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www.theatlanticwire.com The very horny and very loud insects haven't arrived in full force for the Mid-Atlantic cicada sex invasion quite yet, but when they do, they will come with a huge body-count advantage over people, outnumbering us 600-to-1, or...
arstechnica.com For $40, those who couldn't be astronauts see Mars One as their chance.
www.huffingtonpost.com University endowments and teachers’ pension funds are among big investors in Sallie Mae, the private lender that has been generating enormous profits thanks to soaring student debt and the climbing cost of education, a Huffington...
newswatch.nationalgeographic.com Can food be free, fresh and easily accessible? That's the bold question Seattle is hoping to answer.
wap.nytimes.com According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy International Airport from London, an unnamed painting worth $100 was inside. Only later did federal investigators discover that it was by...
wagingnonviolence.org Last Thursday night’s event at the New York Public Library got a whole lot funnier when about 50 people staged a laugh-in against Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.
aptn.ca APTN National News Of the 30,000 children under 14-years-old in foster care in 2011 nearly half were Aboriginal children despite representing about four per cent of Canada’s population says a report released Wednesday.
www.boilingfrogspost.com Conflicting Moves Create the Intended ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Just a cursory review of the latest developments in Syria is enough to make anyone dizzy. Well, not everyone- not those who pay attention...
thinkprogress.org A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregard for the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes,...
www.happyplace.com "Sorry, we're experiencing a delay in the broadcast while we both wait for this bus to go by."Yes, those are all the same cars. Apparently they thought we wouldn't notice because Nancy is on the right side of the screen, when in reality...
usnews.nbcnews.com When you call a company or government agency for help, there's a good chance the person on the other end of the line is a prison inmate. The federal government calls it
4closurefraud.org Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Suit alleging that Chase engaged in widespread, illegal robo-signing to commit debt-collection abuses against approximately 100,000 California credit card borrowers over at least a three-year...
reason.com Reader Ryan McCormick sends this amazing story from ABC News. Robert Jordan wanted to be a cop and he applied for a job as such in New London, Connecticut.
oilprice.com a map of how oil travels the world on the seas and where the vulnerable choke points exist. The Straits of Hormuz is the busiest passage for oil cargoes, and the US Navy has spent $8 trillion over
www.alternet.org The lines between the military and law enforcement have blurred even further.
www.latimes.com If the dead could speak, they probably wouldn't have been heard over the burst of virtual shouting and howling Walt Disney Co. drew for attempting to trademark "Dia de los Muertos" -- a bid it has since dropped.
www.mcclatchydc.com About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantanamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more than a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.
newsfeed.time.com If your company offered you a pay raise in exchange for tattooing its logo on your body, would you do it?
www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised the stakes of her quest to find out why a single Wall Street bank has not been prosecuted in the aftermath of the financial crisis Tuesday, sending a letter to the heads of three...
on.io9.com Even more mindblowing: said circle is mostly water.
news.yahoo.com VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican signed an agreement with the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday to exchange financial information as part of its efforts to comply with international anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing norm...
www.forbes.com The U.S. media are suppressing evidence of American decline.
on.io9.com There's a famous trick question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" The structure of the question is funny — or disturbing — because any response condemns you. You'd assume that a quick-witted person could see through it. But this study...
phys.org Like small children, scientists are always asking the question 'why?'. One question they've yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. Researchers Corsin Pfister and Stephanie Wehner...
mashable.com Can guns really be 3D-printed? The answer to that question is a simple yes.
