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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health Anand Grover has made public statements criticizing the Japanese government for lack of comprehensive care of all those affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This is really inexcusable on the part of Japan and is somewhat shocking if it was not providing rigorous, consistent, comprehensive,…

This video is of historical linguist Edward Vajda who has been conducting extensive research on the Ket language and its possible link to the Na-Dene languages of various indigenous North American populations. If true, it would be the oldest known link between two languages and the first link between North American and Eurasian langauges. But…

WHAT: The latest update to the Mozilla Firefox browser, version 17, is not compatible with the latest release of the Tab Mix Plus addon. Tab Mix Plus is an essential addon which I cannot live without. HOW: There is a solution to the problem: Install the development version of Tab Mix Plus. Firefox will ask…

A new record has been set for the oldest galaxy ever observed by humans. “MACS0647-JD” was viewed by using the gravitational lensing effect of a massive galaxy cluster. It dates to only 420 million years after the Big Bang. At that time the Universe was inconceivably smaller than it is today. The size of the…

One thing that is truly sickening about Apple is that they will not allow their dock to be used by other device manufacturers. Many appliances feature iPad or iPhone docks – for example things like clock radios or car stereos – where one can connect their iPhone and play music. Obviously there should be an…

The news clip on the BBC website said that the ancient gold artifacts discovered at a Thracian site in what is now Bulgaria may date back as far as the 3rd century BC [I hate our date system]. From Wikipedia: These Indo-European peoples, while considered barbarian and rural by their refined and urbanized Greek neighbors,…

Thanks for working hard to win the election and we are so glad you will be staying for four more years. We love you. Let’s fix America!

One of the most significant problems which has arisen since the popularity of digital art media (primarily music in mp3 compression format) is the issue of artist compensation. When looking at the advent of the popularity of digital art media usage by the general public one can weigh the pros and cons. This author believes…

I was viewing a video where the speaker recommends installing Microsoft Web Platform which is basically a bundle of IIS, SQL Server, and some other components if you want to run a local web server for testing and development of web sites. This idea didn’t appeal to me for a couple of reasons. One is…

This is too much. Its taking reflectivity to a level which opens a deep rent behind the facades of our society. So many things may be claimed to reflect our culture right now, but this particular invocation is raw and actually funny. This guy just randomly goes up to people with a video camera for…