There is no description for Newhead, except newheadedness. You know it when you see it. http://www.newheadnews.com en-gb davewest 2003 Wed, Dec 5, 2012 9:08 PM davewest@gametec.com (Dave West) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 9:08 PM——Flammable craters spanning acres wide and leaking radiation, monster sinkholes described as ‘apocalyptic’ have forced residents out of homes, expelled radiation into the environment, and are now ushering in concerns about serious Earth changes in the near future. If you’ve heard of these sinkholes, chances are it has been from the alternative media. http://naturalsociety.com/why-is-media-ignoring-mass-sinkholes-around-country/ Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 8:59 PM——Among the discoveries by the team are the foundations of what appears to be a large structure from the 13th or 14th century, in an area that has historically been associated with this grave. Scientists have also found a wide range of artifacts that include arrowheads, porcelain, and a variety of building material. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/12/02/the-hidden-grave-of-history-s-greatest-warrior.html Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 8:57 PM——To get an idea of how far this market has come under the control of just a handful of companies, think of genetically modified seeds as computers—hardware and software. In this rather common but apt analogy, the actual seed is the hardware and the genetically modified traits they carry—like the ability to withstand herbicides, as in Monsanto's Roundup Ready traits—are the software. http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/dojs-monsantoseed-industry-investigation-ends-thud Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 3:15 PM——The intent isn't to aim for incremental improvements of existing technology, but to seek new approaches and \"rapidly drive towards electrochemical energy storage solutions beyond the current limits,\" according to DOE's proposal. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234200/DOE_wants_5X_battery_power_boost_in_5_years Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 8:58 AM——• $50,000 to Americans for Prosperity’s 501(c)(4) group, which ran ads against President Obama and congressional Democrats.• $412,969 to Coalition for American Jobs’ 501(c)(6) group, a front set up by API lobbyists to air ads for industry-friendly politicians, including soon to be former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).• $25,000 to the Sixty Plus Association’s 501(c)(4), which ran ads against congressional Democrats. http://www.thenation.com/blog/171529/saudi-led-oil-lobby-group-financed-2012-dark-money-attack-ads# Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 1:48 PM—— Through all this discussion, nary a word has been spoken about the business of America: not democracy, not human rights, not equality, but this nation's addiction to war.Who can deny that for all intents and purposes, we now live in The United States of War? Translation: The USA is the imperial power of our times. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12980-americas-future-war-and-peace-in-the-21st-century Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:14 AM——As recently as six years ago, American shoppers could buy quinoa for the rice-like price of $1.50 per pound. Now, retailers get between $4.50 and $8 for every pound they sell of this nutrient-dense superfood. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/29/166155875/quinoa-craze-inspires-north-america-to-start-growing-its-own Posted: Thur, Nov 29, 2012 6:58 PM——Independent studies have shown GMOs to cause organ damage in rats and the inability to reproduce, the Kaiser article said. Kaiser gave tips on how its members can avoid GMOs, including buying organic, looking for the “Non-GMO Project Verified” seal and to download the “ShopNoGMO” app. http://www.willamettelive.com/2012/news/corporate-giant-comes-out-against-gmos/ Posted: Thur, Nov 29, 2012 2:59 PM——The hippies in Humboldt had cannabis, which meant that though they were in many ways beyond the reach of government, they could pay for their own schools, for fire departments and private roads. They could see a future, and so they stayed. http://nymag.com/news/features/war-on-drugs-2012-12/ Posted: Thur, Nov 29, 2012 12:06 PM——According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four \"law enforcement agencies\" took part in the operation: CGPD (which served as the lead agency and operation coordinator), the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Gila River Indian Community Police Department, and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). http://www.alternet.org/drugs/private-prison-company-used-drug-raids-public-high-school?akid=9728.270764._omneF&rd=1&src=newsletter751694&t=7&paging=off Posted: Thur, Nov 29, 2012 12:04 PM——\"Lake Vida is an incredibly harsh environment. It has not been exposed to the surface for thousands, if not millions, of years,\" said Mike Bentley, a professor of geology at Durham University. \"If you understand life in extreme environments, you understand life better: it tells you what the controls are on life.\" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/26/antarctic-lake-vida-find-life Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 9:34 PM——Reading a book carves brand-new neural pathways into the ancient cortical bedrock of our brains. It transforms the way we see the world—makes us, as Nicholas Carr puts it in his recent essay, \"The Dreams of Readers,\" \"more alert to the inner lives of others.\" We become vampires without being bitten—in other words, more empathic. Books make us see in a way that casual immersion in the Internet, and the quicksilver virtual world it offers, doesn't. https://chronicle.com/article/The-Psychopath-Makeover/135160/ Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 6:58 PM——Besides protecting an increasing export industry of organic and native products,  the ban protects Peru’s exceptionally varied native plant species —the import and use of GM seeds for corn, for example, would eventually destroy the different and multicolored species grown in the Andean region. http://www.peruviantimes.com/17/ten-year-ban-on-genetically-modified-seeds-and-foods-takes-force-thursday/17479/ Posted: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 6:53 PM——The Namib Desert Beetle climbs atop a desert hill in the morning as a fog sweeps over the land. The stenocara angles its body into the wind and miniscule water droplets from the fog stick to the hydrophilic peaks and gradually form droplets. Once enough water has accumulated, the droplets roll effortlessly down the hydrophobic slopes directly into the insect’s mouth, sustaining its life in the normally inhospitable environment. http://astounde.com/water-bottle-harvests-water-from-air/ Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 4:04 PM——Industrial hemp expert Anndrea Hermann gave Oregon State University faculty members and students a sneak peek Tue at a class she’ll offer through OSU’s Ecampus about the benefits of uses of the plant.The preview came in the form of a seminar titled “Industrial Hemp Today, Where We Are, Where We’re Going,” and it offered context for the online class, which will be offered this spring through the College of Forestry. It will focus on the botany and biology of hemp, as well as the implications of legal and social issues surrounding its use. http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/education/seminar-hones-in-on-benefits-of-hemp/article_3a9b568e-337e-11e2-8779-001a4bcf887a.html Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 4:54 PM——The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: \"Only I know where the 'Adoration' is...