Archive for January, 2014

Industrial Hemp Amendment Makes It Into Farm Bill

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Clutching at Straws: The Latest Solution to Contaminated Groundwater From Fukushima

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Sleeping Elderly Woman Awakes to Police Dog Attack

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3-D scanning with your smartphone

Traditionally, 3-D scanning has required expensive laser scanner equipment, complicated software, and technological expertise. But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, Viztu released software, free online, that essentially replaced expensive scanning hardware with personal cameras. This innovation led to a rapidly rising commercial enterprise that concluded with Viztu’s sale to a […]

Web developers gather for ‘Hackathon for Cuba’

Technology experts are gathering to brainstorm ways to improve access to the Internet and information in Cuba, considered the one of the least connected countries in the Western hemisphere. The “Hackathon for Cuba” begins Friday in Miami. Cuban dissident and online activist Yoani Sanchez is expected to deliver opening remarks at a reception via […]

Sea turtles will feel the heat from climate change

Last year was Australia’s hottest on record and this year started with heatwaves. Animals feel the heat too – so how will they cope and adapt as the climate changes? Take, for example, sea turtles. These large reptiles have swum the oceans for more than 150 million years and survived numerous climatic changes, from warmings […]

Researchers develop new enzyme reactor technology

(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a new enzymatic process intensification technology that is one of only a few technologies available for accelerating the rate of an enzyme reaction. Drs Emma Emanuelsson and Darrell Patterson developed the ‘Spinning Cloth Disc Reactor’ (SCDR) in the University of Bath’s Department of Chemical Engineering. The SCDR is simple: based […]

Big sperm don’t always win the race

When females mate with more than one male, each one’s sperm has to compete to get to her eggs. Until now, researchers had thought the fastest sperm would dominate. But in a new study, published in Evolution, a team of scientists have found that it is much more complicated than that. ‘If you compare […]

Loopy Pete, you’ve had your ass kicked every time you picked a fight …

Yawn! Once again, Loopy Pete has gone and “named and shamed” someone who happens to think he’s an A Grade Dickhead on his lame Slimes Against Fathers grub fest … And, once again, the object of Peter Andrew Nolan’s gibberish, a Mr Carl “Bear” Bussjaeger,  responded by kicking Loopy’s ass. The Loopster has tried this once before […]

Norway tightens the sanctions screws on Israel

The boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel has received a boost from Norway. According to the French news agency AFP, Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, blacklisted two Israeli companies involved in construction of settlements in East Jerusalem, the country’s Finance Ministry said Thursday [30 January]. The ban on investing in the […]

Jewish squatters over represented among new Israeli military graduates

Jewish squatters living in illegal colonies on stolen Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank make up more than 16 per cent of new officers in the Israeli army, the Israeli far right Arutz Sheva 7 news website reports. That is four times the proportion of squatters in the population, the report said, citing the […]

Was Hitler Inspired by Lincoln’s Army?

In my Fall 2010 Independent Review article entitled “The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality,” I noted the creepiness of the fact that General William Tecumseh Sherman referred to the U.S. Army’s twenty-five year campaign of genocide against the Plains Indians, which he was in charge of for the […]

Does Krugman Fib About Mises?

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. —Mahatma Gandhi Final victory draws ever nearer for Austrian economics. Over the weekend, the New York Times, with its intellectual cachet rapidly waning and its finances in parlous straits, ran a tedious and rambling hit piece on Rand Paul. […]

Why the US Has Lost Manufacturing Jobs

The U.S. has lost manufacturing jobs, and it is not due to increases in productivity in manufacturing or because there is a natural maturation into a services economy. The main reason is the freeing up of labor forces in Asia, particularly China, due to their political reforms. Reforms in China, or movement toward […]

Peter Schiff Outrages the Left Again

A financial services CEO worth $70 million told the Daily Show on Tuesday that he opposes the minimum wage because workers are simply ‘worth what they’re worth.’ ‘I’m not going to say that we’re all created equal,’ Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and outspoken libertarian, told correspondent Samantha Bee. Schiff said […]

Imperial Conquest

The following text was presented  at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Berlin, January 11, 2014. The event was organized by the German daily “junge Welt”.  This year, the Rosa Luxemburg Conference marked the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War. In this regard, the history of wars is important because it […]

State of the Union: Nation’s CEO has been caught lying repeatedly; Questions?

Townhall State of the Union: Nation’s CEO has been caught lying repeatedly; Questions?   Source Article from http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/01/31/state-of-the-union-nations-ceo-has-been-caught-lying-repeatedly-questions/ Views: 0

Intelligence chief confirms Arab shift from U.S. over ‘policies on Iran, Syria and Egypt’

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community, in its first such assessment, has warned of a loss of America’s Arab allies. The intelligence community said the Gulf Cooperation Council could be the first Arab allies to move away from the United States. U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill […]

Report: U.S. withdrawal left behind an Iraqi government unequal to the challenge

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The Iraqi military and security forces remain ill-equipped to battle the Sunni revolt, a report said. The Center for Strategic and International Studies asserted that Iraq lacked the army and police manpower to quell the Al Qaida-directed Sunni revolt in the Anbar province. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki  /Reuters/Thaier […]

Gulf states slash oil workers’ pay, Kuwait braces for strike, shutdowns

Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Kuwait has been bracing for a shutdown of its energy sector. Union leaders said they were preparing for a strike of Kuwait oil facilities. A worker at Gathering Center 15 oil facility in northern Kuwait. /AFP The union leaders said the 19,000 Kuwaiti workers would not tolerate a decision […]

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