A Former Ground Zero Goes to Court Against the World’s Nuclear Arsenals – NYTimes.com
A Former Ground Zero Goes to Court Against the World’s Nuclear Arsenals – NYTimes.com.
Category Archives: Survival
Smell Turns Up in Unexpected Places
Smell is one of the oldest human faculties, yet it was one of the last to be understood by scientists. It was not until the early 1990s that biologists first described the inner workings of olfactory receptors — the chemical sensors in our noses — in a discovery that won a Nobel Prize. Since then,… Read More »
Save the TITTIES WITH TAMOXIFEN!
Tamoxifen for five years drives down the incidence of breast cancer in women at high risk for the disease by close to 30%, via Breast cancer prevention drug gives lasting protection, study finds – LA Times.
Undercover cops outed, attacked at Oakland protest — 1 pulls gun – SFGate
Were the cops trying to incite a riot so they could crack down? Like THEY DID AT THE G20 HERE, AND HERE AND HERE. An undercover law enforcement officer from an outside agency who was attempting to infiltrate a demonstration against police brutality in Oakland pulled a gun on the protesters after he and his… Read More »
The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? | 1000memories
The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook? By Jonathan Good November 18, 2010 What is the fastest growing group on Facebook? One of the most surprising phenomena of 2010 is the encroachment of death onto Facebook. Just like Toy Story 3, the blissful youth of Facebook is suddenly faced with the… Read More »
Police have a wish list of stuff they want to seize from you – The Week
By SHAILA DEWAN November 9, 2014 The seminars offered police officers some useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals. Don’t bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers (“everybody’s got one already”), the experts counseled. Do go after flat screen TVs, cash and cars. Especially nice cars. In one seminar, captured on video… Read More »
A Tiny Box Cutter You’ll Want to Show Off | WIRED
If you tote a knife as part of your everyday carry, you probably don’t need a limited-edition full-tang damascus steel beast designed for skinning game. On the other hand, pocket knives are easily misplaced. They also break and get confiscated in the name of homeland security. Here’s a small, inexpensive Gerber knife that’ll thrive in… Read More »
Cold Sores Could Double Alzheimer’s Risk : Health : Headlines & Global News
New research suggests the herpes simplex virus could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s. The finding could help researchers develop new treatments to help slow down, or even completely prevent, the degenerative disease, Umea University reported. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common condition of its types, and a number of studies have been pointing… Read More »
American Indians, Neanderthals and Denisovans: Insights from PCA Views
American Indians, Neanderthals and Denisovans: Insights from PCA Views.
Frank Hill: Future sunspot drop, but no new ice age | Space | EarthSky
Frank Hill: Future sunspot drop, but no new ice age Image Credit: NASA Frank Hill told EarthSky that — while his team did suggest a drop in solar activity beginning around 2019 — they did not suggest Earth would cool as a result. : : Frank Hill is an astronomer at the U.S. National Solar… Read More »
The Untold Story Of The Peace Sign | Co.Design | business + design
The peace symbol originated as a logo based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.” Written By Mark Sinclair 6 Notes 2 Pin 98 Plus 156 Share 1.1k Tweet 699 Like The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for Nuclear… Read More »
The American life span is longer than ever before : LIFE : Tech Times
The American life span is longer than ever before : LIFE : Tech Times.
Carlsbad woman who shot husband to death not guilty of 1st-degree murder | UTSanDiego.com
VISTA — For two weeks, jurors heard a Carlsbad mother’s story of a dysfunctional marriage, abuse by her schoolteacher husband, and the fear she felt right before she shot him to death in their bedroom. On Wednesday, after two days of deliberating, the Vista jury found Julie Harper, 41, not guilty of first-degree murder… Read More »
Deadly doses of everyday foods
Coffee According to Caffeine Informer, 154 shots of espresso is enough to kill the average person. (That’s calculated at a rate of 77mg of caffeine per shot, though studies have found the range of caffeine per shot can vary enormously.) That adds up to around 12 grams of caffeine — however, Jack James, editor-in-chief of… Read More »
Desktop device to make key gun part goes on sale in US – Tech News | The Star Online
Desktop device to make key gun part goes on sale in US – Tech News | The Star Online.
Your Sense of Smell May Predict Longevity
Your Sense of Smell May Predict Longevity.
Woman beaten by CHP officer settles, but activists ‘want him in prison’ – LA Times
Woman beaten by CHP officer settles, but activists ‘want him in prison’ – LA Times.
