Duke's men's basketball team took in $27.0 million in revenue in 2013-14, according to the NCAA, tops among the four teams in this year's Final Four.
In all, the four teams averaged $22.1 million in revenue, 25.2% of the total revenue generated by athletic teams at the schools. The football teams at the four schools averaged $39.9 million in revenue, 45.5% of all revenue.
Meanwhile, the total revenue for all other sports combined generated an average of just $13.9 million, or about 13.6% of the athletic departments' revenue at the four schools. An average of 15.8% of revenue at each school was not allocated to a specific sport (not shown in chart).
The last time we saw him he was limping off the course at Torrey Pines, where he withdrew from the Farmers Insurance Open with a back injury.
Before that he was suffering through the worst spell of his career. When he announced his break from golf, his short game was so bad that many in the golf world felt he developed the yips.
Tiger's old coach Hank Haney said, "When you have the yips, you have issues. This isn't going away. This isn't just a turn of the switch."
Even if what was going on with Tiger's chipping game didn't rise to the level of the yips — which is typically understood as a mental block that manifests itself physically — it was bad. So bad that Tiger had to voluntarily step away from the game because, in his words, "my play, and scores, are not acceptable for tournament golf."
This is what he was dealing with the last time we saw him:
He was hitting chips all over the place.
If the root of Tiger's issues are mental, as many in the golf world believe, then having these blunders flare up at Augusta is just about the worst thing imaginable for his future. You can get away with flubbing chip after chip at the Phoenix Open. You can explain it away by saying it's only January, he's in the middle of changing his swing, and he hasn't played any real golf in months.
A meltdown at the Masters, though? That would be catastrophic. What if he comes out and shanks a chip on the first hole? What if it keeps happening, chip after chip, into the back-9, and he still has to finish out his round as his slinks down the leaderboard?
Playing the Masters, with no warm-up tournament to work out the kinks, is a gamble. The clock is ticking on Tiger. If he still has any hope of breaking Jack Nicklaus' career majors record, he not only has to play all the majors he can, he has to get back to playing competitive golf on a regular basis — something he hasn't done since 2013.
By teeing it up, though, he's risking embarrassment on golf's biggest stage.
Like everyone who cares about golf, we're rooting for Tiger. And there have been some encouraging rumors in recent days. Notah Begay, Tiger's close friend and college roommate, says Tiger has improved significantly over the past few weeks.
When Tiger was struggling with his chipping two months ago a strange thing happened — other golfers started to feel sorry for him. For the first time in his career, he became the object of pity.
That react shows you just how much widespread sympathy there is for Tiger in the golf world. People really want him to fix this.
But it also shows how far he has fallen — those who once feared him are now encouraging him. If he plays at Augusta like he played two months ago, he'll fall even further.
Cutting it a little close to the April 24th release date, Apple has released a quartet of new "guided tour" videos showing off just what the Apple Watch is and what it does as the company tries to sell a brand-new product to a skeptical market.
We can't embed them here, but the first video, "Welcome to Apple Watch," is a general overview of the watch and how you'll be using it, including how the Digital Crown can be used to navigate through the watch and how the new Force Touch screens will bring pressure sensitivity.
The second video, "Messages," deals with how you'll respond to text messages with the Apple Watch, including dictating responses and sending animated emoji.
The "Faces" video highlights how you can customize the level of detail on your watch face, including showing alerts and information from specific apps.
Finally, "Digital Touch" demonstrates how you can send sketches and taps to your friends by doodling straight on the screen.
These videos come a little bit later than you might expect, but they show that Apple is starting to understand that selling the Apple Watch is going to take more effort than any of the company's product launches in the last several years. More videos are promised as coming soon, covering everything from Apple Pay to Siri on the Apple Watch.
Apple will start taking pre-orders for the watch next Friday, April 10, two weeks before it goes on sale.
