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Bury Me at the Dubai Mega-Mall
Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates that is home to creations and projects beyond our wildest Western dreams (all paid for with oil money), has announced it will begin building a new mega...
View ArticleSupernova May Hold Clues To Origins Of Cosmic Dust
Astronomers watching a supernova may have found out where the dust that makes up much of the Universe came from. Cosmic dust is crucial to the birth of stars and rocky planets, and provides the...
View Article12 Biblical Principles You're (Probably) Not Living By
Biblical principles seem to be all the rage today. By which I mean people seem to be raging about them all the time. From the Hobby Lobby case to same-sex marriage to the wave of child immigrants to...
View ArticleEarth's Magnetic Field Is Growing Weaker at a Surprisingly Fast Rate
Information shared with the public by scientists with the European Space Agency says that, according to data at hand, our planet's magnetic field is growing weaker at a surprisingly fast rate. Thus,...
View ArticleWar in Afghanistan: Enough Is Enough
At the end of George Washington's second term as President, in his 1796 farewell address to a grateful nation, Washington urged America to avoid foreign entanglements. This is what he said:"Europe has...
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Zuckerberg’s (extremely) optimistic prediction of how the Internet benefits...
Facebook founder and hoodie-enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg revealed his extremely optimistic prediction for how the Internet will reshape the lives of the poorest people on Earth. Reported by VentureBeat...
View ArticleBid to 'reboot' aging NASA satellite is scuttled as fuel system fails
ISEE-3 will not be returning home after all. Authors of a plan to revive the forgotten NASA satellite and return it to Earth orbit conceded Wednesday that a failure in the spacecraft's propulsion...
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Even On Its Dismal Third Birthday, South Sudan's Independence Is Something...
On the third anniversary of its independence, South Sudan is arguably the most fragile country in the entire world. Nearly a fifth of its population has been displaced since rival ethnic cadres of an...
View ArticleJourney Into the Interior: A Masterpiece of Exploration
In August 2010 the world stopped breathing when a group of men employed as Chilean miners was trapped inside the San Jose Mine, nearly as deep as the tallest building on earth. I, too, longed for my...
View ArticleI Did Not Come to Praise Richard Mellon-Scaife
Richard "Dickie" Mellon-Scaife the reclusive billionaire publisher and heir of the 19th century Mellon Bank robber barons died at 82 on Friday, the final punctation of a dark biography of political...
View ArticleTiny Hedgehogs and Tapirs Walked the Earth About 52 Million Years Ago
Paleontologists carrying out excavations in British Columbia, Canada, claim to have discovered the fossilized remains of miniature hedgehogs and tapirs that roamed the Earth about 52 million years ago,...
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Gray Matters: Novitec Rosso Makes Ferrari 458 Speciale More “Speciale”
We’re not sure anyone on earth has ever accused the Ferrari 458 Speciale of being not “speciale” enough right out of the box, but we also know that many Ferrari owners don’t like to leave well enough...
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Watch: This Disney World Surprise Was Not Supposed to End This Way
Continuing with the Disney trend today, here’s a video of a dad trying to surprise his kids with a trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. Most kids scream with tears of joy, jump off walls and produce...
View ArticleEarth's magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster
It may be a sign that the Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip, which hasn't happened in hundreds of thousands of years Reported by CBS News 4 hours ago.
View ArticleA Meditation on the Unspoken Causes of Child Migration
As is so often true, it is what is not being said about the current migration of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to the U.S. that is the most important. The vast majority of these children,...
View ArticleLifetime Orders ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ Adaptation From Ron Howard, Brian Grazer
Lifetime has given a drama pilot order adapted from Jean M. Auel's “The Clan of the Cave Bear” novels from executive producers Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Allison Shearmur. “I've always admired Jean...
View ArticleBoyhood
Among the arts, cinema has a unique relationship with time. Like photography, film captures a moment in permanent, reproducible form; but like music and dance, it also moves through time itself,...
View ArticleApple Environmental Report: Carbon Footprint Down 3%, 145 U.S. Stores Now...
Apple today released its 2014 Environmental Responsibility Report [PDF], posting the new information on its updated Environmental Initiatives website. The report, which covers fiscal 2013, highlights...
View ArticleThe Wide World of Startups
It seems like everybody has a startup these days. Or if they don't have a startup, they have at least a blog. Or if not a blog, they have an idea for a startup, where, "If we only get the funding, we...
View ArticleAER and AGI Release Updates to Space Environment and Effects Tool to...
Satellite engineers now have integrated models that predict radiation from solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays. Exton, PA (PRWEB) July 10, 2014 Atmospheric and Environmental Research...
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