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Street Justice Prevalent in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Following a study funded with grant money from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers have determined that neighborhoods which experience low-quality social conditions tend to exhibit the largest concentration of people willing to take justice into their own hands. The investigation has also determined...

30 March 2010
07:03 GMT

Fascism in America

I'm sure you may have heard the growing claims that the course of events in motion in the United States offer excellent premises for the installation of a Fascist rule and a police state. In this piece, I will not attempt to persuade anyone that this is or is not the case, but provide a view of status-quo fr...

9 January 2010
13:01 GMT

Fascism in America (II)

This is a continuation of Part 1, an article dealing with the alleged rise of Fascism in America. If you have any comments and opinions as to whether this article is accurate or on point, I ask that you state them in the comments section. I am very interested in knowing what you, the readers, think about the issues t...

9 January 2010
13:01 GMT

Governments Hinder Innovation

While visiting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010, held in Las Vegas, the United States first chief technology officer was told that governments often acted as a block in the path of innovation. While also receiving praise for the role that America played in the field of science and technology, Aneesh Chopra wa...

8 January 2010
16:01 GMT

LHC Scientist Arrested Under Terrorism Charges

A 32-year-old man working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near the French-Swiss border, was detained under accusations of terrorism last week, when it was proven that he was entertaining links with the renowned terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The man, who is of Algerian descent, was working on an experiment insi...

13 October 2009
05:05 GMT

Your Wireless Network May Be Spying on You

A team of scientists has found another use for wireless networks, other than transmitting data from one terminal to another. According to a research paper it just made public, wireless technology can be used to reveal what's going on behind closed doors, or through a wall. The team, based at the University of Ut...

1 October 2009
08:53 GMT

Hate-Crime Impact More Widespread than Thought

According to a new scientific study conducted by criminologists at the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom, the effects of hate crime are both more widespread and deeper than initially estimated in other scientific papers. The experts also distinguish between the most aggressive forms of such crimes, such ...

14 September 2009
09:52 GMT

The Threats on Our Privacy Are Real

With filmmaker Robert Spence's announcement that he will be using the first-ever eye-shaped video camera for his new documentary, security experts and privacy advocates are becoming increasingly concerned as to the impact that the next generation of surveillance equipment will have on the traditional way people ...

28 March 2009
07:40 GMT


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