Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Angry Fish Inhabit Most Home Aquariums
In other words, fish can turn mean when their home sucks, according to a new study in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. link
Humanity falls deeper into ecological debt: study
Humankind will slip next week into ecological debt, having gobbled up in less then nine months more natural resources than the planet can replenish in a year, researchers said Tuesday. Counting down from January 1, the date when human activity exceeds its budget -- dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day" -- had receded by about three days each year since 2001. link
Video Shows Fish Using Tools - Discovery News
"What the movie shows is very interesting," Bernardi was quoted as saying in a press release. "The animal excavates sand to get the shell out, then swims for a long time to find an appropriate area where it can crack the shell. It requires a lot of forward thinking, because there are a number of steps involved. For a fish, it's a pretty big deal." link
Mercury "Hollows" Found—Pits May Be Solar System First
The planet Mercury is dotted with holes that appear to be unlike any other landform yet seen in the solar system, new pictures show.High-resolution photographs from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft revealed the shallow, rimless, irregularly shaped depressions—similar to the holes in Swiss cheese—in impact craters all over Mercury.
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'Magic Mushroom' Compound Triggered Positive Personality Change in Study
THURSDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- In new research that will almost certainly create controversy, scientists working with the hallucinogen psilocybin -- the active ingredient found in "magic mushrooms" -- have found that a single dose of the drug prompted an enduring but positive personality change in almost 60 percent of patients.
Specifically, tests involving a small group of patients in a strictly controlled and monitored clinical setting revealed that, more often than not, one round of psilocybin exposure successfully boosted an individual's sense of "openness." What's more, the apparent shift in what is deemed to be a key aspect of personality did not dissipate after exposure, lasting at least a year and sometimes longer. link
Specifically, tests involving a small group of patients in a strictly controlled and monitored clinical setting revealed that, more often than not, one round of psilocybin exposure successfully boosted an individual's sense of "openness." What's more, the apparent shift in what is deemed to be a key aspect of personality did not dissipate after exposure, lasting at least a year and sometimes longer. link
It Was A Secret: Read What Cops Reallly Think Of #Occupy Wall Street
Quotes:
"man I LOVE how OC works wonders at clearing a sidewalk!!!
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"Those are great, the (s)creaming kids are a hoot. I’m going to watch some more during football breaks. I’d love to see fire hoses employed, it would clean them up and clear the streets and sidewalks for traffic. We’d miss out on the entertainment though."
"Yeah…I love how the chick just falls to her knees and starts screaming! I saw a guy do that when I went through the OC instructors course…it wasnt pretty" link
"man I LOVE how OC works wonders at clearing a sidewalk!!!
""Those are great, the (s)creaming kids are a hoot. I’m going to watch some more during football breaks. I’d love to see fire hoses employed, it would clean them up and clear the streets and sidewalks for traffic. We’d miss out on the entertainment though."
"Yeah…I love how the chick just falls to her knees and starts screaming! I saw a guy do that when I went through the OC instructors course…it wasnt pretty" link
Analysis of Esoteric Iconography used by ‘Anonymous’
A former AnonOps member wrote:
“From the f [-] ing beginning (during the hack at Aiplex which started Operation Payback) there has been an secret club, an aristocracy in AnonOps, deciding how operations will play out in invite-only channels.
It’s obvious, for they control the topic, the hivemind, the guides, every single thing behind the scenes…“ link
Weekend Feature: NASA's Simulation of the Early Universe (Video)
By running the "Bolshoi" simulation code on Pleiades, researchers hope to explain how galaxies and other very large structures in the universe have changed since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. The Bolshoi code took 18 days and millions of hours of computer time split up among more than 160,000 processors to finish running on Pleiades, which is the seventh most powerful supercomputer in the world. The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic mysteries as galaxy formation, dark matter, and dark energy. link
Video: FOX News Meets Intelligent Wall Street Protestor And Doesn't Air It
While media attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests has certainly ramped up, a current of condescension still runs through some of the coverage. Then there are outlets like FOX News, who have no problem showing up and acting weird or selectively editing footage to bolster their agendas. But FOX chose not to run an interview with Wall Street occupier Jesse LaGreca, because he intelligently and succinctly eviscerates the producer's attempts to get him to say something foolish. link
Thursday, September 29, 2011
A Nation of "Suspects" | Truthout
In the wake of COINTELPRO and the Watergate scandal, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas sent a letter to a group of young lawyers at the Washington State Bar Association. "As nightfall does not come all at once," he wrote, "neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."[1]
The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding freedoms and protections we have long taken for granted. If people generally appear unaware of "change in the air," a large part of the reason is the unparalleled resort to secrecy used by the government to keep its actions from public scrutiny. According to the new American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report, "Drastic Measures Required," under President Obama (who had vowed to create "an unprecedented level of openness in Government" when he first took office), there were no fewer than 76,795,945 decisions made to classify information in 2010 - eight times the number made in 2001. A Nation of "Suspects" | Truthout
The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding freedoms and protections we have long taken for granted. If people generally appear unaware of "change in the air," a large part of the reason is the unparalleled resort to secrecy used by the government to keep its actions from public scrutiny. According to the new American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report, "Drastic Measures Required," under President Obama (who had vowed to create "an unprecedented level of openness in Government" when he first took office), there were no fewer than 76,795,945 decisions made to classify information in 2010 - eight times the number made in 2001. A Nation of "Suspects" | Truthout
'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row Re
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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