Scientists observe orphan planet like Nibiru, but it’s unlikely to destroy Earth next month LAST UPDATED AT 16:05 ON Wed 14 Nov 2012 Rogue planet discovered: is the Mayan apocalypse coming? NASA scientists could be forced to confront… Read More ›
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Treating Chocolate with Happy Thoughts, Makes the Consumer Happier too.
“Treated” chocolate makes you happier CHOCOLATE has wonderful powers – witness our report last week on the correlation between per-capita chocolate consumption and a nation’s haul of Nobel prizes (3 November). Now Tony Burton points us to the apparently very… Read More ›
UFO Over Denver Not Yet Debunked
EEV: Reposted with another copy of the video [Fox31 Report] DENVER, Colo. – A strange object, flying above Denver has puzzled many who have seen the video, including aviation experts. KDVR-TV in Denver talked to Steve Cowell, a former commercial… Read More ›
McDonald’s to give away 200,000 free burgers: “initiative was to reinforce the importance of starting the day with a wholesome breakfast”
The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 PETALING JAYA – They say eat breakfast like a king and McDonald’s Malaysia has decided to celebrate the most important meal of the day by giving away over 200,000 free Egg McMuffin… Read More ›
Professor defends Stalin, socialism at student-organized debate
2:18 AM 11/14/2012 Zachary Snider At an on-campus debate hosted by the libertarian Young Americans for Liberty, professor Grover Furr of Montclair State University (MSU) declared that he has not found a single crime committed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin…. Read More ›
National security for beginners
EEV: requested post. Posted By Thaddeus G. McCotter On 2:21 PM 10/24/2012 @ 2:21 PM In Opinion | Amidst our nation’s rightful focus on our struggling economy, Monday night’s foreign policy debate’s stirring exchanges droned home the point that these… Read More ›
Are we getting more stupid? Researchers claim our intelligence is diminishing as we no longer need it to survive
By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED:13:57 EST, 12 November 2012| UPDATED:14:10 EST, 12 November 2012 Our intelligence and behaviour requires optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. Now, in a provocative theory, a team… Read More ›
Harvard ‘deeply troubled’ by row over Israeli buffet
Photo by: Courtesy By CHARLES BYBELEZER 09/11/2012 Business School responds to former student’s criticism, description of Israeli dining station as affront to Arabs. Harvard Business School is “deeply troubled” for having offended Arab sensibilities due to the mischaracterization of various… Read More ›
Florida Secretary of State: long lines show ‘people liked the voting hours’
By Samantha Kimmey Friday, November 9, 2012 19:55 EST Despite early voting lines reportedly up to six hours long, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State would not apologize for shortening the state’s early voting period from 14 to eight days, reported… Read More ›
FEMA centers in New York closed due to… bad weather
Published: 09 November, 2012, 21:19 Instead of staying open to help displaced victims of the hurricane during the nor’easter that blanketed New York City in snow, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was “closed due to weather” as the storm approached…. Read More ›
Caffeine improves recognition of positive words
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan jmadhusoodanan@plos.org 415-568-4545 x187 Public Library of Science 2-3 cups of coffee improve brain processing of positive, but not negative or neutral words Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine… Read More ›
Doll’s hair at Japan shrine keeps growing
Awashima Shrine in Japan is known as the shrine of “memorial dolls”. It is a place where dolls are given as offerings. The shrine is filled with countless dolls and figures of all types. According to… Read More ›
Top Republican lawmaker: ‘Obamacare is law of the land’ ???
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 02:49 GMT Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Top Republican lawmaker John Boehner said on Thursday he would not make it his mission to repeal the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law following the re-election of President… Read More ›
Special Health Research Report 08 NOV 2012
Discusses Proposition 37 Defeat Dexatrim Evades Suit over Hexavalent Chromium Rebuttal Multivitamins do not reduce cardiovascular disease
Judge Caught Whipping Teen Returns to Bench
By DAVID LEE AUSTIN (CN) – The Texas Supreme Court lifted its suspension of a state judge who was videotaped whipping his disabled teenage daughter with a belt. On Tuesday, the court approved an agreed motion filed by… Read More ›
Trump hastily backtracks over calls for a ‘revolution’ after branding Obama’s re-election a ‘disgusting injustice’
Trump ranted on Twitter when it became clear Obama would win election Later deleted tweet calling for a revolution NBC’s Brian Williams lashed out against Trump on air, saying he had ‘driven well past the last exit to relevance’ Trump… Read More ›
Dead candidates win elections in Florida, Alabama
1 hr ago By Barbara Liston and Verna Gates . The two apparently died of natural causes, which did not sway voters. . Florida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will… Read More ›
The brain may feel other people’s pain
2009 study posted for filing By Amy Norton Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If you’ve ever thought that you literally feel other people’s pain, you may be right. A brain-imaging study suggests that some people have… Read More ›
Polish editor laid off over plane crash story
Photo: EPA The editor in chief of Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, a correspondent and two other staff members have been fired for running an article claiming high explosives were found at the scene of the 2010 plane crash that killed then… Read More ›
This photo will self-destruct in 4, 3, 2, 1… Could a new app save us from the curse of embarrassing photos FOREVER?