BBC News – Global AgeWatch Index: Norway best for older people
BBC News – Global AgeWatch Index: Norway best for older people.
Boston Scientists Develop New Probiotic Supplement to Manage Weight | How Life Works
Boston Scientists Develop New Probiotic Supplement to Manage Weight | How Life Works.
By the numbers: Missing persons in the USA
USA Today Network Kevin Kepple, Marianne Epstein, Lori Grisham 7:10 p.m. EDT September 23, 2014 (Photo: Kevin A. Kepple) 1 CONNECT 1 TWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE On average, 90,000 people are missing in the USA at any given time, according to Todd Matthews from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, a national database for missing… Read More »
Why I Hope to Die at 75 – The Atlantic
Seventy-five. That’s how long I want to live: 75 years. This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and… Read More »
Antarctic fish with ice in its veins: How does it stay alive? +video – CSMonitor.com
Antarctic fish with ice in its veins: How does it stay alive? +video – CSMonitor.com.
Sedentary lifestyle linked to depression Thursday, September 18, 2014 Shereen Lehman for Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new analysis of previous studies ties too much sitting at the computer or lying around watching TV to a greater risk of depression. Based on dozens of studies covering hundreds of thousands of participants, Chinese researchers found… Read More »
How pneumonia bacteria can compromise heart health — ScienceDaily
How pneumonia bacteria can compromise heart health Date: September 18, 2014 Source: PLOS Summary: Bacterial pneumonia in adults carries an elevated risk for adverse cardiac events (such as heart failure, arrhythmias, and heart attacks) that contribute substantially to mortality — but how the heart is compromised has been unclear. A study now demonstrates that Streptococcus… Read More »
How epigenetic memory is passed through generations: Sperm and eggs transmit memory of gene repression to embryos — ScienceDaily
growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making “epigenetics” a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at… Read More »
Peter Thiel Says Computers Haven’t Made Our Lives Significantly Better | MIT Technology Review
We are simply at the end of this era. The Printing press, libraries, mass education, fax machines, internet, youtube, blogs,……. companies like Microsoft or Oracle or Hewlett-Packard as fundamentally bets against technology. They keep throwing off profits as long as nothing changes. Microsoft was a technology company in the ’80s and ’90s; in this decade… Read More »
Researchers find 23 genes linked to increased risk of prostate cancer – Newsday
Researchers find 23 genes linked to increased risk of prostate cancer – Newsday.
Metformin Activated Gene AMPK Slows the Aging Process
According to Dr. Walker AMPK is thought to be a key target of metformin, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, and that metformin activates AMPK via GEN | News Highlights:Activated Gene Slows the Aging Process.
Electrical brain stimulation may boost memory – CBS News
Scientists have found that sending electrical currents through the scalp to a specific network of brain structures can enhance people’s memories, for up to a day. In a small study of healthy young adults, researchers used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to fire up certain networks involved in memory. That, in turn, boosted participants’ performance… Read More »
First app to measure alcohol related tremors | Business Line
Toronto, Aug 29: Scientists have developed the world’s first app to measure strength of tremors owing to alcohol withdrawal, providing guidance to direct treatment decisions. The app also shows promise in making solid predictions about whether the tremor is real or fake. Withdrawal is a potentially fatal condition that is easily treated with benzodiazepine drugs,… Read More »
ZMapp cures monkeys of Ebola virus – CBS News
in people, who can take up to 21 days to show symptoms and are not infected the way these monkeys were in a lab. Several experts said it’s not possible to estimate a window of opportunity for treating people, but that it was encouraging that the animals recovered when treated even after advanced disease developed.… Read More »
World War 3 begins….Putin warns West ‘not to mess with us’
Putin denies invading Ukraine, warns West ‘not to mess with us’ – LA Times.
Feds Stop Public Disclosure of Many Hospital Errors : News : Headlines & Global News
The federal government this month has silently stopped publicly reporting incidents such as hospitals leaving foreign objects in patients’ bodies, and other life-threatening mistakes, USA Today reports. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied it was making the change last year. Share This Story CMS removed the data on eight avoidable “hospital acquired… Read More »
Blood test may reveal risk of suicide, researchers say | Daily Digest News
By Lisa Rennie, Daily Digest News Thursday, July 31, 2014 Researchers have discovered that alterations to one gene that is linked to stress reactions may provide physicians with an opportunity to identify the risk of a patient attempting suicide, which can be detected in a simple blood test. In 2011, 39,518 suicides were reported… Read More »
9 Things to Know About Reviving the Recently Dead | Science | WIRED
9 Things to Know About Reviving the Recently Dead By Greg Miller In 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped. In other words, she was dead. Somewhat inexplicably, the… Read More »
Ebola virus: What you need to know to protect yourself – Toronto – CBC News
A Toronto doctor who specializes in the treatment of tropical diseases says it’s unlikely a recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa could spread to North America. Dr. Jay Keystone, who works in the tropical diseases unit of Toronto General Hospital, was interviewed Wednesday on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning. A woman puts on… Read More »
Could epidemic of heart attacks in men be from bitchy male hating wives?
