- Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal that it has workplace diversity issues, with a workforce that's 69% white and 85% male.
- France leveled more attacks against internet governing body ICANN this week, accusing it of being "not the appropriate forum" anymore for controlling domain names.
- ISIS militarnts in Iraq continue to gain territory in the country, this time attacking the Iraqi air base near the Ajeel oil fields, while PM Nuri al-Malaki considers forming a new cabinet of ministers.
- Hospitals are using your purchasing data to flag high-risk patient behaviors in order to contact consumers about unhealthy choices, but critics say it's another privacy violation by Big Data.
- One scientist's solution to deadly Midwest tornadoes is simple enough: a series of 300 meter high walls to block tornado-forming airflows.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Note that the scientist is a physicist, not a meteorologist or a climate science.
AKA he ain't so smart in what he's talkin' about.
Sadly, physicists are notorious pests about this sort of thing.
http://wottsupwiththatblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/physicists.png?w=640
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