\"More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel belonging to one of Western art's defining works, the \"Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,\" also known as the \"Ghent Altarpiece,\" remains a mystery. http://news.yahoo.com/arts-perfect-theft-ghent-altarpiece-075958588.html Posted: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 5:14 PM——Less than two weeks after Washington and Colorado voted to legalize and regulate cannabis, lawmakers in five other states say they are considering similar bills.In Latin American, Mexican President Felipe Calderon says Uncle Sam now has lost the “moral authority” to ask other nations to maintain the cannabis prohibition and combat trafficking.A fundamental change has occurred, he added, that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere. http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=7555366&sponsor= Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 8:10 PM——More than 3,500 churches close their doors every year, and while Americans are still overwhelmingly spiritual, the institutional church no longer holds the sway over their lives it once did. The sweeping impact of globalization and the digital age has marginalized the church and its leaders. http://news.yahoo.com/evangelical-disaster-happened-religious-vote-135118940--politics.html Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 12:22 PM——And those who turned 30 over the past four years have maintained their Democratic allegiance from 2008. The conventional wisdom is that people become more conservative as they age. This isn't borne out in the research, and 2012 is no exception. The only age group whose vote increased for Obama from 2008 to 2012 was 30-39 year-olds, as those who had formerly been 25-29 years old moved into 30-39 year-old age cohort. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/america-youth-won-culture-war Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 9:59 AM——Finally, whether one approaches this issue from a Federalist point of view based on personal liberties, or regard it as States Rights issue, the right to plant a seed must be seen as essential to the sovereignty of the person, and as inalienable as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness http://medicalmarijuana411.com/mmj411_v3/?p=5355 Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 12:15 PM——Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. http://makerfaireafrica.com/2012/11/06/a-urine-powered-generator/ Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 11:12 AM——For thousands of years oysters protected coastal regions from strong waves and storms.  If we bring oysters back to New York Harbor we restore the life that was once here and make our city more resilient to rising water levels and warming oceans. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/students-press-the-case-for-oysters-as-new-yorks-surge-protector/?smid=tw-share Posted: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 9:36 PM——Little children as young as five years old, accompanied by their mothers, came to attend the occasion. To express their solidarity with Yousafzai by lighting candles for her speedy recovery the children were busy helping one another. Eight-year-old Saima said, “Malala is like my sister. I pray that she gets well soon.”  http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-142192-Politicians-activists-and-journalists-gather-for-Malala Posted: Thur, Nov 8, 2012 12:31 PM——Finally, thanks must be given to the Occupy movement who, a year ago, set the tone of this election year by getting everyone to talk about the 1 percent vs. 99 percent. It inspired Obama and his campaign to realize that there was a huge popular sentiment against what the wealthy have done to the country and there was something wrong if just 400 rich guys owned more than 160 million Americans combined http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/morning-in-america_1_b_2089633.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=110812&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 3:16 PM——Mexico and the U.S. are tightly entwined economically -- and this is as true of the illegal economy as the legal one. If popular ballot measures to legalize marijuana in Colorado, Washington and Oregon pass on Nov 6, a respected Mexican think tank says that it will hit the cartels where it hurts: In the pocketbook, to the tune of several billion dollars. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/why-mexico-is-rooting-for-us-pot-legalization/264613/ Posted: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 1:51 PM——Until about 30 years ago, you could find all sorts of crops growing on Iowa farms, and livestock. Since then two things have happened. All the animals have moved indoors, into crowded confinement operations. And the number of crops has dwindled to exactly two: corn and soybeans. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/opinion/sunday/crop-rotation-and-the-future-of-farming.html Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2012 6:12 PM——Having successfully negotiated the challenging regulatory slopes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a host of Oregon state agencies, the Newberry Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) demonstration project is in the process of creating a new geothermal reservoir in central Oregon. http://www.gizmag.com/volcano-power-plant/24633/ Posted: Thur, Nov 1, 2012 8:32 AM——Hemp nut and oil offer an omega- 6\/omega-3 ratio of 3:1 or less, depending on plant variety. This exceeds the target ratio of 4:1 and compensates in part for omega-3 deficiencies in the rest of our diet. No other vegetable oil offers EFAs at such high concentrations and, more importantly, in such a desirable omega-6\/omega-3 ratio. http://www.alternet.org/food/amazing-benefits-hemp-seeds-too-bad-dea-curtailing-industry Posted: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 1:57 PM——If this election is a referendum on the benefit of government then superstorm Sandy should be Exhibit A for the affirmative. The government weather service, using data from government weather satellites delivered a remarkably accurate and sobering long range forecast that both catalyzed action and gave communities sufficient time to prepare. http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/stormy-reminder-why-we-need-government Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 10:28 AM——In the current issue of Harper's, Victoria Collier has a broad and extremely useful — to say nothing of its being utterly depressing — survey of the state of mechanized electoral chicanery. (Among other things, Collier makes a solid case that Ohio got stolen out from under John Kerry in 2004.) In it, she cites critical studies of voting machines done not by bloggers with their hair on fire but, rather, by places like the Brennan Center and Johns Hopkins University. