What if oil company executives were only allowed to drink fracked water?
Toxic fracking chemicals that leached into the ground making you sick? Why that’s bad press for the oil industry!
That’s why they came up with this ingenious (in an evil way) to deal with the problem: “gag” doctors from telling their patients what is making them sick. See, problem solved!
Rupert Murdoch
Everybody’s favorite octogenarian media tycoon is at it again. This time, Rupert Murdoch is accused of hiring hackers to crack a pay-TV rival’s encryption system and then post the hack on the internet in order to financially cripple them. It worked: they’re now bust…
Continue reading… “Rupert Murdoch employed hackers to destroy a Pay-TV rival”
The nation’s population of those 65 and older will double between 2000 and 2030.
As aging Baby Boomers move out of the workforce and into retirement, few communities have started to think long term about how to plan and redesign services for them.
Continue reading… “Many U.S. cities are not prepared for aging Baby Boomer population”
Facebook users ‘should never have to share’ information.’
In the wake of controversy over the intrusive practice of employers – Facebook is warning employers not to demand passwords as part of job interviews.
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The Pinon pine could suffer from high levels of artificial noise.
Noise from cars, machines and other forms of human activity could affect the growth of wild flowers, trees and animals nearby, say scientists.
Continue reading… “Man-made noise disrupts plant growth”
A billion people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century – one person every six seconds.
Deaths related to tobacco use have nearly tripled in the past decade and big tobacco firms are undermining public efforts that could save millions, a report led by the health campaign group the World Lung Foundation (WLF) said on Wednesday.
Continue reading… “Smoking related deaths triple in the past decade”
Online attacks threaten us all.
Government agencies are no stranger to cyber attacks, and it turns out that America’s nuclear weapons are no different. According to National Nuclear Security Administration head Thomas D’Agostino, the agency has to deal with up to 10 million “significant cyber security events” daily. That’s a terrifying number, and D’Agostino admits that around a hundredth of a percent of those attacks experience success — which means that there are up to 1,000 successful attacks each day…
Continue reading… “US nuclear security deals with 10 million ‘significant’ online attacks each day”
Samsung’s latest sets feature built-in HD cameras, microphone sets and face and speech recognition software.
Top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs by Samsung offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. These new features give you unprecedented control over your HDTV, but the devices themselves are more similar than ever to a personal computer and may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.
Continue reading… “Your new tv could be watching you”
TSA agent “inspecting” a passenger with his pants pulled down to proved he isn’t a terrorist.
Since 9/11, Americans have already spent over $60 billion on funding the TSA. This infographic shows how the whole system is flawed. There have been over 25,000 security breaches despite the increased security. And $36 million has been wasted on devices that now sit in warehouses.
Check out the infographic to read about even more disturbing statistics:
Continue reading… “TSA’s Grope and Pillage (Infographic)”
Health experts are cautioning people not to attempt a dare that is catching on due to a viral video.
Don’t expect any great culinary creation when your kids go digging into the spice drawer. They may be looking for the cinnamon, which they want to attempt to swallow, without water.
Are genetically engineered mosquitoes the best way to go?
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, just held a meeting about potential trials involving the release of genetically modified male mosquitoes into the delicate ecosystem of the Florida Keys. The stated purpose of the trials is to investigate controlling the spread of dengue fever.
The company behind the technology, British firm Oxitec, explains that sterile males would be released to compete with wild males for female insects, which would then have no offspring and reduce the population of the next generation…
Pharmaceuticals found to be more harmful than beneficial?
There’s always that part at the end of drug commercials that goes something like: if you develop sausage fingers, webbed feet, or a three-week erection, call your doctor! But as exhaustive as those auctioneer-style lists sound, they barely scratch the surface when it comes to the side effects pople are actually experiencing.
Stanford researchers created an algorithm that identified 1,332 drug side effects not currently listed on labels. They estimate that each drug has 329 adverse reactions on average, nearly five times the 69 currently listed…
Continue reading… “Drugs cause about five times more side effects than realized”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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