Schweiziska experter är inbjudna av palestiniernas president för att undersöka om Yasser Arafats lik har höga halter av polonium.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland analyzing meticulous data collected by Danish authorities have identified a positive correlation between suicides among women with infection with the fairly common parasite T. gondii. Carriers were 53 percent more likely to commit suicide in a sample of 45,000 Danish women monitored for over a decade (researchers believe that the same correlation likely exists for men). Increased susceptibility to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was also discovered. The physiological mechanism has not been determined, although some speculation centers around changes to dopamine levels. Two intriguing aspects were noted: 1) human infection often (but not always) begins by exposure to cats carrying the parasite, for example, by changing an infected animal's litter; and 2) the parasite spreads itself by infecting the nervous system of rodents, causing them to become suicidally attracted to feline odors which will increase the likelihood of their hosts being eaten by cats, whose digestive tracts provide the preferred environment for parasite reproduction."

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I have habitually declared my properties as nonatomic. Exceptions are extremely rare.

Since atomic is the default, I have to do this:

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *foo;

But it occurs to me now that switching to atomic will not be a performance issue. It makes sense to stick with nonatomic for things like Core Data objects — but it isn’t really needed for things like IBOutlets and other properties that are not frequently set.

Since it isn’t really needed in those cases, I could just go with the default and save myself a little typing and a little code.

@property (strong) NSString *foo;

Hmmm. Looks naked, but I could get over that.

Protests in Qatif city after government critic Sheik Nimr al-Nimr was wounded by police during gunfight and car chase.

Political and religious parties begin "long march" to Islamabad to protest reopening of supply routes to Afghanistan.

Police fire tear gas at students protesting against government in Khartoum, a day after arrest of an opposition leader.

Premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu gjorde helt om på söndagen och förordar nu lika värnplikt för alla israeler.

Police fire tear gas at students protesting against government in Khartoum, a day after arrest of an opposition leader.

Väntas skildra massmord och fördrivning.

Ikeavaruhuset i Kållered utanför Göteborg fick utrymmas i dag.

Dykare från Kustbevakningen sökte på söndagskvällen i hamnen i Sölvesborg i Blekinge efter en 65-årig man som varit försvunnen sedan i fredags kväll.

bs0d3 writes "In regards to the new 'voluntary' graduated response deal (where no one really knows how ISPs will track and accuse customers of copyright infringement), according to CNN, it may be the ISP directly spying on their customers. 'But now that they're free from individual blame, there's also the strong possibility that the ISPs will be doing the data monitoring directly. That's a much bigger deal. So instead of reaching out to the Internet to track down illegally flowing bits of their movies, the studios will sit back while ISP's "sniff" the packets of data coming to and from their customers' computers.' This could be a problem for people who use U.S.-based internet services. If the U.S. wants to be an internet savvy country, they still need the competition in the marketplace that's always been missing, and a digital bill of rights that isn't a sneaky anti-piracy measure."

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A minimal-effort oriented web application framework

URIs that magically set a default base

Political and religious parties begin "long march" to Islamabad to protest reopening of supply routes to Afghanistan.