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ALBANY -- New York's health commissioner says he expects the state trial of medical marijuana to be up and running within a year.
Dr. Nirav Shah told lawmakers at a hearing Monday that the research is intended to examine the drug's effectiveness in patient treatment, for example with pain in stages of cancer.
He says... |
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Neil Gorsuch took the best shots, such as they were, of disheartened, dismayed and despondent Democrats this week, and nobody laid a glove on him. He was as fresh when it was over as when the slugging, such as it was, began.
“So what have we learned?” asked The New York Times, which presumes to be t... |
So Chris from HOMEBREWFINDS.COM agreed to be my first interviewee. I found his site a while ago, and find myself visiting quite often. I think it is cool to find out more about the “man behind the curtain”.
How long have you been homebrewing? What got you into it?
I started brewing in 2007. I had been interested in c... |
STEPHENVILLE, Texas -- Day one of jury selection is underway in the murder trial surrounding the real "American Sniper," Chris Kyle.
Iraq war veteran Eddie Ray Routh is charged with killing Kyle, the NAVY Seal upon whose life and book the Academy Award-nominated film is based.
Out of 200 potential jurors summoned to ... |
Berlin: RB Leipzig boss Ralph Rangnick has ruled out letting key midfielder Naby Keita join Liverpool during the January transfer window, six months earlier than planned.
The Guinea international midfielder signed a deal in August to join Premier League giants Liverpool for the 2018/19 season after the Merseyside club... |
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson said in an interview Thursday that he's convinced he'd poll as high as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton if he was allowed to debate — demonstrating to MSNBC's Kasie Hunt while speaking with his tongue sticking out that he'd win talking even like that.
The exchange, recorded while Hun... |
High-resolution intaglio transfer printing
For high-definition full-colour RGB QLED arrays, a novel QD integration process, known as the intaglio transfer printing, has been developed through which nanocrystal (NC) layers can be transfer-printed on various substrates regardless of the size, shape and arrangement of pi... |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For the very first time in its history, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is actually growing wings as it embarks this month on a never before space flight that would make history.The Indian space agency is all set to undertake the maiden launch of its very own indigenously version of a ... |
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Comscore Releases November 2012 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
RESTON, VA, December 12, 2012 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in Nov... |
Project Information: Interactive carbon footprint map from the CoolClimate Calculator. Find out how you compare to local averages and create a personalized climate action plan for you or your community. See info on recent Jones and Kammen paper and FAQ below.
Average Annual Household Carbon Footprint by Zip Code
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Moussa Sissoko celebrates scoring Newcastle's second goal - the Frenchman's first of the season
Newcastle claimed a first win under Rafael Benitez as they overcame Swansea to bolster their chances of Premier League survival.
Jamaal Lascelles headed in from a corner to put Newcastle in front towards the end of an edgy... |
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Fitbit is prepping to launch some new products before the year comes to a close.
During a conference call on Tuesday to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings, CEO James Park said "we have additional new products to come this year," MarketWatch reported on Wednesday. "Fitbit will have more new p... |
Polls: Clinton, Trump tangled in N.C., Trump up in Ariz.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (Photo: USA TODAY)
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a tight race in North Carolina.
The two are just 2 points apart — a number that is within the margin of error — in a Monmouth University poll of likely voters re... |
The prodigal rodeo is returning, though technically it never left.
Three sources said Monday that the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association has decided against moving the Canadian Finals Rodeo to Saskatoon and will soon sign a deal to continue holding its championship event at Northlands Coliseum for at least 2017 a... |
Nowadays, computers have so much memory that running out of RAM is rarely the cause for an "out of memory" error.
Actually, let's try that again. For over a decade, hard drive have been so large (and cheap) that running out of swap space is rarely the cause for an "out of memory" error.
In user-mode, the term memory ... |
Snow in Sunrise? Really?
A South Florida group is pitching to develop a giant winter-themed entertainment complex — part of it chilled to about 31 degrees Fahrenheit — to offer skiing, snowboarding, sledding, snowmobiling, ice skating and other sports.
Ski trails at least 2,700 feet long would feature moguls and ski ... |
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Photo: Larry Volk Jack Ward [above], curator of the online Transistor Museum, proffers a pile of unmarked half-size Raytheon germanium hearing-aid transistors, vintage mid- to late 1950s, that he bought on eBay for a few cents each.
