Why 40 Percent Of Americans Aren't Afraid Of The Sequester
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View ArticleWhat Recruiters Want To See On Your LinkedIn Profile
It’s obvious that LinkedIn is an important tool in the job search; we’ve all read and heard about that for some time now. As with any career-related topic that gets a lot of airtime, there is now tons...
View ArticleHow To Save Syria From Al Qaeda
Tactically, President Obama is operating true to form in Syria; he’s wisely avoiding ever creeping military measures on behalf of rebels, many of whom might well turn out to be even worse than the...
View ArticleShocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate
During the aftermath of yesterday's scary NASCAR crash, a video emerged on Youtube taken mere feet away from where one of the car's tires landed in the grandstand. It was an amazing, fan shot video of...
View ArticleLance Armstrong Is 'The Richest Cheater To Be Stripped Of A Championship Or...
Lance Armstrong is the richest cheater to be stripped of a championship or Olympic medal for using performance-enhancing drugs. It isn’t even close.A compilation of the 41-year-old American cyclist’s...
View Article14 Ways To Keep College Costs From Spinning Out Of Control
Financial planners will give you a quick list of the things you must absolutely do to pay for your child's college (529s, Stafford loans, Coverdell savings accounts, savings Bonds, home equity loans)...
View ArticleThree Finance Apps That Give Mint A Run For Its Money
I wanted to be proactive about my financial health this year and figured that tracking expenses with an app isn’t a huge task. That’s part of why so many New Years’ resolutions fail, because people are...
View ArticleWhy Rich Drivers Pay Less For Car Insurance Than The Poor
The Consumer Federation of America has a new report on major car insurers, which has an interesting conclusion…In two-thirds of the 60 cases studied, large auto insurers quoted higher premiums to safe...
View ArticleNo Business Is Safe From Disruptive Innovation Anymore
Disruption in Knowledge BusinessesYou may have noticed that record labels, newspapers and book publishers have been going through a bit of turmoil recently.The common thread among them is that they are...
View ArticleLost Continent Found Under Indian Ocean
Scientists said Sunday they had found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around 61-83 million years ago...
View ArticleTribes In The Heart Of Fracking Boom Say Drillers Cheated Them Of $1 Billion...
Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the...
View ArticleIceland's Plan to Ban Porn Is Impossible
Iceland's intentions are good: their interior minister wants to protect the country's children from violent images in porn.But to understand the proposed ban — a sweep of online content that "would...
View ArticleHow To Excel In Your Decision-Making Abilities
Nothing is more key to career success than the ability to think: learn quickly, analyze situations, solve problems, and communicate intelligently.Some of that may be hard-wired but here are ways to...
View ArticleAsteroid Deflection Program Has Chosen Its Test Target
A mission that aims to slam a spacecraft into a near-Earth asteroid now officially has a target — a space rock called Didymos.The joint European/U.S. Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission,...
View ArticleHere's The Basic House Payment Calculation Most Lenders Won't Share
As you shop for a house and consider taking out a mortgage, determining your house payment can no doubt be a time-consuming process -- running calculations, getting updated payment scenarios from your...
View ArticleA Test of Strength for Gold
When investing in gold, I often say diverse opinions promote critical thinking and a healthy market. I believe elevated groups of buyers and sellers create a competitive tug-of-war in the bid and ask...
View ArticleSleeping Less Than Six Hours A Night Really Messes With Your Body
Getting too little sleep for several nights in a row disrupts hundreds of genes that are essential for good health, including those linked to stress and fighting disease.Tests on people who slept less...
View ArticleAlfa Romeo's Breathtaking 4C Concept Is About To Debut As A Production Car
It was at the Geneva Motor Show just two years ago where Alfa Romeo first unveiled its stunning 4C concept car. Now, just a week out from this year’s show, Alfa Romeo has revealed full specifications...
View ArticleObama's Former Press Secretary Was Told Not To Talk About The Drone Program
On Sunday’s “Up w/Chris Hayes” on MSNBC, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs revealed the Obama White House’s early public-relations strategy on the drone program: avoid it if at all...
View ArticleFirefighters Save Woman From A Meat Cleaver Attack On The Streets Of Chinatown
A group of New York City firemen came to the rescue of a woman who was being attacked on Sunday by a man wielding a meat-cleaver, preventing what could have easily turned into a brutal and very public...
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