Believe it or not, that's a real photo of the full moon taken in 2012 by an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS). Here's another photo with the moon even more squished:
Why does that happen?
It's actually an optical illusion created by Earth's atmosphere. The ISS orbits Earth 250 miles above the surface, which is well above the planet's lower atmosphere.
This crazy trick-of-the-eye happens when the moon and the ISS are on opposite sides of the Earth. The light that bounces off the moon and into the astronauts' eyes has to first pass through Earth's atmosphere, which bends the light, distorting the image. Check out this amazing Vine of the same effect:
If you've ever looked at a straw that's half in air and half in water, you've noticed that the part of the straw in the water looks larger than the part in air. That's because the water, just like Earth's atmosphere, bends the light that you see. So why, then does the Earth look squished and not bigger?
It's all about the direction the light is bent.
Earth's atmosphere is thinner the higher you go, and the light from the top-half of the moon travels through less atmosphere than the bottom half. In order to reach the astronaut's eyes, the light from the bottom half is bent upward, which makes it look severed in half.
Bhullar, at a massive 7'5", 360 pounds, is the first NBA player of Indian descent.
After playing two years at New Mexico State University, Bhullar went undrafted and played with the Kings' Summer League team in Las Vegas. Though he only played 10 minutes in Summer League, he got a training camp invite with the Kings before he was sent down to their D-League affiliate, the Reno Bighorns.
Despite Bhullar's size — and Bighorns coach David Arseneault Jr .says Bhullar wasn't in great shape— he excelled in a fast-paced system and worked himself into shape in D-League. He averaged 10 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks per game with a D-League-leading 72% shooting. He logged a triple double in February with 26 points, 17 rebounds, and 11 blocks.
If Bhullar can stay in shape, he has a chance to be a contributor on any team.
He's enormous:
He can run the floor surprisingly well and doesn't need the ball:
And he can recover easily on defense:
Of course, for all of Bhullar's skill, his size is a major factor.
Here, as he sets a screen for a teammate, he looks about double the opponent guard's size:
Bleacher Report produced a video of Bhullar as he prepared for the NBA Draft. His standing reach is 9'9"— three inches short of a basketball hoop's rim.
Bhullar also appeared on "The Late Late Show," where he towered over host Kunal Nayyar:
With only eight game left in the Kings' season, Bhullar may only receive a single 10-day contract, but since the Kings are out of the playoffs, he may also get a chance to show what he can do.
But Cruise and Travolta aren't the only celebrity Scientologists.
From "Mad Men" stars to "Orange Is The New Black" actors, see who else is part of the controversial religion.
With additional reporting by Ashley Lutz.
Actress Kirstie Alley
The former "Cheers" star says the religion helped her overcome a cocaine addiction.
"I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them," Alley says of Scientology. "To me it's so normal, and probably 90% of the crazy stuff I hear isn't true. I've been a Scientologist for over 30 years. I think a lot of things are sensationalized."
Masterson is best-known for his role on "That '70's Show." He defended Tom Cruise for the actor's leaked Scientology video back in 2008.
In an interview with Paper Magazine in 2009 he explained the religion as follows:
"The definition of Scientology is 'the study of knowledge,'"said Masterson. "Obviously, the more knowledge you have in a given field, such as life, the more confident you are as a person."
Actress Bijou Phillips
Indie actress Bijou Phillips, most recently known for her role on "Raising Hope," is daughter of the "Mamas and Papas" singer John Phillips.
Bijou is married to Danny Masterson and the two frequently go to Scientology events together.
For 115 years, the New York Auto Show has been where the world's leading car makers come to show off their latest and greatest offerings. The 2015 show no different.
We were pleasantly surprised by the incredibly high level of energy and excitement at the show this year —especially on the heels of such an action-packed show in Geneva. Big stories coming out of the show included the unveiling of the Cadillac CT6 luxury sedan and Lincoln's Continental concept. Supercar specialist McLaren also pulled the cover off a very hot new set of wheels.
