No need to call an infosec specialist – the machines will sort it all out By Jasper Hamill American secret squirrel military research outfit DARPA has launched a competition to find the autonomous cyber-defence systems of the future. More than… Read More ›
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Free public education that pays for itself? / education securities
– students would commit to paying a fixed percentage of their income (6%) during their prime earning years (35-54 for example) to the university that awarded their degree – student promises for a given university cohort bundled and sold to… Read More ›
WikiLeaks volunteer was a paid informant for the FBI
Posted By Wired On 12:22 PM 06/27/2013 In World | On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing… Read More ›
FDA – 2012 law now in effect which lifts conflict of interest restrictions on FDA advisory panels
Contact: Kathy Fackelmann kfackelmann@gwu.edu 202-994-8354 George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Conflict-of-interest restrictions needed to ensure strong FDA review Panel members with ties to industry might lead to approval of unsafe drugs, new analysis suggests WASHINGTON,… Read More ›
Fish mislabeling widespread in U.S. and 84% of ‘white tuna’ is a species which causes distressing gastrointestinal side effects
59 percent of fish sold as ‘tuna’ in restaurants and grocery stores is not actually tuna Fish sold as ‘white tuna’ is usually escolar which causes prolonged, oily, anal leakage when eaten in quantities more than six ounces By Daily… Read More ›
At least six tanks leaking at US nuclear waste site
23 Feb 2013 LOS ANGELES (AFP) At least six underground tanks containing nuclear waste in the northwestern US state of Washington are leaking, but there is no imminent threat to public health, a spokeswoman said Friday. The US Energy Department… Read More ›
Say it ain’t so! The Times of London and other outlets are reporting that Beyonce lip-synced the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Beyonce rumored to have lip-synced anthem at inauguration US singer Beyonce performs the National Anthem to conclude the 57th Presidential Inauguration ceremonial swearing-in of US President Barack Obama at the US Capitol on January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Stan… Read More ›
America archives its billions of tweets
AFP Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013 WASHINGTON – The Library of Congress, repository of the world’s largest collection of books, has set for itself the enormous task of archiving something less weighty and far more ephemeral – Americans’ billions of tweets…. Read More ›
Washington police accused of ‘disturbing’ failures to investigate rape : “37% of reports of serious sexual assault and rape were not being followed up on”
Human Rights Watch to publish report that shows some victims experience fresh trauma from police neglect in rape cases Joanna Walters in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 January 2013 06.00 EST The Women’s Law Project said the situation is ‘a… Read More ›
The Libyan Benghazi Assault…58 Pieces of the Puzzle to a terrorist act and political posturing
Engineering Evil: There are more than 58 points ( direct article excerpts) I quickly covered. I focused only on the major ones and not the ones commonly known. There are some time line inconsistencies and you may find some conflicting statements…. Read More ›
Common household pesticides linked to childhood cancer cases in Washington area : acute lymphoblastic leukemia
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu 215-514-9751 Georgetown University Medical Center Researchers caution that the study doesn’t prove cause and effect Washington, DC – A new study by researchers at the Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds… Read More ›
BP to export U.S. crude to Canada, Shell seeks permit: U.S. domestic production at the highest level since 1995
8:01pm EDT By David Sheppard and Chris Baltimore NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil major BP Plc has secured U.S. government permission to ship U.S. crude oil to Canada, and Royal Dutch Shell has applied for an export license, as rising… Read More ›
Antipsychotic Drugmakers Target Marketing Dollars at D.C. Medicaid Psychiatrists, Study Indicates: Prescribing Antipsychotics to non psychotic Children
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) — The D.C. Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) indicating the high levels of marketing by antipsychotic drug manufacturers to Medicaid psychiatrists… Read More ›
$70,000-a-year school Obama sends his daughters hit by drug and sex scandal
By Rachel Quigley PUBLISHED:08:11 EST, 12 September 2012| UPDATED:08:11 EST, 12 September 2011 The $70,000-a-year private school the President and First Lady send both their children is embroiled in another scandal after it was revealed drug and alcohol use is… Read More ›
Are restrictions to scientific research costing lives? ” doctors and researchers are denied full access “
Contact: Katie Baker katie.baker@sagepub.co.uk 020-732-48719 SAGE Publications Are restrictions to scientific research costing lives? London, UK (05 September 2012) – In ‘Censors on Campus’, Index on Censorship asks whether lives might be saved by making vital research freely available. As… Read More ›
Cities use surveillance systems that identify potential ‘terrorists’ with facial recognition (U.S.)
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian Monday, August 13, 2012 15:17 EDT It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to… Read More ›
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