8:28 PM
Interesting breakdown of our classified defense budget--who knew that the CIA spent nearly 50% more than the NSA?
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/?wpisrc=nl_pmpol
Study found that NFL game outcomes are directly linked to the health of the people in the cities they are from. A comparison of what people in 24 cities ate on non-game Mondays vs. what they ate on Mondays after a game found a strong correlation. Saturated fat consumption increased 16% on the Monday after a game in cities where the team lost, but when the team won the saturated fat consumption decreased 9%! Saturated fat consumption didn't change in cities without an NFL team and in NFL cities in weeks where the team didn't play. The researchers expanded their study to France and found the same pattern--when subjects wrote about their favorite soccer team winning, they chose to eat fruit, but when they wrote about their team losing they ate candy and soda:
http://www.wtop.com/267/3434493/Study-Losing-sports-teams-make-us-fat
North Korea's leader ordered the death of his ex-girlfriend and 11 others from her popular pop music band. He made their family member watch the execution and then the family members were sent to prison camps because North Korea's guilt by association rule. All 12 killed via machine guns were singers, musicians or dancers. Kim's wife was a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before she married him, so one theory is that she didn't like how successful her former bandmate (her husband's ex) was:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html
The British Parliament voted against British involvement in an attack on Syria, against the wishes of Prime Minister Cameron and a major loss for Pres. Obama's plan for Syria:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130829-british-mps-vote-against-u-k-military-participation-in-attack-on-syria
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Montana to protest a local judge's light sentence for a rapist whose teenage victim killed herself. The judge sentenced the 54-year-old high school teacher to just *1 month* in prison for raping a 14-year-old student! The judge said that the 14-year-old girl was "older than her chronological age" and "as much in control of the situation" as her teacher was:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-montana-rally-20130829,0,4024235.story
Study found that air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year in the US:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/air-pollution-causes-about-200000.html
Hugo Barra, Google's VP of Android product management, is leaving to join Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-vp-hugo-barra-exits-google-chinese-phone-maker-xiaomi/2013-08-28
McDonald's and Burger King rely on toy giveaways, not food, to get kids to want to go to their restaurants:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/study-mcdonalds-burger-king-rely-giveaways-not-food-lure-kids-152083
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/?wpisrc=nl_pmpol
Study found that NFL game outcomes are directly linked to the health of the people in the cities they are from. A comparison of what people in 24 cities ate on non-game Mondays vs. what they ate on Mondays after a game found a strong correlation. Saturated fat consumption increased 16% on the Monday after a game in cities where the team lost, but when the team won the saturated fat consumption decreased 9%! Saturated fat consumption didn't change in cities without an NFL team and in NFL cities in weeks where the team didn't play. The researchers expanded their study to France and found the same pattern--when subjects wrote about their favorite soccer team winning, they chose to eat fruit, but when they wrote about their team losing they ate candy and soda:
http://www.wtop.com/267/3434493/Study-Losing-sports-teams-make-us-fat
North Korea's leader ordered the death of his ex-girlfriend and 11 others from her popular pop music band. He made their family member watch the execution and then the family members were sent to prison camps because North Korea's guilt by association rule. All 12 killed via machine guns were singers, musicians or dancers. Kim's wife was a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before she married him, so one theory is that she didn't like how successful her former bandmate (her husband's ex) was:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html
The British Parliament voted against British involvement in an attack on Syria, against the wishes of Prime Minister Cameron and a major loss for Pres. Obama's plan for Syria:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bull20130829-british-mps-vote-against-u-k-military-participation-in-attack-on-syria
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Montana to protest a local judge's light sentence for a rapist whose teenage victim killed herself. The judge sentenced the 54-year-old high school teacher to just *1 month* in prison for raping a 14-year-old student! The judge said that the 14-year-old girl was "older than her chronological age" and "as much in control of the situation" as her teacher was:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-montana-rally-20130829,0,4024235.story
Study found that air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year in the US:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/air-pollution-causes-about-200000.html
Hugo Barra, Google's VP of Android product management, is leaving to join Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-vp-hugo-barra-exits-google-chinese-phone-maker-xiaomi/2013-08-28
McDonald's and Burger King rely on toy giveaways, not food, to get kids to want to go to their restaurants:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/study-mcdonalds-burger-king-rely-giveaways-not-food-lure-kids-152083