People will one day change their name and reinvent themselves in order to escape their digital past. Reuters | Aug 18, 2010 By Tony Bradley at PC World Google CEO Eric Schmidt fears that too much information is shared online, … Continue reading →
Eye scanners will soon be so cost-effective–between $50-$100 each–that in the not-too-distant future we’ll have “billions and billions of sensors” across the globe. fastcompany.com | Aug 18, 2010 BY Austin Carr We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven … Continue reading →
The employment of contractors has caused anger in Iraq, particularly after a U.S. court dismissed charges against Blackwater Worldwide guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Reuters | Aug 19, 2010 By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON, Aug … Continue reading →
Reuters | Aug 21, 2010 By Paul Tait KABUL (Reuters) – Air strikes by the NATO-led force in Afghanistan accidentally killed at least three Afghan police in the country’s north and a woman and two children in the west, officials … Continue reading →
Civil Liberties, From The Web, Government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused on some fairly serious charges this morning–rape and molestation–and that puts those of us who are concerned about multiple human rights issues in a …Read Full Post
For the super-rich hoity toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is unpleasant, messy, and… well, so common. Instead of that, they sniff, America should be ruled by an “ism” of their invention: plutonomis…
Tamara Yashkina, a researcher at the Vavilov research institute that runs the seed bank outside St. Petersburg, sorts through oat seeds. (Vyacheslav Yevdokimov, For The Times / August 11, 2010) Russian seed bank loses court hearing latimes.com | Aug 12, … Continue reading →
Central Israel Oil Discovery: 1.5 Billion Barrels Oil samples were found as having high quality. israelnationalnews.com | Aug 17, 2010 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Estimates of the amount of oil in the Rosh HaAyin discovery have rises to 1.5 billion … Continue reading →
More evidence links pesticides to hyperactivity latimes.com | Aug 19, 2010 by Thomas H. Maugh II A growing body of evidence is suggesting that exposure to organophosphate pesticides is a prime cause of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD. The findings … Continue reading →
