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Does the expiration date on a bottle of a medication mean anything? If a bottle of Tylenol, for example, says something like "Do not use after June 1998," and it is August 2002, should you take the Tylenol? Should you discard it? Can you get hurt if you take it? Will it simply have lost its potency and do you no good?In other words, are drug manufacturers being honest with us when they put an

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With the government's healthcare plan looming above us, there has perhaps never been a better time for Americans to understand the excessive costs of health care, and the origins of these vast increases.While many commentators have been quick to blame the free market for these costs, health insurance in America is not completely "free." For instance, in Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New

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A full 87 percent of American scientists see their political alignment as Democrat or Independent, according to a new Pew Research poll.Surprisingly or not, just six percent declared themselves Republican, and only nine percent overall expressed support of conservative ideology.From the data summary:Most Americans do not see scientists as a group as particularly liberal or conservative. Nearly

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Centralized monetary authorities enjoy a privileged position in the current monetary system. People tend to view the economists and politicians at these institutions as demigods, individuals who if given enough resources will ensure that the economy continues an ever-advancing and smooth trajectory. However, unlike the Greek demigods of yore, today's central bankers are mere mortals who must work

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Earlier this month a new section debuted on News N Shit. Apology Central is a live chronicle of the pervasive and ever-growing Culture of Apology. The section now appears every day in the right hand column of the site's front page, just below What's Happening Now and above the News N Shit Picks section. Now each time you visit News N Shit, you can check this section for an instant roundup of

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According to Kevin Rudd's unFair Work Australia, the economy is doing so badly that low-paid workers need to do without a pay rise this year, despite rising costs of living.It seems, however, that Wall Street didn't get the same message.Tearing down the JP Morgan Building, corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street, New York, Bain News Service, 1912.After slightly decreasing in 2008, corporate

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Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a resource whose production will soon be falling. Since 1981, the quantity of oil extracted has exceeded new discoveries by an ever-widening margin. In 2008, the world pumped 31 billion barrels of oil but discovered fewer than 9 billion barrels of new oil. World reserves of conventional oil are in a free fall, dropping every

KCMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18139819.post-41536523940047277782009-08-18T11:11:00.001-04:002009-09-29T18:22:20.816-04:00

Ever since I was a kid, I have been baffled by the concept of check writing. Essentially, when you write a check, you're saying to someone, "I have the money I owe you, but it's not with me right now. I'll write you this note that says how much money I'm giving you and if you take it to my bank they'll give you the money."This primitive system is totally based on trust. If the person writing you

KCMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18139819.post-23271459521482628972009-08-12T17:46:00.001-04:002009-09-29T18:21:21.838-04:00

High speed rail is like soccer – Americans want to like it, but it’s still much more popular in Europe.President Obama included an ambitious HSR plan as part of his Stimulus Package, and plans are now moving forward. But now a recent report (PDF), out of Europe no less, questions one of the basic assumptions of HSR: that it is any cleaner than flying.As reported in the Freakonomics blog of the

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Greenpeace has started a war of sorts. Ironic? Not really, considering its adversary, Hewlett Packard (HP), and the two organizations’ history of contempt. The eco activist network has taken on HP, which Greenpeace claims is producing hazardous chemicals and not making sufficient efforts to change its ways.It all began in 2007, when HP promised to phase out dangerous substances, including BFR

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I have been asked a few things about Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme so I thought I would put together a general piece on ponzis. My first job out of university was to work on the investigation of one for seven years, so I have some experience here.In general, setting up a ponzi scheme is an easy thing to talk about, but it has to be done carefully. There have been lots of them throughout history

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“How can we make the world a better place? One electric car at a time.”That’s the driving force (if you’ll excuse the pun) behind a partnership between a Danish energy company and Silicon Valley startup Project Better Place, announcing their plan to establish an electric car network in Denmark powered through 20,000 wind powered recharging stations. The cars will be recharged at night, when wind

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The entire nation of Maldives is looking for a place to relocate in advance of rising sea levels.Surprisingly, the country, which is comprised of over a thousands small islands in the Indian Ocean, has been on the hunt for over twenty years. The clock is ticking faster now as the world's climate begins to undergo changes noticeable even to casual observers. Inhabitants of small islands will be

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This set of photographs was sent to the contact address on the News N Shit website back in January 2004. Because the photos were not released by the US Government and were never recognized as official images, they were never published on this site. 2004 was a different time than today and the atmosphere surrounding such things was less than accommodating for publishing unauthorized images. I'll

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Chicago Tribune readers are vowing to ignore the new name on the Sears Tower. And it's almost unanimous. An insurance brokerage company, Willis Group Holdings, announced March 12 that in addition to moving its Chicago offices into several floors of the Sears Tower, they had also negotiated to rename the building in their own honor. But Chicagoans and people across the country just can't imagine

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From the Seattle Times: "Of the millions who read Vincent Bugliosi's best-seller The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Seattle coffee merchant Bob Alexander may be the only one to act on it in a substantial way, sending copies of it to 2,200 prosecutors around the country...Now he and his volunteers are following up with each one of them by phone and e-mail, as well as gathering

KCMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18139819.post-73815115216934193432009-02-10T12:58:00.007-05:002009-09-29T18:21:51.118-04:00

In late 2008, after Polaroid ceased manufacturing of its instant film, a group supported by Ilford Photo and Harman Technology ambitiously purchased the facilities in the Netherlands which produced the film.Polaroid's instant film has remarkably been made using the exact same recipe for several decades. The new group, Impossible BV, has set a goal to re-invent the way instant analog film is

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In May 2008, in order to continue to expand the ruse that his giant, manipulative cable company is a friendly neighbor, Insight Communications CEO Michael Willner started his own blog.He opened his blog with a post reading, "When it comes to communicating with the public, most companies take the safest path. They usually play their cards pretty close to their chest. I'm joining the blogsosphere

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Our feed of live headlines and News N Shit Picks is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Simply direct your browser to newsnshit.com/iphone. The headlines are just like the ones in the right hand column of this page and update continuously, 24-hours-a-day, as news happens.For other mobile devices and text browsers, the same feed is available at newsnshit.com/mobile.

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Two new bumper stickers are available from News N Shit. First, we have the reassuring "Everything is just fine" design which is sure to help you continue denying that there is a recession.The second sticker is a bit more realistic and is being issued in honor of the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. "Mission Uncomplished" is a near-guarantee for generating sad and angry glances at

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On May 1, 2003, under a colorful banner reading “Mission Accomplished,” President George W. Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. The first year in Iraq – called “the lost year” by a PBS Frontline documentary – saw a number of successes and reasons for hope. Iraqi children caught candy tossed by US soldiers from Humvees, ordinary citizens celebrated their freedom in the

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Poor spelling and abuse of apostrophes in simple English words has become much too prevalent. This short article is especially for you if you regularly post comments on message boards, write your own blog, or change the letters on the sign in front of a fast food restaurant or store. Print it out and memorize it. The test will be every single time you write something.YOU'RE = you are. "you're

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"You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate. Poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera... I think people are beginning to realize that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world."- Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize

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