Australia attempts to enact scientific dictatorship at universities by banishing alternative medicine courses
2012 02 03
Self-proclaimed advocates of "science-based" medicine are hard at work trying to eliminate government funding for any form of medical education or treatment that is not conventional in nature. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a new lobbying group of 400 "doctors, medical researchers, and scientists," collectively known as "Friends of Science in Medicine" (FSM), is trying to stop all public ... |
Scientists urge unis to axe alternative medicine courses
2012 02 03
More than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists have formed a powerful lobby group to pressure universities to close down alternative medicine degrees. Almost one in three Australian universities now offer courses in some form of alternative therapy or complementary medicine, including traditional Chinese herbal medicine, chiropractics, homeopathy, naturopathy, reflexology and aromatherapy. But the new group, Friends of Science in ... |
Occupy Yourself – Not The Streets
2012 02 03
At the heart of each conflict is two predictable polar opposites – the aggressor and the defense. Pick any conflict in history and you will be amazed that this holds true for each one. Due to the predictability of this pattern, the aggressor knows that there will be an uprising to deal with. With this knowledge, a strategic plan, and ... |
’Jewish Indiana Jones’ admits Torah fraud
2012 02 03
A self-described "Jewish Indiana Jones" who claimed to have travelled the world to rescue holy Torah scrolls has pleaded guilty to fraud.
Rabbi Menachem Youlus, 50, admitted he had simply made up claims that he personally found and restored Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel.
Prosecutors also said he defrauded the charity he founded and its donors of $862,000 (£545,000).
As part of ... |
Psychedelic Cathedral of Light Stuns Spectators in Belgium (Photos)
2012 02 02
The LED Cathedral was designed with Romanesque and Renaissance architecture in mind and at its zenith, it stands an impressive 28m high. Unsurprisingly, the cathedral has already been drawing large crowds to Belfortstraat like moths to a flame. You also need not worry about the amount of energy being used, as despite being made from 55,000 LEDs, it only consumes ... |
No one bids on ‘world’s largest emerald’ at auction
2012 02 02
Despite being appraised at $1.15 million, the world’s largest cut faceted emerald failed to attract a single bid of half that amount at auction. "We definitely had some interest but there was nobody willing to put their hand up." Odenbach said one man approached him after the auction and offered a bid of $250,000, which was refused. |
Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
2012 02 02
A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture. Conservators at the Prado in Madrid recently made an astonishing discovery, hidden beneath black overpaint. |
Sex, Beer & Politics: Riddles Reveal Life of Ancient Mesopotamians
2012 02 02
Millennia before modern-day Americans made fun of their politicians or cracked crude jokes over a cold one, people in ancient Mesopotamia were doing much the same thing.
The evidence of sex, politics and beer-drinking comes from a newly translated tablet, dating back more than 3,500 years, which reveals a series of riddles. |
Egypt Shaken After Deadly Soccer Riots
2012 02 02
"As Egypt mourns the deaths of scores of soccer fans, activists blamed the military and police for a tragic stadium riot in Port Said. The city’s governor resigned and the board of the country’s Football Association was ordered disbanded."
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Egypt football riot: protesters gathering in Cairo after football tragedy
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Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals
2012 02 02
During a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S. targets if threatened. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo held secret talks with top U.S. officials in recent days, cursory comments made during a public Senate hearing indicated on Tuesday. The ... |
WikiLeaks Appeals To Maritime Law?
2012 02 01
In a bid to keep its servers out of the hands of global jurisdictions and evade prosecution, WikiLeaks has been allegedly reported as looking into ways to relocate the servers to offshore data centres.
Wikileaks’ servers have been based in many different countries such as France, Iceland and Sweden, and while the authorities have been so far unable to shut them ... |
Illinois reactor suffers shutdown, steam containing tritium vented
2012 02 01
Operators at Byron Generating Station [around 110 miles from Chicago] declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline.
The nuclear facility’s diesel generators activated as designed to provide power to the facility when there is a loss of offsite power to the facility. The facility remains in a safe ... |
NASA probe discovers ’alien’ matter from beyond our solar system
2012 02 01
For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system — material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today."This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of — it’s really important to be measuring it," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice ... |
Does China’s Cat-Eyed Boy Really Have Night Vision?
2012 02 01
According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat’s, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough to enable him to fill out questionnaires while sitting in a pitch black room — or so say the ... |
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (Video)
2012 02 01
"Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics."
This demonstration is amazing, but also a little disconcerting.
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Quadrotor UAV in surveillance mode. Image: Source
No worries, however, because they’re not without flaws:
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Will that distinctive buzzing replace the familiar sounds of police sirens?
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Prevent the EU from restricting information communicating benefits of food and natural health products
2012 01 31
Ask your Member of the European Parliament (MEP) to veto the proposed list of 220 authorised ‘general function’ health claims which will also simultaneously forbid all health claims that have not been scientifically proven to standards set by the controversial European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Once this list is passed into law, around 2,500 commonly used claims about the health ... |
Europe’s Secret Plan to Boost GM Crop Production
2012 01 31
This article has been pulled from it’s original source independent.co.uk! - First published October 31, 2008
GM corn growing in France, which has since suspended cultivation of modified crops
Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.
