Digital pills approved by the FDA By Tecca | Today in Tech – 01 AUG 2012 Your medication may soon be able to send reminders to your smartphone if you don’t take it Did you remember to take your prescription… Read More ›
Societal
Did you Know you could hurt your self with that Free Will. Here let me take that from you..
Learning machines scour Twitter to Determine What You are Capable of.
* I changed the title to hit home, what a computer program like this is capable of. Even though this program is being created with very noble intentions. It is only one step away from being used by the wrong… Read More ›
Too Much Bottled Water Might Harm Kids’ Teeth – (Deadly Misinformation)
* Be creating a new Category here in a sec, to address articles such as these. Nothing like discouraging kids to drink water. Guess they can get all the flouride they need from botteled sodas and juices. Remember this also… Read More ›
Detailed How To: The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host
* This is information has been made public, I am leaving the figures out… Science 22 June 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6088 pp. 1541-1547 DOI: 10.1126/science.1222526 Abstract Avian A/H5N1 influenza viruses pose a pandemic threat. As few as five amino… Read More ›
Natural Gas Fracking Industry May Be Paying Off Scientists
By Tim McDonnell, Climate Desk July 30, 2012 | Wired Last week the University of Texas provost announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor… Read More ›
Criminals may now be Hospital Directors Plus Nurses ‘cleaning wards at cash-strapped hospitals’
Nurses at a cash-strapped hospital trust are being forced to clean beds and scrub wards to make up for a lack of funding for full-time cleaners, it has been claimed By Hannah Furness 8:39AM BST 31 Jul 2012 From the… Read More ›
Japanese engineers hasten humanity’s extinction, unveil fully-armed four-ton robot [video]
Sometimes it feels as though scientists and engineers have never watched the Terminator or Matrix movies at all. The Guardian reports that Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry is showing off a new robot called “Kuratas” that weighs four tons, stands… Read More ›
Pop Music All Sounds the Same Nowadays ” “a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse,”
By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com – Fri, Jul 27, 2012 Your parents are officially correct. Nowadays, pop music all sounds pretty much the same. Researchers in Spain came to the conclusion after tracking the timbre, pitch and volume of… Read More ›
Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail — for Collecting Rainwater on His Property
By Kendra Alleyne July 26, 2012 (CNSNews.com) – A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington… Read More ›
Children as young as seven and eight are using ecstasy and cannabis, according to an official report.
From The Telegraph By Martin Beckford, Home Affairs Editor 10:00PM BST 26 Jul 2012 A Home Office survey found that some drug users had admitted taking ecstasy when they were just seven years old, while others said they smoked cannabis … Read More ›
Private contractors are to take over the role of looking after the UK’s nuclear weapons in Scotland
From The Telegraph 6:59PM BST 28 Jul 2012 The MoD has signed a 15-year contract with ABL Alliance to provide support for the Trident weapons system at HM Naval Base Clyde. Under the new contract 149 MoD civilian posts will… Read More ›
Drug money funds voter fraud in Kentucky…. About $50/Vote Common Practice
By Eric Shawn Published July 25, 2012 FoxNews.com Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky. That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result… Read More ›
A pinch of opportunity makes deep inequality more palatable
A pinch of opportunity makes deep inequality more palatable Just a tiny hint of opportunity has a disproportionately powerful effect – making unfairness more acceptable to disadvantaged people, new research has found. A study by Eugenio Proto, an economist from… Read More ›
America, the Law-crazed –
* Ralphs Note – Outside stressors play a huge role on health. It is not about taking political sides, but what causes some people to live in constant low grade fear. Laws seem like they were originally intended to alleviate… Read More ›
People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
By: Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer Date: 28 February 2012 Time: 12:35 PM ET The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy… Read More ›
Concerns over accuracy of tools to predict risk of repeat offending
Current evidence not strong enough for definitive decisions to be made, say experts Research: Use of risk assessment instruments to predict violence and antisocial behaviour in 73 samples involving 24,827 people: systematic review and meta-analysis Tools designed to predict an… Read More ›
London Mayor Boris Johnson admits paying cash ‘a lot’ after minister says families who settle bills cash-in-hand are as bad as tax avoiders
Tory minister David Gauke said he disapproves of the practice He said non-taxed house services such as plumbing, cleaning and gardening is ‘a large part of the hidden economy’ Labour MP John Mann, accused the Treasury of operating ‘double standards’… Read More ›
The U.S. Global Fund for Aids Transfers 100’s of Millions of USD to the Russian and Chinese Governments
After this Global Aids Day Conference, I noticed large sums of money going into the “U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief” http://www.pepfar.gov . There are two Red Flags that need cleaning up. In order to determine which companies are… Read More ›
£13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite (21 Trillion USD)
A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign… Read More ›
AAAS joins more than 3000 organizations in urging Congress to avoid ‘devastating’ budget cuts
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has joined more than 3000 national, state, and local organizations in warning the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama that automatic budget cuts set for January could have “devastating” effects on… Read More ›
Indian doctors illegally removed wombs from poor women: minister
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) – Doctors in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh performed hysterectomies on poor village women without a valid medical reason in order to claim money from a national insurance scheme, the state’s health minister said on Wednesday. … Read More ›
Dangerous caregivers for elderly
Agencies place unqualified, possibly criminal caregivers in homes of vulnerable seniors CHICAGO — If you hire a caregiver from an agency for an elderly family member, you might assume the person had undergone a thorough criminal background check and drug… Read More ›
In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Cynthia Craig was diagnosed with postpartum depression eight years ago, she told her family doctor she felt anxious about motherhood. She wondered whether she had made a catastrophic mistake by quitting her job, whether she… Read More ›
Overdiagnosis poses significant threat to human health
International conference: Preventing Overdiagnosis Overdiagnosis poses a significant threat to human health by labeling healthy people as sick and wasting resources on unnecessary care, warns Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow at Bond University in Australia, in a feature published on… Read More ›