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Biggest Risk to the World’s Economy Decades ago now that I first began stomping around Asia and Southeast Asia in particular… longer actually but I prefer not to age myself. At first it was simple fun and adventure – a pretty girl at my side. I’d traveled extensively before venturing to Asia so culture…
As the 20th UN Climate Summit begins in Peru, one faster way to fight global warming is to steer investors away from oil and gas, and bet instead in clean energy. The planet depends on it. Why it makes Economic Sense for Universities to Divest from Fossil Fuels By John Quiggin, The University of…
THE north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok is spared little. Earlier this year fighters from the extremist group, Boko Haram, abducted more than 200 local schoolgirls. In the past week insurgents and government troops have traded possession of urban districts and surrounding farmland, leaving much of it burnt. The Nigerian army, one of the biggest…
3 Billion Gallons of Highly-Toxic Fracking Waste Dumped Into California Drinking Water Supply November 22, 2014..update 11/26/14 California Has Been Fracked Army psychological operation soldiers We’ve warned for years that fracking pollutes our scarce drinking water. As the Emmy-winning documentary Gasland demonstrates, fracking is polluting water all over the country. A study published in…
Revealed: Rising Inequality Kills American Jobs Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari, researchers on consumer behavior and how it effects the economy, wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch in October 2007 in which they predicted that an end to the relentless trend of rising household debt and a subsequent crash in…
15 years since Viagra first hit the market, changing the world of male sexual health — and the world of cringe-worthy commercials — for good. Since then, numerous other sexual function drugs for men have been approved, but none for women. Two campaigns, #WomenDeserve and eventhescore.org, have been fighting for that to change. The video…
The Science Behind Why Facebook Is So Addictive People use Mark Zuckerberg’s social network every day. But why? There are about 7 billion people on Earth. Over 864 million of them check Facebook every day. That’s an awful lot of daily habits, and it’s part of the reason Facebook is worth some $200 billion. So…
Brand of the Day: Chanel No. 5 Finds a New Muse in the Stunning Gisele Bündchen By Gabriel Beltrone October 16, 2014 “In a way, Gisele became the script,” says Luhrmann. Chanel No 5. makes you irresistible. At least, if you’re Gisele Bündchen. The supermodel stars in this new three-minute ad for the brand, a…
California is an earthly paradise. Yet there is something badly broken about the Golden State. At its best, California is America’s America, where the young and adventurous go for a fresh start. The trouble is that housing in much of California has become so expensive that the young and adventurous have been priced…
Private Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America’s Border To handle the massive number of immigrants sentenced to prison for re-entering the country, private prisons have sprung up from Arizona to Texas, with little oversight in terms of sanitation and detainee treatment. TUCSON — The smell in the courtroom is overpowering. About 40 men and…