Choose Your Own Crime Stats

Choose Your Own Crime Stats

Crime stats they’d rather you not hear. https://www.facebook.com/AmidstTheNoise https://twitter.com/AmidstTheNoise Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 1 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-… FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 16 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-… FBI Uniform Crime Repots Table 8 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-… Crimes Detected in England and Wales 2011/2012 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/researc…              

Countdown to a black hole show

Researchers are watching the first scenes of a cosmic show that’s expected to heat up over the next year as a giant gas cloud approaches the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The impending collision was the subject of a research paper published in Nature last December, and now Youris.com, the European [...]

Fire prompts evacuation at nuclear research lab in Idaho

ShareThis Fire prompts evacuation at nuclear research lab in Idaho 16 Apr 2012 A welder’s torch ignited a small fire on the roof of a building at a nuclear research laboratory in Idaho on Monday, prompting an evacuation. No one was hurt and no radioactive material was involved [?], lab officials said. Nearly 100 employees [...]

Medical bills can wreck credit, even when paid off

Mike and Laura Park thought their credit record was spotless. The Texas couple wanted to take advantage of low interest rates, so they put their house on the market and talked to a lender about a mortgage on a bigger home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Their credit report contained a shocker: A $200 medical [...]

Bird flu research to be published in full

ShareThis Bird flu research to be published in full 17 Feb 2012 Two studies reporting what makes the H5N1 bird flu virus transmissible in mammals should be published fully, with no details left out, say flu experts meeting at the World Health Organisation in Geneva… The decision to publish comes just a few short weeks [...]

United States Government Paid For Research Which Lead to Weaponized H5N1 Super Flu Virus

The Intel Hub January 8, 2011 The United States government funded the research of the scientists in the Netherlands who created a mutated form of the H5N1 flu that could, if released, literally destroy humanity. The research and experiments have lead to an intense debate with supporters (mad scientists?) wanting to release the recipe and [...]

CEO pay raises jump a median of 27% in 2010, report finds

ShareThis CEO pay raises jump a median of 27% in 2010, report finds 15 Dec 2011 American CEOs raked in fat paychecks last year, as head honchos netted a median 27% increase in compensation in fiscal year 2010. Top executives from the S&P 500 scored a median 36.5% bump in realized compensation after two years [...]

Do Me A Favor So You’ll Like Me: The Reverse Psychology of Likeability

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  Catch the twist in the title?   If you do a person a favor, you would expect that person to like you more.  However, the research shows something different. If you do someone a favor, you tend to like that person more as a result. The reason is that we justify our actions to [...]

Obama orders federal labs to help businesses create new products

(THE HILL)   President Obama ordered federal government laboratories to accelerate the process of turning scientific discoveries into commercial products. The move is part of an effort to create jobs and strengthen competitiveness, according to the White House. “One driver of successful innovation is technology transfer, in which the private sector adapts federal research for use [...]

The Nonsensical Alleged Iranian Plot And The End Of All Reason

The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie October 14, 2011 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps In order to believe the latest flight of fancy promulgated by Washington, one must suspend any and all logic, reason and plain old common sense. Let’s not forget that one must also ignore any knowledge [...]