Abbott's Australia scaling back its commitments on carbon-emissions, surprise surprise: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/australias-new-target-for-cutting-carbon-emissions-scales-back-previous-proposal
Russia burning Dutch flowers, because...hell, I don't know of a rational reason why they do anything any more: http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-is-now-burning-dutch-flowers-en-masse-2015-8
Previously unseen fotos from Prince Charles & Diana's wedding...for those who care about such things: http://mashable.com/2015/08/11/charles-diana-wedding-photos/
BBC: England to test charge-as-you-drive 'electric motorways': http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33886180
Lenovo's abuse of anti-theft feature in Windows to force crapware that persists after reinstall of the OS: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo-used-windows-anti-theft-feature-to-install-persistent-crapware/
BBC: Music 'reduces pain and anxiety' for surgery patients: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33865448
The Atlantic on why modern-day telephony sucks so much: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls/401114/
The New York Times on the use & abuse of facial recognition-tech. by local law-enforcement: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-software-moves-from-overseas-wars-to-local-police.html
John Kerry to visit Havana and re-open the US embassy there: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-kerry-cuba-20150812-story.html
One news-anchor's sensible reaction to the media's completely irrational obsession with the Kardashians:
Ted Nugent's comments on watching Fox News' Megyn Kelly whilst naked and loading gun-magazines: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-nugent-megyn-kelly-trump
The role of fish-oil in preventing mental illness, in the young: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/11/fish-oil-could-help-prevent-mental-health-problems-psychosis
AlterNet: Judge OK's Uranium Mine at Grand Canyon: http://www.alternet.org/environment/beyond-unacceptable-judge-oks-uranium-mine-grand-canyon
Sweden's problem with 'white-privileged' band-aids: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/08/12/in-europe-the-whole-band-aids-are-racist-thing-is-taking-off-again/
Juan González on Puerto Rico's colonial history and its current debt-problem: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/5/juan_gonzalez_puerto_ricos_economic_death
Congressional support for the TPP trade-agreement threatened by language from the Obama administration that would limit the ability of US tobacco-companies to bully small countries who want to irrationally and unreasonably protect the health & lives of their citizens: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/will-trans-pacific-trade-deal-go-up-in-smoke-over-anti-tobacco-proposal-121272.html
Zebra stripes not effective at fooling predators; May be useful for cooling ?
RIP, Director of I, Claudius, Herbert Wise: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11798850/Herbert-Wise-theatre-and-TV-director-obituary.html
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