Lil Wayne And Kim Kardashian Are Pushing Obama To Reform Drug Laws
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform.They're among more than 100 entertainers calling on...
View ArticleLaziness May Be Genetic
New research might help explain why some people have trouble getting off the couch. Experiments on rats suggest there could be a genetic predisposition to laziness.A group of scientists put rats in...
View ArticleMonkey Lip-Smacking Is Like A Language
The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds.Many nonhuman primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones...
View ArticleMore And More Women Are Buying Guns — Here's Why
Many people assume that “every shooter in the United States is a 50-year-old white guy,” quips Natalie Foster of the website “The Girl’s Guide to Guns.”Many people are wrong.The number of women who...
View ArticleWhat To Bring If You're Camping Out At Coachella
If you bought a car camping pass to Coachella, congratulations. For $85 more, you purchased twice the festival as the hotel heathens.They’ll be spending their mornings desperately looking for a taxi...
View ArticleTotal Fiasco: Germans Are The Poorest, Cypriots The Second Richest In The...
In March, six years after inception, the first ECB-organized Eurozone-wide household-wealth survey results were trickling out.But when the Bundesbank refused to publish the German data, insiders leaked...
View ArticleAn Iranian Scientist Claims To Have Invented A Time Machine
An Iranian businessman claims to have mastered time with a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time...
View ArticleWhy Well-Paid Employees Are Good for Business
It's no secret that the retail sector depends on minimum-wage labor -- when President Obama proposed raising the federal minimum wage in his State of the Union address, the National Retail Federation...
View ArticleBelieve It Or Not, The New Congress Is Actually Getting Things Done
The 112th Congress, born in the tea party wave of 2010 and ending with President Obama's thundering reelection last November, was the least productive session in more than 60 years. Quietly, however,...
View ArticleWhy Lindsey Graham's Obsession With 'Ugly' Issues Could Destroy Him
For the first several months of President Obama's second term, the newly-reelected chief executive got no gentle treatment from Lindsey Graham, the senior Republican senator from South Carolina.Senator...
View ArticleCalifornia's High-Speed Rail Fiasco Is Getting Even Worse
A variety of media outlets and government officials are ecstatic about a report on California’s proposed $68.4 billion high-speed rail system, an Obama administration infrastructure darling.Cost...
View ArticleIt's War Between Bitcoin's True Believers And Speculators
After spending all weekend absorbed in obscure forum postings about cryptography and digital signatures, and feeling a bit like the Javier Bardem character from the latest Bond film, I bought some...
View ArticleMARK MOBIUS: I Myself Have Fallen Victim To Wrongful Assumptions
I’m a believer in managing expectations, but I’ve found there are few better ways to undermine your potential travel enjoyment and investment success than limiting yourself with preconceived notions....
View ArticleHere's How Sequestration Cuts Are Affecting Everyday Americans
It's been just over a month since the automatic federal spending cuts — better known as "sequestration" — kicked in. In that time, most public discussion has focused on the whether or not the spending...
View ArticleMICROSOFT TRIES AGAIN: Here's The Next Tablet It Hopes Will Save Its Business
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is developing a new lineup of Surface tablets, including a 7-inch version expected to go into mass production later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exec Resigns After Insulting Customers On Twitter
A creative director at Microsoft has been resigned after igniting a flame war on Twitter and beyond over the strategic future of the company's forthcoming Xbox gaming console.After a week of...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Is Only Half As Popular As He Seems On Twitter
Justin Bieber's title as "King of Twitter" has been brought into question after it was revealed almost half of his followers could be fake.In a report carried out by social media statistics company,...
View Article6 Ways To Soften The Tax Blow Of Obamacare
We all want to keep as much of our own money as possible, right?Of course. And that's especially true when it comes to investments.Starting this year, many investors likely will see tax hikes because...
View Article'Mobile' Is Over
Anyone who has an interest in the future of computing and mobile should consider the following developments:PC manufacturers, it is rumored, are collaborating with Google on notebook computers that...
View ArticleThis Stock Market Rally Looks Very Familiar
Previously, I’ve shown that the current bull market in the S&P 500 since 2009 through 2013 so far has tracked a virtually identical course as the prior one from 2003-2007. Indeed, they both fit on...
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