At a time when London has recently experienced suicide bombings and terrorist attacks kill collation soldiers in Iraq every day, two Purdue University professors are turning to writings published 25 years ago try to understand radical Islam, through the writings of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who reported on the 1979 Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah.
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It’s now known that heavy metal pollution of the kind emitted by cars and power plants leads to autism in babies born with a genetic sensitivity to it. This is going to create a huge groundswell in the US for cleaning up emissions of dangerous gases. Now a common chemical compound used in the manufacture of beauty products has been linked to the auto-immune disease lupus in people who have a genetic predispostion to this.
Male babies born to women who use beauty products containing phthalates often have smaller genitals. When researchers injected mice with phthalates, they found the injections triggered lupus, which leads to a considerably shortened lifespan in mice that have a genetic disposition to the disease but not in mice that are not pre-disposed to the illness.read more
Newswise – London had its own 911 on July 7 and Whitley Strieber warns that it will happen again. Engineers warn that in a major disaster, cell phones will not work for emergency communications because of the overload on the system. This happened in both the New York and London attacks. What does work, besides the two-way radios that police and fire fighters use, is wireless e-mail sent through portable devices like the Blackberry. He also says that the undergrounds of major cities need to be made more resistant to bombs.
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Thirsty people can be made to drink more than they normally would by being exposed to subliminal facial expressions, which are not seen consciously. In a recent study, hidden smiles persuaded people to drink specific beverages than neutral expressions did. Frowns caused avoidance. Consumers were willing to pay up to three times as much for a drink that was poured with a smile, and they even wanted seconds, without knowing what the drink was. When questioned, they weren’t aware of the manipulation. Psychologist Piotr Winkielman says, “This is the first demonstration that you can influence consequential, real-world behavior without affecting conscious feeling. We can change what you do, without changing how you feel.”
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