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/american-exceptionalism-14056595#ixzz2AdeYV3y2 Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 9:49 PM——But even though the reactors now are being cooled exclusively with recycled water, the volume of contaminated water is still increasing, mostly because ground water is seeping through cracks into the reactor and turbine basements. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/10/2012102510561941251.html Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 3:48 PM——If more American workers take note of the fact that two of their least favorite people, the tax collector and their boss, are being combined into one entity, it might just spark enough anger for them to fight back. As the feudal lords eventually learned, the peasants were the ones holding the pitchforks. http://truth-out.org/news/item/12366-paying-taxes-to-your-boss-a-step-toward-21st-century-feudalism Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 8:10 AM——In four battleground states – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado – glitches in electronic-voting machines could produce erroneous tallies that would be difficult to detect and potentially impossible to correct, a Monitor analysis finds. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/1025/Exclusive-E-voting-puts-vote-accuracy-at-risk-in-four-key-states Posted: Thur, Oct 25, 2012 3:12 PM—— The case against Jackson became a symbol of the effort by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and other prosecutors across the state to criminalize storefront medical marijuana collectives. However, today’s published decision deals a significant blow to that effort. http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/unanimous-landmark-appellate-decision-issued-in-san-diego-medical-marijuana-dispensary-case/ Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 1:49 PM——Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Means grew up in the San Francisco area before becoming an early leader of AIM. He often was embroiled in controversy, partly because of AIM's alleged involvement in the 1975 slaying of Annie Mae Aquash.But Means also was known for his role in the movie \"The Last of the Mohicans\" and had run unsuccessfully for the Libertarian nomination for president in 1988. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/russell-means-dead-dies_n_2000988.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1006493,b=facebook Posted: Thur, Oct 25, 2012 4:51 AM——Dwight Eisenhower once quipped, “If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.  They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.”  Today many Americans are making prison a choice not because of a desire for security, but rather in a desperate search for the basic amenities cited by Eisenhower.  http://eturnkeysec3340002378c9.users.site2you.com/content/read_more/complexInfobox/site_news/infobox/elements/template/default/active_id/1799 Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 5:05 PM——At a slaughterhouse in Saudi Arabia, he stumbled upon what could become the new sea: a huge pond of blood, buzzing with flies. After consulting with some scientists, Drew became convinced that flies could recycle the protein in animal blood and replace fish meal to feed fish, chicken and other animals. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/15/162961073/how-fly-farming-may-help-more-fish-stay-in-the-sea Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 9:44 PM——To prevent the United States from following suit, Monsanto and DuPont, the two leading merchants of genetically modified seed, have invested more than $12 million to defeat Prop 37. They’ve been joined in this effort by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, whose president declared at a meeting last July that defeating Prop 37 would be the group’s top priority for 2012. Answering the call, many of America’s biggest food and beverage makers — including PepsiCo, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and General Mills — have together ponied up tens of millions of dollars to, in effect, fight transparency about their products. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/why-californias-proposition-37-should-matter-to-anyone-who-cares-about-food.html?_r=5&ref=magazine& Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 9:40 PM——Monsanto said) to deserve patent protection and government support, yet at the same time the food made from them was no different than it ever was, so did not need to be labeled. It’s worth noting that ours was one of only a very few governments ever sold on this convenient reasoning: more than 60 other countries have seen fit to label genetically modified food, including those in the European Union, Japan, Russia and China. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/why-californias-proposition-37-should-matter-to-anyone-who-cares-about-food.html?_r=5&ref=magazine& Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 6:59 PM——Two distinct sediment layers have formed in the lake every summer and winter over tens of thousands of years. The researchers collected roughly 70-metre core samples from the lake and painstakingly counted the layers to come up with a direct record stretching back 52,000 years. http://www.nature.com/news/core-sample-sends-carbon-clock-farther-back-in-time-1.11622 Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 6:09 AM——\"It sounds too good to be true, but it is true. They are doing it and I've been up there myself and seen it. The innovation is that they have made it happen as a process. It's a small pilot plant capturing air and extracting CO2 from it based on well known principles. It uses well-known and well-established components but what is exciting is that they have put the whole thing together and shown that it can work.\" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-pioneering-scientists-turn-fresh-air-into-petrol-in-massive-boost-in-fight-against-energy-crisis-8217382.html Posted: Thur, Oct 18, 2012 11:24 AM——Stranger still, can you imagine what it must be like to not merely be undecided, but to be so ideologically mushy that a certain wink, a clever catchphrase, a smarmy comeback, a TV news pundit with the right haircut might have the power to change your mind on a whim and a Gallup Poll uptick? What fun! What a delight you must be to be around on a day-to-day basis! Please stay away from my plants. http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2012/10/16/swing-voters/ Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 8:57 PM——After Honkala stated, \"We want to practice our first amendment rights,\" the police can been seen removing the women from the ground and leading them away.According to the campaign, Stein and Honkala were then arrested. Press contact Glenn Turner confirmed to HuffPost that Stein was arrested and as of early Tue evening was still in jail, charged with disorderly conduct. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/hofstra-debate-jill-stein-arrested-green-party_n_1971960.html Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 2:37 PM——International legal experts say George's project has contravened the UN's convention on biological diversity (CBD) and London convention on the dumping of wastes at sea, which both prohibit for-profit ocean fertilisation activities. