Day: December 12, 2013

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11-Year-Old Boy Stops Traffic To Rescue Dog Hit By Car (PHOTOS)

Fernando Kaskais

You don’t need to be big to be a big hero. For example, 11-year-old Jean Fernandes, a brave boy from Brazil, recently risked his life to save a dog that had been hit by a car in Itajaí, according to Brazilian news site Guarda-Sol. The injured dog remained in the roadway after the driver who allegedly struck it drove off. Jean then ran between oncoming vehicles to pick up the helpless animal and bring it to safety, Brazilian outlet Globo Rural reports. Jean’s mother, Rubia Liliana Rose, told BioBioChile that her son loves animals and will rescue ones he finds … Continue reading 11-Year-Old Boy Stops Traffic To Rescue Dog Hit By Car (PHOTOS)

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Is The Universe A Hologram? Physicists Say It’s Possible

Fernando Kaskais

A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection. In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity. Maldacena’s idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to … Continue reading Is The Universe A Hologram? Physicists Say It’s Possible

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The availability of open data and new trends in data visualisation will transform how we understand our cities.

Fernando Kaskais

Due to the increasing availability of large urban datasets, it is now becoming easier to produce online visualisations that capture and help interpret the complex spatial dynamics of cities. Duncan A. Smith argues that as further open datasets are made available, a much wider range of interests and user groups are set to be represented and explored. These urban cartography projects allow users to ask questions about how city areas have changed and are likely to change in the future. We have seen a recent explosion of spectacular new ways to visualise cities and urban activities, providing novel perspectives into … Continue reading The availability of open data and new trends in data visualisation will transform how we understand our cities.

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Glitch Racism: Networks as Actors within Vernacular Internet Theory

Fernando Kaskais

Why is racism online so common? Why does it persist? If, as Gabriella Coleman said during her keynote address at the 2013 Association of Internet Researchers meeting in Denver, Anonymous is depicted by the popular press as a “Hate Machine,” this is only because it is so clear that the amount of hate on the Internet is so vast that it must exceed the abilities of humans to craft it individually. If, as Steven Marche claims, “the Internet has reached peak hate,” this year, this is a function of the Internet’s having really arrived as an irreversibly central part of … Continue reading Glitch Racism: Networks as Actors within Vernacular Internet Theory

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How easy is it to make sarin?

Fernando Kaskais

“It’s not hard to make sarin. You could mix it in the backyard. Two chemicals melded together.” — Seymour Hersh interviewed on CNN, December 9, 2013. The idea that the chemical warfare agent, sarin, is easy to make is central to Seymour Hersh’s claim that the August 21 attacks killing hundreds of Syrians could have been carried out by the rebel group, the Al Nusra Front. (With unquestioning confidence in the reliability of his source(s), Hersh rests this claim on classified intelligence reports none of which he claims to have seen.) Hersh’s backyard sarin production appears to be concocted from … Continue reading How easy is it to make sarin?

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This is What Kids Are Being Fed (Shocking School Lunches)

Fernando Kaskais

By: Amanda Froelich, True Activist. School food is notorious for being low in quality and difficult to look at, but few are doing anything to change the processed and low-nutrient meals being served to the youth. It is popular belief that cost is the factor inhibiting healthier options, but the group Fed Up disagrees. “There is no major cost difference between nutritious and not nutritious food at schools.” In addition, the folks behind the movement report that 71% of kids are unsatisfied with the lunches they’re served at school. For these reasons, there are no longer any excuses for not … Continue reading This is What Kids Are Being Fed (Shocking School Lunches)

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The EyeOpener Report- Who Decides Who’s Crazy? – Big Pharma & the DSM

Fernando Kaskais

Commonly referred to as the psychiatric diagnostic “bible,” the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has always generated controversy. How are disorders diagnosed? What criteria are used to establish disorders in the first place? Are the categories subjective? Do they reflect cultural biases? Find out about the DSM and big pharma influence over the modern psychiatric profession in this week’s edition of the Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener report with James Corbett. – See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/11/the-eyeopener-report-who-decides-whos-crazy-big-pharma-the-dsm/#sthash.GSPNM6vx.dpuf Continue reading The EyeOpener Report- Who Decides Who’s Crazy? – Big Pharma & the DSM

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Why Energy Companies And The Military Want Underwater Drones

Fernando Kaskais

Source: FAST We already have drone aircraft patrolling the skies for the military and intelligence agencies. Now the military and energy companies want to develop their seaborne equivalent–autonomous, self-guided underwater vehicles. Giant submarines filled with small underwater drones to protect the seas. The concept sounds like something out of a science fiction movie or a particularly trippy Sealab 2021 episode, but the U.S. military thinks it is very doable–and that it could help augment American sea power. This week, DARPA announced their new Project Hydra, an early-stage effort to fight the “rising number of ungoverned states, piracy, and proliferation of … Continue reading Why Energy Companies And The Military Want Underwater Drones

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LISTEN: Creepy AI Telemarketer Sounds Human, Denies Being a Robot

Fernando Kaskais

It’s pretty shocking to hear just how far this technology has come. Most people would probably NOT realize they were talking to a machine that is gathering our verbal cues to use against us. These recordings are demonstrably creepy, and a good reminder that just because we experience something through our five senses, it doesn’t mean it’s ’real’. From ActivistPost on ’inhuman’ telemarketing tech… LISTEN: Creepy AI Telemarketer Sounds Human, Denies Being a Robot From: ActivistPost Time Magazine is investigating a healthcare telemarketing firm who has been using an amazingly realistic robot caller which seems to operate on advanced and … Continue reading LISTEN: Creepy AI Telemarketer Sounds Human, Denies Being a Robot

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The Most Homeless Children In New York City Since The Great Depression

Fernando Kaskais

The Economic Collapse – At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness. According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the Great Depression. And the number of homeless children in the United States overall recently set a new all-time record. As I mentioned yesterday, there are now 1.2 million public school kids in America that are homeless, and that number has gone up by about 72 percent since the start of the … Continue reading The Most Homeless Children In New York City Since The Great Depression