The media industry ignores the fact that people who share media files also buy media and a new study proves it.

The government of Canada has used strong-arm tactics to shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada’s poor environmental policy, taking down 4500 other websites in the process.

The golden ratio, a geometric proportion that has been theorized to be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye, has been the root of countless mysteries over the centuries. One Researcher thinks he knows what is really going on with the golden ratio.

Large doses of Vitamin C has been shown to be a powerful anti-viral treatment.

In the film The Day After Tomorrow, the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.

With the recent demise of BitTorrent tracker Mininova, free access to information has taken a big hit. Fortunately, The Pirate Bay is still active and trying to survive.

…and beat the flu season

Netherlands-based economist Roel Jongeneel says the nine billion people expected to populate the planet in 2050 can still be fed a healthy diet with plenty of food left over if world leaders focus more on protecting agriculture and less on the growing biofuel sector.

Private New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab completed its final ground-based test and is now ready to launch New Zealand into the space race with its Atea-1 launch vehicle.

Overstimulation of the immune system may trigger acute heart disease and sudden deaths in the increasing number of people with atherosclerosis; this hidden risk of mass vaccination programmes against swine flu could far outweigh the benefits.

While people still debate the climate change that is already happening, time is running out to avert massive disaster.

Most child psychologists agree that TV is damaging to young children and a new study proves it.

The calls to Colorado voters Wednesday night were just one sign that the federal ruling in Arizona is likely to ripple through this heated campaign season.

Resolution 1553 presented by Rep. Gohmert is brief and fairly vague in terms of providing a time-table for finding a ‘peaceful solution’ but is flagrantly providing explicit support for military strikes against Iran.

A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, with the Big Government claiming ownership over our water.

An unemployed 20-year-old man in Virginia who this year threatened South Park’s creators over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, has been arrested.

The Israeli army reportedly fired bombs with flechettes, which are illegal under international law if fired into densely-populated civilian areas. The shelling was in and around residences in Beit Hanoun.

Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns.

This week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill shielding journalists and publishers from “libel tourism.”

Iran is way ahead of the US in intelligent and effective health care and a small town in Mississippi wants to learn from Iran’s health care program.

After overthrowing the govt. of Honduras the US may now be up to more criminal military thuggery in Central America as it moves 46 war ships and 7,000 soldiers into once peaceful Costa Rica.

Electric shocks. Withholding food. Social isolation. Why are we paying for autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to be treated like enemy combatants?

Tim Shorrock, an investigative journalist, asks why it took the Washington Post seven years to investigate and do the story on the US Intelligence System.

Consumer Watchdog reports that Google has classified contracts to provide the Feds with information on US citizens.

Our current industrial agriculture model is unsustainable and is contributing to the destruction of the planet. A new sustainable organic agriculture is essential to the survival of man.

The Ex-head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence services admits that the war on the people of Iraq has greatly increased the chance of retaliation against Britain for its atrocities.