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 2:33 PM——But there's a practical issue, too, and it clearly troubled Richard Young, the federal judge in Indiana who first heard this case. \"Monsanto's domination of the soybean seed market,\" he wrote, means that all the cheap \"commodity\" soybeans that farmers might use for seed are now encumbered by patents. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/15/162949288/farmer-tackling-monsantos-seed-policy-gets-a-day-in-supreme-court Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 6:30 PM——udge Garland asked Elford if he was arguing that marijuana in fact meets HHS’s standard for studies. ASA’s counsel cited over 200 studies and argued that a circular standard is impossible to meet. He also said that, given that the schedule is relative, the DEA is ignoring even its own studies showing that marijuana has merely a “mild” potential for abuse. http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/blog/2012/10/16/appeals-court-hears-case-on-medical-value-of-marijuana/ Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 8:35 AM——Tebeau, who is currently touring with Melvin Seals and Jerry Garcia Band, was never charged with dealing any drugs, but he did admit to knowing OF drug sales on his property and stated to officials that he gave specific instructions to his security to kick out anyone selling hard drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and nitrous oxide. http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/governments-secret-war-music-festivals Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 8:41 PM——\"What we found is that the molecules created in this wheat, intended to silence wheat genes, can match human genes, and through ingestion, these molecules can enter human beings and potentially silence our genes,\" Heinemann stated. \"The findings are absolutely assured. There is no doubt that these matches exist.\" http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/332822 Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2012 7:22 PM——On Oct. 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the federal appeals court that usually handles cases involving government regulations, will hear oral arguments on Americans for Safe Access v. DEA . It will be the first time in almost 20 years that federal courts have considered the science of medical marijuana, says ASA spokesperson Kris Hermes. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/powerful-court-quietly-takes-marijuana-case-could-shatter-federal-prohibition-laws#.UHlWsTZpmlA.facebook Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2012 8:56 PM——Malala was no ordinary target. She came to public attention three years ago when she wrote a diary for the BBC about life under the Taliban, which controlled Swat from 2007 to 2009 before being dislodged by an Army offensive. Last year, she won a national peace prize. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/opinion/malala-yousafzais-courage.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121011&_r=1& Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2012 10:31 AM——“What’s more surprising is that more than one third of them have no previous history of psychiatric disorders. Almost 40 per cent of suicidal thoughts are not associated with any psychiatric disorders — unlike the belief common among mental health practitioners and the public,” Desai said.This, experts said, indicates the role of other risk factors like “stress of daily living, including issues related to urbanisation and other social changes.” http://www.financialexpress.com/news/about-10-per-cent-of-delhi-s-population-suffer-from-mental-illnesses-study/1015097/0 Posted: Thur, Oct 11, 2012 7:52 PM——So far, biotech giants like Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta have commercialized two main GM \"traits,\" engineering crops with the bug-killing gene from the insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and crops that can withstand Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides. Yet GM crops' herbicide resistance has caused a 7 percent net increase in pesticide use in the United States since 1996 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/california-prop-37-monsanto-gmo-labeling Posted: Thur, Oct 11, 2012 11:30 AM——Despite vaunting its commitment to public safety and community partnership, CCA's interest in an REIT conversion demonstrates that the communities in which CCA does business are wholly subordinate to the enrichment of its management.And what's even more astonishing is that CCA has been here before. http://truth-out.org/news/item/11965-is-corrections-corporation-of-america-about-to-embark-on-another-round-of-prison-speculation Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 11:42 AM——Now scientists like Dr. Haroche and Dr. Wineland and their colleagues have been able to direct experiments and catch nature in the act of being quantum and thus explore the boundary between quantum reality and normal life. Their work involves isolating the individual nuggets of nature — atoms and the particles that transmit light, known as photons — and making them play with each other. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/science/french-and-us-scientists-win-nobel-physics-prize.html Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 10:00 AM——The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over a small crowd on the lawn beside a railroad track that cuts through the cotton fields beyond. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/06/bb-king-music-blues-guitar Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 12:38 PM——Last year when I spoke to Jack Sim, head of the World Toilet Organization, he explained the two major issues that we’re already facing with sanitation. First is the simple lack of access that billions of people still don’t have. And for those that do, out current sanitation system wastes an enormous amount of water and, as Sim noted, also wastes a huge amount of important nutrients, like phosphorous, that gets washed away with our brown gold. http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/10/5/poop-eating-worms-power-the-eco-toilets-of-the-future--2 Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 3:19 PM——For several years, the Roundup Ready trait actually did meet Monsanto's promise of decreasing overall herbicide use—herbicide use dropped by about 2 percent between 1996 and 1999, Benbrook told me in an interview. But then weeds started to develop resistance to Roundup, pushing farmers to apply higher per-acre rates. In 2002, farmers using Roundup Ready soybeans jacked up their Roundup application rates by 21 percent, triggering a 19 million pound overall increase in Roundup use. http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/how-gmos-ramped-us-pesticide-use Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 3:23 PM——Commoner linked environmental issues to a broader vision of social and economic justice. He called attention to the parallels among the environmental, civil rights, labor, and peace movements. He connected the environmental crisis to the problems of poverty, injustice, racism, public health, national security, and war. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/barry-commoner-dead_b_1928377.html Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 8:24 AM——If present polls hold, federal officials on Nov 7 will have little choice but to acknowledge that they have a full fledged reefer rebellion on their hands. http://www.alternet.org/marijuana-revolution-making-election-day?akid=9474.23935.IC8Aah&rd=1&src=newsletter720075&t=3 Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 7:33 AM——How did Roche convince physicians that it was O.K. to offer their patients a bottled form of serenity? How did the physicians persuade their patients? And how did the company’s success in this venture shape our collective attitudes toward normal versus abnormal, stoic versus foolhardy, and the various ways available to cope with the ups and downs of daily life? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/sunday-review/valium-and-the-new-normal.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 Posted: Sun, Sept 30, 2012 5:24 PM——The companies get defensive, however, if anyone attempts to draw a connection between their lobbying efforts and their booming businesses. But whatever the purpose of the lobbying, the very fact that these companies, which perform a public service using taxpayer funds, are first and foremost profit-making entities highlights the flawed incentivisation of the private prison model and its growing presence in the American criminal justice system. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/27/lawmakers-lobbyists-keep-lock-private-prison-business Posted: Sun, Sept 30, 2012 5:11 PM——According to Swedish Waste Management, Sweden recovers the most energy from each ton of waste in the waste to energy plants, and energy recovery from waste incineration has increased dramatically just over the last few years.The problem is, Sweden’s waste recycling program is too successful. http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/swedes-import-trash-to-power-the-nation-10428.html Posted: Sun, Sept 30, 2012 1:26 PM——An intellectual's mind, Hofstadter believes, is naturally poised between \"playfulness and piety.\" It's a fine balance. An excess of playfulness \"may lead to triviality, to the dissipation of intellectual energies on mere technique, to dilettantism, to the failure of creative effort.\" On the other hand, an excess of piety \"leads to rigidity, to fanaticism, to messianism, to ways of life which may be morally mean or morally magnificent but which in either case are not the ways of intellect.\" http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Library-Without-Walls/Anti-Intellectualism-in-American-Life/ba-p/8967 Posted: Fri, Sept 28, 2012 8:22 PM——For three years in a row, more people have been convicted of immigration offenses than of any other type of federal crime, according to the United States Sentencing Commission. Illegal re-entry into the United States was the most commonly filed federal charge last year, marking a dramatic shift in the makeup of the U.S. criminal justice system, which has been dominated by drug crimes in recent decades. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/private-prisons-immigration_n_1917636.html Posted: Fri, Sept 28, 2012 12:34 PM——The Russian consumer watchdog, known as Rospotrebnadzor, asked scientists to review the French study on the potential health impacts of Monsanto's NK603 corn variety, which is commonly grown in the United States.French health and safety authorities also are investigating NK603 and the study's findings. Top French agriculture ministers have said they will pursue an emergency ban on NK603 in the European Union if investigators find that the corn could harm human health. http://truth-out.org/news/item/11800-russia-temporarily-bans-monsanto-corn-linked-to-cancer-in-rats Posted: Fri, Sept 28, 2012 9:56 AM——Turns out that psychiatrist Thomas Wehr ran an experiment back in the ‘90s in which people were thrust into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. When their sleep regulated, a strange pattern emerged. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before drifting off again into a second four-hour sleep. http://www.alternet.org/story/154424/the_8-hour_sleep_myth%3A_how_i_learned_that_everything_i_knew_about_sleep_was_wrong?paging=off Posted: Thur, Sept 27, 2012 8:18 PM——In 1988, Richard Lenski, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State, launched a research project that is believed to be the longest running evolution experiment in history, at least in terms of generations. Twelve populations of E coli live in an incubator in Lenski's lab, and they produce about seven new generations every 24 hours. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/evolution-action-michigan-state-scientists-grow-coli-56000/story?id=17329160#.UGT6kt1klX9 Posted: Wed, Sept 26, 2012 2:52 PM——\"The settlement should be a wake-up call for other universities and police departments,\" said Michael Risher, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. \"If the First Amendment means anything, it's that you should be able to demonstrate without being afraid of police violence.\" http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8825947 Posted: Wed, Sept 26, 2012 11:26 AM——Since the 1950s, Ferlinghetti has been a San Francisco institution. He opened City Lights in North Beach, a renowned bookstore that attracts visitors from across the world. He stood behind the publication of Allen Ginsberg's \"Howl,\" an act of daring that changed the course of publishing in America. He penned dozens of books, published breakthrough works - including the Beat writers, who insisted on oral incantations - and became San Francisco's first poet laureate and its most lyrical town crier. http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-s-indelible-image-3886925.php Posted: Wed, Sept 26, 2012 9:33 AM——Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play package—phone, cable TV and Internet—at an average of $160 per month versus $38 per month. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-much-130914030.html Posted: Wed, Sept 26, 2012 9:17 AM——In 2010, a University of Michigan assistant professor of computer science and three assistants hacked into Washington, D.C.'s online voting system during a test. They manipulated it undetected, even programming it to play the Michigan fight song. While inside, the hackers blocked probes from Iran, India and China. Washington officials canceled plans for online voting. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-09-19/electronic-voting-fraud-security/57809062/1 Posted: Wed, Sept 26, 2012 9:07 AM——Mr. Brin, who donned a “Google Glass” device on his face at the event, reiterated comments by other Google executives that the company is looking to strike a partnership with automakers to produce a self-driving car that relies on Google’s software. http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/09/25/california-legalizes-self-driving-cars/ Posted: Tue, Sept 25, 2012 12:59 PM——Google was right, Mr. Wu believes, to selectively restrict access to the crude anti-Islam video in light of the extraordinary violence that broke out. But he said the public deserved to know more about how private firms made those decisions in the first place, every day, all over the world. After all, he added, they are setting case law, just as courts do in sovereign countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/sunday-review/free-speech-in-the-age-of-youtube.html?_r=1&hp Posted: Tue, Sept 25, 2012 9:49 AM——The life cycle of the fly that infects zombie bees is reminiscent of the movie \"Alien,\" the newspaper reported. A small adult female lands on the back of a honeybee and injects eggs into the bee's abdomen. The eggs hatch into maggots.