The average person now swallows five grams of plastic each week — the same amount of plastic as a credit card — according to new research by the WWF.   Researchers found that people are consuming up to 102,000 tiny pieces of plastic that add up to almost nine ounces each year – with nearly 90 …[continue reading]

Scientists have discovered a rare mineral in Russia that could hold the key to boosting internet speeds by 1000%.    The mineral, perovskite, was first discovered in Russia in the 1830’s. Scientists say that it has a number of extraordinary properties, many of which they are now learning about. Forbes.com reports: Perovskite (CaTiO3) is a calcium …[continue reading]

A former Google engineer who registered the first ever church of Artificial Intelligence (AI) says he is raising a ‘robot God’ that will eventually ‘rule over humanity.’   Anthony Levandowski says the AI God will head a religion named ‘Way Of The Future’ (WOTF), and he has already filed papers with the IRS to make it …[continue reading]

Millions of iPhone users have accused Apple of deliberately slowing down older devices in order to increase the sales of newer, more expensive iPhones.   According to furious users on Reddit, the iPhone’s performance with iOS 11 dramatically increases when the battery is replaced with a new one. Technology journalists have speculated that Apple could be ‘remotely slowing …[continue reading]

Google insiders have been warning that Google’s top priority is gaining “outright censorship” of the internet.   They also say that employees has been intimidated into silence, though many of them known as the “rebels of Google” have decided to speak out Another area of the Internet where widespread censorship is also taking place is …[continue reading]

The scare about global warming is overhyped, according to more than 40 scientific papers published in just the first three months of 2018.   What their charts show is that “nothing climatically unusual is happening.“ Breitbart.com reports: In the chart below from a study by Polovodova et al, we see that 20th century warming is perfectly normal in a …[continue reading]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have  announced new steps to save the Monarch butterfly.   The exquisite Monarch butterfly is extremely important for biodiversity, but sadly their numbers have been falling dramatically for 20 years due to changes in farming practices that have affected the availability of their main food source, milkweed. RT reports: The beautiful monarch butterfly, …[continue reading]

A few hours before the UK’s first air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq, the home secretary, Theresa May, warned the Tory party conference that IS could become the “world’s first truly terrorist state“.   May said that IS could realise the “often-prophesied” threat of attacking western enemies with chemical and nuclear weapons. Interesting because, …[continue reading]