The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NASA discovers 715 new planets Four of 715 newly discovered planets may support Earth-like life It’s the biggest single discovery of planets in history All were found in the first two years of the Kepler telescope’s voyage NASA expects next batch of data to reveal more habitable planet (CNN) — Our galactic neighborhood just got …
Self-organizing robot armies produced – and all thanks to ingenious termite logic Harvard ‘brainiacs’ are at it again. Inspired by termites, they have realized their dream of cheap, expendable, self-organizing robots – a construction crew building complex structures at a quick pace, and completely independent of leadership. The possibilities are vast. The machines can be …
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Fear, evil should… Why Israel Fears the Boycott By OMAR BARGHOUTIJAN. 31, 2014 JERUSALEM — IF Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fail because of Israel’s continuing construction of illegal settlements, the Israeli government is likely to face an international boycott “on steroids,” as Mr. Kerry …
The NSA’s Losing Argument The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014 Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans? In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which …
10 Groups That Are Building a Movement for Economic Justice from the Grassroots Up With more than 46 million people living below the poverty line, struggling to survive on $19,530 or less for a family of three, and with more than one in three Americans living on less than twice that amount, scrimping to pay …
Dumb, computers are. A Busy Doctor’s Right Hand, Ever Ready to Type Amid the controlled chaos that defines an average afternoon in an urban emergency department, Dr. Marian Bednar, an emergency room physician in Dallas, entered the exam room of an older woman who had fallen while walking her dog. Like any doctor, she asked …
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“Flock” of Nano Satellites to Capture High-Res Views of Whole Earth A private San Francisco start-up has launched the largest-ever ensemble of Earth-imaging satellites By Sara Boettiger and Sean Wagstaff Scientific American, 10 January 2014 The constellation of Earth-imaging satellites launched yesterday—28 individual sputniks, called “Doves,” each about the size of its namesake and weighing …
