May 25, 2009 -
World Bank warns of social unrest -
The head of the World Bank has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheaval.
"If we do not take measures, there is a risk of a serious human and social crisis with very serious political
implications."
He pointed to Eastern Europe, which faces the "tricky situation" of fast-shrinking economies and protests.
Governments should start preparing for high levels of unemployment.
"In my opinion, in this context, nobody really knows what is going to happen and the best one can do is be ready for
any eventuality. There is also what I call the 'X-factor', that one can not foresee," such as the recent outbreak of
swine flu. Latin America has remained reasonably stable, even if Mexico and Central America are under pressure
because they rely a lot on the North American market."
It was reported last week that Mexico's economy shrank by 8.2% in the first three months of this year compared
with a year earlier. Mexico sends 80% of its exports to the US.
Other economies in Eastern Europe have registered double-digit declines in GDP, such as Latvia and Estonia,
while the retiring Bank of England rate-setter has said at least one million more people in the UK will lose their jobs.
The World Bank has previously warned of a "human catastrophe" in the world's poorest countries unless more is
done to tackle the global economic crisis.
It said an extra 53 million people are at risk of extreme poverty.
A new method of losing weight by betting on your own success -
Bet dieters join a website and make a commitment to lose a certain amount of weight over a defined period of time.
Then, if they fail to meet their targets, money is withdrawn from their account and paid to a charity of their choice.
Not only are people who sign up hit in the wallet if they fail, their friends can get to hear about it via a group e-mail.
In the US the scheme is said to be achieving success rates of up to 85%.
The founders say a particularly effective way to encourage people to lose weight is to get them to nominate a
charity with whose views they disagree to receive money should they fail.
Jordan Goldberg, co-founder of the StickK bet dieting website, said: "The anti-charity aspect is where we take your
money and we send it to an organisation that you oppose should you fail."
A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs - the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -
was unveiled in Germany.
The "Jugene", capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, ranks behind the "Roadrunner'' and
"Jaguar'' computers in the United States.
Jugene will be used for a wide variety of operations, including research on fuel cells for electric cars, weather
forecasting and the origins of the universe
ALL your movies on a single DVD -
Scientists have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more
than 2000 movies onto a single disc.
Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That's what one Russian scientist is
claiming.
Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft
sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.
The result was was the Tunguska event, a massive blast estimated at 15 megatons that downed 80 million trees
over nearly 100 square miles. Eyewitnesses reported a bright light and a huge shock wave, but the area was so
sparsely populated no one was killed.
Most scientists think the blast was caused by a meteorite exploding several miles above the surface. But Labvin
thinks quartz slabs with strange markings found at the site are remnants of an alien control panel, which fell to the
ground after the UFO slammed into the giant rock.
"We don't have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals. We also found ferrum silicate
that can not be produced anywhere, except in space."
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April 6, 2009 -
Internet faces meltdown by 2010 - The Internet could be in trouble. A just released study predicts the Net will
face meltdown by 2010. And when that happens, innovations
like Google and YouTube may not happen anymore and e-commerce too will take a beating. The reason: The
sheer scale of data exceeds the ability of the network to cope.
The study predicts that although the core fibre and switching/routing resources will scale up to support virtually any
conceivable user demand, the Internet access infrastructure, will not be adequate for supporting demand within the
next three to five years. The report does not envisage Internet operations to fail completely. However, access times
and bandwidth constraints will fall to such a level that innovation will be seriously hampered. "The next Google ,
YouTube , or Amazon might not arise, not because of a lack of demand, but due to an inability to fulfill that demand.
Rather like osteoporosis, the underinvestment in infrastructure will painlessly and invisibly suck competitiveness
out of the economy."
Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to
disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.
The spies came from China, Russia and other countries and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S.
electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key
infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.
"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid. So have the Russians."
Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or
financial networks via the Internet.
Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems also are at risk.
Authorities investigating the intrusions have found software tools left behind that could be used to destroy
infrastructure components. "If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on."
The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013,
reported a bipartisan commission in a study briefed to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of
Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.
And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.
It starts with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits your retina, about one-tenth
of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world.
"Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality."
Bacteria think ahead - Bacteria may be humble single-celled creatures, but they're sophisticated enough to anticipate regular events.
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