Archive For The “World” Category
This is just something I came across on Diaspora, the social media network. When I was in still in school, the internet was just coming about. Now it’s everywhere.
- Leave your comment • Web • World
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Diaspora • freedom • Internet • pro-democracy • socia • social network
To get into the spirit of May Day, slow-news-day.net looked up some fizzy May Day posters. Here’s some of the cool stuff found online.
- Leave your comment • Culture • World
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • art • May Day • poster
A growing number of adults in the developed countries are choosing not to have children even if they could. Adults are opting to live the more care-free, less expensive life without burden of babies. Global birth rates have dropped almost by half from 1950′s to now (UNdata).
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- Tagged as: aging • birth rate • children • China • Europe • Japan • New Zealand • population growth • Russia • sheep-to-human ratio
Remember the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and all the commotion they stirred? It started in the Fall of 2005. In Finland there was a little side episode in connection to the caricatures. The Finnish Government, headed by prime minister Matti Vanhanen, apologised to the Islamic world for the caricatures published by the Danish newspaper [...]
- Leave your comment • Culture • Politics • Web • World
- Tagged as: art • caricature • cartoonist • comic • Denmark • Finland • Finns (party) • freedom of artistic expression • freedom of speech • Islam • Jussi Vilkuna • Jyllands-Posten • Kaltio • Matti Vanhanen • Mohammed • True Finns • Ville Ranta
Diaspora core developer team’s recent email plea for donations has been getting bad response. Diaspora raised about $200 000 through Kickstarter a little over a year ago. Some people seem to think it’s just a scam that they are looking for some more money.
- Comments Off • Opinion • Web • World
- Tagged as: Diaspora • Kickstarter • salary • social media • social network
Anti-capitalist protesters have been demonstrating at Wall Street already for 13 days. The group of protesters gathered on September 17. “Occupy Wall Street” protests were inspired by the Arab Spring, particularly the protests in Cairo. Slow-news-day.net hasn’t found out any clear estimates on the number of protesters from the internet sources, but it would seem [...]
- Leave your comment • Politics • Web • World
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Arab Spring • demonstration • New York • Occupy Wall Street • pepper-spray • protest
Although it doesn’t look as much, London’s museum ship Cutty Sark is to be opened to public in spring 2012. That’s at least what the Cutty Sark Trust promises. The pictures by slow-news-day.net were taken from behind the fence in Greenwich London on the 7th of August. You can check out the better views from [...]
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- Tagged as: clipper • Cutty Sark • Greenwich • historic ship • London • museum • ship
Great Eastern Japan Earthquake hit a month ago on Friday, 11th of March. Triggering a tsunami, it struck hard several nuclear reactors at the Fukushima I powerplant. Since then workers at the plant have struggled to cool down the nuclear cores. Slow-news-day.net picked a few pictures from the past month depicting some of the events [...]
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- Tagged as: Cryptome • earthquake • Japan • nuclear energy • power plant • tsunami
This sandstrom looks something like special effects from those Mummy movies – at least for us up north far away from the events. The storm darkened the skies over Kuwait in 25th of March 2011. What can be figured out of the description on this YouTube-video with Google translator, its uploader first thought this was [...]
- Leave your comment • Nature • World
- Tagged as: Kuwait • Middle East • sandstorm • YouTube
Bacteria with a new genetic resistance to antibiotics have contaminated drinking water supply in the Indian capital of 14 million people, New Delhi. It is the first time the bacteria have been located in the wider environment outside a hospital. The gene has already invaded germs that cause cholera, dysentery and other major infections, and [...]
- Leave your comment • Health • Nature • World
- Tagged as: antibiotics • Cardiff University • cholera • drug resistancy • dysentery • India • medical tourism • monsoon • NDM-1 • self-medication • superbug • Tim Walsh • WHO
