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Via GMO Awareness, it may seem cartoonish to brand one company as an evil empire reaping misery over the course of a century, but it’s hard not to when they have created artificial sugar substitutes, DDT, Agent Orange, nuclear weapons, PCBs, and Bovine Growth Hormone: When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find? Here are twelve products that Monsanto has brought to market: 1. Saccharin. John Francisco Queeny founded...
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Every kid in Britain grows up with the Loch Ness Monster as part of their cryptozoological cultural heritage, but could it just be a conspiracy to boost tourism in Scotland? Emma Ailes reports for BBC News: It is 80 years since hotel manageress Mrs Aldie Mackay first reported seeing a “whale-like fish” in the waters of Loch Ness. Now an academic at St Andrew’s University is trawling through 1,000 eye-witness accounts since to see what they can tell us. He...
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The post MJ Harris and Martyn Bates: ‘The Bramble Briar’ appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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David Bryant had his youth stolen for him because his court-appointed attorney neglected to mention that he had a different blood type from body fluids from those collected from the body of a raped and murdered eight year-old girl. Arrested when he was 18, Bryant is now 56, the victim of a judgment system all to quick to carelessly convict a suspect of convenience. He’s free now, thanks to the efforts of advocacy group Centurion Ministries. As you can imagine,...
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Greenpeace’s executive director Phil Radford writes at Huffington Post: Corporations want to work in secret. It’s what they do, and why they have lawyers. In secret, they can spill, clearcut, burn, and otherwise destroy the environment and local communities while telling the world they’re doing just the opposite. Shell Oil’s legal team is currently working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace. It’s a battle that will have implications well beyond the Far North....
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There’s no end of delicious schadenfreude in this story: Cop eats entire cake for breakfast. What a pig! Then it turns out to be a marijuana edible. There’s nothing funny about dosing someone with drugs…except when it is. Says Laurelville, Ohio Police Chief Mike Berkemeier: ”I got up in the morning and ate it — the entire thing,” he said. The post Police Chief Eats Entire Marijuana Cake for Breakfast appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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Deep sea diving teams will be dispatched to attempt to decode the meaning of the monolith, Live Science reports: A giant “monumental” stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built. Rising nearly 32 feet high, the mysterious structure is cone shaped and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons. That makes it heavier than most modern-day warships. It appears to be a...
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I’ll be the first to admit that my math skills are rudimentary. I’d go so far as to say they’re borderline non-existent. To quote that famous plastic scholar Barbie, “Math is tough!” If you can do math, especially anything from algebra on up, you’ve got my admiration – maybe even my fearful reverence. You’re like the first caveman who mastered fire to me. You don’t have to worry about me coming to your door with pitchfork in torch in hand....
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Ken Jordan, Publisher & Editorial Director, Evolver/Reality Sandwich, has written an open letter to TED’s Chris Anderson in an attempt to get the TED organization to stop squirming around for a minute and talk about the real issues at stake in their decision to cordon off large swaths of scientific inquiry: “TED’s prominence has made it, perhaps inadvertently, into an forum that validates worthy intellectual progress. If a good idea gets momentum, it will most likely end up, one way or another, presented...
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Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever a wise choice or foolish hubris? The Wall Street Journal reports on his quest for immortality: Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say? This is a trick question. Mr. Kurzweil famously hopes an obituary won’t...
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