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The popular game has been downloaded 1.7 billion times US and British spy agencies routinely try to gain access to personal data from Angry Birds and other mobile applications, a report says. A National Security Agency (NSA) document shows location, websites visited and contacts...

St. Petersburg, FL - University of South Florida researchers say they've located 55 bodies at the now-closed Dozier School for Boys in the Florida panhandle. That's 24 more than official records indicate. A team of more than 50 people from nine different agencies are now attempting to...

Margarine giant admits defeat in the battle of the spreads It spent decades in the nutritional wilderness, blamed for heart disease, high cholesterol, and making people fat. But butter is back – and if you don’t believe us, ask the consumer goods colossus Unilever. Billion-pound...

For those that care: Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger dies at 94 - CNN.com

What ho! The Sound Of Settled Science A paper published today in Theoretical and Applied Climatology finds that the data homogenization techniques commonly used to adjust temperature records for moving stations and the...

via sda Ontario is set to raise the minimum wage - retroactively. Update: a somewhat "better" explanation here. [...] the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario more than doubled since the Liberals came to power in 2003 [...] while we're at it: Wynneing!

For the first time in five years, visitors can walk on the ice of Lake Superior to get to the Apostle Islands sea caves. If people don’t mind feeling moving ice below one's boots, a person might just love it. The National Park Service describes the caves as a “fairyland of needle-like...

via sda Business Insider; The Chinese professional acknowledged that if China asserted control over the disputed islands by attacking Japan, America would have to stand with Japan. And he acknowledged that China did not want to provoke America. But then he said that many in China believe...

The Sound Of Settled Science Latest NASA temperatures are out, and are below Hansen's zero emissions scenario C. https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/426152256887472128/photo/1

God Help Us

(Barry Bowen) Forbes Magazine is famous for its annual list of the world’s wealthiest billionaires. If Forbes compiled a list of the world’s wealthiest religious leaders, I wonder how people would rank on such a list and what their net worth would be estimated at. Complicating the matter...

Y2Kyoto: 'WOW F..ing WOW' Y2Kyoto: 'WOW F..ing WOW' - Small Dead Animals

via sda This is the result of a billion dollar a year media corporation treating the words "scientist" and "narrator" as synonyms: David Suzuki 'regrets' claim that another Fukushima disaster would require mass evacuations in North America Three months after making the wildly overblown claim...

PM of Cananda Singing on Stage (Courtesy Israel PMO) - YouTube

First off, I'm going to begin this blog by stating that I don't have any intentions on changing anyone's mind about the NFL. Nor am I trying to start an argument about who is right and who is wrong. I already know everyone's argument of "It takes too many people to rig a game", and the all...

Hollow 'doughnut' rock appears in Mars rover's path Hollow 'doughnut' rock appears in Mars rover's path - space - 18 January 2014 - New Scientist

via sda News from the African-African Community Hmm, I perceive that my enemy looks a bit gay:LAGOS, Nigeria -- Arrests have spread across Nigeria as dozens more people perceived to be gay have been rounded up and questioned...Money quote:"There is obviously...

via sda Good context & perspective on how much land has been disturbed pending reclamation by the #oilsands in almost 50 yrs pic.twitter.com/Rg2Qv1wmZV

Thaaaaaatttttttt's right, prostitutes. Annnnyway: The Democratic party has found a new consequence of climate change: prostitution. Rep. Barbara Lee and twelve other House Democrats issued a resolution stating that climate change can cause food and water shortages, which could lead...