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Warns of ‘rising strand of libertarianism’…

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The New Jersey governor exploited the 9/11 dead to argue that concerns about the NSA and the national security state are “esoteric.”

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Mentos is capitalizing on the narcissism that fuels social media by creating personalized news bulletins that make your Facebook activity look exciting enough to be broadcast on network television.

As part of Mentos’ “Stay Fresh” campaign, Bartle Bogle Hegarty London has launched a global digital platform that creates individual video reports using an app — on Facebook or standalone — called “Fresh News.”

The bulletins make up a 24-hour news channel that serves up a constant stream of humorous news reports by pulling in material from users’ updates on Facebook and connected social media accounts, including Foursquare. Two news anchors present a satirical show highlighting a user’s recent escapades, and emphasizing how “fresh” the subject may or may not be, depending on what he or she has been posting lately.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If there was ever any doubt about what happened to the only U.S. Navy ship that is being held by a foreign government, North Korea has cleared it up. It’s in Pyongyang. And it looks like it’s here to stay….

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A new article in Nature warns that “the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge”, thanks in part to the likely release of “a 50-gigatonne (Gt) reservoir of methane, stored in the form of hydrates” beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, “either steadily over 50 years or suddenly”. An abrupt release is “highly possible at any time”, says Natalia Shakhova of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, who has observed plumes of methane up to a kilometre wide bubbling to the surface in the area.

We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is pivotal to the functioning of Earth systems such as oceans and the climate. The release of methane from thawing permafrost beneath the East Siberian Sea, off northern Russia, alone comes with an average global price tag of $60 trillion in the absence of mitigating action — a figure comparable to the size of the world economy in 2012 (about $70 trillion). The total cost of Arctic change will be much higher. (Gail Whiteman, Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams, “Vast costs of Arctic change”, Nature 499, 25 July 2013, p. 401)

A 50-gigatonne (Gt) reservoir of methane, stored in the form of hydrates, exists on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. It is likely to be emitted as the seabed warms, either steadily over 50 years or suddenly. Higher methane concentrations in the atmosphere will accelerate global warming and hasten local changes in the Arctic, speeding up sea-ice retreat, reducing the reflection of solar energy and accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. (p. 402)

The methane pulse will bring forward by 15–35 years the average date at which the global mean temperature rise exceeds 2°C above pre-industrial levels — to 2035 for the business-as-usual scenario and to 2040 for the low-emissions case. (p. 402)

Methane hydrates (or clathrates) and Shakhova previously on Mefi.

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At a press briefing yesterday, White House spokesman Jay Carney had to take a break from weighty questions to field one about “This Town,” the…

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The case against former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez regarding his possible role in a 2012 double homicide is gaining strength as a grand jury has begun listening to prosecutors lay out the links between Hernandez and the murders behind closed doors.

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Twitter has announced that its TV ad targeting feature is now available in the U.S. The service, which allows brands to send promoted tweets during TV ads, shows just how important the second screen is to television.

Testing, said Twitter, “reveal[ed] that the impact of using Twitter in combination with TV advertising is significantly greater than that of using TV advertising alone.” Adidas, Holiday Inn Express, Jaguar, and Samsung all acted as guinea pigs.

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Via Gamasutra: “I used to work at [company], and it paid well and advanced my career,” the person told me. “But I recognize that [company]’s games cause great harm to people’s lives. They are designed for addiction. [company] chooses what to add to their games based on metrics that maximize players’ investments of time and money. [company]’s games find and exploit the right people, and then suck everything they can out of them, without giving much in return. It’s not hard to see the parallels to the tobacco industry.”

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office is looking into how much access Bloomberg news reporters may have had to information about the media and technology company’s customers.

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