\"They basically eat the insides out of the bee,\" Hafernik said. http://news.yahoo.com/washington-states-first-zombie-bees-reported-184353539.html?_esi=1 Posted: Mon, Sept 24, 2012 6:14 PM——Products promising to lighten the face, body and armpits are already available across the country, with skin-whitening pills and diet supplements claiming to pick up where the cosmetics leave off. But this is the first time that a vaginal whitening wash has hit the Thai market. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/23/thailand-vaginal-whitening-wash Posted: Mon, Sept 24, 2012 12:19 PM——Most surprising have been reforms in the US, the spiritual home of the \"war on drugs\" ethos and still its primary cheerleader internationally, despite more than 50% of Americans now supporting cannabis legalisation. Fourteen US states have decriminalised cannabis possession, and 17 now allow medical cannabis http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/22/relaxation-cannabis-laws-war-on-drugs Posted: Sun, Sept 23, 2012 2:46 PM——Poachers are escalating their assault on Africa's elephants and rhinos, and conservationists warn that the animals cannot survive Asia's high-dollar demand for ivory tusks and rhino horn powder. Some wildlife agents, customs officials and government leaders are being paid off by what is viewed as a well-organized mafia moving animal parts from Africa to Asia, charge the conservationists.  http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14014828-christian-muslim-and-hindu-religious-leaders-unite-to-help-stop-slaughter-of-elephants-rhinos?lite Posted: Wed, Sept 19, 2012 1:57 PM——“This research shows an extraordinary number of tumours developing earlier and more aggressively - particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts,” said Dr Michael Antoniou, molecular biologist at King’s College London http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-and-supply-chain/monsanto-weedkiller-and-gm-maize-in-shocking-cancer-study/232603.article Posted: Wed, Sept 19, 2012 11:06 AM——Considering that she could be held in contempt of court and sentenced to jail time, we should take what she says seriously. Matt Duran, also subpoenaed and brought before a Grand Jury, has already been held in contempt of court and is currently in U.S. Federal custody. His contempt hearing was made private by the presiding Judge, a move unprecedented since the McCarthy era. http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ Posted: Tue, Sept 18, 2012 12:17 PM——I have read excerpts from many of them, along with other recently declassified records, and come to an inescapable conclusion: the administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush was told in the weeks before that infamous briefing reflected significantly more negligence than has been disclosed. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=1 Posted: Mon, Sept 17, 2012 5:57 PM——He's been contracted to grow the hemp for its seeds, which could be processed into a wide range of products including oil, flour, shampoo and wood sealant. Van Rousell says he's expecting to make three times the amount he would get for wheat. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/09/16/calgary-hemp-farms.html?cmp=rss Posted: Mon, Sept 17, 2012 1:19 PM——He believes that having a teaspoon of powdered barley grass in hot water every morning and night was particularly crucial.'There is no question in my mind that my diet saved my life,' he said. 'And all it cost was £30 a week.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2204080/Grandfather-incurable-cancer-given-clear-swapping-red-meat-dairy-products-10-fruit-veg-day.html?openGraphAuthor=%2Fhome%2Fsearch.html%3Fs%3D%26authornamef%3DRob%2BPreece Posted: Sun, Sept 16, 2012 4:37 PM——The morpho butterfly and the scarab beetle are the only living things that come close to the Pollia berry, in terms of color. And as with the beetle, the berry's skin has no pigment — no colored cells. Rather, all the cells are coiled in a peculiar twist. The cells form sheets, like the skin of an onion. Light filters down through those layers in a way that creates something called \"structural color.\" https://www.npr.org/2012/09/11/160894364/how-to-get-birds-to-pick-blue-berries-they-can-t-eat Posted: Sat, Sept 15, 2012 9:56 AM——More remarkably, Judge James O'Neill instructed the jury that \"even if you find that the State has proven each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt, you may still find the defendant not guilty if you have a conscientious feeling that a not guilty verdict would be a fair result in this case.\" http://reason.com/blog/2012/09/14/new-hampshire-jury-acquits-pot-growing-r Posted: Sat, Sept 15, 2012 5:51 AM——The family of a Lakota man buried in Connecticut more than 100 years ago welcomed him home to the Pine Ridge Reservation this week. Today we attend the traditional burial ceremony for Albert Afraid of Hawk and learn how the Lakota view death - and life.The sound of the drum echoes across the Northern Plains as the Oglala people welcome an ancestor home. http://www.sdpb.org/newsite/shows.aspx?MediaID=60973&Parmtype=RADIO&ParmAccessLevel=sdpb-all Posted: Sat, Sept 15, 2012 5:02 AM——Musk has been having a year good enough for another movie. In May, his Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, successfully launched a 227-foot-tall rocket from a platform in Cape Canaveral, docking one of its Dragon capsules with the International Space Station, orbiting 220 miles above the earth—a feat NASA called “absolutely incredible.” Tesla, which went public in 2010, started shipping the all-electric Model S luxury sedan in June and will soon unveil a nationwide network of charging stations. SolarCity, where Musk is chairman of the board, is a player in the residential and commercial solar markets, with more than 28,000 customers, and is expected to go public imminently at a value of about $1.5 billion. http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/71446-elon-musk-the-21st-century-industrialist Posted: Fri, Sept 14, 2012 8:21 PM——Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. He said the law violated the constitutional rights of free speech and association. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-strikes-wis-law-limiting-union-rights-17240678#.UFO7G91klX9 Posted: Fri, Sept 14, 2012 1:03 PM——An international commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan warns that the world's democracies, and the United States specifically, are being corrupted by the increasingly strong role of \"uncontrolled, undisclosed, illegal and opaque\" financing of political campaigns. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/14 Posted: Wed, Sept 12, 2012 10:42 AM——The community is demanding that the company pay them compensation for the use of their lands and for the environmental damage they have suffered for 37 years. Such damage includes the contamination of their rivers, their only source of drinking water, and the contamination of their soils due to the company’s use of chemicals and heavy minerals, which the population says has significantly affected the productivity of their land. http://dgrnewsservice.org/2012/09/10/indigenous-community-in-peru-takes-control-of-nine-oil-wells-in-response-to-water-pollution/ Posted: Tue, Sept 11, 2012 4:33 PM——These efforts to keep organic waste out of dumps have been pretty successful so far. The US created 250 million tons of trash in 2010, 34 percent of which was diverted from the waste stream by composting or recycling. Yard trimmings and food scraps account for 27 percent of the waste we have been able to keep out of the landfill through these forward-thinking compost policies. