told America’s deadlocked politicians on Monday that “the clock is ticking” and called on […]
Self-Assembling Robots: MIT M-Blocks
October 7th, 2013Via: MIT News: Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
40 Percent of Humanity Online
October 7th, 2013Via: AFP: Around 2.7 billion people — 40 percent of the world’s population — will be connected to the Internet by the end of 2013, the United Nations said Monday. Another 250 million people came online in 2012, but 4.4 billion people remain unconnected, said the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Ninety percent of those […]
Long Island School Bans ‘Footballs, Baseballs, Lacrosse Balls, or Anything that Might Hurt Someone’
October 7th, 2013Via: CBS: Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban. As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might […]
Whistleblower Terminated from Northwestern for Revealing Human Medical Experimentation
October 7th, 2013Via: CNN: Why would a bright and promising cardiologist be fired from the University hospital that she had practiced at since 2000? Apparently, protecting her patients is grounds for dismissal. At least, that is the case at Northwestern University in Illinois. Despite being promoted to Valve Director in 2006, Dr. Nalini M. Rajamannan was terminated […]
Pharmaceutical Firms Paid to Attend Meetings of Panel that Advises FDA
October 7th, 2013Via: Washington Post: A scientific panel that shaped the federal government’s policy for testing the safety and effectiveness of painkillers was funded by major pharmaceutical companies that paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the chance to affect the thinking of the Food and Drug Administration, according to hundreds of e-mails obtained by a public […]
