random news

• Hadassa Ben-Itto, a retired Israeli Judge elaborated the idea to learn from Nazis. She said “We must learn from the Nazi tactics” during a conference, discussing the State of Israel’s PR efforts in the world.
  said a couple of days ago at a conference
• For three years now, some parts of the city of Hamburg are under video surveillance. The idea behind it is, as in many cities all over the world: people won’t commit crimes when they are watched by cameras.
  An official document was released now, evaluating this “security” measure: criminal acts increased by 32% (the incidence of bodily injury even increased by 75%). Although this result might be confounded with other variables, and therefor makes a causal interpretation difficult, it is yet again one of a growing number of studies showing that generally suspecting all citizens of a country to be criminals does not improve anything.
• George Lucas (producer of “Star Wars”) is threatening a laser-producing company (“Wicked Lasers”) with legal action if it doesn’t change a specific product or stops selling it. Why? Because it looks too much like a lightsabre used in the Starwars movies.
  Seriously?! …
• American scientists discovered two human antibodies, which seem to be able to stop around 90% of the known HIV-groups.

— via Fefe & Jana