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Date Sent: 2015-04-04
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, April 5, 2015 |
The Science Behind a Perfectly Dyed Easter Egg
The Science Behind a Perfectly Dyed Easter Egg -- Alabama man off death row after 28 years to jailers: You will answer to God -- Microsoft Surface 3 vs. 2015 MacBook Air -- Plastic engine parts could lead to lighter cars -- Apple Watch pre-orders will start just after midnight (PDT) on April 10 -- Man lost at sea for 66 days a 'pretty remarkable' textbook case for survival -- The Return of the Gadget Lab Podcast -- Bitcoin Alternative LEOCoin Linked to Suspected Pyramid Scheme -- Indie Bookstores Turn to Crowdfunding to Stay Alive -- Why Heartland Payments is 'Crawling' Toward Bitcoin Integration -- Facebook Moves Into Its New Garden-Roofed Fantasyland -- Japanese Scientists Successfully Transmit Electricity Through The Air -- Bitcoin in the Headlines: -- Align Commerce Launches Public Beta of International Payments Platform -- You Can Turn A $2000 Shipping Container Into An Epic Off-Grid Home -- Just One Hour From Vancouver There Is A Secret Island Where Everyone Lives -- How Bitcoin Can Help Millions of Women Around the World -- This Is How Education Kills Creativity -- Do Heroes Go to Heaven? -- Frenemies -- Chapter 1: The Lesson -- Unsmiling Gen. Buhari Takes Charge in Nigeria -- Obama's Endless War on Humanity -- New smartphone camera could tell you what things are made of -- You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome -- A British Museum Is Displaying the Guardian's Smashed Snowden Laptop -- Key Facts to Understand Why Yemen Has Become a Political Flashpoint -- Exposure of "Sky Striping" Program Will Come Through Local Economy -- German Bank Sets Precedent: Sues The ECB -- Congress and Israel Aim to Sabotage Iran Nuclear Deal --
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News Link • How To
The Science Behind a Perfectly Dyed Easter Egg
04-04-2015
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http://www.wired.com, KATIE M. PALMER
IF YOU CELEBRATE Easter, you'll likely be embarking on the questionable quest to hide a bunch of hard-boiled eggs around your house and hope--oh, hope beyond hope--that all of them get found. Before the hunt, though, you'll have to dye those eg
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Alabama man off death row after 28 years to jailers: You will answer to God
04-04-2015
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theguardian.com
Anthony Ray Hilton, 58, sentenced to death for crime he did not commit
Ballistics test was carried out by civil engineer with one eye
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Microsoft Surface 3 vs. 2015 MacBook Air
04-04-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Will Shanklin
Microsoft's new Surface 3 takes many of the qualities that made the Surface Pro 3 great, and puts them in a smaller, cheaper and lower-octane package. Let's see how it compares to Apple's latest 11-in MacBook Air.
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News Link • Inventions
Plastic engine parts could lead to lighter cars
04-04-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Recent government requirements for greater fuel efficiency have led to lighter cars hitting the market, but there's only so much that can be shaved off the body and chassis.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple Watch pre-orders will start just after midnight (PDT) on April 10
04-04-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Will Shanklin
We've known for some time that Apple Watch pre-orders would start on Friday, April 10. Today Apple added a note to its product page detailing exactly when online pre-orders will begin: just after midnight Pacific time (that's late Thursday evening if
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Man lost at sea for 66 days a 'pretty remarkable' textbook case for survival
04-04-2015
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theguardian.com
Louis Jordan, 37, was rescued from the more than two-month ordeal
He survived by eating rations, catching fish and drinking rainwater
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Return of the Gadget Lab Podcast
04-04-2015
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http://www.wired.com
AFTER A THREE-MONTH hiatus, the Gadget Lab podcast is back with a new co-host: WIRED senior writer David Pierce steps up to the mic for the first time this week.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Alternative LEOCoin Linked to Suspected Pyramid Scheme
04-04-2015
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coindesk.com
The latest bitcoin alternative to garner media attention, LEOCoin has so far trumpeted the more than 130,000 merchants that have allegedly signed on to accept it as payment.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Indie Bookstores Turn to Crowdfunding to Stay Alive
04-04-2015
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http://www.wired.com
N 1997 ALAN Beatts founded Borderlands Books in San Francisco, and for almost two decades the indie store, which specializes in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery, has weathered challenges from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and e-books.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Why Heartland Payments is 'Crawling' Toward Bitcoin Integration
04-04-2015
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coindesk.com
When Heartland Payments e-commerce director Joe Wysocki looks to add a product or service to his company's portfolio, he looks for three factors â€" that it will help Heartland's merchants improve security, convert shoppers and obtain repeat business
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Japanese Scientists Successfully Transmit Electricity Through The Air
04-04-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com, by John Vibes Read
Scientists in Japan have successfully transmitted electric energy wirelessly through the air, proving that Nikola Tesla was onto something big.
