Webpagedigest: Webpagedigest 05/08/2014

05/08/2014

'We are now officially playing God.'

http://mobile.extremetech.com/latest/221366-first-living-thing-with-alien-dna-created-in-the-lab-we-are-now-officially-playing-god

National report card: High school seniors lack critical skills | Al Jazeera America

'Only one-quarter of seniors are math-proficient and just 4 in 10 in reading, scores that are little changed since 2009

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/7/high-school-seniorslackcriticalmathandreadingskills.html

Kim Jong Un has become nothing more than the symbolic head of North Korea

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/08/defector-shadowy-organization-not-kim-jong-un-controls-north-korea/?hpt=hp_c1

Duke Energy spends tiny percentage of revenue on coal ash cleanup | Al Jazeera America

'Duke Energy, (the largest electrical utility in the US) the company responsible for a massive coal ash spill in North Carolina in January, raked in billions in revenue in the first quarter of 2014 but failed to spend more than a tiny fraction of its earnings on cleaning up its spill...'
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/7/duke-quarterly-report.html

$100 million Fraud in New York City Payroll System Spotlights How Contracting Out Leads to Corruption

http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/23422-100-million-fraud-in-new-york-city-payroll-system-spotlights-how-contracting-out-leads-to-corruption

Report: Pentagon Paid $150 Per Gallon for Green Jet Fuel | Washington Free Beacon

'...more than 64 times the current market price...'
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-pentagon-paid-150-per-gallon-for-green-jet-fuel/

Report urges one-drug lethal injection to avoid botched US executions | World | The Guardian

'An injection of chemicals used to execute death row inmates can cause such excruciating pain that veterinarians are banned from using them to put down animals...'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/oklahoma-lethal-injection-execution-drugs-constitution-animals

Carson mayor and City Council move to outlaw bullying - Los Angeles Times

'Under an ordinance that will go before the City Council next week, it would become a misdemeanor in the small Harbor-area city to cause anyone from kindergarten through age 25 to “feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested” with no legitimate purpose.'

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-carson-bullying-20140503-story.html

Cable forces more channels down unwilling viewers’ throats - The Washington Post

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/07/cables-forced-bundles-are-getting-fatter-but-no-one-is-watching-more-channels/

Fast food worker strikes planned in 150 cities

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/07/news/companies/fast-food-worker-strikes-150-cities/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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The Navy's Huge, Hidden Problem: Barnacles on Ships

'Could the solution to this age-old dilemma be a new coat of special paint?'

http://gizmodo.com/the-navys-huge-hidden-problem-barnacles-on-ships-1572231175

What It's Like to Be a Billionaire's Butler

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201405/rich-billionaires-butlers-servants?mbid=synd_digg

Tattoos in Slow Motion: Very Gross, Kinda Mesmerizing | Design | WIRED