Bill Giving Feds Power to Blacklist Piracy Sites Advances
Wired Antipiracy legislation that would dramatically increase the government’s legal power to disrupt and shutter websites “dedicated to infringing activities” cleared a major legislative hurdle Thursday. Two weeks after being introduced, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced the package to the Senate floor. The Protect IP Act, (.pdf) introduced by 11 senators of all stripes, [...]
Read More →LAPD’s New Cruiser Automatically Tracks License Plates and Suspects’ Footprints (Video)
PopSci It’s got a cop motor, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks … and now it has a infrared night vision camera, automatic license plate reader, and dashboard touchscreen. This souped-up Chevy Caprice is the LAPD’s future cruiser, enabling cops to track down suspects with the greatest of comfort. The vehicle is operated [...]
Read More →Wave of Alien Species Invade Mediterranean Sea
Live Science Aliens have invaded the Mediterranean by the hundreds — alien species, that is. In recent decades, more than 900 new alien marine species, including the poisonous puffer fish, have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea,according to a new study. This alien invasion has wrought changes on the food [...]
Read More →Serbia arrests war-crimes accused Ratko Mladic
M&G Serbia announced the arrest of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on Thursday, ending a 16-year manhunt for the general accused of masterminding Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Ratko Mladic President Boris Tadic confirmed reports that the 69-year-old had been detained by Serbian security forces, saying the capture would bolster Serbia’s [...]
Read More →Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness?
Discovery News Consciousness: How do you go about explaining that? Indeed, many scientists are currently studying what happens in the brain and how the mind relates to the outside world, but quantifying what gives us consciousness is proving to be a rather tough nut to crack. Is there some supernatural influence? Is it purely biological? [...]
Read More →US secretly helped French nuclear program: documents
Space Daily The United States secretly helped France develop advanced nuclear weapons in the 1970s as part of a bid by the Nixon administration to sow divisions in Europe, declassified US documents showed. Henry Kissinger, the senior aide to President Richard Nixon and apostle of realpolitik, is quoted as saying that he wanted to make [...]
Read More →2020 vision of vaccines for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS
Terra Daily Collectively, malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year – nearly the entire population of the state of Washington – and represent one of the world’s major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. In the May 26, 2011, edition of the [...]
Read More →Atmospheric changes prior to Japan quake revealed
The Watchers Scientists say that the atmosphere above the epicenter of Japan’s catastrophic March 11 earthquake underwent significant changes prior to the tectonic thrust. Preliminary studies of the phenomena by Chapman University researcher Dimitar Ouzounov and several international colleagues could offer insight into how to predict powerful earthquakes well before they strike. Using satellite data, [...]
Read More →No Remorse: RT caught in Tbilisi brutal dispersal of Georgia protesters (Video)
At least two dead and dozens hospitalised – protesters in Georgia have found out the hard way why they shouldn’t speak out against their leadership. Police showed little restraint in a crackdown on crowds who’d turned out for what’s been called Georgia’s ‘Day Of Rage’ – demanding that President Saakashvili resign.
Read More →‘Genderless’ Child Ignites Firestorm in Canada
Fox News Storm, a four-month-old Toronto child being raised as genderless, smiles while being held by mother Kathy Witterick A Toronto couple raising their 4-month-old without identifying the child as a boy or a girl have created a media firestorm in Canada, where some have likened the scenario to a “bizarre lab experiment” that seeks [...]
Read More →Sunscreens Blistered by Nonprofit Study
Health News Think that bottle of sunscreen is protecting you and your family? You may need to think again, according to tests performed by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Their annual testing of sunscreen products, compiled into a report “Skin Deep: Sunscreens 2011,” found that only 1 out of every 5 sunscreens is safe and [...]
Read More →NASA plans to send satellite to asteroid in 2016
Raw Story WASHINGTON — The US space agency on Wednesday announced plans to send the first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. The spacecraft, known as Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will launch in 2016 and will then travel four years before it nears [...]
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