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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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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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“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…
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DARPA Developing Hypersonic Plane
from blacklistednews.com: The United States military is making progress toward developing a new unmanned space plane, which it aims to begin flight-testing in 2017. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to award the first design contracts for the vehicle project — known as Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1 — in May or thereabouts, officials…
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Vietnam’s Flappy Bird Developer: It Was ‘An Addictive Product’
from thediplomat.com: After millions of downloads, Flappy Bird has vanished from the App Store and Google Play. Dong Nguyen, the game’s Vietnamese developer, permanently grounded Flappy Bird – a title that was allegedly bringing him $50,000 a week in ad revenue – in an apparent bid to clear his conscience. “Flappy Bird was designed to…
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NYPD Ogles Google Glass Specs
from cnn.com: The New York Police Department has procured two pair of Google Glass specs, the experimental head-mounted computers, to determine possible applications to police work, the department said in a statement. The technology feeds information directly to the eye-line of the wearer, potentially saving officers time from having to stop what they’re doing in…
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Body Modification Artist Spends £10,000 to Look Like the Devil
from dailymail.co.uk: With his forked tongue, razor-sharp fangs and horns that poke from his forehead, Diablo Delenfer, 43, from Kent, looks like most people’s idea of a terrifying demon. Now the former security guard and self-described ‘body modification artist’ is to have screws implanted into his skull in a bid to create a devilish metal…
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NASA, France Sign Mars Lander Deal for 2016
from smh.com.au: The United States and France plan to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet. The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, dusty planet, and will be…
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Chick-fil-A to Serve Chicken Without Antibiotics
from usatoday.com: Here’s a chicken that has surprisingly crossed the road — away from antibiotics. Chick-fil-A, the nation’s largest chicken chain in annual sales, shocked the fast-food world late Tuesday when it announced that the company plans to only sell chicken raised without antibiotics at all of its stores within five years. The move is…
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Kraft Cheese Singles to Lose Artificial Preservatives
from cbsnews.com: Kraft is removing artificial preservatives from its most popular individually wrapped cheese slices, in the latest sign that companies are tweaking their recipes as food labels come under greater scrutiny. The change affects the company’s Kraft Singles in the full-fat American and White American varieties, which Kraft says account for the majority of…
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The Word ‘Satan’ Played Curious Role In Rise Of Flappy Bird
from businessinsider.com: How did Flappy Bird — the mindless but infuriating iPhone game in which players must guide a small bird through gaps in a set of pipes — rise to the top of the App Store so quickly? According to a review by Myron Chiu at Sensor Tower, the game’s reviews in the App…
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Study Finds Spike In Coffee Consumption Among Children
from okcfox.com: It takes more change to grab a drink from a vending machine these days and what kids are reaching for isn’t just soda anymore. A study from the journal, “Pediatrics,” shows a decrease in soda and tea consumption– and a shift in caffeine culture. Researchers found more kids are reaching for energy drinks…
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Students Sent Home From West Virginia Schools Amid Fears Over Water Contamination
from nationaljournal.com: Students at a handful of schools in Charleston, W.Va., were sent home last week amid reports of potential water contamination following a chemical spill last month, The New York Times reports. Students were told to leave after students and faculty noticed the smell of licorice, a distinct odor given off by the chemical…
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“The Day We Fight Back”: #StopTheNSA Protest Declared for Feb 11
from slashgear.com: In honor of the late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz and in light of information contained in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other entities will be holding a day of anti-NSA mass spying protests on February 11. The day is being called “The Day We Fight…
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Cellular Nanomotors May Make ‘Fantastic Voyage’ Possible
Tiny Rocket Robots Could Combat Cancer Cell By Cell* from sciencerecorder.com: Robots are all around us—that’s a fact of everyday life that we’ve been taking for granted for the last few decades. Now get ready for the day when robots will be within us, too. Researchers at Penn State University demonstrated the first-ever insertion of…