Posts Tagged ‘our world’

Typhoon Sanba rocks South Korea with huge waves

LAURA KNIGHT-JADCZYK AND JOE QUINN Since the 9/11 attacks, no book has provided a satisfactory answer as to WHY the attacks occurred and who was ultimately responsible for carrying them out – until now. BUY IT NOW!

We Won

In January I sued President Barack Obama over Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorized the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely, strip them of due process and hold them in military facilities, including offshore penal colonies. Last week, round one in the battle to strike down the onerous provision, one […]

Your Tax Dollars Used to Manhunt Children as Police Seek Child Suspected of Robbery

Police are on the lookout for a 4ft tall suspect with a likely under-developed voice. An unusual wanted ad posted by police in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night described their suspect as being merely 6 or 7 years old. While with a group of boys described as being between the ages of 7 and 14, […]

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

Houston – A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel – a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek – may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster […]

Shark ‘Saves’ Toakai Teitoi After 4 Months at Sea

A day after watching a film about being lost at sea, Toakai Teitoi was trapped in his own nightmare, drifting in a wooden boat for 15 weeks – before a shark helped to rescue him. The 41-year-old Kiribati policeman and father-of-six relived his harrowing voyage in the central Pacific when he arrived in Majuro on […]

White House Demands Military Prisons for Americans Under NDAA

The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately. On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary […]

Three-Year Old Cambodian Boy Revered as Healer

Even before dawn, a few hundred people have gathered to sit in line, reminiscent of the queues of waiting patients which snakes outside the grounds of the Kantha Bopha Hospital during pandemics. They have travelled from different cities and provinces to get a chance to be healed by Ray Rong, a resident of Prey Veng’s […]

Setting the world on fire: Stunning picture of rare ‘devil tornado’ emerges

An awe-struck filmmaker has told of the moment he witnessed one of nature’s rarest phenomena – a fire tornado. Chris Tangey had been out in Alice Springs, Australia, scouting locations for a new movie. After finishing he went over to help workers at a cattle station when he was confronted by one of nature’s most […]

Security Firm to Hold Zombie Crisis Scenario

San Diego – Forget the H1N1 pandemic. Could a future crisis arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies? The far-fetched scenario of a government grappling a zombielike threat – think movies like Night of the Living Dead or, more comically, Zombieland – has captured the […]

Link Found Between Reversible ‘Epigenetic’ Marks And Behavior Patterns

Genetic analysis of different types of worker bees has for the first time demonstrated a link between reversible chemical tags on an organism’s DNA and their behavioral patterns. Andy Feinberg, a professor of molecular medicine and the director of the Center for Epigenetics at Hopkins’ Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, and colleagues used a method […]

Airport body scanners to be scrapped after failing to receive European approval

Scanners use X-ray technology to show up hidden explosives or weapons Fears machines could emit harmful levels of cancer-causing radiation European report said risk ‘close to zero’ but bosses still failed to give go-ahead Controversial airport ‘strip-search’ scanners are to be scrapped after they failed to get approval from European bosses. Experts feared the ‘naked’ […]

US Role In Cyber War With Iran May Be Larger Than Suspected

Earlier this year, the Iranian nuclear program was attacked by a powerful and targeted form of cyber weaponry known as the Stuxnet Trojan. Then in May, a cyber-surveillance tool called Flame was uncovered and was later called “the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed” by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. It was later discovered that US […]

Boy Scouts Inaction May Have Contributed To Hundreds Of Sexual Attacks

The Boy Scouts of America may have been tacitly complicit in the sexual assaults of hundreds of boys by failing to report the predators to police and hiding the allegations from parents and the public. A Los Angeles Times study of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 found that scouting officials often urged […]

Improving Memory for Specific Events Can Alleviate Symptoms of Depression

Hear the word “party” and memories of your 8th birthday sleepover or the big bash you attended last New Year’s may come rushing to mind. But it’s exactly these kinds of memories, embedded in a specific place and time, that people with depression have difficulty recalling. Research has shown that people who suffer from, or […]

Prenatal Damage from Dioxin Shown to Involve microRNAs

Research carried out at the University of South Carolina has identified novel mechanisms through which dioxin, a well-known environmental contaminant, can alter physiological functions, according to a study published online in the journal PLOS ONE. The research team, which included Narendra Singh, Mitzi Nagarkatti and Prakash Nagarkatti of the USC School of Medicine, demonstrated that […]

Behavior Issues Are a Bigger Headache for Children With Migraines, Research Reveals