New app deletes photos 30 seconds after you send them… But quick-fingered iPhone users could still manage to hang on to them By Ruth Styles PUBLISHED:06:30 EST, 5 November 2012| UPDATED:07:31 EST, 5 November 2012 If you have ever… Read More ›
Indian wardens bang drums to halt peeing in public
Tuesday, Nov 06, 2012 AFP NEW DELHI – Volunteers in India armed with drums and whistles are to lead a crackdown on going to the toilet in public under a new scheme in the western state of Rajasthan, a report… Read More ›
HSBC to face £1bn fines over money-laundering
HSBC is set to face a final bill for fines as high as $1.5bn (£937m) for the “shameful and embarrassing” US money-laundering scandal that has engulfed Britain’s biggest bank. Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, apologised for the scandal in… Read More ›
China wants to buy its way onto your TV screen. Will it work?
Coming to America BY ALEX PASTERNACK |NOVEMBER 1, 2012 Last November, Michelle Makori, a business reporter formerly of Bloomberg News, joined a small group of seasoned Western television journalists for a whirlwind tour of China. The trip, arranged by China… Read More ›
This Video is 96.2% Guaranteed to Stop Your Baby From Crying
posted at request: Oct 6, 2012 by karenmasuda What mother wouldn’t be overjoyed with a video that has a 96.2% success rate of stopping an otherwise well-cared for baby from crying? Lotte, a major sweets producing company in Japan has… Read More ›
Iraq Is In A Hurry: Iraq has announced the purchase of $4.2 billion in Russian weapons
October 29, 2012: Iraq recently signed the purchase order for a second batch of 18 American F-16 fighters. At the same time, Iraq has announced the purchase of $4.2 billion in Russian weapons. Most of the details were not released… Read More ›
Face the facts: Russian nuclear warheads power American homes
Posted on October 29, 2012By Raisa CamargoEconomy and Finance For nearly 20 years, the United States has been using weapons-grade uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads to fuel domestic nuclear power plants. (Face the facts) For nearly 20… Read More ›
American birth rate drops to lowest point ever… and 40 per cent of newborns are to unwed mothers
Per cent of babies born to unmarried women was highest among teens There were 3,953,593 births in the U.S. in 2011, one per cent less than 2010 More older women having newborns as women delay families By Daily Mail Reporter… Read More ›
1 Million dollar hacked in 60 Seconds from Citibank
FBI have arrested 14 people over the theft of $1 million from Citibank using cash advance kiosks at casinos located in Southern California and Nevada. . Authorities say the suspects would open accounts at Citibank, then go to casinos in… Read More ›
Breast cancer screening saves lives, says study??? that screening only narrowly decreased risks that a 50-year-old woman would die from breast cancer within 10 years — from 0.53 percent to 0.46 percent.
Engineering Evil Note: There seems to be conflicting studies being utilized to favor screening. I found this report stating that they used no current data for the meta analysis. The data they claimed to have used here was over 20… Read More ›
Cargo Ship with 700 tons of Gold Ore disappears
Monday, 29 October 2012 Cargo carrier Amurskoe disappeared in the Sea of Okhotsk while carrying 700 tons of gold ore. Three ships, an amphibious aircraft and a helicopter are undertaking search and rescue operations to find the eight crewmembers of… Read More ›
Medical Examiner keeps thousands of brains for ‘tests’ families call needless
By SUSAN EDELMAN Last Updated: 12:56 PM, October 28, 2012 Posted: 10:30 PM, October 27, 2012 EXCLUSIVE It’s the great brain robbery. The city Medical Examiner’s Office has kept the brains of more than 9,200 deceased New Yorkers — from… Read More ›
Scare yourself thin: horror movies help burn calories, study finds
Researchers discover watching horror films can help you burn equivalent of a chocolate bar, with The Shining burning most Ben Child guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 October 2012 09.53 EDT The axe kin diet … Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) loses about half… Read More ›
Did Obama camp borrow racy virginity video idea from Putin?
