Exactly six weeks before election day, President Barack Obama stood on the world stage Tuesday and warned Iran that the United States will “do what we must” to stop Tehran from getting a nuclear weapon. In what could be his
An old Aberdeen fishing village was left covered in a strange white foam today after strong winds and rain battered Britain. Locals were left stunned as homes and vehicles in Footdee, known locally as Fittie, were covered in a blanket
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Europe could only hope to come out of its crisis stronger and compete in a globalised world if its members pressed ahead with painful reforms and moved to more responsible budget policies. Speaking
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover’s arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from the rover’s landing
Exponential change. October blasts the status quo to smithereens. Say your final good-bye’s to stalemate and indecision. People build on commitments made in September and branch out in a thousand new directions, based on those decisions. Inner changes burgeon into
The US government has already proven its intent to see all evil, with the use of Orwellian programs like TrapWire. But it can now hear all evil too, as law enforcement agencies implement a tool able to store, analyze and
Doctors in Britain are battling to save the life of a man with a mystery fatal disease which appears to have come from the Middle East. The 49-year-old Qatari is in quarantine at a National Health Service clinic in London,
Japanese Coast Guard vessels fired water cannon to turn away about 40 Taiwan fishing boats and eight Taiwan Coast Guard vessels from waters Japan considers its own on Tuesday in the latest twist to a row between Tokyo and Beijing.
In a paper just published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers supported by the National Science Foundation reports having succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal simply by inserting an extra particle, and then
Do not put liquid nitrogen in a sealed container. Without an outlet, the liquid will turn into a gas, pressure will build up extremely quickly, and BOOM! The whole thing will explode. But as you can see in the above
Now that the Forces of Light have fought their way in here, it will take four years for them to bring the global-ego to its realizations. It has to be shown its lies and platitudes, its pretences; each has to
Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal believes the world is being taken to war because the world economy “. . . is collapsing. It’s collapsing in front of our eyes. The numbers are there.” Celente tells people to “buy gold
Japan is sending a top diplomat to China for talks, as Chinese ships again entered waters close to islands both sides claim. Vice-Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai will hold two days of talks aimed at easing tensions, the foreign ministry said.
The war on drugs has most people believing there is no legitimate argument for marijuana, causing it to be highly looked down upon and illegal under federal law throughout the United States. But there is an exceptionally large body of
Scientific racism is the proposal of significant, usually cognitive, differences between ethnic groups justified by (usually sketchy) scientific research. Navel-gazing European colonialists, eager to understand their race’s effortless domination of the new world, published many essays speculating about biological causes of
In the march to vaccinate everyone everywhere for everything, reason and logic are thrown out and insanity prevails. The polio vaccine causes mutant polio, so authorities place the blame in the unvaccinated. It’s bad enough that people who choose not
If you really want to know the damaging effects of microwave popcorn, ask a Colorado man who was recently awarded $7.2 million in damages for contracting a chronic condition from microwave popcorn. Wayne Watson, 59, claimed that the popcorn manufacturer and
Health experts are trying to identify a new Sars-like virus that is so far known to have infected two people, one of whom is receiving intensive care in a London hospital. A 49-year-old Qatari man was transported by air ambulance from Doha almost two
After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind. Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear
Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it, a senior commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Sunday. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in
With five simple words in the Declaration of Independence—“all men are created equal”—Thomas Jefferson undid Aristotle’s ancient formula, which had governed human affairs until 1776: “From the hour of their birth, some men are marked out for subjection, others for
For the New Caledonian crow, birdbrain is a misnomer: These members of the corvid family have proved their problem-solving and tool-wielding abilities again and again. The birds may have yet another impressive cognitive capacity, a new study suggests: causal reasoning. The ability to link an event
