Archive for the 'Journalism' Category
Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English
• January, 2009Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English By CHRIS BROOKE 14 September 2007 When Matej Kus’s teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious. But they were also a little surprised. For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.
Infants stabbed at Belgian creche
• January, 2009Infants stabbed at Belgian creche Friday, 23 January 2009 <<Editors notE>> UPDATE: It’s funny how they call this person “man” in this case when the guy was just 20 years old (officially “adult”). Either way, I guess he was a bit of a walking time bomb, waiting to go off while not being able to handle this world anymore and choosing for this savage outcry for help. (and I say this without wanting to sympathize here…) Two pre-school children and an adult have been killed…
2000-year-old computer recreated
• January, 20092000-year-old computer recreated .::. <<video>> <<Editors notE>> Interesting indeed. Would even find this device useful during these days, just for home-use ;) Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer MARCELLUS and his men blockaded Syracuse, in Sicily, for two years. The Roman general expected to conquer the Greek city state easily, but the ingenious siege towers and catapults designed by Archimedes helped to keep his troops at bay. Then, in 212 BC, the Syracusans neglected their defences during a festival to the goddess Artemis, and the Romans…
Do we live in a holographic universe?
• January, 2009Do we live in a holographic universe? by Marcus Chown 15 January 2009 DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn’t look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres. For the past seven years, this…
Facts melted by global warming
• January, 2009Facts melted by ‘global warming’ Christopher Booker 31 Dec 2008 Last weekend, that heroically diligent US meteorologist Anthony Watts noticed that something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website that shows how much sea-ice there is in the Arctic. Without explanation, as he reported on his Watts Up With That website, half a million square kilometres of ice simply vanished overnight.
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
• January, 2009You Are Being Lied to About Pirates Johann Hari Columnist, London Independent Posted January 4, 2009 Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates…
“Israël vs Hamas” p7 .::. <<Cartoon>>
• January, 2009Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the current “war” in Gaza Carlos Latuff <<Editors notE>> Every day of this week around 4:20 one of his cartoons will get posted in order to protest against yet another wrong war. (Hence war is … always wrong? Hence there never is “a goal to be reached” but the strategical ones that listen to “economics”, “geo-politics”, … There never are any “winners”… even the billions of dollars produced by mass weapon industry don’t pay up for one life lost…) more…
Ron Paul on Israël vs Hamas in Gaza
• January, 2009Ron Paul on Israël vs Hamas in Gaza .::. <<video>> <<Editors notE>> Seriously… this guy should’ve been elected for president in the hope he could pinpoint the real issues here… no offense towards Obama… but it was an unfair battle either way… plus he was white… n who wants a white president these days after what Bush has “accomplished” ;)
World’s first flying car on the roads
• January, 2009World’s first flying car on the roads from next year – yours for just £130,000 By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:50 PM on 18th December 2008 It’s been a pipe dream for 30 years but now the world’s first fully available flying car is set to hit the roads next year. Ever since the Back to the Future movies lit up our screens in the 80s, designers have dreamt of an automobile that could take to the skies at the push of a…
“Israël vs Hamas” p6 .::. <<Cartoon>>
• January, 2009Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the current “war” in Gaza Carlos Latuff <<Editors notE>> Every day of this week around 4:20 one of his cartoons will get posted in order to protest against yet another wrong war. (Hence war is … always wrong? Hence there never is “a goal to be reached” but the strategical ones that listen to “economics”, “geo-politics”, … There never are any “winners”… even the billions of dollars produced by mass weapon industry don’t pay up for one life lost…) more…
“Israël vs Hamas” p5 .::. <<Cartoon>>
• January, 2009Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the current “war” in Gaza Carlos Latuff <<Editors notE>> Every day of this week around 4:20 one of his cartoons will get posted in order to protest against yet another wrong war. (Hence war is … always wrong? Hence there never is “a goal to be reached” but the strategical ones that listen to “economics”, “geo-politics”, … There never are any “winners”… even the billions of dollars produced by mass weapon industry don’t pay up for one life lost…) more…
The Truth About Diet Soda
• January, 2009The Truth About Diet Soda 2008 Men’s Health. Posted Tue, Dec 23, 2008 The Truth About Diet Soda We talk a lot about ”watching what we eat,” but if you never gave a thought to what you ate and instead watched only what you drank, you could probably cut 450 calories a day out of your life. (Yes, nearly a pound of fat loss a week!) That’s what a study from the University of North Carolina found. Americans today drink about 192 gallons of liquid…
“Israël vs Hamas” p4 .::. <<Cartoon>>
• January, 2009Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the current “war” in Gaza Carlos Latuff <<Editors notE>> Every day of this week around 4:20 one of his cartoons will get posted in order to protest against yet another wrong war. (Hence war is … always wrong? Hence there never is “a goal to be reached” but the strategical ones that listen to “economics”, “geo-politics”, … There never are any “winners”… even the billions of dollars produced by mass weapon industry don’t pay up for one life lost…) more…