Real wage growth has been strongest in jobs that require workers to have both math and social skills, such as registered nurses, designers and financial managers. Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images Dennis Mortensen, the founder of a technology startup, had a…

A condom and use manual from 1813 ( Wikipedia ) When it comes to reversible birth control, there are a lot of options out there for women: pills, rings, intra uterine devices, patches, implants. Men, on the other hand, are still limited to the same two contraceptive techniques they’ve been using for…

A cancer drug tested on people with Parkinson’s disease has produced remarkable results, giving some patients a new lease of life. The drug, called nilotinib, has been used in the past to treat patients with a certain type of leukaemia. But in a small clinical trial in the US, 12 people with…

Taking a cue from kangaroos, elephants, bees and even termites, a team from the University of Calgary came up with a clever way to keep food cool without the need for expensive fridges, or even electricity. The invention, dubbed WindChill , took first place in the student category in the Biomimicry…

Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed , the Guardian can now reveal. From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than…

Exclusive: The leak conviction of ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling exposed a range of double standards, from how the spy agency treats African-Americans to how favored officials like Gen. David Petraeus get a pass while others get prison, an issue now before President Obama, writes Chelsea Gilmour.…

An eight year-old immigrant watches as a U.S. Border Patrol agent records her family information on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images A federal judge ruled on Friday that the state of Texas can continue to deny birth certificates to U.S.-born children of undocumented…

Published on October 17, 2015 In Drew, Miss. The day of his high school graduation, like so many of the days before, began with chaos. Ruleville Central had pledged to lock its front doors an hour before the ceremony to prevent a crowd overflow, and Jadareous Davis was still at his grandmother’s…

Share Reddit Email By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org | – – In terms of support from financiers, ‘no other candidates came close to Clinton and Bush’ “She’s gonna all of a sudden become Mrs. Wall Street if she’s elected,” one banker said of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary…

Hawaii Gov. David Ige has declared a state of emergency to deal with the state's homelessness crisis just days after Honolulu and state officials cleared one of the nation's largest homeless encampments. The move will help the state speed up the process of building a homeless shelter for families,…

Just days after the first Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders visited Real Time With Bill Maher Friday, where the host, a Sanders supporter, hoped to “un-demonize” the word “socialist,” a term that scares off 53-percent of voters. “When they hear ‘socialist,’ they think ‘herpes,’ Bernie,”…

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y — National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and one of the top lawyers for the U.S. Intelligence Community, Robert Litt, gave back-to-back speeches at an academic gathering on Friday that addressed major controversies over government surveillance, basic…

There was nobody in Jimmy Lee Dykes’s life to take the edge off his anger. He had long ago lost touch with an ex-wife and two daughters. His older girl recalled his fondness of firearms and a hatred of authorities; how he smelled of spearmint, coffee and cigarettes; how he beat her mother. Mr.…

Two pages from Samuel Ward’s translation for part of the King James Bible. An American professor who came upon the manuscript last fall at Cambridge says it is the earliest known draft for the King James translation, which appeared in 1611. Credit Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College,…

An MTA employee tracks trains by hand. MTA/YouTube From the looks of straphangers during rush hour, with their headphones, smartphones, and e-readers, it would be easy to miss how old the New York City subway system is. But every day, hundreds of trains run through the largest subway network in the…

Engineers have built a flexible sensor that detects touch and, just like skin, produces electrical pulses that get faster when the pressure increases. They have also used those pulses to drive neuronal activity in a slice of mouse brain. They say the system is a more faithful replica of touch…

Image: DRAM/Wiki Computer memory has reached something of a crisis state. You'll mostly hear otherwise, however, as hard-drive memory becomes cheap enough that it might as well be free, while the big names behind the current cloud storage push gleefully lower that price to actually free. But this…

Would you pay to sleep under my kitchen table? No? Why not? That is exactly what Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia proposed on the website for their unorthodox home rental service, Airbnb , in 2008. A year after the brief success of Airbnb during the 2007 Industrial Design Conference, Chesky and Gebbia…

