Archive for the ‘technology’ Category

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story

Internet Archive’s NSL Challenge

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic ...

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work - Times Online

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.Read the full story

Church of Scientology\\\\\\’s \\\\\\’Operating Thetan\\\\\\’ documents leaked online - Wikinews,

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Wikinews has obtained \\\\\\\'Operating Thetan\\\\\\\' (OT) documents of the Church of Scientology which were leaked via Wikileaks. Although some portions of the manual have been leaked previously, this is believed to be the first time the full unedited version has been leaked.Read the full story

AP probe finds drugs in drinking water

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.Read the full story

AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Friday unveiled a 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.Read the full story

New study indicates that marijuana smokers face rapid lung destruction « The Frame Problem

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.Read the full story

AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists have taken a major step toward creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study published Thursday.Read the full story

Politics | FBI aims to amass huge database of people\\\\\\’s physical characteristics | Seattle Tim

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world\\\\\\\'s largest computer database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.Read the full story

Black Oil Spill in Kerch Strait

Monday, November 12th, 2007

In the early hours of Sunday, the Russian tanker Volgoneft-139, carrying 4,000 tons of black oil, fell apart due to storm damage, releasing up to 1,300 tons of black oil into the Kerch Strait. Read the full story