New works in the public domain since 1987.
Geobacter sulfurreducens has already been used at the Rifle Mills site to clear up a large amount of what the nuclear industry calls “oops!”
“Super Cells” that Eat Radiation, Grow Gasoline, Build Cities & Cure Cancer -A Galaxy Classic
many areas of the brain switch off during the female orgasm – including those involved with emotion.
Orgasms: A real ‘turn-off’ for women – life – 20 June 2005 – New Scientist
recent job losses hit men harder and that women earn far more bachelor’s and master’s degrees than do men.
‘Power’ move by male students ruffles U. of C. — chicagotribune.com
This web site is dedicated to all of the many critics who have spent years helping to expose the abuses of the organization known as the Church of Scientology and to those who have helped people wake up and see the light.
In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
Police suspect the body parts are being sold in neighbouring Tanzania, for use in witchcraft.
Anti-Christian violence and theocratic rulings around the world. Just the sort of thing that doesn’t help anyone. Yay for religion.
A Christian Singaporean couple were found guilty of sedition on Thursday for distributing evangelical publications that cast Islam in a negative light, court officials said.
Christian couple convicted for anti-Muslim booklets – Yahoo! News
“In our study, a child’s inability to pay attention when they start school had the strongest negative effect on how they performed at the end of high school — regardless of their IQ (intelligence quotient),”
Poor Attention In Kindergarten Predicts Lower High School Test Scores
Dear Esther – An interactive narrative built using first-person game technologies
Responding to the report, White House Press Secretary Gibbs said, “If I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League Cup, I’d might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”
BLOOD BOILINGLY EVIL.
Worthy News Asia Service: Suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban Militants Destroy Pakistan Church, Christians Say. Suspected Muslim militants with links to the terror groups Al Qaeda and the Taliban attacked a historic church in northwestern Pakistan and burned Bibles and other Christian books, but police are reluctant to investigate the case and detain suspects, Christians said Tuesday, May 26. The destruction of the St. George Grecian Church was discovered by workers renovating the building, said the church’s pastor Ijaz Masih in a statement distributed by rights group International Christian Concern (ICC). [...] Ijaz said he had started as the pastor of St. George Church two years ago, and that the Christians in Bannu Cantt had been living peacefully with their Muslim neighbors. He believes the attack was carried out by “radical Muslims linked to the Taliban or Al Qaeda with the goal of provoking a clash between local Christians and Muslims.”
CNN: Saudi judge says it’s OK to slap spendthrift wives. Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday. Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that “if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment.”
AP: Apparent poison gas hospitalizes 84 Afghan girls. Officials accused extremist militants of launching a poison gas attack Tuesday that caused dozens of schoolgirls to collapse with headaches and nausea as they waited in line for a Quran reading at their school in northeastern Afghanistan. The Taliban and other Islamic fundamentalists have regularly attacked girls schools in Afghanistan and the second apparent poisoning in two days has raised concerns that they have now found a new weapon to scare girls into staying at home rather than going to class.
Riaz Khan: Pakistan fighting kills 15, headless bodies found. The five headless bodies were found near the valley’s main town, Mingora, the army said, giving no details of the victims’ identities. Residents have said the Taliban have repeatedly decapitated opponents and dumped their bodies in Mingora.
ANSAMed: Honour Killing. A few days after the attempted honour killing of a young women, Yildiz A. – whose nose and ears were cut off in order to disfigure her – another honour crime has been reported in the same region in Turkey, which resulted in the death of a man and the injury of a girl, as reported by Turkish daily Hurriyet.
[Good grief! The Muslim world must be up in arms about all these people! Surely they're in the courts right now trying to do something to save what little reputation they may have left!]
Ibrahim Usta: Turkish author on trial for insulting Islam. A Turkish author on trial over accusations that his latest book insulted Islam denied the charges Tuesday and insisted he was respectful of religion. Nedim Gursel faces up to a year in prison if found guilty on charges of humiliating religious values and inciting religious hatred in his novel “The Daughters of Allah.” Gursel, who was born in Turkey but has French citizenship and is based in France, is the latest intellectual to be prosecuted in Turkey under laws that restrict free speech.
[Oh. Well, then. I guess we all have our priorities. - Trevor Blake]
you lose about half of your close network members every seven years.
Half Of Your Friends Lost In Seven Years, Social Network Study Finds
Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring
Booty video minus booty equals bootyclypse
Reading about the ongoing Market Complexity Collapse and wondering if this Earth failed to solve one of the basic functions of global economics, in the same way that Rome, in its later days, failed to solve the problem of orderly transition of power between Caesars.
a patient with severe memory loss who has a tendency to invent detailed and perfectly plausible false memories (confabulations) in response to questions to which most people would answer “I don’t know” [Can you lie to yourself?]
Confabulatory hypermnesia, or severe false memory syndrome : Neurophilosophy
A commonly-used cancer drug can make patients’ fingerprints disappear, potentially causing problems for foreign travel, a doctor warns.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Wednesday that it will no longer stand by the ceasefire agreement ending the 1950-53 Korean War, in response to South Korea’s participation to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
