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 evidence shows that Al Qaeda has always been a CIA operation. America has long been its own worst enemy.

The US has yet to even approve the 1,980-mile TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, but the company is already sending threatening letters to landowners in their pathway.

Secrecy surrounding counter-terrorism operations is fueling mistrust of authorities, a study by independent think tank Demos suggests.

Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared.

A southwest suburban school district has become one of the first in the state to begin tracking students riding buses to and from school each day with GPS and Radio Frequency Identification technology.

The scientific evidence suggests that the dispersants used by BP will continue to kill marine life far into the future and is far worse than the oil alone.

A brochure, printed at taxpayer expense by the FBI and intended to be issued to law enforcement, lists animal rights and environment activists, and constitution defenders as terrorists.

Most people are not aware that there are issues with the 4 groups of people who flew on the 4 flights of 9/11 from 3 locations. Evidences show that 2 of the planes did not even take off that day.

War criminal Obama spouted some big fat lies in his recent speech announcing the non-existent end to the war on the people of Iraq.

Many political prisoners have been, and continue to be, women. Femaleness does not protect a woman from being considered an enemy of the state, in fact, as “unnatural” women, perhaps the opposite.

Federal agents are looking into allegations that high-ranking New Orleans police commanders gave orders after Hurricane Katrina authorizing officers to shoot looters.

Penny Coleman at Alternet.com gives us a look at a new program designed to dull the moral sensibilities of American soldiers in combat on the imperial frontiers.

The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever.

In an effort to introduce a story of “progress” into media coverage, Gen. David Petraeus’s command claimed last week that the Taliban is suffering from reduced morale in Marjah and elsewhere.

Alberta has only three instinctive responses to bad news from scientists about oil extraction from the Athabasca tar sands: deny, deny and deny.