‘Heart disease linked to job stress’
IANS | TopNews Scientists have shed light on how stress at work affects the heart, says a study. The results, published in the ‘Scandinavian Journal of Public Health’, link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that alters the levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood. Experts have been saying for years that emotional stress [...]
Read More →India Bans Captive Dolphin Shows as ‘Morally Unacceptable’
ENS India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the country. In a policy statement released Friday, the ministry advised state governments to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium “by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that [...]
Read More →Echolocation: Both Bats and Blind Humans Can Use it to See
Bats aren’t the only ones that can use echolocation. Scientists have discovered that blind and visually impaired people may also have the potential to use the same ability.
Read More →Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity
By Jim Sliwa | EurekAlert Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst report their findings at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. “This represents [...]
Read More →Russian Med fleet returns – an unintended consequence
There was a lot of distraction in the news last week, particularly the flank attack moves on Obama that obscured a huge development in the Mid East… the first return of the Russian Pacific Navy for Mediterranean deployment since 1992.
Read More →Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies, government agencies
ANI Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry [...]
Read More →Russian military to make inspection flights over US
IANS | Zee News A group of Russian military observers will carry out two inspection missions over the US under the Open Skies Treaty between May 19 and June 3, the Russian defence ministry said. The Russian inspectors, accompanied by US officials, will fly on board a Tupolev Tu-154 LK-1 plane from the Wright-Patterson Air [...]
Read More →Pavlof Volcano ash cloud shows Alaska’s threat to air travel
Ash billowing from Pavlof Volcano is not high enough to affect international air travel, but Pavlof is just one of a string of active Alaska volcanoes that sits beneath the flight corridor between the US and Asia.
Read More →Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report
By Olivier Knox | Yahoo The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails,the Washington Post reported on Monday. In a chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil liberties, [...]
Read More →European Union Directly Funds Al Qaeda Looting of Syrian oil
By Johannes Stern | Global Research According to a report yesterday in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the European Union (EU) is directly funding US-backed Sunni Islamist terrorist groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. These groups are looting oil in parts of eastern Syria that they control and then re-selling it to EU countries at rock-bottom prices. The Guardian writes: [...]
Read More →Obamacare: Dealing a death blow to small businesses
By Michael Cahill | BLN The major components of the Affordable Care Act, also lovingly referred to as Obamacare, are just around the corner from being implemented. Come Jan. 1, 2014 we’ll see if Obamacare’s original mission of bringing health insurance to the uninsured of America and making badly needed changes to our healthcare system, outweighs [...]
Read More →Monsanto Protection Act May Soon Be Repealed Thanks to Activism
By Anthony Gucciardi | NaturalSociety The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States Senator is expected to try and repeal that law after mounting pressure. The notorious ‘Monsanto Protection [...]
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