Is it possible to love a transistor? Certainly what Jack Ward feels for... |
Dnipro Battalion soldier Serhiy Shvets, 39, will spend Independence Day the same way that he did last year — at the front lines of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the eastern Donbas. Shvets said Ukraine’s true independence will only come with battlefield victory.
“The real Independence Day will come after our victory ... |
If you did not have the time or emotional strength to make it through the Vice Presidential debate between Governor Mike Pence and Senator Tim Kaine you should feel confident that no one blames you. Also, don’t worry I watched it for you and I think I have crafted a literary experience that will take through similar em... |
Vice President Joe Biden reflected on perhaps the greatest disappointment of the last Democrat to serve as America’s second-in-command, saying Tuesday that Al Gore deserved to make it to the White House.
Biden and Gore were both attending a Washington, D.C. fundraiser for Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), the Democratic nominee ... |
I'm conflicted if a full beard and a shaved head is a good look? I just don't know...
Jack Conte of the YouTube-famous band Pomplamoose caused a stir last week when he posted an account of his tour financials on Medium. "Being an independent artist is so difficult" was the thrust of his essay—true, no doubt—and tucked... |
A woman covers her head with a city map as she walks Piazza del Popolo last June in central Rome. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
It used to be the big debate in climate change circles. Whenever an extreme event occurred — like, say, Hurricane Katrina, or the deadly 2003 European heat wave — the question would i... |
Nissan is committed to bringing its first round of autonomous vehicle technologies to market in 2020, and now it's got an official license to begin testing those systems in its home market of Japan.
The Japanese government issued its first license plate for a vehicle equipped with advanced driver assist systems to the... |
The Iowa State Supreme Court on Friday temporarily halted part of a state law that banned most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the law in April, outlawing most abortions after 20 weeks and requiring a 72-hour waiting period before an abortion procedure could ta... |
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THE Gold Coast rugby league community has been left reeling by the shock death of one of the region’s best amateur players.
Tugun forward Chris Kitching died suddenly last Friday night, sending shock waves through the close-knit league sphere.
The 24-year-old was one of the best players in the local A-Grade competiti... |
Renowned Indian designer Dilip Chhabria has created this £136,000 Tata Nano.
Unveiled at this week's Delhi motor show, the bespoke Nano - which costs around £134,000 or 6800 per cent more than the car it is based on - has been created by Chhabria and his DC Design studio to appeal to celebrities in India.
The car has... |
Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 ASPH. Lens is rated 4.7 out of 5 by 156 .
Rated 5 out of 5 by MatthiasLambert from Finally, the micro four thirds nifty fifty equivalent! This is the lens most m4/3 users have been hoping for. It focuses blazingly fast on my EM1 and the signature high contrast and sharp IQ I know from panasonic prim... |
In 2012, just months before that year’s Olympics, 800-meter runner Nick Symmonds felt a sharp pain under his kneecap. There had been no traumatic event. It just flared up one day during a regular training run. With a little trial and error, he quickly found that his pain abated when he ran at faster speeds. So he cut b... |
'Birdboy' Is A Dark, Beautiful, Boundary-Pushing Animated Film
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Just how dark is Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, a trippy animated folktale from Spain about a bunch of talking animal adolescents searching for a better life? Well, even the tottering alarm clock seemingly t... |
The high demand for coltan is helping fuel the bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo as rival armies fight over reserves.
By Stuart Munckton
August 1, 2010 -- Green Left Weekly -- “Yes, the notable features with iPhone 4 — both the device and the iOS4 — are mostly tweaks”, said a June 22 review on the ... |
A Master Passes
A Tribute to Cheng Man-ch'ing
By Robert W. Smith, 1979 On hearing that Cheng Man-ch'ing had died suddenly in Taiwan on March 25, 1975, my reaction was one of disbelief. Even knowing that he was 75 and that he had energetically graced several fields of endeavor for so long couldn't dull this edge of di... |
(MentalFloss.com) -- From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma's ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom.