Have a look at the hot cars that caught our eye at the 2015 New York Auto Show, which opened to the public on April 3 and runs through April 12.
The biggest story of the show was the introduction of the Cadillac CT6. But Ford wouldn't be left out ...
.... as its Lincoln brand reintroduced the historic Continental nameplate – as a concept car that will go into production in a few years.
The most hotly anticipated car at the show was McLaren's new 570S – the first offering in the company's Sport Series.
Managing your money well doesn't have to be complicated.
New York Times columnist, author, and financial planner Carl Richards boils down his wisdom into black-and-white "napkin sketches"— little bits of insight that you could reproduce with a marker and a napkin.
Your financial plan can be as short as a single page.
People worry about money for a lot of reasons.
The amount of time we spend worrying seems to go up exponentially when we don't have a plan. Enter the One-Page Financial Plan. Instead of getting bogged down in hundreds of pages and financial details that won't be relevant in a year, a one-page plan offers a snapshot.
You list the three to four things most important to you with specific action items that support your goals. It can take a little time to set up, but investing in a one-page plan will save you hundreds of hours of worry each year.
You can't make one, though, until you've pinpointed why you care about money.
Why is money important to you? It's a simple question, but it's not always easy to answer.
It's also a question that feels more appropriate for a therapy session, not financial planning. However, this question helps reveal your values.
Those values then become the checkpoint for your financial plan because you can't make a plan if you don't know why you're planning.
Plus, without knowing your "why," financial decisions can feel incredibly complex. But once you have your answer, you gain the clarity to know which strategies will work best for your particular situation.
Saving without a purpose isn't going to work.
When you plan a trip, you decide where to go first.
Then, you weigh your travel options, like whether to fly or drive. After all, driving won't get you to Paris if you're starting in New York.
You need to use the same logic with money. Yes, you may want to save money, but for what purpose?
Your one-page plan reminds you of "why" you're saving money, helps you weigh the different options, and makes it easier identify the best path for getting you where you want to go financially.
"Interstellar" director Christopher Nolan is a big proponent of making his movies look as real as possible.
In “The Dark Knight Rises” he actually had a plane dropped from the sky to film the movie’s opening scene. A revolving set was used to create an elaborate fight scene in “Inception.”
So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that in his latest movie, the film's two monolith-like robots TARS and CASE had hardly any digital effects.
Several puppets weighing 200 pounds were constructed and filmed alongside cast members. TARS voice actor and comedian Bill Irwin actually lugged them around set. Digital effects were brought in later for a few select scenes and to clean up any instances of Irwin in the film.
Back in November, during the film's release, Business Insider spoke with both special effects coordinator, Scott Fisher, and visual effects supervisor, Paul Franklin in separate interviews to find out how TARS came together.
Since "Interstellar" is out on Blu-Ray and DVD Tuesday, we wanted to share this story again with new imagery.
"Chris [Nolan] started talking about TARS very early on in pre-production," says Franklin. "And I said, ‘Well, what is this robot going to look like?’ And he said, ‘Well, I don’t want it to be a sort of conventional idea of what a robot should be in science fiction. He didn’t want to make it look like just a mechanical mat ... which is typically what happens with robots in science fiction films. They tend to be sort of machine analogs of a human being. At the same time, he wanted the thing to have a real level of physical reality to it."
Franklin's team at visual effects studio Double Negative spent a lot of time figuring out how TARS may run, fold his arms, and do various other movements.
At the same time, Scott Fisher's practical effects team set out to configure a giant puppet for Irwin to haul around. Fisher says TARS didn't undergo many different looks.
Production designer Nathan Crowley explains in "Interstellar: Beyond Time and Space" that a lot of inspiration for the robots came from balsa wood and lollipop sticks.
