Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers’ Heads by 2020
Researchers expect brain waves to operate computers, TVs and cell phones
By Jeremy Hsu
If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don’t tell Intel researchers. Intel’s Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020.
From Maggie Richards:
Just heard from my son who was working on one of the cleanup crews for BP.
He tells me that the crew he was working with got laid off because they were finding too much oil. Last week at the Perdido Key National Sea Shore (Ft. McRae), they removed over 11,000 pounds of oil in 4 days. He said that they were told they could dig as deep as 6 inches. They removed these sheets of oil/tar–NOT tarballs–at 4 inches. He called it “a tar carpet.”
BP immediately, upon learning about this, replaced this entire crew with a crew that was known for their sloppy work.
He’s not exaggerating. The local TV station carried this story a couple days ago& showed BP authorities ordering the TV crew away from the beach when they went in with a small child size shovel and
started checking.I don’t mind that my son was laid off because I have been concerned the whole time about what the hell he might be breathing in that mess, not to mention what other damage it could cause.
They are doing everything possible to cover up their crimes. It does piss me off that the proof is right here that BP is lying their ass off and no one is calling those bastards on it. It pisses me off more that this damn company can come into our country and try to tell people that they cannot go on the beach, cannot photograph the area etc. Who the hell gave them that authority?
If I could afford it I would be out there every day of the week asking those questions. And I would be taking pictures.
Maggie Richards
Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking
By James L. “Chip” Northrup
In a previous paper,1 I compared the horizontal hydrofracking of shale to a “pipe bomb.” Real bombs have been used to frack shale, including at least one nuclear device at Rulison, Colorado.2 The bomb worked, but the gas was too radioactive to be marketable. Ironically, the horizontal hydrofracking of Marcellus shale poses a similar problem – it produces radioactive waste.
The frack fluid effectively leaches radioactive radium out of the shale. When the frack water is pumped back out of the well, it is laced with radium, a potent carcinogen.3 Based on a recent article in Scientific American, the amount of radium in water from the Marcellus is 267 times the safe limit for disposal, and thousands of times the level considered safe to drink.
Houston Voting Machine Fire Update and Shouting ‘Voter Fraud’ in a Crowded Midterm Election
By Brad Friedman
Thousands of borrowed e-voting machines made by Austin-based Hart Intercivic have begun arriving in Harris County (Houston), TX this week in the wake of last month’s massive warehouse fire which destroyed all 10,000 of the county’s 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems in advance of early voting for the mid-term elections.
Sick: Insurance Companies Dropping New Coverage for All Kids to Avoid Insuring Sick Kids
A health reform mandate taking effect Thursday requires insurance companies to cover children with pre-existing conditions until the age of 19. Insurance giants have already figured out how to game the
new policy to get out of covering sick kids: dropping all child-only plans.
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MCM and Adrian Grenier
Entourage and the “Paps”:
Bring Your Questions for Adrian Grenier
By STEPHEN J. DUBNER
We feature all kinds of people on this blog – drug dealers, prostitutes, even academic economists – but readers are always complaining that we don’t have any movie stars. Today that changes.
Below we are soliciting your questions for Adrian Grenier, the actor who plays Vincent Chase on HBO’s Entourage and has appeared in The Devil Wears Prada and other films. Grenier also makes documentary films – Shot in the Dark (2002), which chronicled his search for his estranged father, and Teenage Paparazzo, which premieres on HBO on Sept. 27. (The Sleb Suit, meanwhile, is already available.)
Teenage Paparazzo is a film about the paparazzi industry, yes, but it is also a film about the price of fame; it focuses on Grenier’s intriguing relationship with a 15-year-old paparazzo named Austin Visschedyk. I saw the film a few months ago at the Gen Art Film Festival, and thought it was quite good. Visschedyk is a fantastic character; as a celeb himself, Grenier is in a good position to assess the state of fame; and the film also features trenchant commentary from folks like Mark Crispin Miller.
FAMILY FARMS, SUSTAINABLE & ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY AND URGE THEM
TO SUPPORT THE TESTER AMENDMENT
The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) could reach the Senate floor as early as tomorrow. NSAC has been able to win several improvements to the bill but more changes are needed to avoid serious harm to family farm value-added processing and the emergence of local and regional food systems.
S.510 would considerably ramp up FDA regulation on farms that even minimally process their crops and sell them to restaurants, food coops, groceries, schools and wholesalers. An amendment sponsored by Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) would exempt small farm and small food processing facilities as well as small and mid-sized farmers who primarily direct market their products to consumers, stores or restaurants within their region.
Learn More:
Most sustainable agriculture and family farm groups think the Senate bill with changes won by NSAC is a very significant improvement over the companion bill passed by the House of Representatives (HR 2749) last year. The changes listed below will be included in the bill that goes to the Senate floor for a vote. We can’t support the Senate bill, however, unless the Tester amendment is also adopted. We strongly oppose the companion House measure, and stand ready to defend the “good amendments” to the Senate bill when it goes to conference with the House later this year.
The Manager’s Amendment to S.510 already includes the following important improvements to the bill that have been backed by NSAC:
- Sanders (D-VT) amendment (requiring FDA to write regulations to determine low risk on-farm processing activities that can be exempt from regulatory requirement);
- Bennet (D-CO) amendment (to reduce unnecessary paperwork and streamline requirements for farmers and small processors);
- Stabenow (D-MI) amendment (to create a USDA-delivered competitive grants program for farmer food safety training);
- Boxer (D-CA) amendment (to eliminate anti-wildlife habitat language from the bill); and
Exclusive: Gulf seafood poses long-term health risks, experts say | Raw Story
By Brad Jacobson
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 — 7:49 am
Despite repeated assurances from federal officials and President Obama, independent scientists and public health experts have serious concerns about the long-term safety of Gulf seafood consumption.
In particular, experts tell Raw Story, contaminants from the massive oil spill and unprecedented use of the dispersants employed to dissolve the spill have the potential to cause cancer and neurological disorders.
In interviews with Raw Story last week, scientists and public health experts expressed concerns over possible long-term risks from eating contaminated Gulf seafood.
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