Month: May 2014
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Research shows collision created Chelyabinsk asteroid
from phys.org: On February 15 2013, an asteroid exploded about 30 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion, shared on video around the world, was the Earth’s second largest recorded airburst. By analyzing fragments of the meteorite that fell to Earth, Shin Ozawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and colleagues determined that the asteroid formed…
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#FoodWorldOrder: Interview w/Vicki Robin of ‘Blessing The Hands That Feed Us’
Vicki Robin joins to talk about where our food comes from – and where we’re going to go get it.
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#FoodWorldOrder: Interview w/ @Vicki_Robin of ‘Blessing The Hands That Feed Us’
What if you tried to only eat food that came from within a hundred miles of where you live? How about ten miles? Those questions alone should have you wondering about the future of your food. Vicki Robin, author of ‘Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About…
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Forget Jesus and Judas, Our Modern Morality Play Stars Justin Bieber and Emma Watson
from independent.co.uk: The novelist Catherine Aird once wrote the brilliant line, “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll have to be a horrible warning.”… Thankfully, research announced this week by the University of Manchester and Brunel University, on the effect of celebrity “storylines” on young people, seems to agree. Where once young people…
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Source of Fukushima Radioactive Leak Discovered After 3 Years
from rt.com: The source of the radioactive leak at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was finally identified by the facility’s operator TEPCO to be in the primary containment vessel of reactor 3, authorities reported. It was in January when the crew of the plant first noticed that water was leaking through to the…
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Jury Unanimously Convicts Abu Hamza of All 11 Charges
from thenews.com.pk: A fiery British cleric accused of facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and setting up a terrorist training camp in the US was convicted by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges and faces a maximum prison sentence of life. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, who also went by the name of ‘Abu…
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DARPA Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
from wired.com: For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face. At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed…
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McDonald’s New ‘Happy’ Mascot Dubbed McScary
from reuters.com: McDonald’s restaurant chain says its new “Happy” mascot will bring “fun and excitement” to its children’s meals, but social media contend the toothy, red box-shaped character will have the opposite effect. Twitter responses to McDonald’s mascot announcement on Monday complain that the animated red Happy Meal box, with its cavernous dark mouth and…
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Martial Law in Thailand: Bangkok Elites Facing Problem
from abc.net.au: Like most South East Asian nations, Thailand is changing. The standard of living, for many, is improving, the lower middle class is growing, access to internet and cable TV is increasing – and with it political awareness and a desire for a say among those who have never really had one. For the…
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Urban Farming Yields Fresh Foods, Land Reuse
from news.nationalgeographic.com: Chickens are coming home to roost in U.S. cities, near pens for goats and hives for bees. In urban yards and on once-vacant lots, planting beds brim with herb plants, pea vines, and the ubiquitous kale. A new wave of urban agriculture is flourishing because it benefits consumers concerned about sustainably grown food…
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First Technique to Turn Light into Matter Discovered
from ndtv.com: In a breakthrough, scientists have for the first time discovered a revolutionary technique to turn light into matter, a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. Three physicists at the Imperial College London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first…
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‘Michael Jackson’ Hologram Sings, Moonwalks at Billboard Awards
from rollingstone.com: A hologram that looked like Michael Jackson performed the previously unreleased “Slave to the Rhythm” at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night. The performance began with a synchronized SWAT Team dancing until a curtain dropped and Jackson was seen sitting in a Dangerous-like throne. Then holo-Jackson (or someone impersonating MJ — it was…
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Inside the Pennsylvania Demon House
from fox8.com: It’s called “The Demon of Brownsville Road,” and a Pittsburgh family claims this creature terrorized them for years, until exorcists forced it to leave. The true events that transpired inside the historic house are now the subject of new book. The Cranmer family says they’re publishing their nightmarish story to hopefully help other…
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Libya Mulls June Elections in Bid to Ease Crisis
What a US Military Evacuation in Libya Might Look Like* from dailystar.com.lb: Libya’s election commission proposed Tuesday holding a fresh round of parliamentary polls next month in a bid to find a peaceful resolution to a crisis triggered by a renegade general’s efforts to crush Islamist militias and his demand that the Islamist-led legislature disband…