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Gary Hershorn / Reuters When pressed about the 2014 Sochi Olympics’ record $51 billion price tag — a sum that is five times the amount spent on the last Winter Games in Vancouver and that dwarves the GDP of three-fifths of the world’s countries — Vladimir Putin has shrugged off allegations of corruption, insisting that…
Making of Colorado’s Marijuana Millionaires January 14, 2014 I’ve seen a lot of marijuana over the past two weeks, but nothing like this. Less than two miles north of Denver’s central business district lies the headquarters of Garden of the Gods, one of the region’s largest commercial cannabis operations. “We grow 280 pounds a month,”…
Real-Time Data Is Changing The Way Marketers Understand Consumers JAN. 13, 2014, The optiX dashboard gives marketers insight into consumer behavior. This post is sponsored by eXelate. For the last 50 to 70 years, the market research industry has been focused on the same surveys and panels. (Think of those prototypical focus groups,…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS European Space Agency’s Gaia has been tasked with making a 3D map of the Milky Way Telescope so sensitive that makers say it could measure a human thumbnail from Moon One of Gaia’s objectives is to help in hunt for exoplanets Mission applauded for building up most accurate charts of the cosmos…
H has grabbed the country by the throat, with the low-budget likes of Paranormal Activity and The Purge regularly breaking into the box-office Top 10, while cable’s highest-rated drama, The Walking Dead, leads a crowded TV lineup of witches, vampires, and other ghoulish fare Down to the Morgan Library I bat-flew one afternoon to pay homage to Edgar Allan…
The value of the arts to the economy has always been an elusive figure – until now. For the first time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, part of the Commerce Department, has quantified art’s impact, finding in a study released Thursday that 3.2 percent – or $504 billion – of the…
Gore Vidal, Iconic American Author, Had Way More Sex Than You Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, Jack Kerouac, and even Jacqueline Kennedy show up in a new “sexual biography” of writer Gore Vidal.Author Tim Teeman examines why discussing the iconic writer’s sex life expands our understanding of him rather than contracts it.posted on November 2013 Tim TeemanBuzzFeed Contributor Gore Vidal…
Revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in June about the U.S. government’s secret surveillance activities grabbed headlines across the globe. But while the world’s attention has been focused on the United States, prompting important discussions about the legitimacy and legality of such measures, disconcerting efforts to both monitor and censor…
TEL AVIV — It’s the joke of the evening and they tell it again and again, happy with themselves, a lukewarm glass of Coke in their hands: “Are you ready to hear a lie? Because if I tell you the truth, we’ll have to kill you.” They probably wouldn’t, but then again the…
Uruguay sets price of legalised cannabis at $1 a gram Country likely to become first to have state-controlled marijuana industry, and hopes low price will push traffickers out of market A Uruguayan man smokes cannabis during a demonstration in Montevideo in May. A senate vote to legalise the drug is expected in…