Giraffe gather at a water hole in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, August 2, 2015. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo If American dentist Walter Palmer — who may face poaching charges for killing Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe — was so inclined, he could have saved himself time and money and trouble by killing…

LOS ANGELES – Chronic homelessness is such a daunting problem in Los Angeles County that even after 10,000 people were moved into housing in the last three years, about 13,000 people on public assistance slip into homelessness every month, a new study has revealed. The number of people who become…

Arizona will fire the private operator running a state prison after three major uprisings that caused extensive damage and forced more than 1,200 inmates to be relocated, Gov. Doug Ducey said on Wednesday. The state has already begun the process of canceling its contract with Utah-based Management…

It's an open argument of who was more famous at the time: the ascerbic comedian debuting a brand-new late-night comedy show on NBC or the show business veteran of the 1950s and '60s who entertained children with science. But when Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert made an appearance on David Letterman's…

SAN FRANCISCO – Jing Zeng appeared in United States District Court today after being arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on a criminal complaint alleging theft of trade secrets, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.…

Russia > Soviet Union 1920-1945 > Prison Camps in Siberia Russia > Timeline: Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union > Prison Camps in Siberia ▼ Primary Sources ▼ Prison Camps in Siberia In 1754 the Russian government decided to send petty criminals and political opponents to eastern Siberia. Sentenced…

After the Rockefeller Center mural was destroyed in 1934, Diego Rivera recreated this version, named Man, Controller of the Universe, which is on display at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The story of the original mural's creation and destruction is the focus of a Mexican Cultural…

Arabic (via Cyber Arabs ) : قراءة في العربية Authors: John Scott-Railton and Katie Kleemola Summary This report describes an elaborate phishing campaign against targets in Iran’s diaspora, and at least one Western activist. The ongoing attacks attempt to circumvent the extra protections conferred by…

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Are you good at math? A computer whiz? Well, great! Presumably your “hard skills” are a surefire ticket to a high-paying job. Well, maybe that used to be the case. But it’s not necessarily so anymore. To land a lucrative job today, hard skills in math and engineering, for instance, may not be…

At first, Jacob Beser sounds like another grumpy old man out of touch with the times. “One of the things that really distressed me this summer is that I ran into quite a few Americans in Japan — a so-called peace movement.” He clears his throat and continues, describing a peace rally he saw. “What…

Blocking website adverts in web browsers has been a hot topic in recent years and there are merits to both sides of the argument. Many sites out there bombard you with tons of ads, and quite often you will feel that you have no choice but to use an ad blocker because either the ads slow down the…

China has cut its holdings of U.S. Treasuries this month to raise dollars needed to support the yuan in the wake of a shock devaluation two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Channels for such transactions include China selling directly, as well as through agents in Belgium and…

First, there was a little rumble. A bit later came the roar. At the Cripple Creek Stoneyard in Crescent, Oklahoma, clocks fell off the walls, and the office bounced on its slab. At Hometown Foods, the shelves swayed from side to side, tossing cans onto the floor. "It shook stock off every aisle,"…

Judges on Tuesday said that the iPhone maker’s method didn’t reach a level of sophistication needed to award patent protection. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Apple Inc. lost a ruling at Germany’s top civil court over a patent for unlocking…

Cancer researchers dream of the day they can force tumor cells to morph back to the normal cells they once were. Now, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have discovered a way to potentially reprogram cancer cells back to normalcy. The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology , represents…

For years, nails have been hammering down on the coffin of anti-virus. But none have really put the beast to bed. An industry founded in the 1980s, a time when John McAfee was known as a pioneer rather than a tequila-downing rascal , has survived despite the rise of umpteen firms who claim to offer…

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Rose, who can neither read nor write, was supposed to be set up for life after she won a lead lawsuit against her former landlord and was awarded a large settlement. She’s seen here in Baltimore. (Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post) BALTIMORE — The letter arrived in April, a mishmash of strange…

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Article body copy Robert Bea had just started a family and bought his first house in New Orleans when the hurricane hit and the waters came. “I swam back to our home,” Bea says. “We lost everything.” When the president showed up after the disaster, he vowed, “This shall never happen again,” Bea…

By American rapper Pitbull shows off his honorary degree Each Spring, thousands of American graduate students don fancy robes and walk across stages to accept their doctorate degrees. For most, the ceremony is the culmination of years of dedicated scholarship, hard work, emotional breakdowns, and…

When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake . Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake , though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number. So I…

When Dean Spatz began his introduction-to-engineering-design class as a sophomore at Dartmouth in 1963, reverse osmosis, the process of filtering water through a semipermeable membrane, was only four years old. Working with a team, Spatz used RO to create a prototype for turning undrinkable brackish…

Traversing the Seas For centuries, sailors used this low-tech tool to navigate the world’s oceans. Authored by by Susan Down Wordcount August 26, 2015 | 450 words, about 2 minutes Share this article Share this: Article body copy “Can you see anything?” Henry Carter was asked in 1923 as he peered…

Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone APRIL 20, 2011 A stone tablet in Aneyoshi, Japan, warns residents not to build homes below it. Hundreds of these so-called tsunami stones, some more than six centuries old, dot the coast of Japan. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times ANEYOSHI, Japan — The stone tablet…

O nce, while fishing for salmon, I hooked a clam. It fought bravely, and when I finally pulled it from the water I could see that I hadn’t just snagged it, as you might expect, but that it had taken the bait willingly. These are minor points; what matters here is that the clam, so different from a…

N ext year, come summer, Edward Larvadain, Jr. will have been an attorney for 50 years. He’s had a memorable run, enough so that last year he was inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame. As a civil rights activist, he was arrested during a 1961 sit-in and served 31 days in…

Lesen Sie hier die deutsche Version des Artikels. The agentsfrom the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’sdomestic intelligence agency, were deeply impressed. They wanted to be able todo that too. On Oct. 6, 2011, employees of the US intelligence agency NSA werein…

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains;…

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Hawking with Nobel laureate Gerard t'Hooft in Stockholm. (KTH) On Tuesday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking presented new theories on black holes to a crowd of esteemed scientists and members of the media at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Hawking focused on something called the…

One year ago, icy water inundated the Internet in what may have been the online equivalent of the largest chain letter ever—the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge . In endless autoplaying Facebook videos, people hoisted buckets filled with ice water, announced their philanthropic intentions, and upended the…

Should the National Football League suspend or ban any player caught assaulting a wife or girlfriend? That seems to be the conventional wisdom since video emerged of running back Ray Rice knocking his wife unconscious in an elevator, even as reports surface that many more NFL players have…

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