A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefits’ like discounts. On the contrary, it asserts that a large majority of web users are not at all happy, but rather feel powerless to stop their data being harvested… Read More »
You can’t build a strong professional network if you don’t open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career. Sharing the right aspects of yourself in the right ways is an art form. Disclosures that feel like relationship builders in the… Read More »
In a commentary in Nature timed with the publication of this study, policy analysts call for urgent regulation of this new technology. They highlight the many benefits of this work, but they also point out that “individuals with access to the yeast strain and basic skills in fermentation would be able to grow the yeast… Read More »
The progress achieved each year is monumental, and the rate at which we are progressing is exponential. Industries are being disrupted, conventions are being proven wrong, and the world at large is completely transforming right before our eyes. Here are five tech industries that are exploding with startups, venture capital and innovation: 1. Education The… Read More »
An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. via Americans Living Abroad Set Record for Giving Up Citizenship – Bloomberg Business.
(NaturalNews) According to the document you’re about to see, for the last eight years, government scientists have actively engineered viral vaccines designed to alter thoughts and beliefs by infecting the brain and suppressing genetic expression of neurological cells. Dispersal of these vaccines has been tested via high-altitude aerosolized sprays, highway vehicles, the water supply and… Read More »
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
Russia throws down the gauntlet: energy supply to Europe cut off; petrodollar abandoned as currency war escalates – NaturalNews.com.
In 1961, a DuPont toxicologist warned colleagues that exposure to their company’s increasingly popular Teflon chemicals enlarged the livers of rats and rabbits. Studies over the following decades found no safe level of exposure in animals and determined that humans, too, got sick when exposed to the chemicals — which were also seen to build… Read More »
We spend our lives reaching out to the people we love. But could it be that some people can make contact — even after they’re gone? Here’s Tracy Smith: In a way, this story is like almost the view from across the Golden Gate: intriguing, even beautiful, but sometimes hard to see through all the… Read More »
Frankly, I’ve never mentioned Bickel’s UFO detector on these pages because I thought this was one of those things best left unsaid. Living in the wilderness with all those cats caused many people to judge the old miner as a few gold flakes short of an ounce, and I didn’t want to add to that… Read More »
FATAL heroin overdoses in America have almost tripled in three years. More than 8,250 people a year now die from heroin. At the same time, roughly double that number are dying from prescription opioid painkillers, which are molecularly similar. Heroin has become the fallback dope when an addict can’t afford, or find, pills. Total overdose… Read More »
“These findings suggest that lifestyle practices that reduce bacterial dispersal — specifically, sanitation and drinking water treatment — might be an important cause of microbiome alterations,” the University of Alberta’s Jens Walter, senior author of the Papua New Guinea study, said in a news release. Sanitation practices are generally a good thing, but scientists say… Read More »
This is too awesome! So this girl was looking for a rich husband on a dating website. Her biography was very straight forward about her seeking a rich husband. In a quick summary, she is just a complete gold digger. But the email she received from the J.P. Morgan CEO was definitely not what she… Read More »
Chief scientists at NASA said Tuesday we’ll have conclusive evidence of alien life by, at latest, 2045. via NASA’s Top Scientists Have Concluded the Year We’ll Encounter Alien Life.
THE major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions. Even more strikingly, an analysis by a… Read More »
Because the Holocaust is force fed by state law enacted at the demands of the special interest group that will benefit the most from it. Uniformly, social studies textbooks fail to allow the Irish to speak for themselves, to narrate their own horror. These timid slivers of knowledge not only deprive students of rich lessons… Read More »
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“This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system.” What Summers is referring to is the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new banking consortium led by China that will back investment in Asian and emerging-market economies. This bank… Read More »
These Powerful #FreeTheNipple Photos Challenge the Way We Sexualize Women’s Breasts.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of a now-discredited article in Rolling Stone magazine about a rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, issued this statement: “The past few months, since my Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” was first called into question, have been among the most painful of my life. Reading the Columbia… Read More »
How Growers Gamed California’s Drought Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched. “I’ve been smiling all the way to the bank,” said pistachio farmer John Dean at a conference hosted this month by Paramount Farms, the mega-operation owned… Read More »
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During prenatal development, sex hormones can determine whether the brain acquires feminine or masculine characteristics. Masculinization, for example, has been thought to be a fairly straightforward process, the direct induction of transcription by ligand-activated nuclear steroid receptors. Now, however, it appears the masculinization process is more indirect. According to research conducted at the University of… Read More »
Barney Frank drops a bombshell: How a shocking anecdote explains the financial crisis Ever wonder why we waited six years to get a decent economic recovery? This new revelation will disgust you Topics: Barney Frank, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, economy, Financial Crisis, TARP, Banks, Wall Street, Foreclosures, Housing, Politics News Barney Frank (Credit: AP/J.… Read More »
Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. (S) he has twice delayed scheduled parole hearings in recent months. SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered… Read More »
Rush Limbaugh’s biggest fans are women?!?! Jill Bond | 10 months ago | Public Enemies, Women You’d think that a sexist radio-host, with no integrity or moral compass that continually berates women, calls them sluts, and regularly refers to feminists as “feminazis,” would be a man that every women’s organization would shun, right? RIGHT? Wrong.… Read More »
Cloud gaming service OnLive said Wednesday that Sony has bought many of its assets, and the company will wind down operations on April 30. (Full disclosure: I began subscribing to OnLive late last year.) Users will continue to have access to OnLive’s services until April 30, including the OnLive Game Service, OnLive Desktop and SL… Read More »
Class on ‘Problem of Whiteness’ stirs controversy An Arizona State University course entitled “U.S. Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness” has sparked protests and even garnered hate mail for the professor, but some on campus see no problem with the subject. via The Latest US and World News – USATODAY.com.
