Day: February 24, 2014

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Pesticides are everywhere, and more dangerous than you realize

Fernando Kaskais

They’re sprayed in abundance, but research on these chemicals remains surprisingly scarce By Shruti Ravindran Most of us think we’re protecting ourselves from noxious chemicals with half-superstitious gestures: filtering the water we drink a pitcher at a time, or confining ourselves to the organic aisles of supermarkets. But we forget that aside from the frightening array of incidental toxins we take in every day, there’s a class of intentionally harmful chemicals we’re constantly exposed to: insecticides. A specific group of bug-killers, pyrethroids and pyrethrins, have been soaring in popularity in recent years and now account for more than a quarter … Continue reading Pesticides are everywhere, and more dangerous than you realize

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Timeline of the far future

Fernando Kaskais

First, we brought you a prediction of the forthcoming year. Then we brought you a timeline of the near future, revealing what could happen up to around 100 years time. But here’s our most ambitious set of predictions yet – from what could happen in one thousand years time to one hundred quintillion years (that’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years). As the song says, there may be trouble ahead… http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future Continue reading Timeline of the far future

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These Gifs Hide Secret Codes Revealed by a Lenticulars Sheet.

Fernando Kaskais

For as long as we’ve spent staring blankly at GIFs, it’s crazy to think that those looping animations could have been hiding coded messages all along. Prosthetic Knowledge put together this “Lenticular Encryption” project to show how illicit info can be snuck into everyone’s favorite image format. Staring at these with eyes alone won’t reveal their secrets—it takes a little analog and digital media double-team to make that happen. Angling a lenticular sheet on top of the screen will expose a whole new layer of intel and add another “visual narrative” beyond the straightforward animation. It’s fitting that it’s currently … Continue reading These Gifs Hide Secret Codes Revealed by a Lenticulars Sheet.

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Economics Has a Surprising Mental Disorder

Fernando Kaskais

By Lynn Stuart Parramore Are economists rational scientists? Or grown men who can’t let go of their mamas? The typical mainstream economist is about as good at making predictions as a monkey reading tea leaves. Exhibit A: The financial crisis, which only a few economists outside the mainstream saw coming, despite oceans of papers, prognostications and plumb academic assignments. The question is, why? Researcher Vinca Bigo decided to investigate, and found a surprising explanation: the profession of economics is suffering from a collective mental disorder, causing practitioners to project their pathologies onto the rest of us. Which is very costly … Continue reading Economics Has a Surprising Mental Disorder

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House homeless twice over: Outrage in Europe over 11mn empty homes

Fernando Kaskais

Around 11 million homes across Europe are empty or not in use – a number that could house all the EU homeless twice over, British media report. Housing campaigners who lobby for the rights of the poor have called the finding a “shocking waste.” Among the frontrunners with vacant houses are the UK with 700,000 homes; Germany with 1.8 million; France with 2.4 million; and finally, Spain with some 3.4 million homes which are languishing without tenants. These figures are a result of data collated by The Guardian. What’s more, the high figures are growing at an alarming rate. In … Continue reading House homeless twice over: Outrage in Europe over 11mn empty homes

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Revealed: How Jimmy Savile’s child victims ‘were laughed at and told they were lucky to be targeted by the DJ’

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By Hugo Gye .Many victims have still not told friends and relatives that they were abused .Those who confided in others were ignored or mocked, NSPCC report says .’Everyone found it hilarious so I stopped talking about it,’ one victim said .Decades later some victims have turned to drink and drugs to cope .They say they did not understand what was happening and felt Savile ‘must have known better than them’ Many victims of Jimmy Savile were ignored or even laughed at when they told friends and relatives they had been sexually abused, a report revealed today. Some were told … Continue reading Revealed: How Jimmy Savile’s child victims ‘were laughed at and told they were lucky to be targeted by the DJ’

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Are YOU a ‘global warming Nazi’? People who label sceptics ‘deniers’ will kill more people than the Holocaust, claims scientist

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.Claim was made by Roy Spencer, a professor at University of Alabama .‘When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line. They are still doing it,’ he wrote in a blog post .His reasoning for using the word ‘Nazi’ is because climate activists are, he claims, anti-capitalist fascists By Ellie Zolfagharifard Barack Obama, David Cameron and Richard Branson are all ‘global warming Nazis’. This is according to scientist Roy Spencer, who is a professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a vocal denier of man-made climate change. Dr Spencer believe that people who … Continue reading Are YOU a ‘global warming Nazi’? People who label sceptics ‘deniers’ will kill more people than the Holocaust, claims scientist

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North Koreans really ARE kept in the dark: Astonishing NASA picture shows backward communist state as a black patch on the planet

Fernando Kaskais

  .Much of North Korea’s 24million population forced to endure power cuts and hours of darkness .Image was taken from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth on January 30 .Only show-piece capital city of Pyongyang is illuminated against the darkness North Korea appears like a black hole in a sea of light in this remarkable NASA satellite image of the isolated communist state. Taken at night on January 30 from the International Space Station (ISS) this picture shows North Korea almost completely devoid of lights. In stark contrast to the south of the image South Korea is shown bathed … Continue reading North Koreans really ARE kept in the dark: Astonishing NASA picture shows backward communist state as a black patch on the planet

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‘British women are UGLY and men ONLY care about looks’: Founder of new dating site that pairs rich men with beautiful women sparks controversy

Fernando Kaskais

.Secret Diamond Club has just launched in UK .Aims to pair millionaire men with beautiful women .Men pay up to £100,000 for full membership .Women are rated 1-100 based entirely on their physical appearance .The higher a girl’s rating, the less she pays for membership .Founder says British men can’t find dates because women here are ‘ugly’ ‘If you don’t want to settle for anything less than perfect then the Secret Diamond Club is for you’, a sultry voiceover informs prospective customers in a video advertising a new controversial dating website. The Secret Diamond Club, which started in Demark and … Continue reading ‘British women are UGLY and men ONLY care about looks’: Founder of new dating site that pairs rich men with beautiful women sparks controversy

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Yulia Tymoshenko: She’s No Angel

Fernando Kaskais

by Christopher Dickey Yulia Tymoshenko has a record allegedly as shady as any politician’s in Ukraine, and that’s saying something. But, still, she brings her people hope. Don’t let her looks fool you. The woman of the moment in Ukraine, whose crown of braided golden hair is calculated to evoke mythical memories of rural strength, has always been a better icon than a politician. When former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, 53, addressed tens of thousands of people in Kiev’s Independence Square on Saturday night, many in the crowd were moved to tears. Only hours before she’d been serving a seven-year … Continue reading Yulia Tymoshenko: She’s No Angel