Once directly rejected by Steve Jobs, the developers at Tawkon have deployed their radiation-reporting app on the Android Market.
from Wired Top Stories
From Wired Top Stories: Teen Sues Over Facebook Bullying
Bullying in any form is a terrible thing… so let’s stop it and encourage her to keep going!
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A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the bullying from classmates on Facebook.
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From Gizmodo: Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole
This is why you don’t text and drive!! >.<
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We’ve seen people take some serious spills because they’re all walking and talking or texting and not paying attention, but what happens to this poor girl is just horrible. That had to hurt. More »
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From Gizmodo: Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China
From Lifehacker: Escape Zip Tie Restraints with Paracord Shoelaces
Many home invaders and kidnappers use heavy-duty zip ties to keep victims restrained. If you replace your existing shoelaces with paracord you can use the paracord to form a friction saw that will cut through the zip ties. More »
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From Discover Magazine: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs, & Other Nightmarish Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill | 80beats
Mutated shrimp from Al Jazeera’s video report
Al Jazeera‘s report on seafood in the Gulf Coast reads like a horror story: eyeless shrimp, fish with oozing sores, clawless crabs. Unfortunately these deformities are very real and disturbingly common two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Chemical dispersants used by BP to “clean up†the oil spill are the likely cause.
Deformities happen even in ordinary circumstances, but scientists and fishers are seeing them in unprecedented scales in Gulf marine life. For example, half the shrimp caught in a Louisiana bay lacked eye sockets, according to fishers interviewed by journalist Dahr Jamail.
“Some shrimpers are catching these out in the open Gulf [of Mexico],†[commercial fisher Tracy Kuhn] added, “They are also catching them in Alabama and Mississippi. We are also finding eyeless crabs, crabs with their shells soft instead of hard, full grown crabs that are one-fifth their normal size, clawless crabs, and crabs with shells that don’t have their usual spikes … they look like they’ve been burned off by chemicals.
Perhaps the most troubling line in the whole article is this: “Questions raised by Al Jazeera’s investigation remain largely unanswered.†When Jamail …
from Discover Magazine
From Latest Items from TreeHugger: EPA Finalizes Fracking Rules – Gives Industry 30 Months to Fully Comply
EPA says VOC emissions from new wells will be reduced 95%.