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The Affair of the Poisons
from telegraph.co.uk: The Affair of the Poisons began in 1676 with the trial of an enthusiastic poisoner, the Marquise de Brinvilliers. Her brother had died after eating a pie of cocks’ crests and kidneys in a rich cream sauce. A postmortem revealed disintegrating intestines. It soon became clear that, whenever she ran out of money,…
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UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
from RT.com: UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. The figures, revealed by the National Audit Office (NAO), demonstrate…
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The war against the organic mafia
from presseurop.eu: Fraud in the organic farming sector has become a thriving international industry made up of a complex network of companies that bears all the marks of traditional organised crime. Earlier, in the supposedly good old days, lone farmers or traders in the organic business stooped to cheating at their worst. Here, they sprayed…
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‘Campaign to Stop Killer Robots’ calling for ban on ‘fully autonomous weapons’
from rawstory.com: The idea of autonomous killer robots may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but human rights groups are already preparing for what appears to be the future of weaponry. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of international groups, is preparing for a global summit in Geneva Switzerland on Wednesday, May 29…
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NASA taps 3-D printer firm for ‘Star Trek’-style food replicator
from rawstory.com: U.S. space agency NASA has tapped 3-D printer firm Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) to create the first-ever “Star Trek”-style food replicator using 3-D printing technology. According to Quartz, NASA gave the company a six month, $125,000 grant contract to focus on developing 3-D printers that use cartridges full of carbohydrates,…
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Monsanto Declares a Sneaky Social Media War Against Protesters
from ActivistPost.com: One of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of the grass roots food freedom fight is social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many more networks allow people to instantly connect and provide a platform for information to be passed on exponentially. Facebook and Google are the two biggest websites in the…
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Sci-Fi Audio: ‘A Martian Odyssey’
Gregg Margarite, a prolific audio book reader, provides description at Librivox website of science fiction writer Stanley G Weinbaum: “…best known for his short story ‘A Martian Odyssey’ which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well…
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OK Drone: Vietnam Enters the UAV Market
from apperspective.net: Vietnam flight tested six indigenously made Unmanned Aerials Vehicles (UAVs) over the weekend, Xinhua News Agency reported. “After three days of tests, from May 17-19, in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong province, six vehicles made by the Vietnam Space Technology Institute, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and…
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Fireballs in the Skies
American Meteor Society reported sightings of fireballs over the nights of May 18 and May19. Fireballs were reported in the skies above Virgina, Missouri, Colorado and Arizona. Does this represent an increase in meteor activity? Is it a sign of Nibiru?
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‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years
from RT.com: British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years. “It is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources…
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Researcher “Mapping The Food Genome” Of What Americans Eat
from cbsnews.com: Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda. Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and…
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Biggest meteor hits Moon
from ITwire.com: The U.S. space agency NASA has been watching the Moon for about eight years, looking for signs of meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. The results show that hundreds of recorded impacts occur each year. However, the biggest one ever recorded occurred on March 17th. Bill Cooke, of the Meteoroid Environment Office at…
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Michelangelo’s Secret Message in the Sistene Chapel
from scientificamerican.com: At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architect—was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed…
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Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps
from trueactivist.com: Imagine texting while driving, or placing a call while showering, without holding your phone in your hands. It’s not sci-fi any more – a new technology allows information like text messages and driving directions to be projected onto a contact lens. The hardware behind this invention is a spherical curved LCD display that…
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Vermont Pushing To Be First State To Mandate GMO Labeling
from undergroundhealth.com: Vermont seemed more likely than ever to become the first US state to mandate the labeling of genetically modified food (GMO) after a bill passed the state house, though legislators worry about a lawsuit threat from biotech giant Monsanto. Similar bills seeking to provide consumers with labels at the grocery store that highlight…