FIPID: FIPID - 01/23/13

Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination

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Keep you eyes focused on the cross.

The White House response to the petition for the creation of a Death Star

Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels (This is on hold but it is good to know people are working on it.)

Comparing Tax Rate between Countries

Corporate Gold on the Fiscal Cliff

Losing Our Religion: The Growth Of The 'Nones'
In October, the Pew Research Center released a study, 'Nones' on the Rise, that takes a closer look at the 46 million people who answered none to the religion question in 2012. According to Pew, one-fifth of American adults have no religious affiliation, a trend that has for years been on the rise.

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion

'Fifty Shades' Is The One That Got Away. At Least From Me
"It was the news that every employee — every single employee — of Random House USA was getting a $5,000 bonus."

Can’t Save? Here’s Why

Politics and Business
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$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia'

10 states to boost minimum wage

Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes
Dealing with the F.A.A. on this topic is like arguing with a stubborn teenager. The agency has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane’s avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims, spreading irrational fear among millions of fliers.

Tracking Gun-Related Deaths, One Tweet At A Time

For-Profit Nursing Homes Fuel Rise In Fraud And Abuse Charges

How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money

Obama: Transparently Disappointing
"The president has fallen far short of promises to establish “an unprecedented level of openness in government."

The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz: Sharing Knowledge Is a Greater Crime Than Bringing Down the Economy

For Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health
Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the United States.

True: Rep. Bill Pascrell says federal revenues, as a share of the economy, are lowest in 40-50 years

FCC pushes for gigabit broadband in all 50 states by 2015

Science and Technology
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Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller
"Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that's considered one of the body's most powerful painkillers."

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation"In the coming decades, continued population growth, rising meat and dairy consumption and expanding biofuel use will dramatically increase the pressure on global agriculture. Even as we face these future burdens, there have been scattered reports of yield stagnation in the world’s major cereal crops, including maize, rice and wheat."

A single 3D-printed burger currently costs over $300,000 to make

Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
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Kansas pursues child support from sperm donor

The Batsuit Was So Tight, Christian Bale Nearly Had A Nervous Breakdown

Piano great says he won’t return to U.S.

Zimerman, one of the few pianists who brings his own Steinway with him on tour, has said security workers at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport destroyed one piano in recent years and ripped the keyboard out of another.

Homeless Heir To $300 Million Huguette Clark Fortune Found Dead

Oscar winner Michael Hopkins dies in rafting accident
He worked on films including the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the 2005 King Kong remake. He also worked on Blade Runner, Superman, Octopussy and Transformers.

Actor Jackie Chan calls U.S. ‘most corrupt’ country in the world

Boston Molasses Disaster

Why Guilt-Tripped Stars Won't Promote Movie 43

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