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Re:France’s Zone Rouge – Land Poisoned by War
on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:41AM (#9611231)
In my family there's a story about some relatives who lived in a village near Ypres. Their living room had a big iron stove. When the Germans invaded they they hid some jewelry in a hole under that stove, and fled like everybody else.
After the war they returned to the village, wanting to retrieve the jewels. Not only were they unable to locate the stove, or the house. They were unable to locate where the street had been.
Re:Matrix HiFi – Blind testing high end full equipment
on Monday May 11, 2015 @06:06AM (#9523609)
What these sort of tests always ignore is that placebo effect really works. I refer to a recent study by the University of Manchester in which people who believed that they had better hearing aids objectively scored better on hearing tests. If you spend time and money on a nice high-end system, the love that you put into your setup will be returned to you as better hearing experience.
Re:The End of the War on Drugs and the Emergence of the Cannabis Industry
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @11:06AM (#9492868)
The difference between decriminalization and legalizing trade is significant. In Portugal drug traffickers need to spend energy just to avoid getting caught. A legal cannabis industry on the other hand will have free reign to spend vast resources on lobbying, marketing and making their product as addictive as possible, which may lead to a significant increase of use.
Re:The End of the War on Drugs and the Emergence of the Cannabis Industry
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @09:00AM (#9492200)
Growing or selling cannabis is illegal in Portugal. Owning cannabis seeds is illegal in Portugal. The only thing that was changed is that the consumer of cannabis is no longer treated as a criminal. I've yet to see a good argument why the same approach wouldn't work in the US.
Re:The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @08:50AM (#9419970)
Then of course, if some speck of radioactive material gets lodged in your body the inverse square law works against you.
Re:The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @07:37AM (#9419675)
There seems to be this public perception that wildlife around Chernobyl is just doing fine. Research indicates otherwise
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963711
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22514722
The second article goes as far as to propose that [bird] populations are only maintained through immigration from nearby uncontaminated areas.
Re:1.5 Million Missing Black Men
on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:55AM (#9414919)
> I remember reading a hypothesis of why many middle eastern countries generate so many young angry jihadists
Maybe we don't need to look further than the psychological impact of enforced genital mutilation past the age of infancy.