"We started working with the original designs that Nathan had and as far as the size and the shape and seeing what we could do with a person behind it, working it," explained Fisher. "We ended up with several different puppets that we could use that he [Irwin] moved around the set and was able to interact with the actors on set and … I think that’s what makes it kind of neat."
"Bill would actually be able to operate this thing and he was essentially effectively sort of shackled to the back of it," said Franklin.
The design team ended up creating four puppets on set which consisted of TARS and CASE and their own backup robots. Each was tasked with performing different movements.
"We had one that was in the ship that could raise its head," explains Fisher. "We had one that would come out of the back of the ship. We had another one that had more intricate arm movement where the arm could fold out and then a few digits could fold out from that. We had two real hero walkers."
The main challenge was nailing down TARS's movements on screen, something which Irwin helped the crew figure out.
"There’s a lot of trial and error as we built him to see what Bill could do and what he could handle and on different surfaces," tells Fisher. "In Iceland we had to walk through ... it was almost two feet of water. Each one [surface] kind of had a different challenge. Some were kind of slippery. It was hard to move on those. He [Irwin] just had to figure out what was the right kind of tool for each situation."
Fisher says TARS ended up with three different walks in total.
"There’s what we call the “ape walk” and then there’s a “crutch walk” where the two outside legs and the center spins through," he said. "And then there’s where all three legs move independently."
After filming with a practical puppet of TARS, the visual effects team made minor edits which included taking out some wires, physical props and rigs, and wiping out any instances of Irwin in the film.
"We would erase Bill if we saw him because obviously he’s a little bit taller than TARS," said Franklin. "But then we would add things like … if TARS’ arm might fold out and a smaller finer arm might come out at the end. We would add that digitally."
Digital effects were also used to add an extra wow factor to the robots for when they were moving through water and flying through the sky on other planets.
"Mostly, our digital work was confined to those moments where TARS and CASE, his twin robot, tend to do extraordinary things like turn into the waterwheel and move through the water to be able to collect Dr. Brand, pick her up, and run with her," Franklin explained.
Fisher and the practical effects team built physical rigs that allowed the visual effects team to correctly interpret the robots' interactions with the water.
"He had a sort of water wheel rig attached to a quad-bike which we could drive through the water to create all the splashing," said Franklin. "And, then we would add the digital robots into this shot. We’d raise the quad-bike and we’d have a digital robot driving the splashes."
"That produced this very extraordinary result where you believe he’s real because most of the time you’re looking at reality," he added. "When he’s running across the ice, for example, that’s a digital robot. But when he climbs up inside the spacecraft, he’s real."
Fisher noted how unusual it was for a director to take this approach to both TARS and CASE.
"I think most film directors would look at that character and instantly think CG but he [Nolan] instantly thought let’s do as much practical as we can. Let’s see what kind of a puppet we can build," said Fisher. "That's a classic kind of a Nolan thing right there."
China's stock market has exploded by 78% in the last year, and that rapid growth has people debating — is this driven by fundamentals or the sheer force of China's new investors?
We have something of an answer to that from new data collected in the China Household Finance Survey.
The survey broke down the education level of China's new stock holders — 5.8 % of them can't read, and for 60% junior high is the highest level of education they've attained.
Contrary to what you've heard or read, cover letters are still important today. They're not necessarily essential or required in every industry or for every role, but savvy job seekers always have one ready to go.
"A lot of companies still ask candidates for a cover letter when they apply, especially if they're doing so through an online application system," explains says Tina Nicolai, executive career coach and founder of Résumé Writers' Ink. "And while it might seem annoying to have to write one, it's actually beneficial to you, the candidate, to provide one — as long as it's well-written and free of errors."
She says the cover letter is the best place to show you'd be a great cultural fit by letting your personality come through; to prove that you're credible by using metrics that detail your achievements; and to connect with the hiring manager by sharing a bit of unique information about your past, your competencies, and your character.
She also highlights a few things you should never do in your cover letter.
