Landmark 20-Year Study Finds Pesticides Linked to Depression In Farmers on November 7, 2014 Nov 07, 2014 Dan Nosowitz These pesticides could make a farmer 80 to 90% more likely to suffer depression. Why are they still legal? Photography Share Email 28K Shares Earlier this fall, researchers from the…

The Physics arXiv Blog Nov 13, 2014 Old scientific papers never die, they just fade away. Or they used to. Now electronic publishing has made old papers as easy to find as new ones, and the effect on science is profound Walk through the archives of any academic library and you will find dusty…

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The author with his hog. [Photograph: Max Falkowitz] Note: Last week, the Arrogant Swine finally opened for business . I'm still collecting my thoughts to let you know how it went, but in the meantime, here's another topic I've had on my mind about being a first-time restaurant owner. More How I…

The Web—that thin veneer of human-readable design on top of the machine babble that constitutes the Internet—is dying. And the way it’s dying has farther-reaching implications than almost anything else in technology today. Think about your mobile phone. All those little chiclets on your screen are…

(Photo: nicksherman/Flickr) Awhile back, I choked on a piece of beef stew. It happened as these things usually do: One minute I was happily sitting in a Dominican restaurant down the block having a "business lunch" with a friend, and the next I couldn't breathe. This was not ideal. I calmly got up,…

The door of 10 Downing Street in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) John Graham-Cumming used cunning and data to get the apology Steven Levy Nov 14, 2014 Unlisted Arriving in theaters this fall is a major new film about Alan Turing, the man who broke the German codes, an achievement critical in…

Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Illustration by Zohar Lazar ~ Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from…

The Media Equation John Oliver's show “Last Week Tonight” already has an average audience — live and repeats — of four million people. Credit Eric Liebowitz/HBO Every once in a while, it’s nice to be wrong about something. When HBO announced last fall that John Oliver, a British comedian I very much…

DES MOINES, Iowa—This is too nice a place to spawn a war cry. But if the city had one, it would be the sen­ti­ment heard across a down­town pop­u­lated by baris­tas, tech start-up founders, mu­si­cians, and non­profit pro­fes­sion­als alike: “It’s Des Moines against the world.” Young people here…

New research has suggested that there’s a single protein that determines whether someone will cope with stress, or whether they’ll be more susceptible to depression. The results challenge the way we currently treat depression, and could lead to the first preventative therapies for the mental…

November12, 2014 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Online marketers everywhere work to find out what makes consumers tick while they're browsing the Internet. Digital advertising hinges on predictable behaviors and systems - heat mapping, search engine…

STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: FEC vice-chair: Coordination rules are 'sadly murky' Laws ban outside groups from coordinating with campaigns GOP and outside groups shared internal polling data on Twitter accounts Practices raises questions about whether election laws were broken Editor's note: This story has…

In September 2012, President Obama issued an executive order asserting a zero tolerance policy for government contractors who violated human trafficking laws. He specifically targeted recruitment fees that workers in southeast Asia frequently pay for work with military contractors in Afghanistan and…

José Mujica with his dog Manuela at his farm, which has just three rooms. Photograph: Pablo La Rosa for the Observer As I drive along the port at Montevideo in a government pickup on my way to interview Uruguay’s outgoing president, José Mujica, a striking sight catches my eye. It is an image that…

The wild story of how a mortgage scammer persuaded a dead man's sister to turn over his business, his truck, and his resume — and got a government contract to clean up Ebola. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a con artist's second act. When New York City officials needed someone to disinfect the…

I had such fun the other evening. LeBron James, Anne Hathaway, J.K. Rowling, and I had gone ice skating in Central Park. My dear friend Koko the sign-language gorilla was there, ice-dancing with Ryan Gosling, who is always good for a laugh. Afterward, we all got hot chocolate and ran into Lady Gaga…

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The beard fashion of the past 10 years on both sides of the Atlantic mirrors an earlier facial hair craze, which started during the Crimean War, lasted for three decades, and was only entirely stamped out with the invention of the disposable razor in the early 1900s, writes Lucinda Hawksley. In the…

Diana and Ivette eat dinner with Kaden and Naima. Forty percent of American adults now work non-standard hours; the average American employee holds down one and a quarter jobs. (Photo: Alice Proujansky) (Photo: Alice Proujansky) In the garden of Dee’s Tots Childcare, amid the sunflowers, cornstalks,…

In the central corridor of the animation building at Disney Studios there is a gold-leafed cupola hovering directly over a marble inlay of Steamboat Willie, the movie considered to be the debut of Mickey Mouse. If you stand under the dome and speak, you’ll hear your voice reverberate. To everyone…

The last few months have been a busy for Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway BRK 0% and today we learned its buying spree continued. It was announced this morning Berkshire has come to an agreement with Procter & Gamble PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY PG -0.81% to buy battery manufacturer Duracell in…

Daniel Ek says his company is “not in the music space—we’re in the moment space.” Credit Illustration by Harry Campbell; photograph: Eyevine / Redux Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma. At thirty-one, he is pale, boyish, cerebral, and…

Hebrew-speaking Mac users upgrading their operating system to the latest version, Yosemite, are discovering that something was lost along the way. In previous versions of the OS, the icon for Hebrew on the computer’s language bar was the six-pointed star of David that sits at the center of the…

For the past five or so years, I’ve had a three-bin system going in my mudroom to separate my recyclables. There’s one for #1 and #2 plastics, one for #3 and up plastics and one for paper and cardboard, as necessitated by the convoluted and piecemeal recycling program where I live. Three red milk…

Herbs and vegetables grown in New York City community gardens are loaded with lead and other toxic metals, a startling state study shows. Tainted vegetables — some sold in city markets — were found in five of seven plots tested, according to data obtained from the study by The Post through the…

The chocolate deficit is about to go way up. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman, File) There's no easy way to say this: You're eating too much chocolate, all of you. And it's getting so out of hand that the world could be headed towards a potentially disastrous (if you love chocolate) scenario if it doesn't…

Ecologist Mark Browne takes samples from the shoreline. His pioneering work on microfiber waste has received little support from clothing brands. Photo: Mark Browne E cologist Mark Browne knew he’d found something big when, after months of tediously examining sediment along shorelines around the…

Brewie wants to make brewing your own beer almost as easy as pushing a button. (Brewie) Throughout much of human history, making your own beer was the way to go. Thats how the Romans and Greeks got their buzz. Even founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and George Washington had personal breweries on…

Share with friends When many Americans think of Germany , images of WWII soldiers and Hitler often come to mind. But what many people don’t realize is that Germany is the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and is a leading manufacturer of goods for export to developing Asian nations. We don’t hear…

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Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY IMAGINECHINA VIA AP To most people, myself included, this week’s agreement between the United States and China on tackling climate change came as a big surprise. For more than a decade, the Chinese government has resisted international calls for it to place a cap on carbon…

The US State Department has shut down its unclassified email system to remediate possible damage caused by hackers. Alongside cyber attacks on several US agencies that were reported in October, the US State Department — which responsible for America’s diplomatic relations — was also hacked,…

The Myth of the 4-Hour Workweek This year I re-read the The 4-Hour Workweek . For the 8th time. “Freedom is like a new sport.” -Tim Ferris in the 4-hour Workweek Back in mid-2007 a co-worker told me to read Tim Ferriss ‘ book. “You will love it” she said. A week later I requested all remaining…

Jordan Wright is the co-founder & CEO of Comfy , an Austin startup changing the way university students find housing. “ Build it and they will come ” hasn’t worked in app stores for years. In today’s crowded app stores, you must put in the elbow grease to help your app show in top results. Only then…