“Healing The Health Care Blues” Benefit
The Oregon Single Payer Campaign is putting on a benefit to help establish a Single Payer that would cover all Oregonians for all medically necessary services, including doctor, hospital, preventative care, and more, paid for by a dedicated Medicare-like tax that everyone pays into. Join us at the Melody Ballroom on April 14 to enjoy NORMAN SYLVESTER, LLOYD JONES, LARHONDA STEELE, SONNY HESS, BILL RHOADS, JANICE SCROGGINS, JIM MESI, RENATO CARANTO, RICHARD ARNOLD, LLOYD ALLEN, SHOEHORN, CHATTA ADDY, AND LENANNE SYLVESTER. Click HERE for more details, and we’ll see you there!
Flying Swarms of Nanobots. For Real.
We’ve said before that there’s something really cool about robots, but it seems that for every Roomba or R2D2 that wants to help there’s a CIA drone or Skynet that wants to hinder. These small flying nanobots could go either way, but they’re fascinating to watch. The three videos are from some of the latest work on coordinating teams of 4-prop flyers, showing a fleet of 20 flying in complex formation, high-tolerance flying of a single unit, and a team of them building a tower. The video of the swarm bursting through a doorway is especially eerie, but these are all worth a watch.
Proposed Initiative Would Ban Studded Tires
Studded tires have metal posts embedded in the tread to give better traction and control on icy roads. This increased traction comes with a price– The posts not only dig into the ice but also into the pavement surface causing unsafe roads and millions of dollars in damage each year. New technology in all-weather tires offers comparable performance in non-studded tires, so Preserving Oregon Roads is working to have Oregon join the many other states and countries that have already banned studded tires. Their fact-filled website has everything to explain the whole issue in detail, and gives you many ways to help.
“GasLand” Producer Arrested for Filming Public Hearing
When Congress meets, it’s the People’s representatives doing the People’s business in the facilities the People paid for. You’d think filming things like this would be pretty straightforward, but no. Josh Fox, producer of the hydraulic fracking documentary “GasLand”, was arrested while filming a Congressional hearing on the science of fracking. The eventual charge? Illegal entry. There are a couple videos you might find interesting: this report from Occupy (with updates) gives you the whole story, here’s video of some of the testimony, the video of the arrest, and this video from CSPAN shows what happened afterward. Well, at least they didn’t use pepper spray.
