Archive for January, 2016
Ecotricity: A More Solar Friendly Electricity Retailer in New Zealand
January 25th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Do you live in New Zealand? Do you have a grid-tie solar power system? and/or Do you own an electric car? Check out Ecotricity. Time-of-use tariffs mean that the price of your electricity drops dramatically at night, in other words, when your solar system isn’t […]
Harvard Is Trying to Build an AI as Fast as the Human Brain
January 25th, 2016Via: Wired UK: Harvard University has been awarded $28 million (£19m) to investigate why brains are so much better at learning and retaining information than artificial intelligence. The award, from the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could help make AI systems faster, smarter and more like human brains. While many computers have a comparable storage […]
Blizzard Senate Antics: Senate Leader Surprises Lawmakers with New ISIS War Powers Request
January 25th, 2016Via: DefenseOne: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered members a snow-weekend surprise late Wednesday night: Quietly teeing up a debate on the legal underpinning for the fight against ISIS. … The AUMF put forward by McConnell would not restrict the president’s use of ground troops, nor have any limits related to time or geography.
“The Pentagon Has No Clue How Many Weapons It Has Lost to ISIS”
January 25th, 2016Lost. *wink* None of this is by design. Oh no. Shit happens. They forgot to mention the stacks of cash: 2011: $6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq Via: Mother Jones: For more than a decade, the United States has supplied huge quantities of weapons and military hardware to the Iraqi government—and a large chunk […]
More Babies Are Being Born with Organs Outside Their Bodies, and Experts Have No Idea Why
January 25th, 2016Related? Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii’s Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops: At a Starbucks just outside Honolulu, Sidney Johnson, a pediatric surgeon at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children who oversees all children born in Hawaii with major birth defects and operates on many, says he’s been thinking about pesticides […]
There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts
January 24th, 2016This is what Soviet-style systems do. The U.S. Government is the enabler via the student loan scam. Via: The Atlantic: Writing a few years ago for this publication, the Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg described colleges and universities as now being “filled with armies of functionaries—vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, provosts, associate […]
“Zika Virus”: El Salvador Asks Women Not to Get Pregnant Until 2018
January 23rd, 2016Via: Washington Post: The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness. What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries […]
The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office’s Octopus Logo
January 21st, 2016Never mind the nauseating gibberish in the release from NRO. I thought this commentary was comedy gold. Via: Muckrock: The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence community’s tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James […]
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
January 20th, 2016Via: California Institute of Technology: Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than […]
Oil Breaks Below $27, Down Over 5%
January 20th, 2016S&P500 October 2014 low is taken out intraday. — S&P500 leaning over, real ugly. Through all recent weekly supports now. If anyone at the PPT is awake at the switch… This is it. —- USO bids $8 — This move is nuts. Crude Oil Feb 16 (CLG16.NYM) -NY Mercantile $26.86 Down $1.60(5.62%) 11:07AM EST — […]
