RadioShack won't be the only store to open on Thanksgiving Day, but it might be the only one of its particular makeup to do so. This isn't Walmart or a call center, in which volunteers who want overtime pay can be chosen first. Most RadioShack stores have just a handful of employees, most or all of…

“Travel yourself interesting…” The concept invaded my consciousness as only an insidious radio advert can. I was on a South London bus, headphones firmly implanted to drown out the school-kids’ Friday morning hullabaloo, when amongst the usual litany of shouty commercials came the sound of waves and…

Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging , a team led by Harvard-affiliated…

W alter A. Brown envisions it clearly. The day will come when a woman can walk into his office complaining of debilitating panic attacks and depression, and he will draw a vial of blood and ship it off for genetic analysis. When the test results come back, they will tell Brown that, according to his…

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0 SHARES Facebook Print Mail Flipboard A group of congressional liberals being that include Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) teamed up with President Obama to kill tax cut deal that would have given hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthy and corporations. Politico…

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Jump to navigationJump to search Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent…

Jump to navigationJump to search Not to be confused with Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution. The calling of a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States is a proposal made by some scholars and activists [1] from across the political spectrum [2] for the…

Jump to navigationJump to search The Nineteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIX ) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920. The amendment was the…

WASHINGTON -- Nearly every effort by Mayday PAC to elect a candidate who favored campaign finance reform in a contested race fell flat on Tuesday. The super PAC to end all super PACs , established in May 2014, was highly successful in raising money but much less so in targeting races it could win.…

Credit: JON HAN Point to any one organ in the body, and doctors can tell you something about what it does and what happens if that organ is injured by accident or disease or is removed by surgery—whether it be the pituitary gland, the kidney or the inner ear. Yet like the blank spots on maps of…

At World Books on Atlantic Boulevard, Lily Li picks up the phone to transact one of her first sales of the day. "Hello, this is World Books," says Li, 60. "Can you add $60 to this phone card?" Advertisement > She hands the card back to the man waiting at the counter, then picks up the phone again to…

Story highlights Bookstore chain in Taiwan thrives while stores elsewhere fold Main store opens 24 hours, attracting hipsters as well as bookworms Company has ambitious plans to expand in China Taipei (CNN) It's midnight in the capital of Taiwan. While some people are slowly walking home through the…

A pigeon looks at its reflection in the mirror. It sees a blue dot on the reflection’s breast. It reaches down and pecks at the dot on its own breast. This is the classic behavior required for passing the “mirror test,” an influential experiment used to test for self-awareness in animals.…

Implant Files Implant Files The Sick System Insulin pumps, artificial joints, pacemakers: Implants and prostheses are often brought to market with cheap materials and without studies or clinical trials. They can cause pain, long-term injury or even death. Patients are powerless. Read now Implant…

When my alarm wakes me up, I’ll often hit the snooze button before returning to the warmth and safety of my duvet for another quick doze. But although what follows can seem like a short dream – perhaps a single conversation or a short walk – I’ll sometimes awake to find that a whole hour has passed.…

Eccentric billionaires are tough to impress, so their minions must always think big when handed vague assignments. Ross Perot’s staffers did just that in 2006, when their boss declared that he wanted to decorate his Plano, Texas, headquarters with relics from computing history. Aware that a few…

James Simpson Nov 23, 2014 Luck and ingenuity saved Great Britain from the Third Reich’s World War II undersea explosives At the outbreak of World War II, the German navy and air force unleashed a hidden menace into the sea lanes that Britain relied upon for survival. They unleashed magnetic…

(Illustration by Dan Woodger) I remember the day I stopped humming the theme song to the television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” It was midway through the semester at Towson University, and I had just met with a student who was furious that I had asked her to leave class because she had been…

Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S. and British intelligence agencies on the European Union and a Belgian telecommunications company, according to security industry sources and technical analysis conducted by The Intercept .…

For many decades, a fantasy among space enthusiasts has been to invent a device that produces a net thrust in one direction, without any need for reaction mass. Of course, a reactionless space drive of this type is impossible. Or is it? By Charles Platt Ever since I was old enough to read science…

Breaking new ground for the open-access movement, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in journals that offer immediate open access. The policy doesn’t kick in until January 2017; until then,…

Since Edward Snowden's revelations about government snooping, barely more than one-third of Americans have done anything to improve their online privacy and security, according to a new report. Thomas Kienzle/European Pressphoto Agency OTTAWA — A survey released on Monday suggests that revelations…

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The U.S. Postal Service almost never denies requests to track suspects’ mail on behalf of law-enforcement agencies through a controversial surveillance program known for having compliance problems, according to a federal auditor. USPS Deputy Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb said in testimony for a…

Every brilliantly successful corporation spawns books relating its success to management methods that you, too, can follow. Credit Illustration by Adam Simpson One Friday afternoon a dozen years ago, Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, posted on the wall of the office kitchen a printed-out…

Photo Credit Google Images I remember sitting at my desk in early January 2014, when the news of Nest acquisition broke. My former associates from Crestron were asking me if the $3.2bn price tag was justified, and even began to speculate about Google’s future plans for the brand. In a short amount…

A website containing live links to thousands of baby monitors, web cams and CCTV has shut down. Its administrator now appears to be using the page to look for work. "Programmer looking for a good remote job" is now the only content on the site, along with a list of skills and an email address. The…

In June 2013, Steven Fradkin stumbled upon a grisly scene at Starfish Point in Washington, northwest of Seattle. About one in four of the park’s namesake animals were contorted and covered in white lesions. The seriously sick starfish were crumpled and sagging, their internal organs beginning to…

Yesterday, Jacob (age 8) asked to help me put together a 30-year-old computer from parts in my basement. Meanwhile, Oliver (age 5) asked Laura to help him learn cursive. Somehow, this doesn’t seem odd for a Saturday at our place. Let me tell you how this came about. I’ve had a project going on for a…

The Kentucky senator helped block NSA reform. Now civil liberties groups are feeling betrayed. Rand Paul says he wants surveillance reform. Instead, he helped sink it. And now he’s under fire from the civil liberties groups who have been his strongest allies in his war on the NSA’s domestic spying…

Heartbleed, the massive flaw in web encryption recently made public, is just one of the unending stream of vulnerabilities that enables hackers to steal personal details and passwords from companies with which you do business. Of recent, a number of websites have opened up shop to alert users when…

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