Patent law, supposed to spur innovation, is instead unfortunately often full of barriers to innovation: trolls targeting phone app developers, standards making it harder rather than easier to invalidate bad patents, and toothless patent reform legislat... Read more »
Ron and Rand Paul say downgrade is fault of Washington, not Tea Party (CBSNEWS)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20089744-503544.html "This attempt to scapegoat folks who recognize that our debt is out of control and that we must change course should not be tolerated," he said in a Monday statement. "They are simply demandin... Read more »
What If Android Lost the Patent War?
Android currently owns almost 40 percent of the smartphone market. Apple owns most of the rest. But. Google only holds a few of the patents behind their operating system. Microsoft and Apple hold more and if they win the lawsuit, the market will change... Read more »
Lord Christopher Monckton: "Capacity Building" – An Environmental Iron Fist Run by The UN 2/3
Lord Christopher Monckton: "Capacity Building" - An Environmental Iron Fist Run by The UN 2/3 Lord Christopher Monckton, prominent critic of the theory of anthropogenic global warming, checks in from Cancun, Mexico, where the United Nations is holdi... Read more »
Dieting Forces Brain To Eat Itself
It’s pretty much common sense that starvation diets are bad for you, but when your brain starts eating itself you know it’s time to stop! Nick Collins reports for the Telegraph:
Read more »Like other parts of the body, brain cells begin to eat themselves as a last-ditch source of energy to ward off starvation, a study found.
The body responds by producing fatty acids, which turn up the hunger signal in the brain and increase our impulse to eat.
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York said the findings could lead to new scientifically proven weight loss treatments.
Tests on mice found that stopping the brain cells from eating themselves – a process known as autophagy – prevented levels of hunger from rising in response to starvation.
The chemical change in their brains caused the mice to become lighter and slimmer after a period of fasting, the researchers reported…
Ohio Cop Goes Beserk, Threatens To Execute Man During Arrest (Video)
On June 8, 2011 the following unfortunate arrest took place in Canton, OH. Notifying the policy when you have a firearm is required by Ohio Law, but when this individual with a thirty-day old license tries to do that he is repeatedly ordered to look away, shut up, or interrupted and "forced" to change what he is speaking about by the actions of an aggressive cop who maintains verbal control of the situation. A two man car dealing with three people put itself at risk when one officer started what appears to be an illegal search of the rear of the car without extracting or securing the driver — which would have given him an opportunity to notify. What follows is horrific example of a police officer losing all self-control, threatening to beat the female, threatening to beat the driver and eventually saying he should have executed him "and wouldn't have lost any sleep over it" that night. Read more »
Tylenol, Extra Strength, Is the Number One Cause of Liver Failure
Big Pharma being responsible? Are we living on Htrae? Via USA Today:
Read more »TRENTON, NJ — Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that it’s reducing the maximum daily dose of its Extra Strength Tylenol pain reliever to lower risk of accidental overdose from acetaminophen, its active ingredient and the top cause of liver failure.
The company’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division said the change affects Extra Strength Tylenol sold in the U.S. — one of many products in short supply in stores due to a string of recalls.
Starting sometime this fall, labels on Extra Strength Tylenol packages will now list the maximum daily dose as six pills, or a total of 3,000 milligrams, down from eight pills a day, or 4,000 milligrams. Beginning next year, McNeil will also reduce the maximum daily dose for its Regular Strength Tylenol and other adult pain relievers containing acetaminophen, the most widely used pain killer in the country.
Besides Tylenol, acetaminophen…
Uncovering The Biology Of Cities
The New York Times discusses a growing science subculture — the urban evolutionist. These brave souls are charting the growth of the super-strong mutant rats, fish, bacteria, and bugs that will someday overrun planet:
Read more »A small but growing number of field biologists study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them. For these scientists, New York is one great laboratory.
White-footed mice, stranded on isolated urban islands, are evolving to adapt to urban stress. Fish in the Hudson have evolved to cope with poisons in the water. Native ants find refuge in the median strips on Broadway. And more familiar urban organisms, like bedbugs, rats and bacteria, also mutate and change in response to the pressures of the metropolis.
Pollution has driven some of the starkest examples of evolution around New York. Hudson River fish faced a…
What Ron Paul Was Really Like 30 Years Ago
The Truth About What Ron Paul Was Really Like 30 Years Ago by Robert Wenzel Sunday, July 24, 2011, at 4:50 PM The great economist Murray Rothbard wrote an introduction to Ron Paul's 1981 monograph, Gold, Peace and Prosperity. Rothbard's introduction i... Read more »
Ron Paul: "We Need To Stop Allowing Secretive Banking Cartels To Endlessly Enslave Us"
The barrage of political statements on the debt ceiling is reaching a crescendo. Following Eric Cantor, here is Ron Paul. Debt Ceiling Drama First of all, politicians need to understand that without real change default is inevitable. In fact, default ... Read more »
