Month: February 2014
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Tunisia’s New Constitution Breakthrough for Women’s Rights
from care2.com: Tunisia’s new Constitution has captured international headlines. It enshrines many rights for women and is a step in the right direction, according to many Tunisians. Sana Ben Achour, women’s rights activist and law student, stresses that this Constitution is the first in the Arab world to give all Tunisians, women and men, the…
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No Evidence of ‘Coffee Break’ on Mars
from nytimes.com: Scientists did not find a Dunkin’ Donuts on Mars, but they did figure out where a rock that looks like a small jelly doughnut came from. Last month, the rock, about an inch and a half wide, showed up in one of the photographs taken by the NASA’s Opportunity rover. In addition to…
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Will Ferrell Launches Female-Focused Film and TV Production Company
from hollywoodreporter.com: Gary Sanchez Productions, the 7-year-old film and television production company formed by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, has formed a new female-driven division. Dubbed Gloria Sanchez Productions, the venture will focus on creating female-led film and TV projects and will be headed up by Jessica Elbaum, a longtime production executive at…
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California Woman Touting ‘Vampire Face-Lifts’ Arrested
from chron.com: A woman who advertised “vampire face-lifts” and other cosmetic procedures she wasn’t licensed to perform was arrested after a suspicious death at a Southern California beauty salon, police said Thursday… Investigators at the salon found medical equipment and controlled substances used for cosmetic procedures that Gonzalez was advertising but not licensed to perform,…
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable Agree to Merge in $45 Billion Deal
from washingtonpost.com: Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable would create a cable television behemoth in an industry that has steadily increased prices for bundles of channels and services that many consumers dislike but feel forced to buy. But the merger would have far greater implications for the future of media and communications, with…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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Facebook Offers Users More Online Gender Identities
from seattletimes.com: Facebook said the changes initially will cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
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Tracing Ancestry, Researchers Produce a Genetic Atlas of Human Mixing Events
from nytimes.com: The rise and fall of empires, the march of armies, the flow of trade routes, the practice of slavery — all these events have led to a mixing of populations around the world. Such episodes have left a record in the human genome, but one that has so far been too complex to…
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Crazy Ant Invaders Have Acid Advantage
from nytimes.com: The crazy ant, the latest ant to invade North America, is having remarkable success at replacing its predecessor, the red fire ant, former king of the invaders. Part of the reason, according to research at the University of Texas, is that the newcomer can detoxify fire ant venom in a way not seen…
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New World Next Week: Episode182 – Revolution Algorithm, Corporate Chemicals, Update Rundown
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode182 – Revolution Algorithm, Corporate Chemicals, Update Rundown 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: This Algorithm Can Predict a Revolution Sentient World Simulation: Meet Your DoD Clone…
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Smaller Hill, Shorter Sled: How the Olympics Infantilize Women Athletes
from slate.com: Why are the Olympics half-assing their women’s sports? The abbreviation of women’s competition is a testament to the lingering belief that female bodies are physically incapable of going as long, hard, or high as male ones. When the modern Olympic games kicked off in the 19th-century, women were barred from competition completely, and…
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More Gunk Spills in West Virginia, Turning Creek Black
Patriot Coal Prep Plant Spills Slurry Into WV Creek* from latimes.com: State officials in West Virginia were trying Tuesday to contain a coal slurry spill into a creek in the same general area where a toxic chemical spill last month tainted drinking water for 300,000 people in and around the state capital of Charleston. A…
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Venezuela’s Anti-Government Protests Turn Violent
from source: Venezuelan security forces fired rubber bullets into the air to break up a crowd of violent activists following the largest protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s government since he was re-elected almost a year ago. A group of about 100 mostly student demonstrators, many of them covering their faces, launched fragments of concrete sidewalks…
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Nuclear Fusion Reactions Mark a ‘Milestone’
from latimes.com: It took 192 lasers and a building big enough to contain three football fields, but physicists have finally produced a pair of nuclear fusion reactions that created more energy than was in the fuel to start with. The reactions lasted less than a billionth of a second, and they released only a few…
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“Believers: An Intriguing Look Into The World Of The Occult”
from jamaica-gleaner.com: “The Believers – The Hidden World of West Indian Spiritualism in New York” by Dr Glenville C. Ashby is a regular ‘jumbie story’, and then some more. This intriguing work focuses on the core beliefs of the West Indian immigrant in the most modern and hard-edged of metropolises. These are beliefs that operate…