With so much misandry being promoted in the MSM and a open war on men being waged by the americian legal system. Most men will not enjoy any retirment years past their ability to support a nagging wife. Many studies have investigated the link between marriage and heart health. In March this year,… Read More »
You are under the control of Facebook and it will control you and your “friends” Now proven with Its Emotion Manipulation Study
As the Main Stream Media has less influence on some people because they are now addictive to sites like Facebook the level of influence and depth of reach of information control needed to be quantified if the population is to me kept under control. In an experiment facebook conducted earlier this year, Facebook injected the feeds of… Read More »
How to Keep Your Muscles Strong as You Age – WSJ
Vitamin D and Protein as well as working your ass hard…. How to Keep Your Muscles Strong as You Age – WSJ.
Ebola called ‘out of control’ in West Africa
Ebola called ‘out of control’ in West Africa.
The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it’s a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core. With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence… Read More »
Killing a Patient to Save His Life – NYTimes.com
PITTSBURGH — Trauma patients arriving at an emergency room here after sustaining a gunshot or knife wound may find themselves enrolled in a startling medical experiment. Surgeons will drain their blood and replace it with freezing saltwater. Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead. And then the surgeons will try to… Read More »
Killing a Patient to Save His Life – NYTimes.com
Killing a Patient to Save His Life – NYTimes.com.
Arguing and being around bitchy needy people is killing you
(NaturalNews) Everyone argues from time to time, whether it is with friends, family, or neighbors. While these arguments can be stressful, few people think about the health risks that may be involved if they continue to engage in these arguments. A new study has found that arguing with others frequently may increase the risk of… Read More »
Fasting for three days renews entire immune system, protects cancer patients, ‘remarkable’ new study finds | National Post
Fasting for three days can regenerate the entire immune system, even in the elderly, scientists have found in a breakthrough described as “remarkable.” Although fasting diets have been criticized by nutritionists, research suggests that starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing more white blood cells, which fight off infection. Scientists at the University of… Read More »
Only 4 percent of 20 million annual norovirus outbreaks traced to private homes – UPI.com
Norovirus is extremely contagious, with an estimated infectious dose as low as 18 viral particles — the amount on the head of a pin could sicken more than 1,000 people. By Alex Cukan | June 4, 2014 at 3:20 PM | 1 Comment Only 4 percent of norovirus food outbreaks were traced to… Read More »
US media blackout while RT tells us of the Gigantic, ‘Beast’ asteroid flying by Earth
We are all going to die! Well not from this thing today. A massive asteroid roughly the size of an entire football stadium that was discovered only months ago is passing by the Earth this week, with professional and amateur astronomers alike having the best chance to watch the flyover on Thursday. Officially named Asteroid… Read More »
World Bank warns of food riots as rising food prices push world populations toward revolt – NaturalNews.com
Friday, May 30, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: World Bank, food riots, emergency preparedness (NaturalNews) A new report issued by the World Bank (1) warns that food prices are skyrocketing globally, with wheat up 18 percent and corn up 12 percent this quarter. Ukraine, one of the largest wheat exporters in the… Read More »
BMC Infectious Diseases | Full text | How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review
Table 1 Persistence of clinically relevant bacteria on dry inanimate surfaces. Type of bacterium Duration of persistence (range) Reference(s) Acinetobacter spp. 3 days to 5 months [18, 25, 28, 29, 87, 88] Bordetella pertussis 3 – 5 days [89, 90] Campylobacter jejuni up to 6 days [91] Clostridium difficile (spores) 5 months [92–94] Chlamydia… Read More »
Your cynicism may be hurting your brain | TheCelebrityCafe.com
A study from researchers at the University of Eastern Finland shows that there may be a link between cynicism and brain health. This study was published in the Journal of American Academy of Neurology. According to Austrian Tribune, those who are less likely to trust others are more likely to develop dementia. Those who have… Read More »