Month: January 2014
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Air pollution in Beijing hits worst ever
from NHK.com: Smog levels in the Chinese capital Beijing soared on Thursday to levels considered “extremely serious.” Official readings for concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles, called PM 2.5, climbed up beyond 600 micrograms per cubic meter at one point on Thursday. Hazy smog descended over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. Tourists in the square…
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Fast Food Not Major Cause of Rising Childhood Obesity Rates
Parents Deserve More Blame For Obesity Than Fast Food from sciencedaily.com: For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. However a new study found that fast-food consumption is simply a byproduct of a much bigger problem: poor all-day-long dietary habits that…
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Almost 5,900 Natural Gas Leaks Discovered Under Washington, D.C.
from activistpost.com: More than 5,893 leaks from aging natural gas pipelines have been found under the streets of Washington, D.C. by a research team from Duke University and Boston University. A dozen of the leaks could have posed explosion risks, the researchers said. Some manholes had methane concentrations as high as 500,000 parts per million…
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Kerry Offers Assurances as Syria Talks Draw Near
from nytimes.com: As the Syrian opposition neared a decision on whether to attend an international peace conference next week, Secretary of State John Kerry offered a public assurance on Thursday that the Obama administration had not pulled back from its goal of establishing a transitional government that would not include President Bashar al-Assad. In a…
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Google unveils ‘smart contact lens’ to measure glucose levels
from bbc.co.uk: Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to…
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Katy Perry: “I’m not Christian”
from goddiscussion.com: The pop star came out and said “I’m not Christian,” despite her conservative Christian upbringing and getting her start in gospel music. Katy Perry first put out a gospel record in February 2001 under her real name Katy Hudson. Since then, she has switched over to pop music. Perry said in an interview…
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Atheists Battle Supernatural Villains in New Comic Miniseries
from charlotteobserver.com: Justin Aclin, 33, is the co-creator of a new comic miniseries from Dark Horse Comics called “S.H.O.O.T. First.” “S.H.O.O.T. First” stands for “Secular Humanist Occult Obliteration Taskforce,” and the series involves a band of atheists who fight evil supernatural monsters that prey on human faith. Aclin, once a religious Jew, now identifies as…
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Oscar Documentary Snubs Raise Questions Of Gender Equality, Politics
from ibtimes.com: The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, and to no one’s surprise, “American Hustle” and “Gravity” led the pack with 10 nominations each. “12 Years A Slave” followed closely behind with nine nominations. It was also no surprise that all of the nine feature films nominated for Best Picture were directed by…
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U.S. warns merchants on methods used by Target hackers
from reuters.com: The U.S. government on Thursday provided merchants with information gleaned from its confidential investigation into the massive data breach at Target Corp, in a move aimed at identifying and thwarting similar attacks that may be ongoing. The report titled “Indicators for Network Defenders” brings to light some of the first information gleaned from…
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How safe is West Virginia water, if pregnant women shouldn’t drink it?
from cnn.com: Days after they told some West Virginia residents they shouldn’t worry about drinking tap water contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal, local health officials issued a new advisory this week. Pregnant women, they suggested, might want to stick to drinking bottle water. In new guidance issued Wednesday night, West Virginia health…
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New World Next Week: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF
https://archive.org/download/20140116NewWorldNextWeek178/20140116_NewWorldNextWeek178-b.mp4 Download MP4 NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Devastating Dossier on ‘Abuse’ by UK Forces…
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Joining a Handful of Other Cities, Lincoln, Nebraska Bans Police #Drones
from motherboard.vice.com: In two sentences, Mayor Chris Beutler of Lincoln, Nebraska has grounded any aspirations for unmanned aerial vehicles within his police department. As part of a comprehensive executive order on police surveillance activities, Mayor Beutler curtly singled out drones as clearly prohibited. “Drones are not authorized under this policy or any other Lincoln Police…
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Women-Owned Hedge Funds Outperform the Market
from washingtonpost.com: Take that, Paul Tudor Jones. The billionaire investor controversially said last May that women can have trouble focusing on trading once they become mothers. Yet a new study released Wednesday finds that women hedge fund managers outperformed both the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index as well as a broad index of hedge funds…
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Mexico’s Anti-Drug Militias Return Seized Land to Villagers
from blacklistednews.com: Mexican vigilante militias battling drug-traffickers in the restive state of Michoacan said Thursday they had returned several hundred acres of land seized from villagers by the notorious Knights Templar cartel. The symbolic handover of some 654 acres (265 hectares) of land, which included many avocado and lemon orchards, took place in the village…
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Demon Possession: The New Confession of Modern Youth?
from charismanews.com: [M]ainstream music has taken on a whole new level of demonic influence as popular radio songs work to get our youth to confess they are demon-inspired, if not demon possessed. This revelation came as I was driving across the state of Florida with my teenaged daughter recently and decided to take a listen…