That would be way too eugenics like….. for a headline under the headline: Children’s Brain Development Affected by Parent’s Income & Education : Science & General News : Latinos Health The real difference, however, was shown when comparing family incomes which resulted in a six percent difference in the children’s brain surface area. In addition,… Read More »
A 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon salve of onion, garlic, and part of a cow’s stomach could potentially eradicate the MRSA superbug problem. An Anglo-Saxon Expert, Christina Lee, of the University of Nottingham, spotted the eye infection remedy in a medical volume called Bald’s Leechbook that was held in the British Library in London. According to CBS News,… Read More »
Hedge fund executives have unleashed a tsunami of money the past few years aimed at getting New York’s politicians to close more public schools and expand charter schools. via Hedge fund execs’ money for charter schools may pay off – NY Daily News.
the average oil and gas worker makes $108,000 via Itemizing The Oil Bust: 75,000 Layoffs And Counting.
“IT’S like coffee times ten,” raves one enthusiast. “I use it a couple of times a week and problems solve themselves. At the end of the day, I haven’t wasted hours on frivolous websites. At the end of the week, my apartment is clean.” This marvel of productivity is not a new energy drink or… Read More »
hey seem as common as squawking gulls, and true Angelenos may not even bother to look up when one of the LAPD’s 17 helicopters rattles their windows, its spotlight searching for a car-jacked Camry or an assault suspect hiding under a jacaranda. In a city of 469 sprawling square miles, few doubt that more bad… Read More »
How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies.
If it was some africian girl getting part of her sex organs cut off there would be killings in the street. But cut off some little white boys dick and all is well! Proof there is something in the water in flordia that makes all their brains just fucking turn upside down. DELRAY BEACH —… Read More »
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Radley Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and blogs for The Washington Post at The Watch. America’s police forces are in the spotlight. After the police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as this past… Read More »
Daylight saving time strikes again Sunday at 2 a.m., at least for every state outside Hawaii and Arizona. Though DST has been part of life in the United States since World War I, its origin and effects remain misunderstood, even by some of the lawmakers responsible for it. Here are some common myths. Rachel Feltman… Read More »
Brian Buntz Popularized by the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, long wave theory holds that decades of economic progress follow from technological breakthroughs such as was the case with the development of the steam engine, the railway, electrical and chemical engineering, automobiles, and computing technology. In the most recent period, the microprocessor is the single most… Read More »
SugarCRM has confirmed the acquisition of IP and other assets, noting that it will be rolling Stitch’s technology into its core Sugar application. “We’ve made Sugar an indispensable tool for customer-facing employees,” said Larry Augustin, SugarCRM CEO, in a statement issued Monday. “Sugar gives them the right information, when they need it, even before they… Read More »
The findings were presented at the 97th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society and confirmed the findings of previous animal studies demonstrating that oxytocin reduces food intake. “Our results are really exciting,” says lead investigator Dr. Elizabeth Lawson of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. “Further study is needed, but I think oxytocin is a… Read More »
It turned out that these genetically identical twins looked surprisingly different beneath the skin and skull. The sedentary twins had lower endurance capacities, higher body fat percentages, and signs of insulin resistance, signaling the onset of metabolic problems. (Interestingly, the twins tended to have very similar diets, whatever their workout routines, so food choices were… Read More »
Software isn’t greedy or fearful As anyone who has had money in a wild bull or bear market can attest, investing can be an emotional affair: the panic that comes when everything suddenly plummets; the sense of missed opportunity as the market soars. When one of our stocks suddenly takes a dive, we doubt our… Read More »
Most people go to college primarily to get a piece of paper, and learning is something that happens incidentally. The perceived value of a diploma is so high, in fact, that 50,000 fake Ph.D.s are estimated to be purchased every year, a figure only made more striking by the fact that annually, only 40,000 Ph.D.s… Read More »
Urban says that long-form writing doesn’t only have to be engaging for the reader. If you’re writing something approaching 2,000 words, you better damn well be excited about the topic or else it will show—and your readers won’t be gripped enough to make it to the last sentence. via The Secrets Of Writing Smart, Long-form… Read More »
Homeless Camp in Tucson Grows Amid Legal Battle – ABC News.
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