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News Link • Humor
Bitcoin in the Headlines:
04-04-2015
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coindesk.com
Silk Road Strikes Comedic Gold
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News Link • Bitcoin
Align Commerce Launches Public Beta of International Payments Platform
04-04-2015
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bitcoinmagazine.com
Align Commerce announced yesterday that the public beta of its international payments platform had launched, which could cut the cost and time of transactions in a $24 trillion market. Thirty-four countries are now exposed to this beta.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
You Can Turn A $2000 Shipping Container Into An Epic Off-Grid Home
04-04-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
All you need is around $2000 to begin building one of these epic homes â€" made from recycled shipping containers! Check out some of these amazing creations!
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News Link • Bitcoin
How Bitcoin Can Help Millions of Women Around the World
04-04-2015
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bitcoinmagazine.com
Western Union released a report on the role of women in global remittances. According to the report, women currently move 50 percent of the estimated $582 billion global remittances, and they send a greater percentage of their wages than men.
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News Link • Heroes
Do Heroes Go to Heaven?
04-04-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Over the past decade or so I have witnessed some disturbing trends at church.
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Chapter 1: The Lesson
04-04-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
The Ten Commandments have ten points. The nice thing about each of them is this: it gets right to the point.Christians disagree about which point this one is. Catholics and Lutherans believe that this is the seventh commandment.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Unsmiling Gen. Buhari Takes Charge in Nigeria
04-04-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Africa's most populous nation has just achieved something very important. This week Nigeria's voters handed a landslide victory to former president, Muhammadu Buhari.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New smartphone camera could tell you what things are made of
04-03-2015
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gizmag.com
How would you like to be able to know the chemical composition of something, just by taking a snapshot or video of it with your smartphone?
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News Link • Whistleblowers
A British Museum Is Displaying the Guardian's Smashed Snowden Laptop
04-04-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by JORDAN VALINSKY
If Citizenfour wasn't enough to satisfy your Edward Snowden curiosity, there's now a museum exhibit.
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News Link • World News
Key Facts to Understand Why Yemen Has Become a Political Flashpoint
04-04-2015
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By Brandon Turbeville
With the recent military operations on the part of the Arab League against the Yemeni Houthi rebels, much has been made of the operation in the mainstream media outlets.
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News Link • Chemtrails
Exposure of "Sky Striping" Program Will Come Through Local Economy
04-04-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, David Tulis
The disk from the federal government contains two files. The data covers two days in 2014 that I am reviewing as I cover Chattanooga's biggest environmental and health story of the past 25 years.
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News Link • Future Predictions
...And The Good News: Banks Will Be Obsolete Within 10 Years
04-04-2015
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Submitted by Simon Black
Every few centuries or so, an amazing new technology comes along that fundamentally changes human civilization.
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News Link • Media: Internet
End of the Line for the Daily Paul. (I Love You, goodbye Part IV)
04-04-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Michael Nystrom
Well Daily Paul, this is it. It's like that Hemingway quote about how a man goes broke: "First gradually, then suddenly."
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News Link • Media: Internet
End of the Line for the Daily Paul. (I Love You, goodbye Part IV)
04-04-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Michael Nystrom
Well Daily Paul, this is it. It's like that Hemingway quote about how a man goes broke: "First gradually, then suddenly."
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News Link • Israel
FALSE FLAG ALERT: World on Notice as Israel Threatens to Attack Iran over US led Nuke Deal
04-03-2015
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veteranstoday.com
"Tel Aviv doesn't need US permission to attack Iran"
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News Link • Internet
How Google AdSense Censors the News
04-03-2015
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theamericanconservative.com
The Internet's largest ad network won't support sites that show what happened at Abu Ghraib--but company reps say they're only enforcing the rules.
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