The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Mars clays may have volcanic source
Deposits didn’t need flowing water to form, new research suggests
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/344133/title/Mars_clays_may_have_volcanic_source
Quite interesting how a paradigm can be overtaken (of course, this is speculation at this point; I am just talking in general here). …
SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find
Forensic analysis of drives by investigators now uncertain
http://news.techworld.com/security/3263093/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find/?olo=rss
Quite amazing how the steps to Skynet are taken unconsciously and incrementally. I am sure that many will question this comparison, but the important …
Here in the ‘great’ USofA:
America’s refusal to extradite Bolivia’s ex-president to face genocide charges
Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/09/america-refusal-extradite-bolivia
I really have wound …
Tigers Are Becoming Nocturnal In Order To Avoid Humans
Tigers living near human occupied areas have gradually been becoming more nocturnal, according to new research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://planetsave.com/2012/09/05/tigers-becoming-nocturnal-to-avoid-humans/
It is interesting …
Hospital agrees to cut woman’s $83,046 bill
Anti-venom that sells for $100 in Mexico cost her almost $40,000 a dose in Arizona
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120907/NEWS07/309070043/Hospital-agrees-to-cut-woman-s-83-046-bill?nclick_check=1
Get this:
…Tennessee-based Rare Disease Therapeutics sold the drug to a distributor for $3,500 a dose. The
What are we cheering for?
Don’t let the conventions distract you from the real lesson of 2012: America is becoming increasingly undemocratic
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/06/obamas_convention_charade/
The problem is the system, the players don’t matter. As long as the system is rotten there …
Bottom trawling flattens seafloor
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bottom-trawling-20120905,0,6628384.story?track=rss
So, in addition to sterilizing the body of the ocean with drift nets, we are sterilizing the bottom as well. I wonder how much longer before all fishing crashes? Of course, my interest in …
Polymer Solar Cell Research Breakthrough at California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
http://info.biotech-calendar.com/bid/89038/Polymer-Solar-Cell-Research-Breakthrough-at-California-NanoSystems-Institute-UCLA
I have read about transparent solar cells before, but their efficiencies were so low that it was hard to envision them being economical at any price (even in new …
I used to consider CNN a useful place to get (mostly) objective reporting. That was 10+ years ago and I have sort of watched it since then out of habit (not that there really is any place better, broadcast media …
Preferences
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/preferences/
I strive mightily to be smarter than myself, but, sadly, tend to fail a large proportion of the time. For instance, last weekend during our pool/greenhouse construction, I was ‘persuading’ a spacer in between two rafters with a …