Bob McCarty Writes

On the 20th anniversary of the bloodshed known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, there appears to have been little or no rain clouds at the site in Beijing where university students waged an anti-government protest.  There were, however, enough umbrella-toting government officials present to prevent members of the Western news media from reporting much news [...]

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After having a dream about his country being engulfed by rising ocean waters, a Dutch Christian felt compelled to build a replica of Noah’s Ark.  Completed about one year ago, it enables him to “bring this beautiful Bible story back to life, in a visible and unique way” not only for the Dutch people, but [...]

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Do you have a passport equipped with an RFID chip?  How about a driver’s license?  If so, pay close attention, because your financial well-being might well depend upon it. In a video released three days ago, hacker Chris Paget demonstrates a low-cost* mobile device that surreptitiously reads and clones RFID tags embedded in United States [...]

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Bullying takes place on the school playground and in the political arena.  It also takes place in the world of big business. The video below shows Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters program, addressing the audience at the recent HOPE hackercon about the way the popular cable television network was bullied by representatives of [...]

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Rising supermarket prices are persuading hundreds of families across the pond to turn their backyard gardens into mini-ranches stocked with miniature cattle, according to a recent Times Online article. Perhaps, the UK cows will produce fewer greenhouse gases, too.  Regardless, the miniature cows — like their larger bovine relatives — make the world a warmer [...]

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I couldn’t resist the opportunity to use the headline above to describe the video below. It features what appears to be a live human heart, spewing blood with each beat, inside a glass display case. In reality, the work is that of artist Billy Chasen and was recently displayed at an American Heart Association gala [...]

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