Oct 29, 2012 | Black Technology
Voice Identification Technology Used in European Terror Investigation Intelligence agencies deployed biometric voiceprinting technology to identify and apprehend suspects linked to an alleged terror plot targeting multiple European countries. The British Government...
Oct 29, 2012 | Ancient & Lost History
Ancient Tomb Unearthed at Tak’alik Ab’aj Archaeologists working in western Guatemala’s Retalhuleu province uncovered one of the oldest Maya tombs ever identified. The burial site, located at the Tak’alik Ab’aj archaeological complex...
Oct 29, 2012 | Nature Body Mind
Dolphins may employ complex nonlinear mathematics when hunting prey, according to research that suggested these marine mammals possess far more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously recognized. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society...
Oct 29, 2012 | Anonymous
How online privacy tools are changing Internet security and driving the (probably quixotic) quest for anonymity in the digital age. For many of us, the Internet is like a puppy—lovable by design and fun to play with, but prone to biting. We suspect that our digital...
Oct 29, 2012 | Government Agenda
In the 2012 election cycle, Wired magazine partnered with MapLight, a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit dedicated to tracking money in politics, to create a free embeddable widget that displayed the top 10 donors to any member of the House, Senate, or presidential...
Oct 28, 2012 | Nature Body Mind
Stanford Researchers Discover Young Blood Reverses Aging in Mice A groundbreaking experiment conducted at Stanford University revealed that transfusions of young blood can reverse cognitive decline in aging mice. The findings, presented at the Society for Neuroscience...
Oct 28, 2012 | Activism
Why Ender’s Game Resonates So Deeply Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game has become one of science fiction’s most celebrated novels, required reading at military academies and beloved by technologists and gamers alike. Yet beneath its surface as a...
Oct 28, 2012 | Nature Body Mind, Survivalism, Video
TRUE SKIN from H1 on Vimeo. Singularity reaches Humanity. Corporations deliver an Apocalyptic Transhumanist Cyborg Society. A brilliant and stunningly accurate short film. Must Watch! Written & Directed by: Stephan Zlotescu Director of Photography: H1 Original...
Oct 28, 2012 | Nature Body Mind
Beyond the Classroom: Geometry as a Living Tradition For most people, the word geometry conjures memories of classroom exercises involving angles, proofs, and theorems — a discipline rooted in logic and abstraction that traces its formal structure back to...
Oct 28, 2012 | News, Video
We’re used to thinking of robot swarms as consisting of lots and lots of similar robots working together. What we’re starting to see now, though, are swarms of heterogeneous robots, where you get different robots combining their powers to make each other more...
Oct 28, 2012 | News
Iceland’s Experiment in Citizen-Drafted Government In October 2012, Iceland announced the results of a national referendum on a draft constitution that had been assembled through an unprecedented process of crowdsourced citizen participation. Approximately...
Oct 28, 2012 | Abuses of Power
A British Iraq war veteran was made redundant just 72 hours before he would have qualified for a full Army pension, exposing what critics described as a pattern of cost-cutting at the expense of long-serving military personnel. Three Days Short After Nearly 18 Years...
Oct 28, 2012 | Nature Body Mind
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, where more than 33,000 people have been killed in 19 months of conflict, issued a law on GM food Thursday to preserve human life, state-run SANA news agency reported. Assad, whose forces are locked in a bloody confrontation with...
Oct 28, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
The Research Linking Creativity to Mental Illness In 2012, researchers published findings suggesting a measurable connection between creative professions and certain psychiatric conditions. The study, which received widespread media coverage, examined patterns across...
Oct 28, 2012 | Nature Body Mind, Survivalism
Thunder God Vine Compound Eliminates Tumors in Mice Study In October 2012, researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Cancer Center published findings showing that a compound derived from the Chinese thunder god vine — known in Mandarin as lei gong...
Oct 28, 2012 | Metaphysics, Nature Body Mind
The Human Mind: The Ultimate Gateway to Higher Dimensions The human mind may be the most powerful stargate in existence. From the moment we gain awareness as children, society conditions us to accept a profoundly limited view of reality. We are told that existence is...
Oct 28, 2012 | Activism
By 2012, whistleblowing had evolved from a fringe act associated with anonymous sources meeting journalists in parking garages to something widely recognized as essential to democratic accountability. Surveys showed growing public support for those who exposed...
Oct 28, 2012 | Black Technology
What Are Stingray Cell Phone Surveillance Devices? Among the most invasive surveillance tools deployed by law enforcement agencies in the United States, few remain as poorly understood by the general public as the Stingray. Formally known as an International Mobile...
Oct 24, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
Apple Reintroduced User Tracking With iOS 6 When Apple rolled out iOS 6 alongside the iPhone 5 in September 2012, a significant change slipped in with far less fanfare than the device itself. The company quietly introduced a new advertising tracking system known as...
Oct 24, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, News
The Hidden Cost of Double-Tap Drone Strikes A landmark joint study by Stanford and New York University researchers found that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan were killing approximately 49 civilians for every known militant targeted. The nine-month investigation, based...
Oct 24, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
http://youtu.be/MMirTxSlhBA Greenwald is that increasingly rare commodity in the US, a true journalist. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he is definitely correct here in debunking the hogwash about “humanitarian” wars. Nobody goes to...
Oct 24, 2012 | Video
Bain Capital’s Extraordinary Returns Raised Red Flags During the 2012 presidential election cycle, the Los Angeles Times published a report detailing the remarkable financial performance of Mitt Romney’s investment firm, Bain Capital. According to the...
Oct 24, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, Video
The Romney-Bain Capital Connection to Electronic Voting Machines During the 2012 presidential election cycle, investigative journalists uncovered a financial link between the Romney family, Bain Capital-connected investment firms, and a company that manufactured...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power
About 300 people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in the U.S. thanks to DNA evidence. But overlooked in those stories are the accounts of jurors who unwittingly played a role in the injustice. One of those stories is playing out in Washington, D.C., where...
Oct 24, 2012 | News
UN Report Pushes for Expanded Internet Monitoring In October 2012, the United Nations released a 148-page report titled “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes,” calling for increased surveillance of internet users as a tool for investigating and...
