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LifestreamAn interesting observation about social networking sites (Physorg – Study: Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism). The researchers found that the number of Facebook friends and wallposts that individuals have on their profile pages correlates with narcissism. Buffardi said this is consistent with how narcissists behave in the real-world, with numerous yet shallow [...]
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Wired: Potentially lethal microorganisms getting even more aggressive in the slaughterhouse of Iraq. (via Raw Story) Since OPERATION Iraqi Freedom began in 2003, more than 700 US soldiers have been infected or colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii. A significant number of additional cases have been found in the Canadian and British armed forces, and among wounded [...]
F. William Engdahl paints a fairly grim picture of the future of food and the world’s most unscrupulous transnational agricultural biotechnology corporation, namely Monsanto, which now stands poised to acquire Delta and Pine Land Company. The merger would have happened already in 1998 and then in 2001 but various factors prevented Monsanto from completing the [...]
A new dismal low point for the United States. According to new research presented by National Geographic, people in the United States are among the least likely, certainly among industrialized nations, to accept the theory of evolution. In the U.S., only 14 percent of adults thought that evolution was “definitely true,” while about a third [...]
David Galbraith makes a compelling case against IQ testing, senses that the debate over nature vs nurture in developmental psychology is about to flare up again. But no one questions the underlying dogma of IQ of course. “Is it time to call bullshit on IQ tests?” Yes, it’s well overdue. Perhaps people who really believe [...]
As predicted, the US took a firm stance against science and progress when Geordie vetoed a bill expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. So far so good. Yes really. Well, I suppose I should be fuming. But I look at it like this: The US dominates many scientific fields due to its rather [...]
Almost blinked and missed it, but July 10 marked a rather noteworthy anniversary of sorts. Croats and Serbs united on Monday in celebrating late scientist Nikola Tesla, hailing him as a symbol of ethnic tolerance badly needed in the Balkans. Tesla was born 150 years ago this day in this small village at the foot [...]
A good rebuttal of the silly and intellectually lazy intelligent design / creationist claims as they have been brought up again by the cesspool that is America’s perhaps most well known pundit, Ann Coulter. As vile as some may think Coulter is, this time she has trespassed on really dangerous grounds where she could do [...]
Someone over at Metafilter started a thread about one of the many implications of nanotechnology. Namely not having to work, ever. Well, maybe. Well, most of us in the western world don’t HAVE to work at the present either, but we still do. So maybe we can’t make food out of grass clippings yet, but [...]
Those that dismissed RFID security and privacy concerns out of hand and placed it in the tin foil category might want to take a look at this latest development. Plans to track the movements of once-free Americans continue to march forward. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are being put into everything from your passport to [...]