Campaign video that compares voting for Obama to a girl losing her virginity prompts furious reaction LAST UPDATED AT 13:01 ON Fri 26 Oct 2012 HAS the Barack Obama camp taken a leaf out of Vladimir Putin’s campaign book with… Read More ›
Study Reveals Impact of Public DNS Services; Researchers Develop Tool to Help
Oct 25, 2012 11:00 AM A new study by Northwestern University researchers has revealed that public DNS services could actually slow down users’ web-surfing experience. As a result, researchers have developed a solution to help avoid such an impact: a… Read More ›
Climate scientist sues The National Review for defamation
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian Wednesday, October 24, 2012 22:20 EDT Topics: climate change ♦ jerry sandusky ♦ Sandusky Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing… Read More ›
Nearly 80 Million Americans Won’t Need Vitamin D Supplements Under New Guidelines
Engineering Evil: There is Absolutely No Current Solid Scientific Basis for the IOM’s recommendation: Current guidelines Normal: equal to or greater than 32 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) Insufficient: less than 32 ng/mL Deficient: less than 20 ng/mL When Vitamin D levels in… Read More ›
U.S. set to overtake Saudi Arabia as world’s biggest oil producer following boom in output
U.S. production to rise 7 per cent this year to nearly 11 million barrels a day Could reach 11.4 million barrels a day in 2013 – rivalling Saudi oil output Boom caused by high oil prices and new drilling techniques… Read More ›
Pennsylvania may force workers to pay taxes to their employers
By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:56 EDT Topics: pennsylvania ♦ Pennsylvania Gov ♦ Tom Corbett A bill that landed on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s (R) desk this week would give companies that hire more than 250 new… Read More ›
The assassination of President John F Kennedy: the finger points to the KGB
Nearly 50 years on, a new book suggests that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was guided by hardline Stalinist dissidents Death in Dallas: Jack and Jackie Kennedy moments before the President was shot Photo: AP By Neil Tweedie 6:50AM BST… Read More ›
Can your body sense future events without any external clue?
Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso h-anyaso@northwestern.edu 847-491-4887 Northwestern University New Northwestern analysis focuses on ‘pre-feelings’ and ability to anticipate the near future EVANSTON, Ill. — Wouldn’t it be amazing if our bodies prepared us for future events that could be very… Read More ›
How Ben Goldsmith staged the craziest stag stunt ever! Held in a dawn swoop, a terrified bridegroom is close to tears as LA police tell him he’ll be in jail on his wedding day. Then his friends burst in…
Engineering Evil: WOW, Just wow.. There are so many things wrong with this. It does not take a vivid imagination to see all the wonderful ways this luxury of creativity can be utilized in the future, by these pranksters. With this much… Read More ›
Paedophiles could be ‘spotted and cured’ through MRI scans to detect brain abnormalities and low IQs
Paedophilia could ‘begin in the womb if the mother is stressed’ By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:17:38 EST, 20 October 2012| UPDATED:17:38 EST, 20 October 2012 Paedophiles have a ‘mental illness’ that can be spotted before they abuse anyone,… Read More ›
Brain scans during sleep can decode visual content of dreams.
Scientists read dreams Mo Costandi 19 October 2012 Scientists have learned how to discover what you are dreaming about while you sleep. A team of researchers led by Yukiyasu Kamitani of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, used… Read More ›
Europeans (U.N.) to monitor US Elections
Saturday, 20 October 2012 United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this… Read More ›
Tractor beam built from rings of laser light
18:05 19 October 2012 by Jacob Aron Stand aside, Wesley Crusher: there’s a new tractor beam on deck that pulls objects using nothing more than laser light. The device has already grabbed NASA’s attention as it could one day… Read More ›
Math and language scores improve with JUST 10 hours of science instruction a year
Contact: Samantha Gizerian samantha.gizerian@wsu.edu 509-335-0986 Washington State University A little science goes a long way Math and language scores improve with 10 hours of instruction PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington State University researcher has found that engaging elementary school students… Read More ›
State Department granted New York terror plotter a student visa
Posted By Josh Rogin Thursday, October 18, 2012 – 4:53 PM Last December, the State Department issued a student visa to the Bangladeshi man arrested this week for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building with what he thought was… Read More ›
For Kodak, nuclear reactor and weapons-grade uranium proved useful
Reposted for filing An Eastman Kodak facility had a small nuclear reactor and 3½ pounds of weapons-grade uranium for more than 30 years. (Associated Press / May 14, 2012) By Matt PearceMay 14, 2012, 3:01 p.m. Kodak has the bomb…. Read More ›
Young blood really is the key to youth
HUMANS are constantly searching for an elixir of youth – could it be that an infusion of young blood holds the key? 18 October 2012 by Helen Thomson, New Orleans Magazine issue 2887. Subscribe and save This seems to be… Read More ›
Richest Man in History of World was African King : #8 was Muammar Gaddafi (former Libyan leader, 1942-2011) $200 billion
Wednesday, 17 October 2012 When we think of the world’s all-time richest people, names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John D Rockefeller immediately come to mind. But few would have thought, or even heard of, Mansa Musa I of… Read More ›
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