"These are common mistakes I see all the time," Nicolai says. "If you want your cover letter to help you, not hurt you, you'll want to avoid these errors."
1. Typos and grammatical errors.
Typos are a really easy way to land your application in the "no" pile.
"Your communication skills are perceived according to how well the letter is written," Nicolai explains. "If a typo or grammatical error is present, the reader may think you were 'too busy' or lazy to check your work or don't care enough about this job to take the application process seriously. Or worse, they'll think you just don't know how to spell."
Never rely on spell check. Ask a friend or family member to look it over before you submit the cover letter to the employer.
2. Writing too much.
Today, gatekeepers (recruiters and hiring manager) do not have the resources or time to read each candidate's resume and multi-page cover letter. "I encourage people to stick to one page," she says. "And because people have short attention spans today, and less time to read each cover letter in full, I suggest writing in bite-sized nuggets or bullet points."
3. Addressing the letter to the wrong person.
There's absolutely no excuse for addressing your cover letter to the wrong person. If no name is provided, omit it completely and list your name and targeted position.
4. Not tailoring the cover letter to the company or job you're applying to.
The hiring manager will know if you're using a generic, 'one size fits all' cover letter. And they won't be impressed. "Customize each cover letter targeting the specified job description," advises Nicolai. "A master cover letter is fine to use as a template or outline, but always remember to tailor it."
5. Forgetting to replace a company name or job title.
If you're applying for job after job and tailoring your cover letter to each one (like you should be!) you may find yourself replacing words, names, and titles — rather than rewriting your cover letter from scratch over and over again — to save time. But be very careful when you do this. If you forget to replace the company name or job title, this will be a huge turn off to the employer you send it to.
6. Being too humble.
"Some candidates may think full disclosure is to be commended when in fact it can work against the person," Nicolai explains. "For instance, saying something like, 'While I do not possess 15 years in leadership, I have led teams and filled in for supervisors when on vacation,' won't impress."
Talk up what you have achieved and do so with confidence. For example, something like this might work better: "I have led teams for 15 years throughout many phases in my current company. With each leadership experience, I gained XYZ."
7. Being too confident.
While you don't want to be too humble, you also don't want to come off as egotistical.
"It can be easy or tempting to go overboard boasting about how smart or talented you are in your cover letter," she says. "But don't." Instead, stay focused on your fact-based achievements and tone it down on the superlatives. "Motivate with a balanced approach and let the reader figure out on their own just how fabulous you really are."
8. Lying.
This is pretty obvious — but don't fib. Ever.
It doesn't help anyone, and they will find out eventually.
9. Justifying why you were part of a layoff or why you quit your job.
Candidates need to focus on the here and now. "Employer want current information, succinctly," says Nicolai. "Why you were laid off or why you quit is not important. This becomes an immediate red flag and the perception of the hiring manager tends to be, 'this person isn't quite ready to move forward' or 'there are a lot of issues that are unresolved,' and those aren't the messages you want to send."
10. Listing references.
Save the references for the end of the process. The cover letter is no place to start listing references or snippets from your latest review. "These names may have meaning to you, but to the hiring leader, these are unknown entities and they're simply a waste of space," says Nicolai.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The former drummer and a founding member of the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert Burns Jr., died late Friday in a single-vehicle crash in Georgia, police and his father said.
Burns' vehicle went off a road just before midnight as it approached a curve near Cartersville, striking a mailbox and a tree, Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Tracey Watson said. Burns, 64, was killed in the wreck. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
The single-vehicle accident remains under investigation, and Watson said further details were not immediately available.
Burns was one of five musicians who founded the band in Jacksonville, Florida. While Burns was with the group, it recorded "Sweet Home Alabama," ''Gimme Three Steps," and "Free Bird." He left the group in 1974.
He continued to play for fun or in guest appearances nationally, said his father, Robert Burns Sr. Early on, the group played in the Burns' family garage.
