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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Two Swedish craters are the first evidence of binary asteroid hitting Earth

© Unknown The Swedish Lockne crater, 7.5 km wide and Målingen, about 0.7 km, were caused both by the shock of a double asteroid, an object made up of about 600 m and a smaller 150 m . Both came after the explosion of a massive asteroid collision some 200 km in the main asteroid belt 470 million years ago. So suggests a study published this week in the Reports a research team led by Jens Ormo, the Astrobiology Centre (INTA-CSIC)."For the first time...

Hysterical Islamophobia: Dad threatens 'sh*tstorm' if daughter's world history class includes Islam

© Shutterstock.comAngry man yells into phone An angry father has been banned from a Maryland high school's campus after he made vague but ominous threats against the school because his daughter's history homework mentioned the Islamic faith.BayNet.com reported that La Plata High School in Charles County, Maryland has issued a No Trespass order after parent Kevin Wood - a former U.S. Marine - called the school and threatened to disrupt classes if...

Who will offer Putin's head to the U.S.?

© Unknown It seems that Russian authorities have found a way towards accommodation with the West. Liberals have become more powerful and are leading the talks.[1] They are ready to make concessions and see no problem in the sacrifice of Novorossiya, and, if necessary, even Russia's own interests. There's just one remaining question: who will remove the Russian president's head and present it on a platter to the USA?Negotiations between Russia and...

Insurance companies start writing 'Ebola exclusions' into policies

© AFP Photo/Simon Maina As Ebola spreads further from its current epicenter in West Africa, American and British insurance companies have started to adjust their standard policies for hospitals and other vulnerable businesses to exclude the virus.According to insurance industry insiders, companies needing to insure business travel to West Africa or to cover losses following a quarantine may now deal with revamped policies that will likely increase...

'A generation cast aside': Child poverty on rise in world's richest countries

UNICEF report finds erosion of social safety nets has fueled child poverty crisis. (Image courtesy of UNICEF report) Children remain "the most enduring victims" of the recession in the world's wealthiest nations, where 2.6 million children have fallen below the poverty line since 2008, a new report from UNICEF reveals.The annual study, Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries, was released...

Bible too far-fetched even for me, says Pope

© WaterfordWhispersNews Following yesterday's announcement that the theories behind both the Big Bang Theory and evolution are real and that God is not a 'magician with a magic wand', Pope Francis has issued a second statement today admitting that there are things in the Bible that even he thinks are pure guff.The popular Argentinian pontiff, who gained admirers with his more lenient views on gay partnership earlier this year, went on to state that...

Study tracking over 100,000 people finds the more pasteurized milk people drink, the more likely they are to die

© PreventDisease.com Milk is the only beverage still aggressively pushed on children as a health promoting food when it is the exact opposite - a disease promoting food. Drinking pasteurized milk is not nearly as good for general health or bones as the dairy industry has made it out to be. In fact, this fairy tale of "milk doing a body good" is being exposed more frequently by many independent scientists and researchers who have had just about enough...

Deep undercover: Police officer in UK fathered a child with an activist as part of an investigation

Court settlement raises new questions about ethics of police infiltration © CGP GreyMetropolitan police officer Bob Lambert’s mission was to work his way into the “intensely furtive, hard-core wing of the animal rights movement. What are the limits - if any - to undercover policing? At what point is a moral, ethical, or legal threshold crossed when an undercover operative insinuates himself into a targeted group or the lives of its members?Last Thursday...

Putin: It's extremely important to counteract any attempts at reviving fascist ideology

© Alexei Nikolsky/TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin finds it extremely important to combat any attempts to revive fascist ideology and falsify Russian-Ukrainian common history, said a congratulatory message which the Russian head of state sent to veterans of the Great Patriotic War and Ukrainian people on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of country's liberation from fascist invaders."In the years of the Great Patriotic War, the power of...

10 ways Obama has silenced American media, from intimidation to surveillance

© www.tpnn.com After US President Barack Obama entered office in 2009 pledging transparency and open government, it was a refreshing wind of change from the locked-down Bush years. The reality, however, has fallen dramatically short of the promise.10. White House seizes phone records of Associated Press reporters During a two-month period in 2012, the US Justice Department seized telephone records from some 100 journalists at AP offices in New York,...

500 year old map points to a very ancient human civilization

If conventional wisdom on the history of the human race is correct, then human civilization is not old enough, nor was it advanced enough, to account for many of the mysterious monolithic and archeological sites around the world. Places like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Bosnian Pyramids, and Adam's Calendar in South Africa, beg the same question: if human civilization is supposedly not old enough to have created all of these sites, then who, or...

To reap the brain benefits of physical activity, just get moving

Everyone knows that exercise makes you feel more mentally alert at any age. But do you need to follow a specific training program to improve your cognitive function? Science has shown that the important thing is to just get moving. It's that simple. Everyone knows that exercise makes you feel more mentally alert at any age. But do you need to follow a specific training program to improve your cognitive function? Science has shown that the important...

Parasite-schizophrenia connection: One-fifth of schizophrenia cases may involve the parasite T. gondii

© University of PennsylvaniaThe parasite T. gondii has been shown to alter behavior in rodents. Smith's study supports a link to schizophrenia in humans. Many factors, both genetic and environmental, have been blamed for increasing the risk of a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Some, such as a family history of schizophrenia, are widely accepted. Others, such as infection with , a parasite transmitted by soil, undercooked meat and cat feces, are still...

Cyclone Nilofar targeting India's Gujarat State, Southern Pakistan

After becoming impressively strong on Tuesday, Cyclone Nilofar has begun to weaken. Nilofar is expected to head towards southeastern Pakistan and northwestern India, with landfall likely on Saturday.On Tuesday afternoon, Nilofar intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane with estimated wind speeds of 130 mph, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center, about 650 miles south-southwest of Karachi, Pakistan. Nilofar underwent rapid intensification,...

More than 100 believed dead in Sri Lanka landslide after heavy monsoon rain

© REUTERS/StringerRescue teams from the Sri Lankan military engage in rescue operation work at the site of a landslide at the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla October 29, 2014. A landslide in hilly south-central Sri Lanka is believed to have killed more than 100 people on Wednesday as it buried scores of houses, a government minister said, and the toll is likely to rise.The landslide hit a village in the tea-growing area of Sri Lanka after days...

Dead humpback whale found on Kapiti Coast, New Zealand

© David HaxtonIwi perform a karakia by the dead humpback whale on Waikanae Beach. A 10 metre-long humpback whale has washed up dead on Waikanae Beach early this morning.Department of Conservation spokeswoman Jane Dobson said they received reports of the stranding, south of Waikanae Boat Club, around 6.30am."It's been confirmed that it's a humpback whale, approximately 10 metres long and estimated to be about 25 to 30 tonne."Senior ranger Brent Tandy...

Diplomacy on the human level: Ukrainians and Novorussians sit down and talk

Alexey Mozgovoi. Something fantastically interesting has happened in Novorussia: two senior Novorussian commanders, Igor Bezler and Alexei Mozgovoi have attempted to communicate with those Ukrainians who are on the other side.Though I am not sure about the exact dates of the events (all I have is the dates of the posting on YouTube), this apparently began when Igor Bezler agreed to be interviewed by three TV crews at the same time: a Russian one,...
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