The United States’ Senate Intelligence Committee released a 6,000 page report detailing how the CIA tortured prisoners at Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib. A 480 page summary gives a troubling overview. The BBC reports: Were the interrogation methods – torture if you like – more extensive and more brutal than previously admitted? It looks […]
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Torture = Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
Posted in freedom, Government, International, Law, liberty, Politics, War And Peace
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Bagram, CIA, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Guantanamo Bay, Senate Intelligence Committee, sexual torture, torture, United State, USA, waterboarding
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Life
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. — Albert Camus
Arrests for 90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless Myth
By Daniel Brouse There have been many false posts about the arrests of a “90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless” in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For the most part, everything in the posts is not true. 1. The man has not been arrested 2. It is not against the law to feed the homeless in Fort Lauderdale […]
Posted in freedom, health and wellness, Law
Tagged Arrests for 90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless Myth, eat, feeding, Fort Lauderdale, homeless, how to feed the homeless, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Philly
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Landing On A Comet
The European Space Agency has successfully landed a spaceship on a comet. The Rosetta mission started 10 years ago when Philae was launched into space. An ESA spokesman said, “We are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever.”
Posted in Education, History, Science, Space
Tagged comet, European Space Agency, Rosetta Mission
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Jesus Married With Kids
According to a press release in The Sunday Times of the United Kingdom, Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children: ‘Married’ Jesus found in British Library — A new book claims Jesus married Mary Magdalene, a theory that is also touched upon in the film The Last Temptation of Christ IT SOUNDS like The Da […]
Chaos Theory And Music
A creator wrote to the KingArthur.com research team: For my senior project, I wanted to see if one could use the Chaos Game to compose music, using the coordinates of notes on a 12-tone Matrix as it’s vertices, and then finding other ways of determining it’s magnification/compression factor, etc. Your ideas about the connection between […]
Greenhouse Gas Levels at Highest Point in 800,000 Years
The Membrane Domain has been conducting research on climate change since 1999. Don’t you hate it when this happens? The ABC, Australia’s public broadcaster, is reporting: The world’s top scientists have given their clearest warning yet of the severe and irreversible impacts of climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has […]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming
Tagged climate change, extreme, global warming, severe and irreversible impacts
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Turning Water Into Electricity
It is possible to turn water into electricity. Solar energy is one of the cleanest and cheapest ways to convert liquid H2O into steam. The energy in steam is 9 times greater than the energy in the same weight of boiling water. The math suggests that each gallon of evaporated water is equal to running […]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Science
Tagged climate change, global warming, solar energy, solutions, Turning Water Into Electricity
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The Costs of Solar Energy
A lot of the environmental costs of solar depend on how the panels and batteries are produced, transported and disposed of… and most importantly how the energy is stored. As renewable energy grows, storage will become a greater problem. In general, we would be better off producing energy like the sun (fusion) than trying to […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Science
Tagged batteries, climate change, evaporation, fusion, global warming, Nuclear Energy, nuclear fusion, solar panels, storage, The Economics of Turning Water into Electricity, toxic waste, turn water into electricity, water
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Heading Toward Hottest Year On Record
The The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report showing “Global temperature reaches record high in September”. Global Highlights The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for September 2014 was the highest on record for September, at 0.72°C (1.30°F) above the 20th century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F). The global land […]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming
Tagged climate change, heat, record hot
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