"He was a product of his mother, so far as manners is concerned," the elder Burns said. "He had the manners that would suit the King of England. Very soft-spoken and extremely well-mannered person to come out of that kind of industry."
Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe in this image?
You should see both. If you never see Einstein, chances are you need glasses.
According to the folks over at ASAP Science, who made a video showing how it works, the image above is a hybrid image. It's a combination of two separate photographs — one of Marilyn Monroe and one of Albert Einstein.
The reason the image appears to transform is because one image (Einstein) is made up of super dense pixels, making his details, like his mustache and wrinkles, pop, while the other image (Marilyn) is made up of far fewer pixels, causing only her basic features to show up.
Here's the image of Marilyn. You can easily make out her face shape and basic facial features, but not much else:
And here's the image of Einstein. You can clearly see the fine details of Einstein's face, like his mustache and wrinkles:
When you see one image, it clouds out the other.
Problem is, if you can't make out Einstein's details, you'll never see him in the picture.
As the GIF gets bigger, you can see its details more clearly (just as you would if you were walking closer and closer to a static, unmoving image). Someone looking at the full-size GIF should see Einstein, because the more vague, general information represented by the Marilyn image (the shape of her face and features) should fade once they can make out the sharp details (mustache, wrinkles, etc.) in the Einstein image. You can read more about the details of this concept, known as spatial resolution, here.
Alas, if Marilyn never transformed into Einstein, it might be time to make an appointment with your eye doctor.
The Obama administration is no longer hiding the fact that the US is serving as the air force for Iran-backed Shia militias fighting ISIS in Iraq.
Helen Cooper of The New York Times reports that the US and Iran"have found a template for fighting the Sunni militancy in other parts of Iraq: American airstrikes and Iranian-backed ground assaults" with the Iraqi military serving as a go-between.
The US recently provided crucial air support in the Iran-led offensive to drive ISIS (aka Islamic State, Daesh) from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and bragged about it. US officials told The Wall Street Journal that "they deliberately used the Tikrit operation to drive a wedge between Iran and Iraq."
The template, however, is reportedly seen as the best way to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul, which ISIS captured last summer as it rampaged into Iraq from it's massive safe haven in neighboring Syria.
“You can see where this is going,” a senior Pentagon official told the Times, apparently reference to Mosul. “Are the Iraqi forces ready yet? I would say no.”
As Iraq forces connect the US with Iran, the Obama administration is placed squarely on the Shia side of the emerging and increasingly brutal sectarian war.
The Iran-led and US-backed war against ISIS in Iraq has broader implications: The Sunni-Shia turmoil includes the majority Sunni rebel forces fighting the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria as well as Sunnis in Iraq who support ISIS merely for political reasons after years of repression.
Enemy bedfellows
And as Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted as early as June 2014, the combination of the Iraqi Army and Iranian-backed Shiite militias"is being coordinated by the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani."
Suleimani has played pivotal roles in the deployment of Iranian assets against ISIS in Iraq. Suleimani was present during the successful siege of Amerli in August as well as on the front lines of the battle against ISIS in Tikrit.
Iran's military mastermind also directed "a network of militant groups that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq," as detailed by Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker.
Consequently, the idea of working in parallel to Suleimani is a subject is one that the Obama administration does not want to acknowledge.
"There's just no way that the US military can actively support an offensive led by Suleimani," Christopher Harmer, a former aviator in the United States Navy in the Persian Gulf who is now an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, told Helene Cooper of The New York Times in March. "He's a more stately version of Osama bin Laden."
Nevertheless, the US is actively supporting offensives led by Suleimani while also allowing any atrocities committed by the dominant Shia militias.
"In addition to the killing of the extremist combatant, Reuters correspondents also saw a convoy of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters – the government's partners in liberating the city – drag a corpse through the streets behind their car."
And despite Suleimani leaving the front line before US planes got there, Iranian fighters were on the ground at the end.
