A recent study shows that nearly one third of malaria medication is fake or simply doesn't work. Malaria is one of the worlds deadliest diseases in terms of how many people it has killed. Due to this statistic one would think that more attention would be payed to the effectiveness of the medication. However fake medications run rampant in the industry. In order to stop this terrible disease we probably need our medication to work...



http://allafrica.com/stories/201205230095.html

Obama is so unpopular in parts of the country that in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary an inmate(Keith Judd) won 41% percent of the vote against Obama's 59%. Many people are voting for him simply because they don't like Obama. Ronnie Brown a man from West Virginia said that he "voted against Obama". When asked who he did vote for he said "That guy out of Texas." He did not even remember the name of the candidate he voted for showing how he voted against Obama without even knowing the other candidate's policies. (Or that he was in jail). It's one thing to not like your president but voting for someone you don't know just out of spite is something else entirely...

Mensa recently inducted it's all time youngest member. Emmelyn Roettger Mensa's now youngest member joined at the age of 2. Mensa (the international genius society) only allows those who score in  the top 2% on one of 200 accepted standardized tests. As a baby her doctor's thought she was autistic because she didn't respond to toys or other things like a normal baby. On a hunch her mom brought her in to have her vision tested. It turned out she just needed glasses and from then on has been acting just like a baby with an IQ of 135 should be. She could already read at age 2 and recognize letters.

According to Dr. Ronald Breslow intelligent, advanced dinosaurs may rule other planets. Assuming you believe in the theory that the dinosaurs were exterminated by a giant meteor hitting the earth this should make sense to you. If the dinosaurs had never gone extinct whose to say that they wouldn't have evolved to be as intelligent as humans. This is his theory that if the meteor had never struck dinosaurs would continue to rule the earth. So why couldn't dinosaur like creatures not exist on other planets. Imagine a T-Rex with the intelligence of a human. I think we should avoid that.

Recently the air speed velocity of both the African and European unladen swallows was finally determined last week. How this baffled scientists for 37 years confuses even the scientists that solved the problem. They have also determined that these swallows are the cause of the recent outcropping of the invasive coconut tree throughout Europe. These coconuts were once believed to be used as a sort of battle drum for the nights of Camelot. These knights however no longer exist due to the battle between the knights and the "Police" where they were all executed for the murder of a historian.

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Recently  James Whittaker a Google employee left to join Microsoft. He did this because he believes the company in pursuit of profit is cutting back on the creativity everyone at Google loves so much. He believes that Google is losing its identity and becoming more of a conventional business. Google has always allowed its employees to spend 20% of their time working on creative new ideas Google is cutting back on this however. Whittaker thinks this is because of Google's inability to compete with Facebook. To do this they created Google+ which he thinks is what is the root of the problem everyone's time is being put into rather than new creative projects. Google is simply trying to make a profit like any business but is it worth sacrificing what separates them form everyone else?   

According to NASA last November hackers seized control of networks at
NASA pertaining to their jet propulsion laboratory. The breech in security allowed hackers to install Mal ware and steal important data. NASA is a government funded space program. Information kept by NASA is incredibly valuable. So you would think the government would put some more resources into protecting it wouldn't you?  

9 yearr oldGirl dies after being forced to run for 3 hours.

The 9 year old girl Savannah Hardin died after being forced to run for 3 hours without stopping for lying to her grandmother about eating candy bars. Witnesses report seeing her running but not thinking anything of it. She died of severe dehydration and went into seizures  which killed her. The event was ruled as homicide and whether she was physically forced to run or just told to is still under investigation.

On Wednesday a girl was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 9 year old girl. She plead guilty to the murder of a 9 year old by strangling, stabbing, and slitting her throat. By pleading she was given the possibility of parole because she was only 15 when the incident occurred. She wrote in her diary that she killed the girl just to see what it was like. Before the murder she had already dug two graves in advance proving it was premeditated and that she planned to kill again.

Recently in Cairo Egypt 70 people were killed. This all happened during a soccer game when the number one ranked team in Egypt Al-Ahly were beaten by the home team Al-Masry. Al-Masry fans stormed the field which enraged Al-Ahly's fans where they began throwing sticks, stones, firebombs and launching fireworks at the other team's fans. The final result left 74 dead and 248 injured. No matter how popular a sport is it's just a game and losing a game should never escalate to this level.

SOPA has finally been shelved. Congress viewed the bill before winter break and two thirds of the congressmen were in favor of the bill. However congress went into recess during winter break. During this time millions upon millions of people sent emails and letters to their congressmen protesting the bill. When congress saw this massive protest they decided to shelve the bill at least for now...

SOPA must be stopped. SOPA is the acronym for Stop Online Piracy Act. This act was intended to stop online piracy. While this is a noble goal the bill is written with incredibly broad language granting the government the power to censor the internet and take down sights that infringe on copyrights instead of that sight simply removing the article that violated the copyright. Since this bill can't stop Americans from pirating things from sights based out of other countries SOPA would simply censor search engines so only sights based out of the United States would appear. This bill needs to be stopped before the internet is changed so much we can't recognize it.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/technology/sopa_explained/index.htm?hpt=hp_bn6