• The Environment

    French Government May Require Labelling of Digitally Altered Photos

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.22.2009 7 Comments

    In the hope of combating anorexia, 50 members of the French Assembly have proposed a bill that would require magazines to label any portraits that have been digitally altered. They claim that slimmed-down pics of celebs lead to anorexia in young women looking to attain unrealistic body sizes.

    9.22.2009 at 10:28pm - Comment by dkurohige

    #1 "Photography, by its very nature, distorts reality." now, i know that due to the viewing angles of cameras a certain amount of visual distortion occurs, but why is it that photography is by nature distorting reality? i would like some further clarification, because as it exists i severely disagree with this statement. #2 the reason why studios edit images is not because they are evil and want to give teenagers an unrealistic body image, it is because people buy magazines with edited pictures on the cover, more than they buy magazines with unedited pictures. media companies create media which centralizes sex and attraction because they are targeting a demographic, teenagers and early 20s, which prizes sex and attraction to a large degree. this is simple supply and demand. because people want it the companies create it. the answer is to curb the demand, and that can be accomplished by education. why is it that health class is not taken until highschool when when puberty happens in middleschool? why are psychology and logic courses not offered until college? if you fix the system the problems will iron themselves out.

  • Serious Materials EcoRock

    By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments

    Drywall, plasterboard, wallboard—whatever you call it, the substance that covers billions of square feet of American homes hasn’t changed since its invention in 1917. Dry-
wall factories still roast ground-up gypsum rock in 500°F kilns, spewing out 20 billion pounds of greenhouse gases a year. So Serious Materials created EcoRock: a drywall that congeals without heat, uses recycled materials that don’t require mining, and holds up even better.

    12.24.2008 at 04:43pm - Comment by dkurohige

    this has the same problem as alot of green tech. it costs more than what's out there on themarket right now, which sort of makes this non-feasible.

  • Honda FCX Clarity

    By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments

    Highways filled with hydrogen cars are still decades away, but that doesn’t diminish the achievement of rolling the first fuel-cell car off a mass-production line. To open up interior space, Honda developed its own fuel cell, a 100-kilowatt stack that packs substantially more energy into a 65 percent smaller space than other designs and squeezes neatly into the tunnel between the front seats.

    12.23.2008 at 03:53am - Comment by dkurohige

    top gear reviewed this car and loved it. their main criticisms of plug in electric cars are that they take, literally hours upon hours to charge, and that they have basically crippled performance. hydrogen is around the same price as gasoline, and as soon as they are all over the place this car can be used just the same as your regular car. refueling takes no longer than would your regular gasoline engine. I would rather see this car become the standard, over battery electric cars.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Double Amputee Sprinter Cleared For Olympic Competition

    By Posted on 5.16.2008 30 Comments

    Its about time. After an excruciating and absurd debate, double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete in the Olympics. Pistorius won his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport today which immediately overturned an asinine ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federations which stated Pistorius gained an unfair advantage from his prosthetics.

    5.17.2008 at 06:44am - Comment by dkurohige

    please make sure to read this whole comment, because you will most likely first be upset, and then start to understand. in the stricted sense, he shouldn't be allowed go compete, well he should be eligible, but he shouldn't be able to use any prosthetics. what i mean is that if he in his natural state is able to qualify more power to him, but the use of unnatural training methods or unnatural prosthetics shouldn't be allowed in the olympics, this is why we band things like steroids and such. this is why things like special olympics exist. yes it is elitist, but the olympics ARE elitist. granted "natural" and "unnatural" are ugly words, but in this situation i think they fit.



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