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/09/why-doesnt-your-city-have-curbside-composting Posted: Tue, Sept 11, 2012 4:48 AM——Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive”, and “protected from externalities.”In other words, these powers will have control over what can and cannot be documented on wireless devices during any public event. http://rt.com/news/apple-patent-transmission-block-408/ Posted: Mon, Sept 10, 2012 10:19 AM——In a landmark case for the Rights of Nature, officials in New Zealand recently granted the Whanganui, the nation's third-longest river, with legal personhood \"in the same way a company is, which will give it rights and interests\". The decision follows a long court battle for the river's personhood initiated by the Whanganui River iwi, an indigenous community with strong cultural ties to the waterway. http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/river-new-zealand-granted-legal-rights-person.html Posted: Fri, Sept 7, 2012 3:30 PM——Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter called for the decriminalization of marijuana on Thur, saying U.S. drug policy has “destroyed the lives of millions of young people.” http://cnsnews.com/news/article/jimmy-carter-decriminalize-pot Posted: Fri, Sept 7, 2012 11:54 AM——Forests are cut down. Water is contaminated. Air is saturated with carbon emissions. Soil is depleted. Acidity levels in the oceans skyrocket. Atmospheric temperatures soar. And someone, somewhere, makes obscene sums of money from it. Corporations, indifferent to what is sacred, see the death of the planet as another investment opportunity. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/life_is_sacred_20120903/ Posted: Fri, Sept 7, 2012 4:51 AM——Teleportation across 143 kilometres is a crucial milestone in this research, since that is roughly the minimum distance between the ground and orbiting satellites. This achievement leads to the possibility of quantum teleportation between ground stations and orbiting satellites http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120905134356.htm Posted: Thur, Sept 6, 2012 3:48 PM——The widespread disgust was due to a botched drug raid during which Wayne County Sheriff's deputies, along with Macedon Police officers, broke into 75-year-old Phyllis Loquasto's home in Walworth, New York, forced her at gunpoint to lie on her bathroom floor, screamed at her to close her eyes and stay down, then executed her dog, \"Duke,\" by shooting him. http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/09/team_vendetta_takes_down_drug_task_force_site.php Posted: Thur, Sept 6, 2012 12:44 PM——Chaos has come again, and Dylan seems pulled to the dark side. From listening to this album—filled with killing floors, “lyin’ and dyin in blood,” and a “flat chested junkie whore” all leading him, if not to temptation, than a tempest of the soul—it’s clear that Dylan’s done his three score years and eleven, and he’s not going quietly. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/03/the-rage-in-bob-dylan-s-tempest.html Posted: Thur, Sept 6, 2012 11:41 AM——The new technique developed by Bozkurt’s team works by embedding a low-cost, light-weight, commercially-available chip with a wireless receiver and transmitter onto each roach (they used Madagascar hissing cockroaches). Weighing 0.7 grams, the cockroach backpack also contains a microcontroller that monitors the interface between the implanted electrodes and the tissue to avoid potential neural damage. The microcontroller is wired to the roach’s antennae and cerci. http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/wms-cockroach-steering/ Posted: Wed, Sept 5, 2012 9:06 AM——Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s landmark warning about the indiscriminate use of pesticides, turns 50 this month. By extension, that puts the environmental movement also at the half-century mark—along with the bitter, divisive argument we continue to have over both the book and the movement it spawned. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html Posted: Tue, Sept 4, 2012 9:50 PM——Combining paintable batteries with the recently reported paintable solar cells might create an energy-harvesting combination that would be hard to beat. Mass production should scale easily as spray painting is already an industrial process. http://machinedesign.com/article/spray-on-battery-turns-almost-any-surface-into-a-power-source-0823?NL=MD-05&Issue=MD-05_20120904_MD-05_419&YM_RID=lifespan.pharma.inc%40gmail.com&YM_MID=1337198 Posted: Tue, Sept 4, 2012 4:08 PM——With only a few weeks to raise a seemingly impossible sum, attorney Chase Iron Eyes (Standing Rock Sioux) and others at the LastRealIndians website decided not to let the land go without an attempt to keep it out of developers' hands. Although it was galling to have to raise money to buy land that was illegally taken in violation of the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, the choice was to do that or to see Pe' Sla forever gone. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/03/1127342/-Sioux-are-victorious-in-effort-to-restore-Black-Hills-land-to-the-tribes-Fund-raising-continues Posted: Mon, Sept 3, 2012 10:50 AM——The main issue in this campaign should be corporatism and the decay of American democracy and those things aren’t being discussed even after Wall Street collapsed. All These Wall Street big time crooks are now more powerful than ever. None of them were shamed into powerlessness. That’s a real sign of decay after they were exposed for malicious behavior, for the damage they’ve caused society. In any healthy society, they would have been disgraced.  http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/what-ralph-nader-thinking-about-2012-election?akid=9328.23935.q5PTw_&rd=1&src=newsletter703469&t=8&paging=off Posted: Mon, Sept 3, 2012 9:07 AM——To most Americans, the first Mon in Sept means a three-day weekend and the last hurrah of summer, a final outing at the shore before school begins, a family picnic.But Labor Day was born in a time when work was no picnic. As America was moving from farms to factories in the Industrial Age, there was a long, violent, often-deadly struggle for fundamental workers' rights, a struggle that in many ways was America's \"other civil war.