More LAPD officers kill themselves than are killed in the line of duty. That from a study released yesterday:
Police officers in Los Angeles are more likely to take their own life than be killed by a criminal, according to a report presented today to the Police Commission. The data was included in a study by [...]
My brother spotted this around Portland a few days ago. It got me thinking about the status quo in America. Hopefully it will do the same for you.
Scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at the age of 90. He released a thought provoking goodbye a few months back. In it he says that “the golden age of space is only just beginning … Space travel and space tourism will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic [...]
Here’s the next wave of cell phone technology. Sprint and Boost already offer this service.
The following is a timely passage from the book Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy.
In 68 B.C. a pirate attack on Rome’s port of Ostia prompted the terrified Romans to cede far-reaching powers to one man, Pompey. There would be no turning back. The need to act boldly and react quickly; to ferret out enemy [...]
1 out of every 100 Americans are in prison.
1/36 hispanics
1/15 blacks
Experts say mandatory minimums, longer sentences in general, and less liberal parole guidelines have converged to create the worlds highest incarcerated population.
Meanwhile, crime rates remain stagnent and prison budgets have skyrocketed. In some states, like Oregon, more is spent on ‘corrections’ than higher education.
I [...]
You can read the full story in the USA Today article.
Over 100,000 people have signed an online petition asking Wikipedia to ‘peacefully’ remove the above picture of Muhammad. Of course, Islamic teaching prohibits images of the prophet–hence the protest.
Wikipedia though refuses to comply stating that it will not be subject to ‘censorship:’
Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a [...]
Anders Sandberg came out with these awhile ago, I just stumbled across them here. Check it out, he explains each sign in detail.
Here’s the late, great Carl Sagan putting us in our place. We often forget how small we are and how big the universe is. This reminder makes me especially enjoy his point about wars for territory.
Quietly introduced to the department in late summer, the Phraselator may have found an ideal home in Los Angeles, where police have long struggled to find officers who can communicate in all 224 languages spoken in the immigrant-rich city.
The idea of a simple device that can instantly translate any language is a staple of utopian [...]
Is there any correlation between food prices and cancer rates?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is expected to declare as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring is safe to eat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
“I remember us thinking, how long is this going to go, how much is this going to trigger, how bad is this going to get, how many people are going to die?”
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