Saturday, March 9, 2013

More bizarre news

A few weeks back I read this article about how a new radiation belt was found around the earth to the complete surprise of scientists. Then I read another article talking about how it disappeared. Nature - Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth. So, what really happened? They are saying it was probably created and killed by some solar winds. Maybe it was playing Peek a Boo, I just find it amusing that right after we found it, it disappeared. On a subatomic level we have proven that merely observing a thing changes it's behavior.

There is something coming for college graduates, I have been lightly following this story and how it is spun for the past year. Yahoo - Credit.com - Do We Need to Change Bankruptcy Rules for Student Loans?. The bottom line is that students today have more student debt than ever before and very little chance of getting a job to pay them. My guess is that they will be allowed to default on them in exchange for some community service.

I strongly recommend you read this next article. The Blaze - Maryland County Exec. Discovers Secretive Network of 500+ Surveillance Cameras Operated Out of Unmarked Room. Basically this county gets a new executive after the last executive left and was found guilty of misconduct. The new executive finds a room that monitored 500+ cameras across the county that nobody knew about except some vendor. My question is who is paying the bills, they must have noticed what they were paying for, there had to be invoices.

I found this article from Scientific American deeply disturbing. Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smart. Scientists grafted human brain cells on mice and the mice got smarter. The funny thing is that this experiment also showed that intelligence was more than just electrical impulses because these cells don't transmit or receive. I wonder if grafting mice cells onto human brains would make us dumber. Somewhere deep in China they are trying that in some lab on a prisoner.

Business Insider - The Dollar Is Undergoing A Major Change In Behavior, And Almost No One Has Noticed
. It is very trickily worded article; but, in essence it is saying that the dollar is moving away from being a reserve currency to a currency whose value is dependent on the nations Gross Domestic Product. The article talks about this as if it were a good thing, it is not, it is the end of the dollar.

KingWorldNews - China Preparing To Impose Bretton Woods II Gold Standard. This is yet another claim that the world is going to go to a gold standard by people who think it is a good idea. It is a silly idea and not how things will turn out.

Enjoy your week and remember to turn your clock forward one hour.