Month: February 2014
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Mt. Gox Seeks Court Protection After $500 Million Bitcoin Loss
from japantimes.com: The troubled Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan Friday, with its chief executive saying it had lost nearly $500 million worth of the digital currency in a possible theft. Mark Karpeles (pictured), who has not been seen in public for several days, re-emerged to tell a press conference that…
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Monsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples
from globalresearch.ca: A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything. Roundup herbicide, Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, was present in 75 percent of air and rainfall test samples, according to the study, which focused on Mississippi’s highly fertile Delta agricultural region. GreenMedInfo reports new research, soon to be published by Environmental Toxicology and…
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Oregon Seen as Key State in Debate Over Legalizing Marijuana
from oregonlive.com: It’s shaping up to be a pivotal year in marijuana policy with Oregon playing a key role in the debate over legalizing the drug, The New York Times reports. More than half of the states are considering liberalizing their marijuana laws, reports New York Times writer Rick Lyman. Oregon and Alaska are two…
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Megalithic Temples of Malta
from Ancient-Origins.net: Everyone knows about the magnificent temples of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, but one country containing some of the oldest and best-preserved temples in the world gets comparatively little attention – Malta. Malta is a southern European country in the Mediterranean Sea, just 80 kilometres south of Sicily. The country covers just over…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
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Optic Nerve: GCHQ Steals 1,000s of Explicit Webcam Pics from Innocent Users
from mirror.co.uk: Millions were hacked into by a secret programme called Optic Nerve – whether the user was a security threat or not – that collected mugshots every five minutes. British spies intercepted hundreds of thousands of explicit webcam pictures from innocent users, it has been revealed. Spooks at GCHQ targeted people indiscriminately as part…
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US Lets 141 Trillion Calories Of Food Go To Waste Each Year
from npr.org: The sheer volume of food wasted in the U.S. each year should cause us some shame, given how many people are hungry both in our own backyard and abroad. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided us with a way to understand our flagrant annual waste in terms of calories, too. It’s…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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Wi-fi Computer Virus Goes ‘Airborne’ Like Common Cold
from RT.com: Researchers in Britain have shown for the first time how a computer virus can spread through Wi-Fi “as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans.” The ‘Chameleon’ Wi-Fi AP-AP virus infiltrates dense networks and spreads at an alarming rate. Chameleon was designed by a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool,…
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World’s largest bitcoin broker goes offline
from NHK World: The website of a major Bitcoin exchange in Tokyo say they have halted all dealings as a security measure. The announcement came after the exchange went offline on Tuesday. MtGox was considered one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, boasting more than 1.1 million accounts in and outside Japan. Company officials suspended…
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Saint Hicks: 20 Years After Death of Bill Hicks, Legend Secured
I will always remember seeing Bill Hicks back on the original Comedy Channel’s “Short Attention Span Theater” in the early 90’s. Even as a young teenager, I knew I was seeing something special, someone whose ‘comedy’ spoke more truth than any news show or fake leader ever did. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and then, Bill…
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NYC Marks 21st Anniversary of ’93 World Trade Center Bombing
from foxnews.com: The two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, eight years apart, converged Tuesday in the form of a piece of granite — part of a memorial to those who died in 1993 that was itself destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. The jagged fragment was displayed during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary…
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Stop Female Scientists Being Written Out of Wikipedia History
from theguardian.com: Professor Dame Julia Slingo is not a shadowy figure. As chief scientist at the Met Office, she is an expert on a national obsession and has barely been out of the spotlight since Britain was taken by storm. But hunt for her on Wikipedia and just five short paragraphs pop up. “Many female…
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With ‘Drone To Home’ Service, Netflix Uses Satire Against Amazon
from nytimes.com: Netflix on Tuesday released a satirical video promising “Drone to Home” delivery of DVDs to customers, taking an obvious swipe at Amazon’s plan to deliver items to consumers via small octocopters, a.k.a. drones… Barely a minute long, the video purports to show a Netflix warehouse with cute little copters flying off carrying the…