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“This paper is based on exhaustive review of academic papers, and reports from national governments and multinational bodies, going back some 40 years,” it begins. “The research examines the causes and impacts of sound on our health, recovery from illness or surgery, our ability to absorb information and learn, our productivity, and general sense of wellbeing.” (via 9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity | TED Blog)

“This paper is based on exhaustive review of academic papers, and reports from national governments and multinational bodies, going back some 40 years,” it begins. “The research examines the causes and impacts of sound on our health, recovery from illness or surgery, our ability to absorb information and learn, our productivity, and general sense of wellbeing.” (via 9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity | TED Blog)

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riiiight.. Frustrated businessman challenges Chinese official to swim in polluted river in exchange for $32,000A Chinese businessman angry about a filthy river has come up with an equally dirty dare: He’ll give an environmental official about $32,000 just for swimming in the polluted waterway.Businessman Jin Zengmin posted on his microblog photos of a garbage-filled river in his hometown of Rui’an city in the eastern province of Zhejiang. He dared the local environmental protection chief, Bao Zhenming, to swim in it for a cash prize of 200,000 yuan.The challenge, made Saturday, reflects growing frustration among the Chinese public over widespread pollution and lack of governmental action. It quickly inspired at least one other offer: A posting Tuesday under an alias on an online forum offered a 300,000 yuan ($48,000) cash prize to the environmental protection chief in the nearby county of Cangnan if the official swam in polluted rivers there. (AFP / Getty Images Files) how to strike gold in China: become environmental official do nothing or accept bribes from industry to close eyes wait for cash prizes for dares send your secretary to fulfill them, then collect the money for the government get promoted and get bigger bribes!

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Frustrated businessman challenges Chinese official to swim in polluted river in exchange for $32,000
A Chinese businessman angry about a filthy river has come up with an equally dirty dare: He’ll give an environmental official about $32,000 just for swimming in the polluted waterway.

Businessman Jin Zengmin posted on his microblog photos of a garbage-filled river in his hometown of Rui’an city in the eastern province of Zhejiang. He dared the local environmental protection chief, Bao Zhenming, to swim in it for a cash prize of 200,000 yuan.

The challenge, made Saturday, reflects growing frustration among the Chinese public over widespread pollution and lack of governmental action. It quickly inspired at least one other offer: A posting Tuesday under an alias on an online forum offered a 300,000 yuan ($48,000) cash prize to the environmental protection chief in the nearby county of Cangnan if the official swam in polluted rivers there. (AFP / Getty Images Files)

how to strike gold in China:

  1. become environmental official
  2. do nothing or accept bribes from industry to close eyes
  3. wait for cash prizes for dares
  4. send your secretary to fulfill them, then collect the money for the government
  5. get promoted and get bigger bribes!

(via nationalpost)

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Scoffers who doubt the existence of the mysterious noise tormenting the residents of West End Windsor and LaSalle will be eating their words in 10 months’ time, I predict. Now that the federal government has given a team of university scientists $60,000 and sicced them on the problem, the so-called Windsor Hum will soon be a proven fact rather than a rumour.
— Federal team to track hum
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