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inhabitat.com Sixteen-year-old Azza Abdel Hamid Falad has discovered a way to convert Egypt's plastic waste in to biofuel!
english.alarabiya.net After months of reportedly going into hiding, the outspoken Tunisian feminist who sparked a trend of
www.rawstory.com RIYADH — Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
www.washingtontimes.com If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is nullification — the idea that states can limit the enforcement of federal laws within their borders.
foxnewsinsider.com Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about...
blogs.smithsonianmag.com From a frozen Siberian island, a well-preserved mammoth and some liquid mammoth blood
www.aljazeera.com Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
www.theatlanticcities.com The Rockefeller Foundation plans to fund positions in 100 cities worldwide.
arstechnica.com Ignoring a specific visual distractor correlates with IQ scores.
www.sciencedaily.com New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. Scientists have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk Eton College asked 13-year-old boys competing for a scholarship to pretend to be Prime Minister and justify the army shooting dead 25 protesters as a "necessary and moral" decision, it has emerged. The public school set the question...
www.pcworld.com Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.
www.nytimes.com Recent unrest has shaken Sweden, which has a reputation for welcoming immigrants and asylum seekers, and regularly ranks in surveys as one of the world’s happiest places.
usnews.nbcnews.com A group of self-styled Robin Hoods who scamper around the streets of a New Hampshire city and feed expired parking meters for strangers has been hit with a harassment lawsuit.
on.io9.com What you’re looking at is the first direct observation of an atom’s electron orbital — an atom's actual wave function! To capture the image, researchers utilized a new quantum microscope — an incredible new device that literally allows scientists...
www.washingtonpost.com Hoping to collect son’s body, father of Ibragim Todashev alleges his son was killed to keep him quiet.
www.myfoxdc.com Is it just a lot of hot air? Google aims to help wire the world by bringing the Internet to a billion or more new people, including small villages and cities outside of major urban areas in South...
boingboing.net A fascinating letter about prison life, written by John Kiriakou, the former CIA agent who was sent to prison for blowing the whistle about the federal government's secret torture campaign.
autos.yahoo.com Director Sean Casey has spent the past decade driving straight for tornadoes in vehicles built to withstand the most violent forces nature can unleash. This weekend, his vehicle took a direct hit from a Kansas tornado spinning 175-mph...
www.economist.com Soylent promises to be as tasteless as its name, comprised as it is mostly of powdered starch, milk proteins, olive oil, oat fibre and various trace minerals and vitamins. When reconstituted with water, Soylent becomes a unflavoured...
endofcapitalism.com Silvia Federici is one of the most important political theorists alive today. Her landmark book Caliban and the Witch demonstrated the inextricable link between anti-capitalism and radical feminist...
www.newscientist.com Applying a quantum theory of gravity to black holes eliminates the baffling singularity at their core, leaving what looks like a portal to another universe
thinkprogress.org The main reason an offshore oil rig ran aground off the coast of Alaska late last year was because oil company Royal Dutch Shell was trying to depart state waters to avoid paying millions in taxes. Sean Churchfield, operations manager...
www.guardian.co.uk • Activists held and campaigners targeted as elections near • Guardian launches database of Iran's prisoners of conscience
www.guardian.co.uk Leonard Zeskind: The Aryan Brotherhood linked to murders of Texas DAs is chiefly a prison gang. But far-right extremism does menace the US