1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you'd expect. In his 1994 book... |
With the mortgage crisis refusing to go away, you might be one of the 1 million jobless Americans lucky enough to find yourself unfettered by modern living standards and entering into the glorious freedom of life on the street.
Here are 5 essentials to make it in the big city without paying rent:
1. Cart
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An injured man from a Foxconn factory on a stretcher. AP Last Friday, a story reverberated around that Apple was retaliating against the New York Times for a series of articles the NYT ran about Apple's supply chain practices.
(I know the story well because I helped reverberate it.)
The story was based on a post by E... |
Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition.
Google is s... |
Supply shortages are so bad in Venezuela that the local McDonald’s chains have had to cease serving Big Macs because they don’t have the ingredients anymore. And the economic outlook overall doesn’t look any better, with the economy projected to contract by 10 percent this year. Inflation is set to soar to 700 percent ... |
A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday. Tsunami advisories were issued following the Japan earthquake, Tokyo Breaking News reported. The alert was later lifted.
According to Reuters, Fukushima nuclear plant workers evacuated to higher ground following the earthquake, with no immediate re... |
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Texas Slow To Review Health Insurance Rate Hikes
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Few governors have been as vocal and as unequivocal in their opposition to the federal health care law as Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Perry, a Republican, has vowed not to expand Medicaid and not to create an in... |
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...to seeing the world of music in a different way
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Discover your inner potential to see a world of innovative opportunities in the ordinary life.
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So here we are, forming an orderly queue at the slaughterhouse gate. The punishment of the poor for the errors of the rich, the abandonment of universalism, the dismantling of the shelter the state provides: apart from a few small protests, none of this has yet brought us out fighting.
The acceptance of policies that ... |
Adolf Hitler is Born
At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria.
Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. How... |
Meet Roboy, “one of the most advanced humanoid robots,” say researchers at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich.
Their 15 project partners and over 40 engineers and scientists are constructing Roboy as a tendon-driven robot modeled on human beings (robots usually have their motors in thei... |
A list of some subway accidents.
2000-2009
02/13/2009. Just after 1:00pm, a Coney Island bound "D" train derailed at the 81st Street/Museum of Natural History station on the IND 8th Avenue Line. An MTA official says that "approximately two cars were derailed" (WCBS-TV). Passengers were loaded onto another train that ... |
A story of the durability of the B-24 Liberator, from Informational Intelligence Summary, No. 44-17, Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1944.
B-24 vs. 50 GERMAN FIGHTERS
The surprising durability of an AAF B-24 on a deep penetration mission over Germany when attacked b... |
Here’s your weekly roundup of all the news that the powerful and corrupt would rather you didn’t know about.
The corporate contributions behind Congress’ tax overhaul
The lawmakers who drafted the tax bills have taken a shocking amount of money from corporate interests over the years.
The tax overhaul bills moving t... |
Ripple supports Washington, DC based Coin Center. Image: Shutterstock
Innovation in banking often results from the convergence of three key domains: financial services, technology, and regulations. The regulatory framework is a crucial aspect of innovation. When crafted in a balanced, proactive way, regulations can di... |
Mauno Henrik Koivisto GOIH ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmɑuno ˈkoiʋisto]; 25 November 1923 – 12 May 2017) was a Finnish politician who served as the ninth President of Finland from 1982 to 1994. He also served twice as Prime Minister, 1968 – 1970 and 1979 – 1982.[1] He was the first Social Democratic Party member to be e... |
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The press around They Shall Not Grow Old has focused on the techniques filmmaker Peter Jackson used to restore World War I footage and imbue it with the colors of life loved and lived and lost, even though all you need to do to realize it is not about the tech is read the title again. Jackson and his team ha... |
A Canada-based graphic artist says that at least 18 pieces of his artwork, and work from more than 170 other artists on DeviantArt, have been stolen and sold on the website Art4Love.
On Friday Vitaly Alexius, 27, posted a detailed image on DeviantArt, an 11-year-old social network which showcases original art, that co... |
WARSAW, Poland — Poles heading out to do last-minute Christmas shopping should give any Che Guevara T-shirts a wide berth as a new Polish law threatens anyone who produces or propagates communist symbols with two years in prison.
