America – the antidepressant nation?
RTAmerica A Recent study on antidepressants has shown that the drugs have some serious side effects: those taking certain prescriptions could lose their sex drive. It sounds like the whole nation’s sexuality is under a threat as, according to the statistics, one in ten Americans takes antidepressants. And it’s not only libido people are losing [...]
Read More →Visit Sunny Chernobyl: Author Says Nuclear Meltdown Good for the Environment
Aaron Dykes Infowars Author and environmentalist Andrew Blackwell found in man’s disaster a shining desolate place that humans had vacated, and now returned to nature. Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, author and environmentalist Andrew Blackwell heralded the beauty of Chernobyl, a man-made disaster, now a wasteland, where he found a shining desolate place that [...]
Read More →Massive landslide spotted in Alaska
DNN A massive landslide has covered about 5 1/2 miles of Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, park officials say. The National Parks Traveler Web site said a huge chunk of the slope of 11,750-foot high Lituya Mountain sloughed off June 11 and cascaded into the valley below. It slid down [...]
Read More →Scientists analyze potential of using lasers to make rain
Physorg Although pointing high-energy lasers at the sky to cause pouring rain is currently a high-tech dream, the motivation behind controlling the weather has existed since the days of our ancient ancestors. Throughout human history, many civilizations developed magical or religious methods in an attempt to increase or decrease precipitation. In light of this history, [...]
Read More →Extreme winter weather hits South Africa
Quinton Mtyala and Bongiwe Sithole TimesLive Floods, snow and strong winds wreaked widespread havoc across the country, claiming the lives of at least five people – two of whom froze to death – and sending emergency personnel into a rescue overdrive saving thousands of people, many of them children. Damage estimated at millions of rands [...]
Read More →Chicken vaccines mutate into new virus
TopNews Two different vaccine viruses, used simultaneously to control an acute respiratory disease occurring in chickens, have combined to produce new infectious viruses, says new research. The vaccines were used to control infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT). ILT can have up to 20 percent mortality rate in some flocks and has a significant economic impact in the [...]
Read More →Britain wasted nearly half a million pounds on ‘unusable’ rubber bullets
EuropeanPhoenix Under a section titled “Fruitless payments” in its annual accounts, it shows that £427,000 was spent on baton rounds bought from abroad even though they did not pass UK safety standards. The decision meant they could “not be used in the UK”. The procurement, made to bolster police forces in light of last summer’s [...]
Read More →IMF: Spain, Greece Face Bigger Deficits than Previously Forecast
A. Papapostolou GreekReporter Spain and Greece, currently the two main epicenters of the euro zone debt crisis, are facing bigger deficits than previously forecast amid feeble European growth and political disorder in Athens, the International Monetary Fund said Monday, Wall Street Journal reported. Higher government deficits should mobilize policymakers into action, the IMF said in [...]
Read More →Chinese Twitter-like website blocking phrase results for ‘the truth’
NewKerala China’s Twitter-like website Weibo.com has been blocked from showing any results for the phrase ‘the truth’. According to The Daily Mail, attempts to search the phrase were blocked on the site, which is used by almost 300 million users. Users noticed that if they typed in the Chinese characters for ‘the truth’, they received [...]
Read More →Asteroids brought water to Earth?
TOI Asteroids from the inner solar system may be the source of the majority of Earth’s water, a new study has claimed, contradicting the belief that most of our planet’s water originated in the outer solar system. The prevailing theories suggest that water was delivered on Earth from outer solar system by comets that coalesced [...]
Read More →Nuclear operator to release secret Fukushima tapes
ABC Former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan, who was in office during the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, has told the ABC he believes the plant’s operator has been hiding key evidence. For months TEPCO has resisted pressure to release critical recordings, arguing they are in-house material and to release them would compromise the privacy of those [...]
Read More →N.Korea’s army chief removed from all posts
HNK North Korea says it has removed top military chief Ri Yong Ho, a close mentor to leader Kim Jong Un, from all his posts. The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday that the ruling Workers’ Party leadership had agreed to relieve Ri of all his posts for illness. But details about the [...]
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