Category: English
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Uber Sued Over Mishandling the Medical File of a Woman Who Was Raped by Uber Driver
Photo: AP A woman who was raped by an Uber driver in India is suing the company after reports that several senior executives obtained her medical files and used them to sow doubt about her account of the crime. The lawsuit alleges that Uber’s former president of business in the Asia Pacific region, Eric Alexander,…
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It’s About Time for Another Communist Revolution (If You’re a Mollusk)
Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/Rainer Zenz/Wikimedia Commons/Claire Fackler, CINMS, NOAA The wealth gap is growing. The predators continue to improve their craft, amassing wealth as they evolve to prey on the silent lower class. But the lowly workers continue to be exploited for the fruits of their labor. It’s a situation that’s only gotten worse over…
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Trump to Mayor of ‘Drowning’ Island: Don’t Worry About Sea Level Rise
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Experiment With Chinese Satellite Demonstrates Quantum Weirdness Over Record Distances
Image: Alex Sukontsev/Flickr Quantum mechanics is weird as hell, where the rules of the world you experience don’t apply. Even at distances a thousand kilometers apart, particles seem to be able to communicate with each other instantly, for example. Chinese scientists have subjected this idea to an extreme trial, testing what Albert Einstein has called…
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Leaked Data Reveals Just How Freaking Expensive It Is to Put Spice Girls and Coldplay Songs in Crappy Movies
One of Hollywood’s top contract management firms was sent scrambling this week after informed of a breach involving a wealth of confidential and proprietary data. Contained in the leak was invaluable information about the earnings of some of the world’s biggest musical talent during the era of Now That’s What I Call Music! 45 through…
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Archaeologists Uncover Secret Message On Bible-Era Pottery
Image: PLOS One Those who live vicariously through Indiana Jones will be glad to know that a team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered a cryptic message left on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard. The ink-on-clay piece of pottery—called an ostracon—was originally discovered in the 1960s, in a city west of the Dead Sea called Tel Arad.…
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Pilot airship badly injured after major fire
Hartford – VIDEO – An American pilot of an airship that has the Thursday in the American state of Wisconsin, heavy burns suffered when a commercial flight in the final went wrong. The colossus, a so-called blimp, flew for no reason on fire and crashed near the site of the tournament will be US Open.…
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Jihadist terror is claiming 135 lives in Europe
DEN HAAG-THE HAGUE Terrorism by muslim extremists last year, 135 people’s lives demanded in Europe. This is evident from the annual terreurrapport that Europol Thursday published. The European police office received a total of 142 cases of failed, foiled or successful terrorist attacks in eight countries. From the Netherlands came a message which related to…
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Erdogan denounces arrest of bodyguards in USA
Istanbul – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is evil to the arrest of two of his security in the United States. Erdogan told news channel CNN Türk “everything in the work, political, or diplomatic, to the two free”. The two were on Thursday arrested on suspicion of involvement in the brawl outside the residence of…
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Octopus-inspired scientists to create an underwater adhesive tape
Interesting thing – evolution. Sometimes it decides for man, the most complex from an engineering point of view tasks. The only thing is to look at nature, plants, animals and their amazing features. Take octopus. These cephalopods interesting to scientists in many ways. For example, in the image and likeness of researchers from Harvard are…