The legislation has caused outrage among Poland's ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (... |
Bancor Unchained: All Your Token Are Belong To Us
Udi Wertheimer Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jun 20, 2017
This post is the first in a series of Unchained Reports, covering the often overlooked details about projects in the current “ICO bubble”.
Last week, the Bancor project raised ~$150M. The team stood up an i... |
Five tribes claiming Kennewick Man as a relative will work to rebury him after the Army Corps of Engineers said it’s validated the skeleton is Native American.
Five tribes claiming Kennewick Man as a relative will work together to rebury him after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday it has validated the sk... |
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Andrew McCabe, who’s served as director of the FBI since May after Trump fired James Comey, is retiring in roughly 90 days, according to The Washington Post. The decision comes after continual attacks from Republicans and President Trump over tha... |
SACRAMENTO – An ambitious proposal to create a single statewide insurance plan for every Californian — including undocumented residents, seniors on Medicare and people who now get their health coverage through work — began to take shape on Thursday when two legislators released details about what services would be cove... |
While President Donald Trump insists that he won’t get rid of Special Counsel Robert Mueller during the Russia investigation, one man is prepared to take action in case that happens. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a New York Times interview that while he hopes this does not occur, “If that happens,... |
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Hundreds of climate scientists, including many from the United States, have applied to work in France under a €60-million (US$69-million) scheme set up by the country's president, Emmanuel Macron, after his US counterpart Donald Trump rejected the Paris accord on global warming. And G... |
Trivia junkies, take note: Jeopardy! will be taping in DC at DAR Constitution Hall from April 9 to 13. Throughout that time, Alex Trebek and company, who are making the trek to Washington in honor of election season, will shoot three specials: “Power Players Week,” the “Teachers Tournament” finals and semifinals, and t... |
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It's hard to continue to be in denial that the summer is over now that school is in full swing, work is busier than ever and you can't escape seeing everything pumpkin spice-flavored in stores and restaurants. It's only a matter of time before the sweaters and Ugg boots come out in full force, too.
So between d... |
The Treasury Department announced Thursday it would be scaling back sanctions put forward by Obama on Russian intelligence agency Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, otherwise known as FSB, despite some Republicans calling for stronger sanctions.
The document released by the department weakens the sanctions Obama put in... |
Jonathan Harris, artist and storyteller, made a documentary "I love your work" in which he explores the life, the story of women in the feminist lesbian porn industry.
Linking sequences of daily life and work, one discovers nine women filmed on a 24-hour period in New York in 2010. They speak about sex of course, but ... |
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Microsoft Corp. plans to lay off 2,850 employees, adding to previously announced job cuts as it retools its sales operations and dismantles its mobile phone hardware business.
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The software giant disclosed the latest cuts in a Thursday filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi... |
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AMY GOODMAN: Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to an indefinite ceasefire, ending Israel’s 50-day assault on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian health officials say 2,139 people, most of them civilians, including more than 490 children, were killed in the Isra... |
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said his organisation supports the efforts of the Pakistan government and army to “help the people of Kashmir”, calling it ‘jihad’.
“Jihad is the duty of an Islamic government... there is a government in Pakistan and it has always taken the stand that it is th... |
NEW ORLEANS -- A little more than a week ago the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, buying the team from majority owner George Shinn and minority owner Gary Chouest in hopes of finding a new ownership group.
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson, in town to play the Hornets on Wednesday, voiced his displeasure wit... |
Star Wars: The Data Wars A long time ago in a galaxy far far away technology was leaps and bounds ahead of what we would know even in the 21st Century. Lightsabers, spaceships that travel at light speed, holograms, robotic droids, the list can go on and on. One thing that our humble little planet has in common with the... |
Clinton, who on Tuesday night claimed the title of presumptive Democratic nominee, was asked about a Democratic senator's recent comments on the idea of Sen.(D-Mass.) as Clinton's running mate.
"I’m not going to get into vice presidential choices, but I have the highest regard for Senator Warren," Clinton responded wh... |
Finding sponsorship in the NASCAR series is becoming increasingly difficult, so drivers and teams are always on the lookout on new ways to gain funds to race every week.