"I am proud to participate in the battle to liberate Tikrit," an Iranian fighter a picture of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pinned to his chest told Reuters. "Iran and Iraq are one state now."
An advisor Khamenei said something similar last month: "Iran is an empire once again at last, and its capital is Baghdad," Ali Younusi told a March 8 seminar.
The Obama administration publically asserts that a nonsectarian central government in Baghdad gives the country the best chance for success. In late March, The Journal reported that"US officials want to ensure that Iran doesn’t play a central role in the fight ahead. US officials want to be certain that the Iraqi military provides strong oversight of the Shiite militias."
That doesn't appear to be the case anymore, as Iran will be leading the most capable ground forces. For better of worse, it seems that the US is either consciously or inadvertently taking a part in Iran's project in Iraq.
Adding to the intrigue, all of this is occurring while the Obama administration denies aspirations of a grand detente with Tehran amid high stakes nuclear talks.
With 2050 just a few decades away, major issues await the world. Science and technology need to start focusing on solutions to make the future better than the terrifying reality approaching.
The number of people living in cities will likely triple.
In 1950, just under 750 million people lived in urban areas. Today, that figure has ballooned to more than 4 billion — more than half the world’s entire population — and the upward trend is set to continue. By mid-century, about 6.3 billion people will live in cities.
According to the World Health Organization, outdoor air pollution is estimated to have caused 3.7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012. This will only increase as urban populations rise and pollution worsens.
The air could be thick with pollution, worsening lung conditions and respiratory diseases.
By 2050, the number of deaths caused by air pollution — which includes tiny particles found in smoke and haze, ground-level ozone typically emitted by cars, and toxic components in household products and building materials — will soar, killing more than 6 million people every year, according to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
One of those toxins is ground-level ozone, a chemical that irritates the delicate tissue lining the lungs and causes coughing, feelings of burning, wheezing, and shortness of breath when inhaled. Ozone often worsens respiratory conditions like asthma and emphysema.
More than half of the world's population may not have adequate access to water.
Today, 1.1 billion people lack access to water. And 2.5 billion people (36% of the world's population) live in regions of the world experiencing water stress. Twenty percent of the world's GDP is produced in these areas as well.
Already, water scarcity hounds 2.7 billion people — nearly 40% of the world's population — for at least one month every year, either because they don't have access to clean water or because they can't afford it, Water Footprint Network says. And 1 billion people, about one-sixth of the world's population, face daily shortages, according to the foundation.
By 2050, however, this number will likely increase. Nearly 2 billion people will live in countries, mostly in the Middle East and North Africa, with absolute water scarcity, according to the International Water Management Institute. And by 2050, MIT researchers say that 5 billion of the world's projected 9.7 billion people could live in water-stressed areas.
Aside from a lack of drinking water, populations in these areas might not have the means to irrigate their fields (threatening food supply) or for other domestic, industrial, and environmental purposes.
Currently, one-third of the world's rivers — groundwater for about 3 billion people — are going or gone, according to the World Preservation Foundation. With population growth and global warming, the situation will only worsen. The drying of lakes and rivers releases greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, into the air, potentially exacerbating climate change.
Because of the water cycle, the world will also face more droughts, potentially making wildfires at least twice as destructive by 2050.
On Sunday, HBO's explosive new documentary on Scientology, "Going Clear," premiered
For 115 years, the New York Auto Show has been where the world's leading car makers come to show off their latest and greatest offerings. The 2015 show no different. 
"Interstellar" director Christopher Nolan is a big proponent of making his movies look as real as possible. 
Contrary to what you've heard or read, cover letters
As Iraq forces connect the US with Iran, t
Consequently, the idea of working in parallel to Suleimani is a subject is one that the Obama administration does not want to acknowledge.
And despite Suleimani leaving the front line before US planes got there, Iranian fighters were on the ground at the end.
By mid-century, we'll likely have self-driving cars, more widespread internet access, and semi-smart robots.
