Archive for the 'Journalism' Category
Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence Of Space Looking All Crazy
• August, 2008BALTIMORE—Astronomers analyzing the first images captured by the new Hubble Space Kaleidoscope, which went online Tuesday, announced that they’ve acquired the first concrete evidence that the universe is in a constant state of total weirdness. “With their unprecedented resolution, the latest images from the new kaleidoscope reveal that space, once thought to be isotropic, is actually continuously expanding, unfolding, and rearranging in a series of freaky patterns,” said astronomer…
Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found
• August, 2008Archaeologists discovered maze of stone temples in underground caves Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld. Tammara Thomsen via Reuters By Miguel Angel Gutierrez ET Aug. 14, 2008 MEXICO CITY – Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves,…
Codex Designates GMOs as Contaminants in Food
• August, 2008Codex Designates GMOs as Contaminants in Food The latest Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting held in Geneva recently concluded with some interesting outcomes. Some long simmering acrimony has begun to surface as the U.S. continues to force the biased agendas of Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Agra and the like forward without considering the input of many other countries. Typically if the U.S. does not want a country’s input, the…
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
• August, 2008The largest particle accelerator in the world, the LHC of the European Center for Physics, will start in August , as being told by CERN in Geneva. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a circular tunnel 27 kilometers long at the height of Geneva and the Swiss-French border. In this tunnel particles are fired at nearly the speed of light that in turn come into conflict with each other.…
Coffee, cookies but no cashiers
• August, 2008When a business leaves payment up to the customer, what you do says a lot about you By REBECCA DUBE From Monday’s Globe and Mail July 28, 2008 at 9:44 AM EDT KITCHENER, ONT. — Would you steal if no one was watching? Are people basically good? Is trust dead? Weighty questions to ponder before your morning coffee, but they percolate daily along with the fair-trade coffee at the…
Bluetooth is watching: secret study gives Bath a flavour of Big Brother
• July, 2008Tens of thousands of Britons are being covertly tracked without their consent in a technology experiment which has installed scanners at secret locations in offices, campuses, streets and pubs to pinpoint people’s whereabouts. The scanners, the first 10 of which were installed in Bath three years ago, are capturing Bluetooth radio signals transmitted from devices such as mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras, and using the data to follow…
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet
• July, 2008The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that…
Town where cocaine is the only currency
• June, 2008Town where cocaine is the only currency By Jeremy McDermott in Guerima Last Updated: 11:04PM BST 15/06/2008 Guerima, a remote Colombian settlement, wants its Marxist rebels back. With the national army deployed in a stranglehold around the town, there is nobody to traffic the town’s only commodity – drugs. JERRY MCDERMOTT A shoe shop owner weighs out coca base handed over by a customer in exchange for goods More…
Inside one of Britain’s cannabis factories
• June, 2008By Julian Joyce BBC News By toughening the law on cannabis the government hopes to drive a crackdown on UK “farms”, many of which have sprung up in recent years. In the cellar beneath Jimmy’s house, cannabis seedlings flourish under bright lights. Upstairs, taking over half the attic, more mature plants flower in lamp-lit trays, amid the hum of automatic water and nutrient delivery systems. This is “hydroponic” cannabis…