Driver Josh Wise, who is currently sponsorless in the Sprint Cup Series may have some new help. Users of the r/NASCAR subreddit (which is a pretty aw... |
Germany has taken in almost 760,000 asylum seekers this year, with a third of all arrivals coming from Syria
Germany has received nearly one in two of all asylum applications made by Syrians in EU member states this year. New figures released by the ministry of the interior on Thursday put the total number of asylum a... |
The Derek Jeter Gatorade commercial made baseball fans all tingly on Thursday as the legendary Yankees shortstop plays out his final days in pinstripes.
Meanwhile, for fantasy baseball purposes this season, Jeter’s production has been severely lacking — if any fantasy owner even has the shortstop in an active lineup a... |
Transporting an elephant to New Zealand comes with a jumbo pricetag - $1.6 million in fact.
In May 2011 Auckland Council approved $3.2m to transport two gifted elephants from Sri Lanka to New Zealand.
In June 2015, Anjalee arrived at Auckland Zoo from Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, to keep the zoo's vetera... |
The extinction of most of the world’s remaining megafauna mammals is more or less imminent (over the next few decades) without major changes and improved conservation strategies, according to a public declaration published in the journal BioScience.
The public declaration — which calls for a coordinated global plan to... |
Fan Bases’ Projections for the 2017–2018 NBA Season, Along With Some Insight Into The NBA Fan’s Mind (Survey Results)
Dashiell Nusbaum Blocked Unblock Follow Following Sep 16, 2017
Surprise surprise: It leads to an impossible season
The survey was not without it’s struggles: The Nuggets took my post down after three... |
Nearly three hundred years since his death, Isaac Newton is as much a myth as a man. The mythical Newton abounds in contradictions; he is a semi-divine genius and a mad alchemist, a somber and solitary thinker and a passionate religious heretic. Myths usually have an element of truth to them but how many Newtonian vari... |
Thousands of jobs will be up for grabs Tuesday in Huntsville during a regional job fair hosted by the Alabama Department of Labor.
ADOL spokeswoman Tara Hutchison said approximately 160 employers with more than 4,000 jobs will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Von Braun Center. The job fair is free and... |
The few startups that grow rapidly to over $1 billion in revenue are almost never in retail, they’re usually in technology or other industries. Retailers that grow so fast are normally unsustainable, I try not to even comment about them.
Except for this one. I can’t recall ever seeing anything like it. It has grown so... |
After spending the last two years on the Trans Canada Trail, Sarah Jackson is set to become the first woman on record to complete the 11,500 kilometre hike.
The 24-year-old Edmonton woman parked her car in Victoria, B.C. back in June of 2015, and hasn't looked back since.
After two years on the trail, Sarah Jackson s... |
Just when we thought that Warner Bros. would not tease an image of Cesar Romero as the 1966 Joker from the from the classically campy Batman TV show, we get all sorts of image goodies this weekend. Finally we get to see what the final Cesar Romero Clown Prince of Crime will look like with the sets available for Pre-ord... |
Great app syncs with Windows Phone
Finally a simple way to sync notes between my desktop and Windows Phone. While I use My Notes in conjunction with OneNote, with OneNote generally containing things that are more extensive, My Notes is a great way to quickly and simply create a note on the fly...it is much faster to o... |
LAWRENCE, Kan. –Kansas head football coach David Beaty announced the hiring of six members to his coaching staff, including the arrival of four on-field assistant coaches, on Tuesday.
With the role of defensive coordinator filled by assistant head coach Clint Bowen , Beaty announced that Rob Likens will orchestrate th... |
I’m on the ground in one Christian town targeted by ISIS in northern Iraq.
Telskuf is now liberated thanks to Peshmerga forces on the ground, in tandem with US led coalition air strikes in the skies.
Amid the rubble, I speak to Christian townspeople now making their way back home, all of whom credit the air strikes f... |
M Natarajan, AIADMK chief Sasikala's husband, no longer shares name-space with her. That is because Sasikala, arguably the most powerful person in Tamil Nadu today, does not call herself Sasikala Natarajan any more. She is VK Sasikala (short for Vivekanandam Krishnaveni Sasikala, her maiden name). To the AIADMK, howeve... |
City council has approved future property-tax rebates that will help True North Development build the $8.9-million public-plaza component of True North Square.
