Tasting Sugar Improves Your Concentration
The question: Most experts agree that sugar is rightfully demonized for causing a host of health woes that extend well beyond the obesity epidemic.But sugar, especially taken in moderation, has its...
View ArticleThe Marijuana Business In Colorado Is Already Booming
In the shadow of Colorado’s state capitol Dustin Avery is blissfully puffing away on a cannabis pipe. “It’s great, you can smoke a bong, the cops can ride by, and you just wave at them,” he says. “I...
View ArticleSome People Just Don't Have What It Takes To Make A Great Real Estate Investor
As I watch the election results come in from around the country, it’s hard not to contemplate all of the hard work each of the candidates invested to get to this point.The thought of organizing a...
View ArticleThis Crazy Looking Sea Sponge Has A Taste For Tiny Animals
You may remember the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) from such discoveries as the Yeti crab, the squid with elbows and my personal favourite, the pigbutt worm, and now they’re back...
View ArticleWhy We'd Rather Have Better Status Than A Bigger Paycheck
What means more to you, money or status? Most people choose status.They’d rather be the big fish in a small pond making $50,000 a year than the small fish in a big pond earning $100,000.Via The Paradox...
View ArticleHousing Prices Could Rebound In A Big Way Thanks To Hurricane Sandy
For homeowners in places devastated by last week’s storm, it’s hard to imagine their local real estate market ever coming back.New Jersey’s Seaside Heights, for example, sits on a barrier island that...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Are Customers Getting Sick of Surveys?
Customer surveys come in all shapes in sizes. Some websites pay you to take them (the slimiest of web properties), while some companies use them for truly thoughtful and meticulous feedback and opinion...
View ArticleA Message From Us Rich Plutocrats To All You Little People
This is a response to an excerpt from Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, published in October by Penguin Press. Nick Hanauer is a...
View ArticleGermany's Fear And Desperation Leak Out
A hullabaloo erupted between France and Germany that both governments are trying to silence to death.According to unnamed sources of Zeit Online and Reuters, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble...
View ArticleGoing Over The Fiscal Cliff Isn't The Problem, It's The Solution
By: Peter Schiff Friday, November 9, 2012Now that President Obama has been re-elected, the media is finally free to focus on something besides the clueless undecided voters in Ohio, Florida, and...
View Article9 Things You Didn't Know About The Beatles
While they may be one of the most well-known bands in music history, we bet there are still some things you don't know about this notorious British band. For example, do you know what inspired the song...
View Article5 Restaurant Tricks Designed To Make You Spend More
With a cornucopia of cooking shows, chef competitions and even wars fought with cupcakes, food is no less a sport than football these days.And everybody is in the game. After all, we do have to...
View ArticleThe 8 Most Expensive Hotel Spa Treatments
While there are plenty of luxurious hotels out there, some hotels take luxury to a whole other level (which means prices on a whole new level, too).But when you really need to unwind away from home,...
View ArticleUFC On Fuel TV 6 Results - Le Stuns Franklin
The UFC made history on Saturday when it brought its first-ever event to the country of China. A mixed show broadcast live on Fuel TV that saw a highly anticipated fight end quickly with one of the...
View Article7 Reasons The GOP Should Be Worried About Its Future
Tuesday night’s election result has left conservatives (and reportedly Romney himself) shell-shocked, dumbfounded and a little traumatized by the seemingly gravity-defying political skills of President...
View ArticleJohn Boehner And Mitt Romney Share A Problem With Numbers
The Tax Policy Center will have to run the numbers, but Speaker Boehner’s formulation of resolving the fiscal cliff without allowing the upper income Bush tax cuts to expire may well suffer from the...
View ArticleThese Two Maps Show The Outlook For Obamacare
It wasn’t just President Barack Obama who won Tuesday. His signature health care plan did as well. But while the Affordable Care Act remains alive, less clear is how its various mandates will proceed...
View ArticleNOVOLIPETSK DOES SOMETHING NO RUSSIAN STEELMAKER DOES IN RUSSIA – NEGOTIATES...
By John Helmer, MoscowNovolipetsk Metallurgical Combine (NLMK), owned by Vladimir Lisin, has done something that no Russian steelmaker is on record as doing in the current downturn for steel...
View ArticleBritain's Royal Mail Is Pulling Off A Turnaround That Puts USPS To Shame
Royal Mail is set to unveil a sharp jump in profits this week, clearing the way for a sell-off of the business next year.Officials and bankers working on the sale say Tuesday’s figures are the crucial...
View ArticleJared Loughner Asked Me About Lucid Dreaming Before He Was A Mass Killer
I got the weirdest phone call last week. The editor of Gawker, A.J. Daulerio, contacted me, requesting information on lucid dreaming. (Editor's note: Lucid dreaming is the experience of being aware...
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