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"Canadians cutting cords"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 19 August 2011 06:21

"Canadians are turning off their televisions and cutting their land lines in favour of online streaming and smartphones in record numbers, a CRTC report said Thursday.

The number of cellphone subscribers is expected to reach 29.5 million by 2014, representing a penetration rate of 85 per cent. By then, smartphones will account for half of all mobile handsets in Canada, up from 31 per cent in 2009."

"Global markets take fright at the return of the zombie banks"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 19 August 2011 06:18

"The activities of financial markets are often irrational. Prices go up for no apparent reason and then suddenly the mood changes. What's worrying about the latest spasm that has convulsed bourses in Europe, Asia and North America is that the sell-off is grounded in real and ever-more pressing concerns. Make no mistake, something serious is going on here. That something can be divided into three parts. The first cause for anxiety is the global economy, and in particular the United States."

"Coffee suncream could slow skin cancer"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:46

"Caffeinated suncream, coming to a beach near you?"

"Applying caffeine to the skin in sunny weather may protect against a type of skin cancer, US researchers hope.

Experiments on mice, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that caffeine prevents UV damage.

Tumours took longer to develop and there were fewer of them, the study reports."

"Why pay a celebrity not to wear your clothes?"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:43

"There is a surprising amount of metaphysics in modern life. And, indeed, on television. We live in a meta-world of brand values and celebrity worship, a value system of chimaera where nothing is quite as it seems. There is no contest between appearance and reality: appearance wins every time. This, depending on your place in the greedy consumerist food chain, is either thrilling evidence of mankind’s evolutionary sophistication and its taste for complex symbolism, or damning condemnation of our pathetic need for social promotion through structured avarice."

"Stray bullets often injure women"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:37

"The first nationwide study of stray-bullet shootings shows more than 80 percent of the victims were unaware of the events leading to the gunfire and more than 40 percent were women.

“Stray-bullet shootings are largely a byproduct of intentional violence, what we euphemistically call ‘collateral damage,’” says Garen Wintemute, professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Davis. “Those who are shot have little or no warning; opportunities to take preventive measures once the shooting starts are limited. Unless we intend to bulletproof entire communities and their residents, we will only be able to prevent these shootings to the extent that we are able to prevent firearm violence.”

The findings are published as a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

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