The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy January 31st, 2013 Via: New York Times: Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,â€� but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being created. Yet this clearly matters: According to the Census Bureau, one-third of adults who live in poverty are working but […]
Archive for January, 2013
Failed referendum leaves Bulgaria without nuclear future
Failed referendum leaves Bulgaria without nuclear future Published: 31 January, 2013, 17:26 A workman and a cranes are pictured on the site of Bulgaria’s second nuclear plant near the town of Belene. (AFP Photo / Dimitar Dilkoff) […]
Syria files UN complaint over Israeli airstrike, Iran warns of ‘serious consequences’
Syria has filed an official complaint to the United Nations over an Israeli airstrike on a military research center near Damascus. The move followed a threat from Iran that Israel would face “serious consequences” for the attack. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Tel Aviv would face repercussions for the […]
Al-Qaeda threatens US and Europe, promises ‘earth-shattering’ attack
Al-Qaeda threatens US and Europe, promises ‘earth-shattering’ attack Published: 31 January, 2013, 16:46 (AFP Photo) A message posted on a jihadist website on Sunday promised that “terrible” […]
Is Fort Campbell, Kentucky the ‘Area 51 of Appalachia’?
The state of Kentucky has, at times, been considered a rather odd place. Tracing the state’s northern border, one can follow the Ohio River all the way down to its tributaries that empty into the southwest end, forming a cluster of counties that are riddled with odd stories of weird creatures, mysterious flying objects, and […]
Foster + Partners Unveils Design For 3D Printed Lunar Base
© Foster + Partners The European Space Agency asked Foster + Partners to design a moon base; they just unveiled their idea for making it out of a local and sustainable material: moon dust. From BD Online: “3D printing offers a potential means of facilitating lunar settlement with reduced logistics from Earth,” said Scott Hovland […]
Watching A Huge Golden Moon Rise In Real Time (Video)
Sure I’ve seen the moon when it’s big and orange and hanging low on the horizon. But I’ve never seen anything like this. Mark Gee, the video’s creator, writes on the Vimeo page, “Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand…It’s something […]
Nature Blows My Mind! Tiny Island Home to Thousands of Deadly Snakes
ARKive/Video screen capture Ilha de Queimada Grande has a nickname — Snake Island. Even though the reason for the nickname is obvious, the details are shiver-inducing. This 110-acre island off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil, is home to one of the most venemous snakes in the world, a species of pit viper called the […]
New Fabric Absorbs 340% of Its Weight in Water from Fog or Mist
Brett Jordan at Flickr/CC BY 3.0The development of a new inexpensive treatment for cotton fabric could help boost efforts to collect water from fog or mists in desert regions, as it is not only remarkably effective in absorbing water but also releases it just as easily. In extremely arid regions, fog or mist harvesters can […]
Man Builds Family Home Under Huge Desert Rock (Video)
International Business Times/Screen capture It doesn’t get closer to nature than this: Benito Hernandez of San Jose de Las Piedras, Mexico has been literally living under a rock — a huge one at that — for the last thirty years, making his home out of sun-dried brick and cement, raising a family of seven with […]
U.S. ‘planned to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame Assad
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Prosecutors sought 30 years for Swartz’s JSTOR download, 35 for Headley’s Mumbai massacre
Aaron Swartz was facing 30 years for the unauthorized downloading of JSTOR articles; David Headley will serve the same number of years for plotting the killing of 163 people. The difference between the government’s approach to the two men shows the tiny role that “actual harm caused” matters in the criminal justice system, and […]
Dead robins found in Northeast Portland
The dead robins are back. More than 30 carcasses have been found on the ground in Northeast Portland in the past week. Wildlife experts don’t know for sure what killed them but one possible cause is a berry binge — just like in February 2008. That month, the carcasses of more than 50 American […]
Syria says Israel attacked military research center
Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Damascus province at dawn on Wednesday, Syria’s military command said, denying reports that the planes had struck a convoy carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon. Two people were killed and five wounded in the attack on the site in Jamraya, which it described as one of a […]
U.N. rights inquiry says Israel must remove settlers
U.N. human rights investigators called on Israel on Thursday to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all half a million Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank, saying that its practices could be subject to prosecution as possible war crimes. A three-member U.N. panel said private companies should stop working in the settlements if their […]
Catholic Church Scandal: Nuns’ crimes in "Magdalene Laundries" revealed
Irish human rights lawyer and trainee barrister in London Maeve O’Rourke has compiled 5,000 pages of testimony from survivors of the Catholic “Magdalene Laundries” run by nuns in Ireland where women were tortured, abused, overworked. The world is quickly finding out that these catholic institutions for so-called “fallen women” was a place the Vatican established […]
Now That GDP Is Contracting, Bloomberg’s Editors Decide That It’s ‘An Imperfect Measure of Progress’
This is so pathetic and predictable, you could almost set your watch to it. Just ten hours after a government report showed that the economy went into contraction for the first time in three years during 2012’s fourth quarter, an item penned “by the editors” at Bloomberg News appeared which scolded us that the nation’s gross […]
Leno: Kerry Breaks Glass Ceiling – First White Male Secretary of State Since 1997
Jay Leno made a very interesting observation Wednesday night regarding the confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State. Commenting during his Tonight Show monologue, the host said, “John Kerry is the first white male to hold that job since 1997.” “The Senate has overwhelmingly approved John Kerry as the next Secretary of State,” Leno […]
NFL Hall of Famer Dan Marino Has Love Child With Former CBS Employee
He’s one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the NFL, and has become a distinguished analyst for CBS Sports. Unfortunately, Dan Marino’s squeaky clean reputation took a pounding Thursday when the New York Post revealed that he had a love child with a CBS employee back in 2005. Her name is Donna Savattere, […]
Scarborough: Woman Testifying In Support Of Assault Rifles Looked Like ‘Jackass’
On today’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said that a Senior Fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum testifying in favor of assault rifles looked “like a jackass.” Gayle Trotter, who holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia and is the co-founder of a D.C. law firm, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee […]