To view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eMLk... Find more of Stefan's great works at: http://youtube.com/Stefbot http://Freedomainradio.com The Voluntary Virtues Network is a voluntaryist network, and is comprised of hundreds of different individuals. Their voices are their voices, not the…

A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake. At least 48 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured, officials say. At least 17 have also died in India. The latest earthquake hit near the town of Namche…

What happened? REUTERS Samsung has seen a catastrophic collapse in China over the last year, with its smartphone sales market share halving in 12 months, according to new data from IDC . In Q1 of 2014, Samsung shipped 20.5 million smartphones; in Q1 of 2015, that figure has plummeted to 9.6 million.…

TOLEDO — The new machine that could one day replace anesthesiologists sat quietly next to a hospital gurney occupied by Nancy Youssef-Ringle. She was nervous. In a few minutes, a machine — not a doctor — would sedate the 59-year-old for a colon cancer screening called a colonoscopy. But she had done…

January 6, 1975. A young Israeli immigrant pushes open the door of his north London squat to find the dead body of a homeless man. George Price had cut the carotid artery out of his own throat with a pair of nail scissors. It was a bloody end for a troubled man who believed he had been chosen by God…

THE Dutch are generally a pretty content bunch. The Netherlands consistently ranks as one of the best places in the world to live. Dutch kids are among the happiest in the world, according to Unicef. Some attribute their high quality of life and general good nature to a laid-back approach to work:…

For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why.

Key officials at the FTC aren’t mincing words in a new post defending the right of manufacturers to sell directly to consumers: Part of the U.S. regulatory trade organization’s executive team detailed its wider position following the publication of a letter of comment specific to new legislation in…

Interview by Rosecrans Baldwin In the book Grassland , a New York-based photographer documents a year in the lives of northern California’s marijuana farmers. As the United States undergoes a dramatic shift regarding marijuana, the clandestine world of cannabis cultivation is opening up. H. Lee is…

The American Civil Liberties Union has long maintained that the authorities invoke the border exception rule to the warrant requirement to build cases when they don't have probable cause to get a warrant.

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) A federal appeals court ruling that the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal could undercut more than just that program. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the phone records program violated the…

Opponents have been emboldened by the growing influence of liberal senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.Photograph: Olivier Douliery/Zuma Press/Corbis Barack Obama’s ambitions to pass sweeping new free trade agreements with Asia and Europe fell at the first hurdle on Tuesday as Senate…

Nature | News Sharing Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts. Ewen Callaway Article tools Rights & Permissions Bhart-Anjan Bhullar The skull of a chicken embryo ready to hatch usually has a beak (left), but when certain proteins are blocked (middle) develops a…

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Brazil spent billions renovating and building World Cup stadiums. Almost a year after the tournament ended, the nation is still trying to figure out what to do with them. The Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil (shown here in April 2014), was the most expensive of the stadiums — at a cost of…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. May 3, 2015, 3:28 PM GMT / Updated May 3, 2015, 3:29 PM GMT / Source: NBC News By Dan Cooney In an interview for NBC’s "Meet the Press," House Speaker John Boehner…

Josh Fox May. 09, 2015 09:09AM EST This week in Heimdal, North Dakota another "bomb train" derailed and exploded . These dangerous trains carrying crude-oil fracked in the Bakken Shale are rolling through the backyards of America, across rivers and streams and into major cities like Pittsburgh,…

The case of 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa teachers college, who were kidnapped last September from the Mexican city of Iguala and have not been seen since, has caused an international outcry and rocked the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto. The Mexican government has sought to portray the…

(Benjamin C. Tankersley/For The Washington Post) Several industries have become notorious for the millions they spend on influencing legislation and getting friendly candidates into office: Big Oil, Big Pharma and the gun lobby among them. But one has managed to quickly build influence with…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that part of a nuclear power plant remains offline after a transformer fire that has created another problem: thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River. At an afternoon briefing, Cuomo said emergency crews were out on the water near Buchanan,…

Credit: MATT MAHURIN Last summer, after months of encrypted emails, I spent three days in Moscow hanging out with Edward Snowden for a Wired cover story. Over pepperoni pizza, he told me that what finally drove him to leave his country and become a whistleblower was his conviction that the National…

A food market in Singapore in 2012. The U.S. government says that American farmers can help "fill the void" being created by rising demand for meat in countries like Singapore through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Allie Caulfield/Flickr If you think trade deals are just about business, think again.…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) In an interview with Yahoo News that ran over the weekend, President Obama intensified his push-back against Elizabeth Warren and other critics of the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, flatly declaring that Warren is “absolutely wrong.”…

It was one of the most audacious space missions ever. How did it feel to be part of the Rosetta team as it touched down on a comet? As the spacecraft nears its closest approach to the Sun, Richard Hollingham recounts the drama, the disappointments and the jubilation of a 30-year quest. Please scroll…

This is part three of a four-part series at The Slice called “End of the Road,” about America’s waning love affair with car culture. Read the series intro here and the second installment here , on the hell of being carless in America’s suburban sprawl. I n the early 2000s, a friend of mine was…

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Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University of Minnesota volunteered for a study that would send them to the brink of starvation. Allied troops advancing into German-occupied territories with supplies and food were encountering droves…

Dave Goldberg and his wife at a tech conference in 2013. Both often left their offices at 5:30 to eat dinner with their children. Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard…

When Justin Fenton walked into the heart of the riots in West Baltimore on Monday night, a group of men surrounded him. Wearing blue bandanas, a hallmark of Crips gang members, the men said they wanted to protect him after a photographer appeared to have been hit by a rock, said Fenton, a veteran…

What can one prosecutor do about the mass incarceration

If a friend told you that we were all living in a giant hologram, you'd probably tell him to lay off the kush. But incredibly, physicists across the world are thinking the same thing: That what we perceive to be a three-dimensional universe might just be the image of a two-dimensional one, projected…

Gadgetwise Credit Minh Uong/The New York Times PRODUCT reviews are broken. They are great at telling you about the speed of a computer or the brightness of a screen. But there’s a big gaping hole in evaluations of most products, from phones to computers to televisions. The product evaluations…

Or, can books save us from what digital does to our brains? Hugh McGuire Apr 22, 2015 Last year, I read four books. The reasons for that low number are, I guess, the same as your reasons for reading fewer books than you think you should have read last year: I’ve been finding it harder and harder to…

Flickr Theresa May, who retains her position as Home Secretary after last week's general election, has indicated that bringing back the "Snooper's Charter" is a priority for the UK's new Conservative government. According to the Guardian, she told the BBC: "David Cameron has already said, and I’ve…

The Mona Lisa isconsidered the world’s most famous painting, chiefly because of its mysterioussmile. What is so mysterious aboutit? Art critics have projected all sorts of interpretations onto it, and these areendless. There is a more objective way to analyze the Mona Lisa smile, usingthe social…

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Field Notes from the Road Alexa Clay May 10, 2015 For the past 10 days I’ve been riding on an old 80s tour bus that use to belong to country singer Barbara Mandrell. I’ve been traveling through American cities and towns poised for reinvention — from New Orleans to Greenville, South Carolina and from…

After 1.7 million miles we’ve learned a lot — not just about our system but how humans drive, too. Chris Urmson May 11, 2015 Unlisted About 33,000 people die on America’s roads every year . That’s why so much of the enthusiasm for self-driving cars has focused on their potential to reduce accident…