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Curiosity Snaps First Asteroid Photo from Red Planet
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Curiosity Mars rover captured the first-ever image from the Red Planet’s surface to show an asteroid. The bonus? The image shows two, known as Ceres – which is a dwarf planet and an asteroid – and Vesta. Ceres and Vesta…
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New York Considering Labeling GMO Food
from lohud.com: Supporters say customers have a right to know what’s in their food and how it was grown or made. Those against labeling say that it’s unnecessary and will drive up food prices.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode191 – Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode191 – Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD 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: Federal Judges Order Obama to Release Memo Justifying Assassination of Americans John Yoo Says…
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Reagan Shooter John Hinckley Pictured for First Time Unsupervised
from dailymail.co.uk: This is John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan, pictured for the first time since a court ruled he can spend 17 days a month away from a mental home where he has been for the last three decades. Clutching a bottle of soda in his hand and casually dressed,…
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For Web Users, FCC Raises Specter of Unequal Internet
from bloomberg.com: Your Netflix bill might rise. You may have to switch Internet providers to get faster YouTube videos. Or, you may miss out on the next big thing on the Web. Those are some of the concerns that consumer advocates are raising about U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal this week for…
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Open Source Comes to Farms With Restriction-free Seeds
29 crop varieties are now distributed under an open source license. from arstechnica.com: There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by…
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Neil Bush Met Bob Marley Days Before He Died?
from brasschecktv.com: John Judge was one of the finest researchers we’ve ever had. He passed away recently (April 2014). In this talk he talks about the young Bush family. Twelve years before Bush the Idiot became president, his pockets were already being lined by various Middle Eastern clients of the Bush family. But the real…
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Kelis Serves Up Cooking Show and New Album, ‘Food’
from time.com: Can you smell what Kelis is cooking? In her 15-year career, Kelis Rogers has been hard to pigeonhole: She got her start as Pharrell’s go-to vocalist in The Neptunes’ posse, released four albums of spacey modern R&B and, following the birth of her son, entered the futuristic dance diva stage that motherhood so…
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100’s of Killer Asteroids Hurtling Toward Earth?!
from americanlivewire.com: The global network that listens for nuclear weapons detonations detected 26 asteroids exploded in Earth’s atmosphere from 2000 to 2013, data collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization shows. These explosions include the Feb. 15, 2013, impact over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which left more than 1,000 people injured by flying debris. City-killer…
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CFR claims ’Space terrorism, floating debris pose threats to US’
from RT.com: The United States is increasingly vulnerable to “space terrorism”, according to a new report, as it is more reliant on its satellites and other installations in space to conduct national security operations. Because the US depends so much on its holdings in space for a variety of operations, and as it is the…
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Bryan Singer Sex Abuse Victim Accuses 3 More Hollywood Honchos
from tmz.com: The man who has sued “X-Men” director Bryan Singer — claiming he was sexually assaulted when he was 15 — has just filed lawsuits against 3 other Hollywood big wigs, also claiming sexual assault. The 3 men named in the new lawsuit are Garth Ancier, David Neuman and Gary Goddard. Ancier has a…
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Nest ‘Smart Meter’ Now Available on Google Play
from mobilesyrup.com: Google’s purchase of Nest has quickly borne fruit, at least in the distribution department, as the company made the Nest Learning Thermostat available to purchase for $249 CDN on the Play Store. Google spent $3.2 billion to purchase Nest earlier this year, and though the collaboration has yet to spawn any new products,…
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DARPA’s Microrobots Working Together To Build with Metal, Glass and Electronics
from technologyreview.com: Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy’s lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants. Dark shapes about a centimeter across move to and fro over elevated walkways: they weave around obstacles and carry small sticks. A closer look makes it clear that these busy critters are in…
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Anti-Semitic Fliers in Eastern Ukraine Denounced
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: U.S. officials Thursday denounced what one called a “grotesque” leaflet ordering Jews in one eastern Ukrainian city to register with a government office, but the Jewish community there dismissed it as a “provocation.” The fliers were handed out by masked men in front the main synagogue in Donetsk, where pro-Russian protesters have declared…