Daycares adapt to the demand for round-the-clock childcare.
At 8:30 p.m 6-year-old twins Michael and Mateo Lopez are snuggled under blankets, watching television in their pajamas after eating a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs.
Continue reading… “Demand for round-the-clock childcare on the rise”
The Chinese government is not shy about its Internet censorship, even launching an official campaign known as the Golden Shield Project, or “Great Firewall.”
Most people in the world who get into trouble on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites fail to exercise a bit of healthy self-censorship. A new Carnegie Mellon University study has identified the 295 words and phrases the Chinese government looks for when it steps in and forcibly blocks communication between its own citizens.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can either keep repairing your current body or move into a new one.
A nomadic family outside their ‘ger’ (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
It’s not quite the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane across the world, but desertification in Mongolia is generating dangerous dust storms thousands of miles away.
Former South Korean Ambassador to China Kwon Byong Hyon made the connection more than a decade ago, and has helped spearhead an effort since then to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality his own children are exposed to back home in Seoul…
Continue reading… “Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul”
83% of people who use search engines in the U.S. prefer Google.
Despite privacy concerns, Google still reigns supreme as the go-to search engine, even if people are bit nervous about how it collects data and targets ads.
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A single dose of LSD helped give alcoholics a new insight into their heavy drinking and made it less likely they would relapse.
The mind-bending drug, LSD could be used to treat alcoholism, as the hallucinogenic trips it creates alter the drinker’s perception of their habit.
A significant number of pilots say that sleepiness has caused safety problems on the job.
A major study conducted by the National Sleep Foundation has found that airline pilots are some of the sleepiest transportation workers in the country, along with train operators.
Continue reading… “1 in 4 pilots and train operators admits sleepiness on the job: Study”
Pedro Alonzo Lopez, The ‘Monster of the Andes’
Serial killers gain their notoriety in several ways. They can gain notoriety by the bizarre or brutal methods they use to single out and kill their victims, or by the sheer number of killings they carry out.
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Unequal pay isn’t just unfair, it’s illegal.
After President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 50 years ago, on average women are still paid less than their male counterparts for doing comparable jobs in the U.S. — that’s called the pay gap. It means that each time the average woman starts a new job, she’s likely to start from a lower base salary than her male counterparts.
Continue reading… “Narrow the Gapp challenges app developers to narrow the pay gap”
Besides the elderly gentleman paying in nickels, the biggest holdup at supermarket checkouts is the cashier finding an item’s barcode and properly scanning. So Toshiba has developed a faster camera-based system that recognizes the food, packaged or fresh…
Continue reading… “Future supermarket checkouts could recognize the food, not the barcode”
New Mars photos show amazing activity.
For such a dead planet, Mars sure has got a lot of things going on. LIke this mini tornado, as captured by camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:..
Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure.
A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees exhibit distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans, researchers report…
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