Image by rafaelm via FlickrWorld Toilet Day?
Nov. 19. It's the brainchild of a nonprofit that wants to raise awareness of a global sanitation problem.
Nearly-homeless face 'hidden emergency'
Some new tracking of people who are one step away from being homeless reveals a large population rife with mental illness, hunger and chronic health problems : approximately 400,000 people across Canada.
( 'New' ? The tracking may be new - the basic information certainly isn't )
UK coalition to downgrade scientific advice
Chi Onwurah MP, shadow minister for Business, Innovation and Skills ( Opposition )The government has confirmed that the position of director general of science and research has been abolished, and the role of science research downgraded within the organisation.
Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs
Measurements made with an infrared spectrometer on the spacecraft suggest that the objects are not solid chunks of ice. Instead, they are porous clumps of microscopic ice grains. "What we are seeing are fluffy aggregates of very small pieces of ice," said team member Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland in College Park.
Fight Waterborne Disease "Die Hard" Style (VIDEO)
Tarnished Earth street gallery - Birmingham Centenury Way Bridge
Radio for Pagans
Bill would give U.S. new power against foreign websites
Critics like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, have attacked it as "Internet censorship" that could harm the credibility of the United States as a steward of the global domain name system
( Copyright is blamed for stifling innovation wherever it is upheld - and for organized legal fraud based attacking innovators : organized crime which overloads the courts. Nor would one expect any pretense of impartiality. )
After John Tyner: A Five-Step Plan to a Sane Airport Security System
( Where did the original initiative come from ? I'd rather give the boot to incompetent empire-builders intent on harassing the public than speculate on the way out of unnecessary procedures which ignore who has the greatest stake in the safety of the aircraft they are on...and it's not the bureaucrats. )
It’s Always Sunny at Kaplan Daily
While you dirty hippies and evil leftists are focusing on the lives destroyed, what you are overlooking is that if you put on your neocon warface, you’ll realize that when we bomb civilians, kill their family members and friends, destroy their homes, their crops, and their livestock, sure there may be some hard feelings. But let’s not overlook the value of the government meet and greet!
Why is NYC Taking Away Bike Lanes...to Make Room for Cars?
What remains to be seen is how local cyclists react. Last winter, when 14 blocks of the bike lane on Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue were removed, outraged cyclists took the matter into their own hands, repainting the lane (and filming it). So keep an eye out for a guerrilla video from Staten Island in the near future.
Why Do Republicans Oppose Food Safety? 
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( Comment #6 is mine - and refers to files available at this blog. Aug 13 2009 in Archives and Topical Index in sidebar Corporate Farming.
I think the proposition that this is another way to harass small farmers/businesses more than reasonable - having been familiar with the destruction of 110 small cheese plants in Ontario years ago when Ault Foods / Kraft had laws regarding the time 'industrial' milk could be held before processing changed - something that favoured continuously operating plants -themselves at risk from phage and other airborne organisms cultured by constantly available food.
Shutdowns favoured starving the invaders and controlling them without chemicals! It's another case of ignoring natural science and 'selling' specious argumentation which focuses attention on part of the picture cherrypicked to support an otherwise unreasonable argument. Salesmen and advertisers are not impartial advisors - ever. )
E. coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter Infections may have long-term impacts on Heart and Kidneys
A prospective cohort study was set up in Walkerton, Ontario, Canada to investigate any long-term health problems following contamination of the town’s water supply in May 2000 with E. coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter.
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MIT researchers create super efficient 'origami' solar panels
Dolphins' Bubble Nets Inspire Better Sonar
When it comes to "bubbly areas" such as where waves break around reefs and shores, standard sonar doesn't work. Professor Leighton and his colleagues have developed a new sonar concept called twin inverted pulse sonar (TWIPS), which exploits the way that bubbles pulsate in sound fields.
( That reminds me of the concepts underpinning binocular vision and depth perception. )
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