\" http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/02/opinion/davis-labor-day-history/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Posted: Sun, Sept 2, 2012 8:41 PM——The Andamans lie in the Bay of Bengal, closer to Burma than to India, and anthropologists say the tribe has been there for tens of thousands of years, probably having migrated from Africa. It is only 14 years since they dropped their hostile attitude towards outsiders and started to come out of the jungle in any numbers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/01/andaman-islands-human-safaris-continue Posted: Sun, Sept 2, 2012 8:32 PM——But the debacle was actually perfect for this most fake of conventions, whose main purpose—the eventual redistribution of wealth to the very top—had to be obscured by a fleet of outright lies (so much so that even the traditional media feel forced to point them out). Clint Eastwood is an artist, and the rich moral ambiguities of his movies don’t boil down to simple political agitprop. And that was the biggest truth of the night: the GOP is now running on the fumes of its own nostalgia, and its ideological revision of history can leave even the most ardent partisan deeply confused about what to believe. http://www.thenation.com/blog/169690/clint-eastwood-convention# Posted: Sat, Sept 1, 2012 9:16 AM——Compared to published yields of lipids from soybeans, the sludge produced 2,200 times more lipids per gram of feedstock. Sewage sludge is also a cheaper lipid source than soybeans, Kwon says. Each liter of lipids that the researchers extracted from sludge cost $0.03, while previously published data shows each liter from soybeans costs $0.80. http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/08/Biodiesel-Sewage-Sludge.html Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:02 PM——We declare the following:  The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates. http://www.care2.com/causes/scientists-proclaim-animal-and-human-consciousness-the-same.html Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 2:40 PM——The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check last week at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where the syrup is being held temporarily. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which is responsible for the global strategic maple syrup reserve, initially kept the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime quickly. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/article4510740/ Posted: Thur, Aug 30, 2012 4:45 PM——So why all the fuss? Well, not only is NCC transparent but it is made from a tightly packed array of needle-like crystals which have a strength-to-weight ratio that is eight times better than stainless steel. Even better, it's incredibly cheap.\"It is the natural, renewable version of a carbon nanotube at a fraction of the price,\" says Jeff Youngblood of Purdue University's NanoForestry Institute in West Lafayette, Indiana. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528786.100-why-wood-pulp-is-worlds-new-wonder-material.html Posted: Thur, Aug 30, 2012 2:11 PM——In what appears to be the first ruling in Arizona of its kind, Bleich specifically rejected arguments by prosecutors that federal laws making possession and distribution of marijuana a crime override the 2010 voter-approved law. http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=49845 Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 4:30 PM——Ten years on, as it seeks to reinvent computing all over again and maintain its place inside the world’s data centers, VMware has snatched up another collection of world-class engineers. But this time, the virtual computing kingpin took a different tack. It bought them for $1.26 billion. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/vmware-and-nicira/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=facebookclickthru Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 9:03 AM——To leave the third largest industry in the world -- worth about $350 billion per annum -- in the control of criminal cartels,people with values opposite to those of civilized society -- is foolish to the point of insanity. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-feilding/towards-the-regulation-of-cannabis_b_1827325.html Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:02 AM——With virtually zero emissions and at the cost of about a penny per kilometer, it is definitely one of the most environmentally and economically friendly vehicles in the world. The tank holds about 175 liters of compressed air that can be filled at special stations or by activating the on-board electric motor to suck air in from the outside. Costing about $10,000, this car could beat out most smart cars from the market. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2012/08/this-tiny-car-runs-on-air/ Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 2:24 PM——“For over 100 years the women of the Oglala Lakota nation have been dealing with an attack on the mind body and spirit of their relatives”, says Olowan Martinez who is a main organizer of the event and resident of Pine Ridge. “The Oglala have been silenced through chemical warfare waged by the corporations who are out to exploit and make a profit off of the suffering and misery of our people. The time has come to end this suffering by any means necessary.” http://dgrnewsservice.org/2012/08/26/womens-march-and-day-of-peace-turns-violent-protesters-arrested/ Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 5:26 AM——At a mere 60 nanometers thick, the flat lens is essentially two-dimensional, yet its focusing power approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction.Operating at telecom wavelengths (i.e., the range commonly used in fiber-optic communications), the new device is completely scalable, from near-infrared to terahertz wavelengths, and simple to manufacture. https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/flat-lens-offers-perfect-image Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 10:42 AM——Both the timing and the root of the tree of Indo-European languages “fit with an agricultural expansion from Anatolia beginning 8,000 to 9,500 years ago,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/science/indo-european-languages-originated-in-anatolia-analysis-suggests.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 9:01 AM——A team of engineers from Oregon State University has developed a breakthrough microbial fuel cell that is capable of generating 10 to 50 times more electricity from waste than other MFCs. The team hopes that their innovation will enable waste treatment plants to not only power themselves, but also sell excess electricity back to the grid. http://inhabitat.com/osus-new-microbial-fuel-cell-can-generate-10-50-times-more-power-from-wastewater/ Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 11:56 AM——Fully 85% of self-described middle-class adults say it is more difficult now than it was a decade ago for middle-class people to maintain their standard of living. Of those who feel this way, 62% say “a lot” of the blame lies with Congress, while 54% say the same about banks and financial institutions, 47% about large corporations, 44% about the Bush administration, 39% about foreign competition and 34% about the Obama administration. Just 8% blame the middle class itself a lot. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class/ Posted: Thur, Aug 23, 2012 2:40 PM——Every year Monsanto investigates over 500 farmers for patent infringement with their now notorious “seed police.” To date, according to OSGTA, 144 farmers have had lawsuits brought against them by Monsanto without a binding contract with the multinational corporation, while another 700 farmers have been forced to settle out of court for undisclosed sums. http://www.thenews.coop/article/farmers-fight-monsantos-threats-and-intimidation Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 8:32 PM——A Yale study published Tue in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that people who used alcohol or tobacco in their youth are almost twice as likely to abuse prescription opiate drugs than those who only used marijuana. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/22/yale-study-alcohols-gateway-effect-much-larger-than-marijuanas/