Topic: SPY - on October 6, 2008 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
FBI darf Überwachung massiv ausweiten
Ermittler in den USA können die Bevölkerung künftig noch intensiver kontrollieren als bisher. Dank neuer Richtlinien dürfen Beamte des FBI künftig ohne konkreten Verdacht und ohne Erlaubnis des Vorgesetzten Menschen überwachen und befragen. Kritiker befürchten "politische Hexenjagden".
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 6, 2008 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Ancient Peru Pyramid Spotted by Satellite
A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on October 6, 2008 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
Singer Amy Winehouse Converting to Scientology?
Oh crap, it looks like Xenu is now after singer Amy Winehouse. Will Amy Winehouse join the likes of people such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Beck and turn to Scientology?
Supposedly someone up in Scientology has contacted Winehouse with the offer of getting rid of her drug habit, reported Britain’s Sunday Mirror.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 6, 2008 at 10:03:00 AM CEST
16 Unassuming-but-Lethal Poison Plants
Most plants contain some level of toxins (like alkaloids) for defense. After all, they’re plants. They can’t go anywhere. Through millennia of trial and error, both animals and human beings have figured out which plants are safe, which are lethal, and which are somewhere in between. For example, did you know that many grain-bearing plants contain a toxin known as lectins? And that the African staple, cassava, must be thoroughly boiled and soaked to separate it from its poisonous compound, cyanide?
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Topic: health - on October 6, 2008 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
'Fossil' HIV reveals virus history
They struck it lucky with a sample that was collected back in 1960, from a woman living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is the second-oldest sample of the HIV virus ever found - the oldest is from 1959.
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Topic: Phone - on October 4, 2008 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Solar-Handys dominieren Japans verrückteste Gadget-Messe
Auf der High-Tech-Messe Ceatec in Tokio ist neben den Geräten der nächsten Saison auch viel Science-Fiction zu bewundern. Beispielsweise Konzepte für Solar-Handys in Satelliten-Form und Smartphones, die durch Wände sehen können.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 4, 2008 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
CERN’s New Super Computer Links Scientists Worldwide
CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab that created the Worldwide Web, exhibited its newest development on Friday: a computer network allowing some 7,000 scientists in 33 countries to connect and share data and processing power.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 4, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Sadistic boy, 7, feeds live reptiles to crocodile
A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.
Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.
During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on October 4, 2008 at 11:26:00 AM CEST
Religion: why do people believe in God?
As scientists prove that faith can relieve pain, distinguished psychologist Dorothy Rowe examines the case for and against religion
I'm not religious, but I have thought about religion all of my life. My mother never attended church but she insisted that I went to St Andrew's Church, a cold, unfriendly place filled with cold, unfriendly people. At home, my father, an atheist, would read aloud to us from the essays of Robert Ingersoll, the 19th-century militant atheist.
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Topic: WAR - on October 3, 2008 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
BBC nuclear bomb script released
A script written by the BBC and the government to be broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack has been published.
The script, written in the 1970s and released by the National Archives, included instructions to "stay calm and stay in your own homes".
It said communications had been disrupted, and the number of casualties and extent of damage were not known.
Other papers reveal debates about how to ensure the person reading the script was authoritative and comforting.
The script was discussed from 1973 to 1975, during the Cold War.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 3, 2008 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
California outlaws RFID tag skimming
California governor Schwarzenegger has signed a law making the illegitimate reading of RFID tags illegal, but blocked a measure making the unauthorised tracking of kids equally so.
RFID Journal reports that anyone skimming an RFID tag issued by a government agency, health insurance company, employer or library could find themselves in prison for up to a year, or facing a $1,500 fine, though you're OK if you read it by accident, for a medical emergency or if you're a law-enforcement official.
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Topic: food - on October 3, 2008 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
Ultrasound machine 'turns cheap plonk into fine wine in 30 minutes'
Inventor Casey Jones says the £350 gadget uses ultrasound technology to recreate the effects of decades of ageing by colliding alcohol molecules inside the bottle.
The Ultrasonic Wine Ager, which looks like an ordinary ice bucket, takes 30 minutes to work and has already been given the thumbs up by an English winemaker.
Mr Jones, 53, said: "This machine can take your run-of-the-mill £3.99 bottle of plonk and turn it into a finest bottle of vintage tasting like it costs hundreds.
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