In Australia they have developed an inoculation against some of the most active methanogenic gut bacteria found in sheep. From memory it reduced the sheep's' generation of methane by about 30% and allowed an extra 1.5% to 2% of their feed to go toward actually producing meat.

What I want to know is why did Australia NAME the country and the individual surveillance targets, then put that in a document given to a foreign country, which had their name and organization written all over it? Haven't they heard of code names?

They could have referred to target1, target 2 etc in the country of Elbonia on paper and made it clear in conversation who was being referred to. Even if the intended targets could have been easily guessed, it would have provided some level of deniability.

Never put it in writing.

"After a probe that included an investigation into Joseph’s travel and shopping patterns – parsed from over 2,000 tweets - lawyers from the White House counsel’s office confronted Joseph and ordered him to leave the executive complex, according to two sources familiar with the situation."

There's your tax dollars at work. Money well spent, I'd say. /sarcasm.

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.", as Damon Runyon said.

If you've got a 55% chance of Alzheimer's, you'd be foolish not to make at least some adjustments to your life, but a young kid doesn't need to know those facts just now. You can leave it until she's a young adult to tell her.

One thing she might do when she decides to have kids is use embryo selection to weed out the bad genes, so her children aren't burdened with the same worry.

Yeah, I'm sure that eight year-olds had easy access to horse porn long before the internet came along.

So for all you know, your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol are enormous and you're ready to pop.

"This isn’t the first time that ReedPop has had trouble with oversharing at this year’s New York Comic Con.

Last month, it came to light (via WIRED contributor Rachel Edidin) that ReedPop had the shared personal contact information provided by journalists during their press registration — including home phone numbers and addresses — with exhibitors at the show.

Wow, giving out your home phone numbers (if you were stupid enough to supply them) — are ReedPop a bunch of pricks or what?

No, Zimmerman CLAIMED Martin attacked first. We can't hear Martin's story because he is, you know, dead. An unarmed teenager talking to his girlfriend on the phone is APPROACHED by a middle aged man with a gun and he is the attacker? Really?

WTF was wrong with your lawyer? Didn't he like money?

In Australian courts, surveys have shown that being represented will often result in a lighter penalty, even if you plead guilty. The lawyer will tell the judge of your co-operation, contrition, previous good record, difficult childhood yada, yada.

In other words they know how to bullshit the system.

But Malala didn't volunteer to get shot in the head, that was done to her, although she has displayed great personal fortitude since then.

Contrast that with Snowden who deliberately gave up his career, his family, his girl friend, and his life to date to reveal the US's dirty doings. My Vote is for Snowden.

If I recall correctly the F16 was a Tier 2 fighter, specifically designed to be cheap to buy and cheap to run — quantity was a higher priority than capability, as least compared with its larger two-engined brethren. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but "noble and iconic" seems a bit much.