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How Big Brother Watches Your Every Move: 21st Century-Style 1984
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, government, HumanRights, interesting, news, world )

Dan
- 12 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Every Briton has 3,254 pieces of personal information stored about him or her each week. Telephone calls, swipes of a card and clicks of a mouse are being recorded and stored. What about the US? Noted in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
'Double Flusher' Woman Faces Eviction
Offbeat  (tags: interesting, off-beat, society, bizarre, culture, crime, odd, unusual, funny )

Linda
- 12 days ago - metro.co.uk
IT'S embarrassing but, yes, some of us need to flush twice when we go to the toilet.However, regularly 'making sure' has meant one 57-year-old woman faces eviction after a neighbour complained about the noise. Mwynwen Jones's case reached the High Court,
We Are Killing Our Great Salt Mother
Environment  (tags: oceans, oceanic dead zones, fish kills, nitrogen, algae blooms, fertilizer )

Cate
- 13 days ago - nytimes.com
Alarming article about the rise of world-wide coastal oceanic dead zones, exacerbated by human activity, especially fertilizer run-off. The number of oxygen-starved oceanic areas has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s. We cannot kill our oceans!
LifeStraw : The Most Humanistic Gadget Ever
Environment  (tags: africa, water, pollution, gadgets, science, humans )

Esra
- 13 days ago - vubx.com
LifeStraw is an instrument which instantly purifies the water and makes it ready to drink with the chromatographic techniques and other well-known filter methods. Great for African people who are fighting with the diseases because of dirty water sources
A Relative of Hitler Is Now Jewish and Living in Israel
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, history )

Basilides
- 22 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
...a strange little story in an obscure American magazine for Orthodox Jews, claiming that a descendant of Adolf Hitler had converted to Judaism and was living in Israel...
New Technology Reveals Higher Number of New HIV Infections in the United States Than Previously Known
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AlternativeMed, risks, safety, treatment, aids, medical technologydisease )

Jollygirl
- 24 days ago - docuticker.com
New Technology Reveals Higher Number of New HIV Infections in the United States than Previously Known. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that an estimated 56,300 HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006.
DMS: The Climate Gas You'Ve Never Heard Of
Environment  (tags: oceans, greenhouse gases, natural systems )

Pekka
- 24 days ago - whoi.edu
Made by tiny plants in the ocean, dimethylsulfide helps make clouds in the sky.If DMS production is speeded up by global climate change, as many scientists believe it will be, then it could provide a cooling effect. That means DMS could help offset greenh
125,000 Gorillas Found in Congo Forests
Animals  (tags: )

Michael
- 24 days ago - news.aol.com
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population.
World's First Transplant Of Both Arms
Science & Tech  (tags: armtransplants, transplant )

Jenny
- 24 days ago - sciencedaily.com
...the first transplant of complete arms after several years of preparatory work. The patient is doing well under the circumstances. Six years ago, the 54 year old farmer lost both his arms at upper arm level during an accident.
U.S. Nuclear Sub Traveled With Radiation Leak
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: military, government, usa, troops, oceans, accidents, pollution, nuclear, radiation )

Jaime
- 24 days ago - truthout.org
All technology carries risk of accident
 
 
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