As we start a new year, we want to focus on aspects of our world. Specifically, aspects which impact both our lives and the protection of the products we produce as a society. Correspondingly, one of these areas is air pollution and its respective impact around the world.
The end of the year is always marked by all sorts of lists and countdowns. I enjoy the symbolism of ending one chapter and beginning of another. As I see it, there is no more natural time than now to do this. My favorite list this year is PhysicsWorld.com’s Physics Breakthroughs of 2014. "Breakthroughs" in this case being defined as, "a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development" in accordance to the Oxford English Dictionary. For the purpose of our post, we see it as pure innovation.
America leads the way in losses due to credit card fraud. Statistically speaking, it accounted for 47% of the $11.3 Billion in worldwide fraud in 2012.
This was an increase of 15% according to that which was reported in 2011.
American consumers remain targeted because there are more credit cards here and magnetic strip security systems are easy to bypass.