Category: News

Some of the news that make me laugh, cry or simply make me want to start a revolution.

Never seen before pictures of Hiroshima

Post author By Sebastien
Post date May 9, 2008
17 Comments on Never seen before pictures of Hiroshima

These pictures were taken on the ground, from the inside of the disaster. It is far from the abstract image of the nuclear mushroom. These pictures show Hiroshima a few days after Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb, on August 6th 1945, at 8.17am. These pictures have not been revealed to the US general public yet…

These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.

Please contact Sean L. Malloy (smalloy@ucmerced.edu) if you have any information that might help identify the original photographer.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them

Tags News, Photos, War

News Random

Using a skull as a bong… wew gross

Post author By Sebastien
Post date May 8, 2008

The news just fell. Here is a copy/paste from the Associated Press. What kind of sick bastard would do this?

Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.

One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.

Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.

Tags Gross, News, Stupid

News Tech

Operate your computer by power of thought

Post author By Sebastien
Post date May 7, 2008

Russian scientists won a $750,000 award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control. For the next 18 months they are going to develop programs and make a research that will help them to create such a system.

How does that work? Special equipment catches brain signals that go through the metal helmet with electrodes. Then with the help of a signal enhancer the signal will go to the computer.

This will make the life of disabled people much easier. Those who canâ€™t move will be able to write email letters and even IM people around the world.

Tags News, Tech

News

Hispanic population hits 45.5 million

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 30, 2008
2 Comments on Hispanic population hits 45.5 million

I recently wrote an article about minorities in franchising and how it is important for franchise companies to target minorities, especially the Hispanic communities as they are soon to be majorities…

The US Census Bureau reported today that the number of Hispanics in the United States grew to 45.5 million last year, and the country’s largest minority group now makes up more than 15 percent of the US population.

Health News

Pittsburgh and Los Angeles have the worst pollution

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 30, 2008
2 Comments on Pittsburgh and Los Angeles have the worst pollution

Pittsburgh is the worst U.S. city for short-term particle pollution, the American Lung Association announced on Thursday.

It was the first time a city outside California topped any of the association’s three lists for different kinds of pollution in its annual “State of the Air” report.

News

Another shark attack. This time it’s in Mexico

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 29, 2008
2 Comments on Another shark attack. This time it’s in Mexico

A shark attacked and killed an American tourist surfing off a beach on Mexico’s Pacific coast, police said on Tuesday.

A gray shark bit 24-year-old San Francisco resident Adrian Ruiz in the leg on Monday, opening a 14-inch wound from his hip to his knee and exposing his femur, the public security ministry in the state of Guerrero said in a statement.

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Man killed by shark attack in Solana Beach

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 25, 2008

A retired veterinarian who was swimming with members of a triathlon club was killed Friday morning in a shark attack north of Fletcher Cove.

A marine expert said the wounds appeared to be from a great white shark, an attack he described as â€œpractically unprecedentedâ€ in the area.

News Random

Sex abstinence to fight STDs? Haha

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 23, 2008

Reuters reports that a program teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins. If you tell me NOT to do something, chances are I will try to do it… Kids will have sex one way or the other so you might as well teach them how to be responsible vs. teaching them not to have sex.

Tags Health, Sex

News Opinions

How the US administration shapes information

Post author By Sebastien
Post date April 20, 2008

Faux News The New York Times published this morning a great article on how the US administration shapes information by putting its military analysts on major news channels.

Here are some of the highlights but I strongly recommend reading the full article:

News Opinions

Invisible wounds of war

Depressed soldier About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday.

The study by the RAND Corp. also estimated that another 320,000 troops have sustained a possible traumatic brain injury during deployment. But researchers could not say how many of those cases were serious or required treatment.