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Surprising Science Experiment Backs Five Second Rule For Dropped Food
from forbes.com: If you’ve ever consumed food after dropping it on floor and then wondered what sorts of diseases you might be contracting, here’s a new study that may put your mind at ease (or not). New research out of Aston University in the U.K. finds that there may be some truth to the old…
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US Government to End Formal Relationship With ICANN in 2015
from computerworld.com: The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration will end its formal relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in late 2015, with ICANN developing a new global governance model, the agency said Friday. The NTIA plans to let its contract with ICANN to operate key domain-name functions expire in September…
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Despite Expensive Ads, ‘Cover Oregon’ Worst At Enrolling Young
from dailycaller.com: Apparently Oregon’s catchy, expensive Obamacare hipster ads fell flat. Very flat. Newly released data reveals that Cover Oregon, the state’s Obamacare exchange, has been the worst exchange in the country at attracting young people. Just 18 percent of the coveted young invincibles, or people between the ages of 18-34, in Oregon have enrolled…
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Air Force Cadets Complain Over ‘Christ Lives in Me’ Posted on Door
from forward.com: Controversy has erupted this week over the posting of Christian verses on the door of a cadet’s room at the Air Force Academy — with some calling the move an attempt to bully non-Christians and a violation of the separation of church and state. More than 30 cadets complained after seeing the Bible…
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Cosmos Launched New Crusade for Science?
from wired.com: On Sunday night, viewers saw the first episode of a followup series, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, hosted by astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson. It had been nearly 35 years since Carl Sagan inspired a generation of scientists with 1980′s 13-part series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Immediately, one thing became clear: This…
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Farmers, Organic Retailers Debate Maryland GMO Labeling Bill
from fredericknewspost.com: Farming representatives and legislators debated Tuesday whether requiring manufacturers to label genetically modified food would empower consumers or scare them unnecessarily. The proposal’s sponsor, Sen. Karen Montgomery, said that while genetic modification is “not all evil,” shoppers have a right to information about the food in their shopping carts. Under her bill, all…
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On Web’s 25th Anniversary, Internet Creator Calls For Online Magna Carta
from theguardian.com: The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new…
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Video of 9/11 Captured from ISS to Be Shown for First Time
from rt.com: A British news channel is preparing to broadcast video footage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks captured from outer space for the first time in the coming weeks. Channel 4, a public service television station based in the United Kingdom, has announced that it will show footage from that Tuesday morning captured…
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GMO Salmon May Soon Go On Sale, But Will Anyone Buy It?
from foxnews.com: It’s taken almost two decades, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may be close to a ruling on the world’s first genetically modified animal protein. AquAdvantage salmon is a product of the Massachusetts-based biotech firm AquaBounty Technologies. Designed to reach market size in about half the time of standard farmed salmon, the…
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Mircea Eliade and the Flow God
from Mossdreams.blogspot.com: An article by Robert Moss: There was great excitement when I announced on the second day of my depth workshop in the Carpathian mountains that that we would make a group journey to heal our relations with the dead, with departed family members and with ancestors further back. There was immense need for…
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Los Angeles Man Charged in Hollywood Beheading
from reuters.com: Police have arrested a man in Texas suspected of killing his roommate, a former Mexicana airlines employee, whose severed head was found underneath the famed Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles in 2012, officials said on Monday. The suspect, 38-year-old Gabriel Campos-Martinez, was arrested on Sunday and is accused of murdering 66-year-old Hervey Coronado…
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Shocker: Airport Body Scanners ‘Could Give You Cancer’, Warns Expert
from dailymail.co.uk: Full body scanners at airports could increase your risk of skin cancer, experts warn. The X-ray machines have been brought in at Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow. But scientists say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a…
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States Find Ways to Skirt Congressional Cuts in Food Stamps
from washingtonpost.com: Congress last month passed a revamp of agriculture and food policy that was supposed to save the U.S. government $8.6 billion in food-stamp costs over a decade. That may not happen, though, now that some states are finding a way to avoid the cuts. New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are triggering extra nutrition…
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Fun and Games With Stratfor
APD and DPS collaborated with private ‘geopolitical intelligence firm’ – including bomb demonstrations and undercover surveillance from austinchronicle.com: One of the murkier and more forbidding aspects of the post-9/11 world has been the massive growth of what’s become known as the “intelligence industrial complex.” Similar to its sibling, the “military industrial complex” (as it was…
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Drone With 80,000 Volt Taser Is Worrying Glimpse Into Future
from huffingtonpost.com: A drone affectionately called ‘CUPID’ has been equipped with an 80,000 volt taser and has successfully killed taken out a human, helpfully mapping out the sci-fi predicted future of humanity… CUPID —> Robocop —> Skynet —> Terminators —> No more people. Designed by Chaotic Moon, the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (y’see?) was…