Council voted 14-2 Wednesday to refund up to $3.2-million worth of municipal property taxes that will flow from the first phase of True North's $400-million de... |
MSNBC President Phil Griffin vowed to fire Keith Olbermann if he went on other networks to discuss his suspension, The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz reports.
Kurtz writes that the threat came during a conversation with Michael Price, Olbermann's manager, on Nov. 7, two days into Olbermann's suspension. Price told Griffin... |
MIT’s rather fabulous Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), after using humble WiFi waves to sense movement behind a wall, has now improved its technology to the point that it can remotely — from behind a wall in another room — can detect heart rate and respiration. MIT has successfully used ... |
Why And When Men Grow Beards
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:
For everyone with a hirsute family member, a bearded patriarch, a fuzzy metro-sexual, here's a great gift, a not-entirely-serious account of why and when men grow facial hair. It's called "Of Beards And Men," by Christopher Oldstone-Moore. It's a history of beards,... |
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The city of Chicago has become the first in the nation to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after the City Council unanimously approved the $5.5 million package.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the abuse and torture of scores of mostly black, male suspects in the 1970s,... |
Come celebrate the launch of Overwatch with us by entering to compete in the second Alienware Monthly Melee tournament featuring a $3,000 prize pool! For your convenience, we have all of the details compiled below on how you can register your team, and more. Will we see you on the battlefield?
We're kicking off launch... |
Represent! is your eye on how well government serves citizens and the public interest in Southern California. KPCC's politics and government team posts frequently on transparency, civic engagement, reform efforts and accountability. We invite your comments and suggestions — follow us on Twitter at the links below.
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AngularDart v4 is now available. We've been busy since the release angular2 v3.1.0 in May. Not only did we "drop the 2", but we also improved the compiler and tightened up the framework to give you smaller code, we updated the package structure to improve usability, and we added several new features. Check out the upda... |
The only declared federal NDP leadership candidate is standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Toronto in the wake of the group's protest at the Toronto Pride parade.
Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, who serves as a critic for LGBTQ issues, released a statement Wednesday on behalf of her party's LGBTQ committee.
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According to initial calculations given to Turkey by Russia, deliveries of additional volumes of gas could start in the beginning of 2016, Turkish energy minister said.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Fomichev Russia, Turkey to Raise Blue Stream Annual Volume to 19Bln Cubic Meters
MOSCOW, November 26 (Sputnik) – Russia and Turke... |
The winds of change are stirring at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Newly confirmed administrator Scott Pruitt expressed skepticism of the scientifically accepted fact that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to climate change. This view conflicts with the stated position of the agency he leads, which started... |
Tina Fey has a message for aspiring comedy writers and creative execs: Get yourselves to an improv theater.
In a wide-ranging Q&A Saturday at the Producers Guild’s Produced By NY conference, Fey suggested that comedy writers and development executives would do well to grab a mic in order to get a real feel for the wor... |
Since Barack Obama has been the Hindenburg of Presidents on the domestic front, there hasn't been as much commentary as you'd expect about the fact that he has been the Titanic of Presidents on foreign policy.
George W. Bush certainly made his mistakes as President, primarily in Iraq, but you did at least get the sens... |
Less than a week after announcing the signing of someone know as the "Austrian David Beckham," the Sounders FC coaches decided to add a little South American flavor to the roster by signing Nelson "El León (The Lion)" Valdez.
The nicknames just keep on rollin' in.
Although he's been playing the game professionally fo... |
Kickxy Vixen-Styles was reportedly "let down by the people around," including a group of trangender witnesses, after cries for help went unanswered.
A San Diego drag queen has been attacked.
Kickxy Vixen-Styles, a greeter at Rich’s, was assaulted by a man at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, after the bar closed.
The attacke... |
Currently my dog (Rosie) is on holiday with my parents so she hasn’t been able to enjoy her presents just yet. I can say that she will absolutely love them and I just know we will all be treated to whacks around the legs if we’re not paying attention.
Rosie received in her bag of goodies;
An assortment of balls which... |
In a major setback to foes of the California high-speed rail project, a Sacramento judge rejected claims by opponents in Kings County that plans for the bullet train system violate state law.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny, who heard verbal arguments from attorneys Feb. 11, issued the ruling late... |
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