RIO DE JANEIRO — “My best hope is that he dies,” the tall, slight and articulate 45-year-old speech therapist said calmly of her husband. “I know that he can kill me.” The woman, who asked not to be identified, had gone to the courts in Rio de Janeiro to seek protection from her husband of 22 years.…

RECENT ENTRIES Translate into: ( Hint : Use 'j' and 'k' keys to move up and down) comments November 15, 2011 In Guatemala City, a place called "The Mine" can deliver both a means of survival and a grisly death. Every day, dozens of residents salvage a living by scouring the massive dump for scrap…

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(Redirected from Corrections Corporation of America) Jump to navigationJump to search US prison-operating company Eden Detention Center in Eden, Texas CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America ( CCA ), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and…

Ancient Irish ate very little beef or fish despite abundance of both People ate tonnes of butter, cheese, curds and whey and an awful lot of bread and porridge Mon, May 11, 2015, 01:00 Study author Dr Liam Downey: “Ireland was covered with cattle from time immemorial. In fact, cows were the…

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News Analysis MANY Americans assume that the chemicals in their shampoos, detergents and other consumer products have been thoroughly tested and proved to be safe. This assumption is wrong. Unlike pharmaceuticals or pesticides, industrial chemicals do not have to be tested before they are put on the…

Since Shinya Yamanaka reprogrammed first mouse and then human ordinary cells into powerful pluripotent stem cells, termed induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, back in 2006-2007 many new research avenues have opened up. The impossible suddenly seemed a lot more possible with the report of iPS cells…

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It's May, and college students across the country will soon be subjected to lofty commencement speeches about their ability to achieve historic accomplishments. But new data suggests that they already have. The class of 2015 is the most indebted class in American history, according to a new analysis…

Extreme entrepreneurial success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things. I learned this by witnessing the ascent of Elon Musk, from the time we met in college in our late teens to the end of our eight-year marriage. Extreme success is different from regular…

Not exactly what that's for: Two tourists climb on a statue in Huayin, China, near Huashan, or Mount Hua, a famed tourist destination, in May 2013. ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images "Ugly Americans" — tourists with appalling manners, loud voices, louder apparel and heaps of cultural insensitivity —…

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz How Not to Drown in Numbers Credit Tim Lahan BIG data will save the world. How often have we heard that over the past couple of years? We’re pretty sure both of us have said something similar dozens of times in the past few months. If you’re trying to build a self-driving…

Imagine if the US Congress agreed to make higher education tuition-free and funded it by increasing taxes on corporations. Pure fantasy, right? Well the government of Chile is doing just that. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has made overhauling the nation’s education system a key goal of her…

Victoria Lederberg served as the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island for only one day. During her term, she bulldozed a church and a nice, well-functioning neighborhood. She built new police stations on every block of other neighborhoods, and she condemned the local power plant, replacing it with a…

Have you ever felt like the government doesn't really care what you think? Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people? Their study took…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it has asked Beijing to investigate reports that China interfered with Internet content hosted outside the country and used it to attack U.S. websites. “We are concerned by reports that China has used a new cyber capability to interfere with…

Science history is packed with tall tales about groundbreaking revelations sparked by everyday observations. From Archimedes's "Eureka!" moment in his bathtub to Newton's apple-based paradigm shift, some of the science legends that have gained the most cultural traction are the ones that are the…

Sleep deprivation is hazardous to pilots and truck drivers. That’s why they have restricted hours in the cockpit and behind the wheel. Doctors, on the other hand, don’t have mandatory restricted hours on call and at night. What they have instead are nicknames like “Jack Bauer”—after the main…

THE Stones or the Beatles? That, as any baby-boomer knows, is the most important question in music. But for American boomers it raises a second question. Were those two bands really responsible for the revolution of 1963 and 1964, which those west of the Atlantic call the British Invasion, and those…

Facial recognition technology has many use cases , but none nearly as significant as this next one might be. A group of students at Birmingham City University are developing a smart cane, dubbed XploR , which uses a combination of hardware and software to help the visually impaired easily identity…

One of the great achievements of modern science was learning not only how the Universe originated -- from a hot, dense, rapidly expanding state known as the Big Bang -- but to definitively measure how old it is. Thanks to multiple independent sources of information, including the ages of the oldest…

Tacos al pastor from Carmela's Mexican Restaurant in Beaumont, Texas. Credit: At the Supermercado Mexico in Portland, Oregon, you’ll find a turning spit of pork, basted with chili and onions, dripping fat and flavor. Shave some off into a tortilla and you’ve got a taco al pastor , the classic…

Quick: Name the world’s greatest magician, a man who became famous by sawing women in half, making cards rise unassisted from their decks, pulling rabbits from audience member’s coats, and levitating assistants far above the stage. Harry Houdini? David Blaine? “This pleasure comes from being…

Before you read this article I want to ask you a simple question. Have I got your full attention? Probably not. And that's especially true if you are looking at this in your office. Finding focus is a something almost everyone has to deal with. And research figures in the US show that in the…

Getty Images When John Gordon needed to hire two executive assistants earlier this year, he tried something new. Rather than putting out the usual call for resumes and then doing phone screens with promising candidates, he invited every applicant to his midtown Manhattan offices in February for an…

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Danny Moloshok/Reuters Zappos, the Amazon-owned online retailer, confirmed with the Las Vegas Sun that 210 of its 1,503 employees — nearly 14% of the company — took a buyout deal after CEO Tony Hsieh announced the company was completely ridding itself of manager roles and job…

President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic fundraiser at Sentinel Hotel, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Portland, Ore. On Friday, the president will visit Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.Photograph: Bruce Ely/AP L ast week, the president, who claims he’s running the most transparent administration…

Jessica Gross | Longreads | May 2015 | 13 minutes (3,430 words) Caroll Spinney has performed Big Bird and Oscar on Sesame Street since the show launched in 1969, almost half a century ago. A new documentary, I Am Big Bird , follows Spinney’s journey from a somewhat difficult childhood—his father had…

Less than 24 hours after Google launched the new Phishing alert extension Password Alert , a security researcher was able to bypass the feature using deadly simple exploits. On Wednesday, the search engine giant launched a new Password Alert Chrome extension to alert its users whenever they…

USBkill — A new program that once activated, will instantly disable the laptop or computer if there is any activity on USB port. Hey Wait, don’t compare USBkill with the USB Killer stick that destroy sensitive components of a computer when plugged-in. "USBKill" is a new weapon that could be a boon…

Facebook lets you control your every single information posted on the social media site by giving many options to make them private from others, even from your friends. But… There are some personal information on Facebook that you just cannot completely hide — Your friends list are among those, even…