Imprisoned Occupy activist alleges medical negligence at Rikers IslandAFP Photo/Stan Honda Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan was released early from Rikers Island prison complex on Wednesday – and she came out making demands. Speaking with reporters after her release, McMillan – who was originally sentenced to three months in prison for assaulting an officer during the Occupy protests – began describing the conditions inside Rikers, and the changes inmates want to see.
Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10KFor the new issue of Forbes Magazine I wrote an article about David Crane, the visionary CEO of NRG Energy . When I met Crane for lunch a couple weeks ago, no sooner had we sat down than he began singing the praises of this new contraption he had in his basement.
Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brainContinue reading page |1| 2 ONE moment you’re conscious, the next you’re not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a single brain area. Scientists have been probing individual regions of the brain for over a century, exploring their function by zapping them with electricity and temporarily putting them out of action.
Terry Boyd Has Federal Overtime Case Against Bank of America Certified as a Class ActionA former Ladera Ranch Bank of America appraiser’s lawsuit over overtime pay has been certified as a class-action case by U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana, according to an attorney representing the plaintiffs.
Free speech banned: Student group sues 4 US universities that ‘stifle dissent’Arguing that free speech is suffering at colleges across the US, an advocacy group filed lawsuits against four universities, seeking to strengthen the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
Facebook mind control experiments linked to DoD research on civil unrestReuters / Dado Ruvic Facebook’s experiment on over half-a-million unsuspecting users has taken a new twist with the revelation that a researcher connected to a Department of Defense-funded program to use the military to quell civil unrest also participated in the study.
Furious man confronts police after learning they killed his dog (VIDEO)Screenshot from RT video Residents in Salt Lake City, Utah are up in arms after a local police officer shot and killed a man’s beloved pet dog last month while responding to a missing child report.
Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov’tWASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court (30%) and Congress (7%), and a six-year low for the presidency (29%). The presidency had the largest drop of the three branches this year, down seven percentage points from its previous rating of 36%.
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?This is a story about the future. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It’s the one where computers keep getting smarter and smarter, and clever engineers keep building better and better robots.