Building an Organ on a Chip
• Susan Young and Kyanna SuttonMicroscale devices that mimic human organs could provide a much more realistic environment for drug discovery.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Another Good Reason To Drink Coffee
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Anna AzvolinksyProtection against skin cancer can be added to the list of health benefits that come with drinking coffee, a new study says.
German Supreme Court To Make A Decision That Will Make The Obamacare Drama Look Like Child's Pla
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone FoxmanA hearing at Germany's version of the Supreme Court, to be held on July 10, could destroy all the optimism from the last EU summit.
Byron Wien: I Spoke To The Smartest Man In Europe, And What He Had To Say Was Terrifying
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe WeisenthalBlackstone's Byron Wien is up with a new column, wherein he relays a conversation he had with someone he only refers to as The Smartest Man In Europe.
Financial Coup d’Etat in Europe: Government by the Banks, for the Banks
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Ellen BrownOn Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund—“before the ink was dry,” as critics complained.
Her Majesty's BBC's Syria Coverage: "Sorry for the Lies"...
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Felicity ArbuthnoAs the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, "media errors" or perhaps even "obfuscation" create their own navigational complexities.
Parkinson's Disease Gene Discovery
• arcleinFarrer explains that confirmation of the gene’s linkage with Parkinson’s disease required DNA samples from thousands of patients with the disease and healthy individuals. He adds that the contributions of the Saskatchewan Mennonite family, who have a
Saving Food
• arcleinFreshPaper doesn’t blink or beep, but I’m not complaining. Its power is in its simplicity — and its price. Each 5-by-5-inch sheet, manufactured in Massachusetts, costs 50 cents. Sheets can be used and reused over the course of two or three weeks and
Swine Flu's Real Death Toll
• arcleinThe original toll, a simple tabulation of laboratory-confirmed cases that was thought to be a gross underestimation, counted around 18,500 deaths. By extrapolating figures for poorer countries, scientists claim that the global outbreak of the H1N1 in
Muslim Brotherhood - Al Qaeda Coallition
• arcleinThe MI5 chief also confirmed that al-Qaeda is now active in Syria, and “warned against suggestions that al-Qaeda’s threat has ‘evaporated’ following the death of Osama bin Laden and significant victories in Pakistan.” He noted that Britain, for its p
Mexico returns former ruling party to power
• APMexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage. The second
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
• CBS NewsJustice Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's 4 conservative justices to strike down the heart of Obama's health care reform law, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law.
Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
• www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenixGlenn Jacobs is a well-versed libertarian, knows what's going on in the world, and is looking to survive this thing that is coming. Hope you can come and relax while meeing with others of like-mind.
384 Days of Primal: Focusing on the Process to See Results
• www.lewrockwell.com/Mark SissonI’ve been Primal now for over a year. I came upon The Primal Blueprint when searching for resources on paleo dieting. Little did I know that I would find a whole lifestyle that would gel so well with my understanding of the human body.
What I Learned in My Political Campaign
• www.lewrockwell.com/Karen KwiatkowskiBy launching and running a insurgent liberty-oriented campaign against an entrenched, big spending and big borrowing establishment hack, I believed we were doing something useful. Many agreed with me. Many helped and I thank everyone who gave us time
The First Liberty Library
• www.lewrockwell.com/MurrayRothbardThe lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that individual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person p
The Art of Decentralization
• www.lewrockwell.com/ButlerShafferArtistic expression has long been valued for its appeal to aesthetics, intuition, and the emotional and spiritual dimensions of what it means to be human. But, like schools that help students develop an intellectually grounded capacity for self-direc
Week Ahead: Heat, 4th Forecast and Southwest Storms
• www.weather.comThe new week is here and unfortunately for some areas, we can't leave the heat behind. We've got that story plus a look at your Fourth of July forecast and the increasing monsoonal moisture in the Southwest.
Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results
• www.prisonplanet.comGoogle sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 7/2/12: Big Opportunity to Audit the Fed: Support H.R.459
• www.dailypaul.com
New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law
• www.reason.comJury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly perceive individual liberty as, at best, a minority taste
US gone, Iraq starts to improve economically
• New York TimesOne has a designated prayer room. Another frisks patrons at the entrance, requiring them to check their pistols, like coats in a fancy restaurant. They are good places to escape the desert heat, and in a conservative Islamic culture, they are one of
‘Is that a crime?’: Witness says man shot by police was rushing cousin to hospital
• .A Johnstown man who survived a deadly shooting early Monday by three Johnstown police officers said that he and his cousin, Elip Cheatham, were trying to get another wounded cousin to a hospital and were not attempting to run down police. “If it w
Japan readies nuclear reactor as protests mount
• The Raw Story.comEngineers were Sunday readying to refire a nuclear reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which Japan was nuclear-free.
Roger Young's "I Hereby Secede" video
• youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)Make your claim to individual sovereignty clear by declaring and affirming your personal secession.
Man convicted of violating copyright for linking to video content
• RawstoryNewcastle crown court heard Anton Vickerman’s site had up to 400,000 users a day and made about £35,000 a month in revenue. While UK prosecutors did not pursue a case on copyright offences, Vickerman was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and face
Electricity slowly returns as U.S. heatwave drags on
• The Raw Story.comUtility crews made slow progress Sunday in restoring electricity to millions of households amid a record-setting heatwave in the eastern United States that showed no sign of abating soon.
Are Mexicans about to vote for the return of the ‘perfect dictatorship’?
• Rory Carroll, The GuardianFor weeks the sky over Mexico City has kept its inhabitants guessing – one moment it has been azure and sunny; the next an ominous grey vault of clouds belly full with rain.
As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
• ReutersEvery day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country. It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rig
Insane: Real-life Hot Wheels cars go through double dare loop
• Muriel Kane via The Raw Story.comThis years X Games, which are being held in Los Angeles this weekend, added to their usual extreme events by constructing a real-life, 66 foot tall version of the Hot Wheels Double Dare Snare
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