Illustration by Min Heo This is the second piece in a three-part series on sleep. Read part one , on falling asleep, and part three , on wakefulness. It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we’re sleeping, we’re…

Kriston Capps Jul 7, 2015 Troubling inequities are revealed when you look at the country by total property values. Cartograms are fun tools for swapping out land area for some other variable. For certain figures, especially data that swing wildly at one of the end of the spectrum or another,…

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Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. (Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty) Former Attorney General Eric Holder said today that a “possibility exists” for the Justice Department to cut a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that would allow him to return to the United States from…

Dropbox made itself a household name by giving away cloud storage. The eight-year-old company, valued at $10 billion, had 300 million registered users a year ago; now it’s got 400 million. Its two-year-old effort to make money from business users has been less impressive. While Dropbox led the $904…

0 Shares Media Options Download Video Download Audio Get DVD Other Formats This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate 0 Shares This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate The Greek election has also factored into the U.S. presidential race. On Monday,…

Exclusive: Ukraine’s post-coup regime is now melding neo-Nazi storm troopers with Islamic militants called “brothers” of the hyper-violent Islamic State stirring up a hellish “death squad” brew to kill ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, on Russia’s border, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry In a…

On Monday, the Italian company Hacking Team, which produces secret cyber weapons for law-enforcement and government clients around the world, became the victim of an embarrassing public disclosure: more than 400 gigabytes of internal data made its way online in a widely shared torrent file. The…

Books drawn on for this article The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem by Joel Best and Eric Best Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan, and Joni E. Finney Locus of Authority: The…

Dizi, a beloved lamb and bean stew, has gone mainstream and upscale in Tehran. But it will always be the meal of the common people. Walk the streets of downtown Tehran at dawn, before the speeding, horn-blaring yellow taxis takeover the city, and you’ll find certain kitchens already hard at work.…

CHINA is certainly not the first country to try to prop up a falling stockmarket. The central banks of America, Europe and Japan have all shown form in buying shares after crashes and cutting interest rates to cheer up bloodied investors. But the circumstances and the manner of China’s intervention…

How Do We Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT? Monday, July 6, 2015 at 8:59AM Joseph Campbell : As Schopenhauer says, when you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was…

“Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull. (As we celebrate Independence Day, I thought I would post a couple excerpts about the Declaration of Independence from my forthcoming book, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Sovereignty of the People (which is now available for pre-order on…

Written by Matthew Ponsford , CNN She could stand on a strand of human hair, with room to spare. The microscopic polymer statue by South African sculptor Jonty Hurwitz , entitled Trust , measured just 1/100th of a centimeter and had been called the " smallest sculpture ever made ." But the world's…

File photo: An aerial view of a flooded field showing a monastery school on November 14, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Paula Bronstein /Getty Images Thailand's capital is both glitzy and gritty, a city of glass towers and cement hovels teeming with nearly 10 million people. All that steel and concrete…

Elon Musk says he's worried SpaceX could be biting off more than it can chew with its plan to provide satellite-based internet to any point on Earth . The billionaire founder of SpaceX discussed the plan at the annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Boston this…

Bundeswehr soldiers operating a Patriot missile launcher. Photo: DPA The Local news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 7 July 2015 15:00 CEST+02:00 German-owned Patriot missiles stationed in Turkey were briefly taken over by hackers, according to media reports on Tuesday. The attack took place on…

A man who tied about 100 helium balloons to a garden chair and flew over the Canadian city of Calgary has been charged with causing mischief. Daniel Boria, 26, told police he was planning on parachuting into the Calgary Stampede, a rodeo event, to promote his cleaning-products company. Mr Boria said…

Luis Argerich Local police have raided the home of an Argentinian programmer who reported a flaw in an e-voting system that was used this weekend for local elections in Buenos Aires. The police took away all of his devices that could store data. According to a report in the newspaper La Nación ,…

The 12 year journey of my art thus far. Noah Bradley Jul 6, 2015 I am extraordinarily blessed to do what I love for a living. Somehow in the last decade I’ve turned a hobby into a profession and then into a lifestyle. While I don’t claim any profound wisdom nor that my path is the best one, I…

Photo by Russell Shaw Higgs / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 An answer to a growing question of the 21st century -- What would you do? So what exactly would you do, if you were guaranteed $1,000 per month for the rest of your life? And yes, that's around what the amount would most likely be here in the United…

The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. The device - which features a programmable array of red LED lights - includes two buttons and a built-in motion sensor that were not included in a…

If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTEDRegistrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411Registrant City: PANAMARegistrant State/Province: PANAMARegistrant Postal…

Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink Martin Oeggerli/Micronaut A colorized image, made with a scanning electron microscope, of…

The Hugely Profitable, Wholly Legal Way to Game the Stock Market

The Quaaludes featuring the DT’s album cover, 2011. When Jordan Belfort—played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a truly masterful moment of full-body acting—wrenches himself from the steps of a country club into a white Lamborghini that he drives to his mansion, moviegoers, having already watched some two…

From where I'm standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic…

What would you do if you had 60 days of extra free time a year? Ask Abby Ross, a retired psychologist from Miami, Florida, a “short-sleeper”. She needs only four hours sleep a night, so has a lot of spare time to fill while the rest of the world is in the land of nod. “It’s wonderful to have so many…

As Davy Van De Moere steered his Subaru along a back road at the Port of Antwerp, he was sure he was being followed. It was a warm day in August 2012, and the city’s industrial skyline stretched into the distance, mile after mile of towering dockside cranes. Unable to find his tail amid the rail…

Authors: Katie Kleemola, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and John Scott-Railton Media Coverage: Motherboard , Engadget , CSO . Download PDF version Introduction This post analyzes targeted malware attacks against groups in the Tibetan diaspora and pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong. All of these attacks…

Max Headroom himself. (Photo: Ingrid Richter/Flickr ) Hacker . According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary , the word means “a person who secretly gains access to a computer system in order to get information, or cause damage.” But 28 short years ago, the term hardly existed–that is, until the Max…

ERIC HOLDER RETURNS AS HERO TO LAW FIRM THAT LOBBIES FOR BIG BANKS

The Italian Hacking Team, which sells software tools with zero-day exploits for secret surveillance purposes to law enforcement agencies, woke up to a living nightmare as anti-surveillance people rejoiced. The Hacking Team’s Twitter named changed to “Hacked Team” as unknown attackers took control of…

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders fills a stadium at his rally in Madison, Wisconsin. Learn more at www.BernieSanders.com --------- ★ Join the political revolution at www.berniesanders.com ★ Connect with Bernie: Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/ Twitter →…

Few news events can unleash more schadenfreude within the security community than watching a notorious firm of hackers-for-hire become a hack target themselves. In the case of the freshly disemboweled Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team, the company may also serve as a dark example of a global…

In Fayoush, Yemen this morning, just outside of Aden, “a massive airstrike” hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that “bodies were strewn about following the strike.” The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a…

Ending Greece’s Bleeding Europe dodged a bullet on Sunday. Confounding many predictions, Greek voters strongly supported their government’s rejection of creditor demands. And even the most ardent supporters of European union should be breathing a sigh of relief. Of course, that’s not the way the…

What’s in the water being pumped into the ground? Some of it falls under the auspices of confidential business information and therefore is not subject to public release.Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images The fracking industry must be compelled to provide far more detailed information to…