Kids who get migraine headaches are much more likely than other children to also have behavioral difficulties, including social and attention issues, and anxiety and depression. The more frequent the headaches, the greater the effect, according to research out now in the journal Cephalagia, published by SAGE. Marco Arruda, director of the Glia Institute in […]

Scientists Discover Mutations Associated With Skin Disorder (DSAP)

A Chinese research team, led by Anhui Medical University and BGI, has found strong genetic evidence of a link between mutations of the mevalonate kinase gene (MVK) and disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP). It is a major step toward discovering the genetic pathogenesis of DSAP, and sheds light on its further molecular diagnosis and treatment. […]

World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye, Records First Images in Hunt for Dark Energy

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time. That light may hold […]

Nasa Curiosity Rover Begins Mars Science Mission Today

Let the science begin! Curiosity begins its quest to determine whether Mars was once habitable, metre by metre, rock by rock This is the moment the scientists have been waiting for. Nasa‘s Mars Curiosity rover will begin driving today in search of the first rock to analyse with its robot arm. After five and a […]

Hubble Sees NGC 7090 – An Actively Star

A new image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from Earth, meaning we cannot easily see the spiral arms, which are full of young, hot stars. However, a side-on view shows the galaxy’s disc and the bulging central core, […]

Billions to be Automatically Slashed From U.S. Budgets

Cuts will affect startups, universities, and various government labs Whether you’re developing a cure for cancer, or dreaming up solutions to put a human on Mars, there’s a chance that you could be out of a job next year. I. Automatic Cuts Loom That’s the grim reality reported by both a 394-page report from the […]

Antarctic Ice Area Sets Another Record

LAURA KNIGHT-JADCZYK AND JOE QUINN Since the 9/11 attacks, no book has provided a satisfactory answer as to WHY the attacks occurred and who was ultimately responsible for carrying them out – until now. BUY IT NOW!

Enormous Roman Mosaic Found Under Farmer’s Field

A giant poolside mosaic featuring intricate geometric patterns has been unearthed in southern Turkey, revealing the far-reaching influence of the Roman Empire at its peak. The mosaic, which once decorated the floor of a bath complex, abuts a 25-foot (7-meter)-long pool, which would have been open to the air, said Michael Hoff, a University of […]

Big Breakout on Jupiter

After thinning to practically nothing last year, Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt has erupted with a broad dark band full of bright and dark spots that can be observed with backyard telescopes. The King of Planets has been putting on quite a show lately. Last week two observers spotted a bright fireball in Jupiter’s midsection, the […]

Protecting your right to free speech

Nothing tests one’s intellectual honesty and ability to apply principles consistently more than free speech controversies. It is exceedingly easy to invoke free speech values in defense of political views you like. It is exceedingly difficult to invoke them in defense of views you loathe. But the true test for determining the authenticity of one’s […]

Massive Diamond Find in Russian Impact Crater

Russian scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could revolutionize industry. The Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences said that the Popigai crater in eastern Siberia contains “many trillions of carats” of so-called “impact diamonds” good for technological purposes, not for […]

Oregon Woman Contracts Bubonic Plague from Cat

A woman who tried to help her friend save a cat that was choking on a mouse contracted Bubonic plague from the diseased feline, Portland health officials announced on Friday, September 14. “Black Plague,” or Bubonic plague, is a bacterial illness spread through the bite of infected fleas or through direct contact with an infected […]

Media Circus Surprise!: Fox News Critical of Republican Mitt Romney

While Fox News still can’t seem to say enough bad things about President Obama, they haven’t exactly been uncritical of Mitt Romney lately. In fact, the criticism of Romney has been downright jaw-dropping considering where it’s come from. On today’s Fox News Sunday, the panel was unanimously critical of Romney, including host Chris Wallace, an […]

13-year-old Florida Boy Faces Life in Jail for Murdering his 2 Year Old Brother

Cristian Fernandez was 12 years old when he smashed his brother’s head against a bookcase, killing the two year old. Now 13, Fernandez is being tried as an adult for murder in Jacksonville, Florida. If convicted, he could spend life behind bars, reports the Daily Mail. On June 3, 2011, police were called to a […]

Brain Function is Different in Anorexic Women, Study Says

Researchers from the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas, Dallas and University of Texas, Southwestern, discovered brain-based differences in women suffering from anorexia. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that causes an individual to obsess about his or her weight. Many individuals suffering from anorexia may starve themselves in order to prevent […]

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