A “perfect storm” of circumstances is coming together that is leading many agriculture experts to predict that we will soon be experiencing a

worldwide food crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Will 2010 be the year

that the world runs out of food?  Record setting droughts, exploding

populations and crippling crop failures all over the world are combining

to set the stage for a potentially devastating…

The U.S. Department of Justice has rejected a request from prosecutors in Warsaw for assistance in the investigation into the alleged CIA prisons in Poland, where captives claim they were tortured.



On 18 March, the Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal in Warsaw filed a motion for legal assistance from the US Department of Justice into the probe.



On 7 October, reports the PAP news agency, the US informed prosecutors that the motion had been rejected on the basis of the…

Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses all are part of the possible fringe…

The video description reads "This is a video that I took of my husband being wrongfully accused and detained. They originally came because someone wrongfully accused my husband of firing a crossbow in

our yard (crossbows are legal in our state). He told them he was not

firing a crossbow and there was not a crossbow outside or any evidence

of one being outside. The police asked him for ID and he refused on

grounds that he wasn't doing anything to facilitate them asking…

The former head of the Shell Oil Company stated Monday that with the current market price for a barrel of oil nearing $92 and headed for over $100, the price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. could hit $5 per gallon in the not-too-distant future. …

First there were meals we had to make all by ourselves.



Then 'ready made' meals came along, making life that much easier.

But what if you could just print your dinner using food 'ink'?

Scientists at Cornell University in New York are developing a commercially viable 3D food printer which uses raw ingredients inside…

After the tumultuous years of the Great Recession, a battered people may wish that 2011 will bring a return to kinder, gentler times. But that is not what we are predicting. Instead, the fruits of government and institutional action – and inaction – on many fronts will ripen in unplanned-for fashions.



Trends we have previously…