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Greylodge Occult Review (GLOR) Archives

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The gigantic podcast archives of Alterati. The Inside Scoop on the Outside Culture.

Close encounter: Asteroid nearly 2 miles wide to pass Earth this month

It’s a dark rock that’s a full 1.7 miles wide. It’s an asteroid. Scientists compare it to the one that killed off the dinosaurs. But, before you start scrambling for the next shuttle flight off this planet, rest assured: It will not strike Earth. But, it will come very close to us in just a [...]

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Cyberspying?

The death of an American computer engineer, Shane Todd, in Singapore has created quite a stir. His parents contend he was murdered, but authorities say it was suicide. The mystery seems to have links to the dark world of cyber-spying and could possibly involve China. Rick and Mary Todd traveled from Montana to Singapore to [...]

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Survey finds 97% climate science papers agree warming is man-made | Dana Nuccitelli

Overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed papers taking a position on global warming say humans are causing it http://m.guardiannews.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange

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Why Do People Believe Unbelievable Conspiracy Theories?

From the beginning of writing TSSBP, I consistently railed against two things: idiotic people who believe in unbelievable conspiracy theories and submarines flying “clean sweep” brooms when returning from 2 day underways for Alpha Trials. Somehow, I missed a post from the “Israel did it” 9/11 Truther website with the stunningly deceptive name of “Veterans [...]

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Into Reality: Top Star Trek Warp Speed Concepts : Discovery News

J.J. Abram’s second Star Trek outing “Into Darkness” will hit movie screens this week, no doubt packed with excitement, explosions, mind-melding Vulcans and phasers set to stun. But there will also be the USS Enterprise traveling faster than the speed of light, carving up the vast expanses of interstellar space as if it was a [...]

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Most Transparent Administration in History Releases Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping

The American Civil Liberties Union was curious about warrantless government snooping on citizens’ text messages. So the group filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department. Here’s what they got back: Totally Redacted FOIA response Totally Redacted FOIA response A memo header: “Guidance for the Minimization of Text Messages over Dual-Function [...]

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The Rise Of The ARG: games™ investigates alternate reality games and what the future has in store for the curious experiment.

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Matheny himself was there at the beginning of the ARG, when the increasing prominence of online media got him thinking about new forms of storytelling. “I’ve been a tech person since the Eighties,” he reminisces. “I was an IT expert and moved up into software, and I used to play the Steve Jackson games a lot. I also played the Flying Buffalo play-by-mail games, which were kind of like a LARP but done through mail, phone and faxes. You would send your mailing address and your phone number and you would start getting stuff in the mail.

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LA Times – U.S. diplomat accused of recruiting for CIA in Russia

Russian authorities detained an American diplomat accused of attempting to recruit a Russian intelligence officer into the CIA, the Federal Security Service said Tuesday. Ryan Christopher Fogle, the third secretary of the American Embassy in Moscow, was held overnight before being handed over to U.S. authorities Tuesday, according to the Federal Security Service, or FSB, [...]

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Spate of US spying revelations reminiscent of covert surveillance of Watergate era – US News | Latest US News Headlines | The Irish Times – Wed, May 15, 2013

Not since the covert surveillance exposed during the Watergate scandal of the 1970s has such a rash of revelations about spying and seemingly politically motivated investigations emerged publicly in the United States. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/spate-of-us-spying-revelations-reminiscent-of-covert-surveillance-of-watergate-era-1.1393481

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How climate change denial works

Chris beat me to the ludicrous ‘Global Warming is Over‘ story by David Rose in the London Daily Mail last October, but I wanted to finally delve into the issue a bit more, as it’s a great illustration of how climate change denialism works. http://americablog.com/2013/05/how-climate-change-denial-works.html

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LA Times – Citizen scientists: Help crowd-source climate change research

Citizen scientists, environmentalists and anyone who lives near a power plant — your services are requested. Climate change scientist Kevin Robert Gurney needs your help in a grand undertaking: the mapping of all the power plants in the world. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75898406/

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As Culture Moves Online, France Tries to Follow It With a Tax – NYTimes.com

France’s “cultural exception” — the policy that creative works like books, music and movies deserve protection beyond what is accorded ordinary goods — is in line for a digital update. A government adviser has suggested that manufacturers pay a 1 percent levy on the price of smartphones and tablet computers to help keep funding for [...]

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Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal (eds.): Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City (2013)

Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical [...]

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Dorothy Stein: Ada: A Life and a Legacy (1987)

In this engrossing biography, Dorothy Stein strips away the many layers of myth surrounding Ada Lovelace’s reputation as the inventor of the science of computer programming to reveal a story far more dramatic and fascinating than previous accounts have indicated. Working with original sources, Stein clears up a number of puzzles and misinterpretations of Ada’s [...]

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Financial Privacy Under Fire: DHS Freezes Bitcoin Money Transfers | InvestmentWatch

Mac Slavo May 15th, 2013 SHTFplan.com Financial privacy free of government intrusion and interference is dead. In what seems to be the government’s latest attack on private transactions between individuals, the Department of Homeland Security has shut down funds transfers operated by mobile processing platform Dwolla, which is responsible for managing transfers for the BitCoin [...]

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Steven Shapin: The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (2008)

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts—indeed, highly respected experts—authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? The Scientific [...]

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Huge Solar Flares Keep Erupting from Busy Sunspot AR1748 | Space.com

An overachieving sunspot on the surface of the sun unleashed its fourth major solar flare in two days late Tuesday (May 14), a solar storm that may deal Earth a glancing blow, space weather experts say. The active sunspot AR1748 roared to life Tuesday night releasing an X-class solar flare — the strongest type the [...]

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Can playing more games improve your life and save the world?

When American game designer Jane McGonigal wasn’t healing from a serious concussion more than a month after she slammed her head on the corner of a cabinet door in July 2009, she turned her recovery into a game. She earned points for facing obstacles (“bad guys” like drinking coffee) and for doing things that made [...]

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