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have highlighted significant similarities between the behavioural effects of oxytocin and alcohol. The research, published today in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , draws on existing studies into the two compounds and details the similarities…

Détente with the Soviet Union and the opening to China were significant breakthroughs in their own right. Indeed, a positive appraisal of the Nixon administration’s foreign policies is predicated on our viewing them this way. But Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger did not view them in isolation at…

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Learn more at http://Represent.Us/TheProblem, and go to https://represent.us/TheSolution to see our plan and join the Anti-Corruption Movement. Click on "show more" to view our sources. 1. Gilens and Page, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,”…

Julia Wise is a social worker and her husband, Jeff Kaufman, is a software engineer. In 2013, their combined income was just under $245,000, putting them in the top 10% of US households. And yet, excluding taxes and savings, they lived on just $15,280, or 6.25% of their income. What happened to the…

London (AFP) - The mother of a youth facing beheading for taking part in protests in Saudi Arabia has pleaded with US President Barack Obama to "rescue my son" in an interview published by the British daily the Guardian Thursday. The sentence against Ali al-Nimr, a Shiite Muslim who was only 17 when…

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL A. SCHWARZ / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY NEW YORK ( The Borowitz Report )—The strong ratings for Tuesday's Democratic Presidential debate have surprised CNN executives, who are now tentatively considering introducing substance into their programming. The president of CNN, Jeff Zucker,…

U.S. soldiers walk into the charred remains of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. The attack, which killed a number of hospital staff and patients, was intended to back up Afghan forces fighting to dislodge Taliban insurgents who overran the…

Back in March, when Netflix paid a reported $12 million for Cary Fukunaga ‘s indie film Beasts of No Nation , the deal rocked the movie industry. These days, after all, a good payday for a small, independent film is in the $3 to $5 million range. Moreover, Netflix was buying an incredibly niche film…

Italian archaeologists are to start excavations in search of a fabled cache of ancient Roman treasure which, according to legend, was buried alongside the Gothic king who sacked the city in the 5th century. The body of Alaric, king of the Visigoths , is said to have been buried at the confluence of…

28th May 1951: A worker operates the switchboard at the Central Telegraph Station in Electra House, London, the largest telegraph station in the world.Photograph: Monty Fresco/Getty Images P rivacy as a legal construct is relatively recent. Until Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis penned their famous…

An employee's computer screen at AnchorFree Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif. Jason Henry for The New York Times Sometimes the best way to stop a bad machine is with a lot of good machines. Several companies are applying the techniques of artificial intelligence, or A.I., to the world of security, and they…

Federal rules are posing a challenge to companies seeking to move people out of harm’s way.Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP If one of your duties is dangling from a rope while you try to check for corrosion and metal fatigue, a flying robot may be here to help soon. When we read about drones, it’s…

Gabriella Peñuela/FUSION When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the creation of giant genetic databases that might one day be used against participants by law…

It is a well-established fact that the universe is expanding. It grows without center, like an inflating raisin cake, but an infinite raisin cake filling all of space in all directions. The raisins are the galaxies. A problem I've had with this explanation is that if everything were to double in…

Olga and Pavel Syutkin’s CCCP Cook Book serves up Soviet-era classics while delving into the stories behind the dishesPhotograph: CCCP Cook Book/FUEL N ostalgia for Soviet-era food has gripped the new east in recent years, fuelled by a post-cold war generation who are unfamiliar with the regions…

If your ancestors hail from anywhere outside Africa, it's a safe bet that you are part-Neanderthal. After modern humans first left Africa, they came into contact with Neanderthals and things got cosy. These early frolics are now visible in our DNA. Genetic analysis indicates that Europeans and…

San tribespeople sit around the last flames of a campfire. Modern sleeping patterns in lifestyles with bright screens have found to be no different to groups living ancient routines without modern technology.Photograph: Anthony Bannister/Gallo Images/Corbis If we could only get back to ancient times…

Those familiar with the cases of the 13 men known to have experienced water dousing say its departure from waterboarding is ‘a distinction without a difference’.Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images At least a dozen more people were subjected to waterboard-like tactics in CIA custody than the agency…