The ... |
Whole lotta shakin’, but it wasn’t an earthquake
2012 01 31
Unusual shaking and rumbling reported around the capital region had people thinking "earthquake" - but, rest assured, there was no seismic event. Natural Resources Canada responded to public concerns by posting an explanation on its website, saying what was felt could have come from an "atmospheric source," likely sound waves travelling over a long distance. Taimi Mulder, a seismologist at ... |
Monsanto Declared Worst Company of 2011
2012 01 31
Biotech giant Monsanto has been declared the Worst Company of 2011 by NaturalSociety for threatening both human health and the environment. The leader in genetically modified seeds and crops, Monsanto is currently responsible for 90 percent of the genetically engineered seed on the United States market. Outside of GM seeds, Monsanto is also the creator of the best-selling herbicide Roundup, ... |
Englishman Mystified By "Blue Sphere" Hail Storm
2012 01 30
A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden.
Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm.
He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: "[They’re] difficult to pick up, I had to get a ... |
Anonymous Warns NATO: "This Is No Longer Your World"
2012 01 30
NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it’s actually a hydra).
Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about “Anonymous”—the mysterious “hacktivist” group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony—has led the underground group to respond by cautioning NATO, “This is no longer your world. It is our world – ... |
Next Frontier: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer
2012 01 30
Exciting times, friends. While we’ve been cleaning up the proverbial ticker tape left behind by jubilant celebration over the recently-stalled antipiracy bills, the Pirate Bay – arguably the premier resource for pirating digital content – has already moved on to the next big thing.
The site has announced a new category called “Physibles” that houses digital files that can be downloaded ... |
Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money
2012 01 30
"What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it — at least that’s what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of mixed-media artworks called "Expressions of Recession," but he ended up building a house instead."
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Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions
2012 01 30
The Pentagon doesn’t know what happened to more than $100 million in cash held at Saddam Hussein’s palace in Baghdad during the Iraq war, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
What’s more, the Pentagon can’t find documents to explain what it spent as much as $1.7 billion on from funds held on behalf ... |
If You Thought SOPA and ACTA Were Bad…
2012 01 30
Enter the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the most recent of the run of international intellectual property lawmaking in the last few years. Few have likely heard of TPP, because it is also being negotiated largely in secret. The word “largely” is key, because, as was the case with ACTA, TPP documents have been leaked, creating yet another ... |
ACTA is worse than SOPA: Here’s what you need to know
2012 01 30
As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web black outs by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So loud was your voice that even the president of the United States sided with you in opposing it.
But don’t take a deep sigh of relief ... |
Occupy Oakland Arrests Top 400 After Volatile Day
2012 01 30
For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland’s streets for occasional weekend marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.
Then came Saturday, which started peacefully enough – a midday rally at City Hall and a march. But hours later, the scene near downtown Oakland had dramatically deteriorated: clashes ... |
All 3 Guilty in Canadian ’Honour Killing’ Murder Trial
2012 01 30
A Montreal couple and their son were convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a case the judge called "despicable," "heinous" and stemming from "a completely twisted concept of honour."
The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, along with Rona Mohammad Amir, 50, were found in the family’s Nissan, submerged in ... |
Resist Biometrics - Your Liberty Depends on It
2012 01 30
It’s official. The biometric cataloging of the human race has begun. India’s intent to record it’s entire nations’ 1.2 billion people by iris and fingerprint scans signals a devious high tech human monitoring and control agenda. Although no one ever asks for such systems, biometrics will be sold to the populace as cool, sexy, convenient, safe and secure but will ... |
Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship
2012 01 30
Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars have been spent visiting our nearest neighbor in space, the moon. It’s the only extraterrestrial body humans have ever walked on. Besides the United States and Russia, Japan, China, India and the European Space Agency have all sent robotic spacecraft moonward. Probably the most prolific of these missions, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... |
OEx – Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic
2012 01 30
Project – OEx OEx – Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic. Overview: Baltic Sea Unidentified Sunken Object (USO) originally imaged by the crew of the Ocean Explorer using its side-scan sonar. Seven viewers, five professional and two trainees, were tasked to work this target, all on camera. Preliminary analysis suggests that the target site is not ... |
California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations
2012 01 29
Congregation Beth Shalom in Corona, California has sent Mel Gibson a letter in hopes of guilting him into forking over some cash to bail them out of a bad investment they made on their local synagogue. Apparently, the group took out a giant loan that they can’t afford to pay back and are now facing foreclosure. In a move reminiscent ... |
Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012
2012 01 29
A massive solar flare — the strongest one so far this year — erupted today (Jan. 27) from the same active region of the sun that triggered a raging solar tempest earlier this week. The solar flare was rated an X1.7-class eruption, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar ... |
