Last week’s news cycles were dominated in part by rising gas prices, and the political parties’ response to costs at the pump inching closer to $4 per gallon. The GOP is outraged, rather, is feigning to be outraged, and is disingenuously blaming Obama’s energy policies for the spike.
But all this political football obscures one important fact…
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Lamar Smith has a unique vision for your internet rights.
Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the ill-starred SOPA Internet regulation, has an even dumber idea for the Internet. In the name of fighting child pornography, he wants to force ISPs to log everything you do online, then make it available to police and government agents without a warrant. Leslie Meredith has a writeup on the mounting opposition to Smith’s latest act of unconstitutional lunacy…
The Middle Ages may not have actually been the way you thought.
No matter how interested you are in history, you probably have still heard a lot about the Dark Ages, but much of that information, even the stuff you learned back in school, is actually fiction. Here are five commonly held beliefs about the Middle Ages that aren’t actually fact.
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Most of that sweet fare is coming from home.
In recent years, America’s intake of sugary foods and drinks has dropped, but kids in the U.S. are still consuming too much, government researchers say.
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95% of teens are online.
Today’s teenagers are growing up in an unprecedented environment of hyper-inter-connectivity. According to recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project, 95% of teens 12 to 17 are online, 76% use social networking sites and 77% have cellphones.
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There are 1.2 billion social networking users worldwide.
U.S.-based social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter usually get most of the publicity, but eMarketer predicts that the worldwide social networking phenomenon will encompass nearly 1.5 billion internet users by the end of this year.
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Your future shopping trips to Whole Foods may include a shopping cart that can follow you around the store, based on a recent product demonstration by Microsoft. The software giant was showing off a Kinect-powered shopping cart that can identify and talk to you, follow you around the store, scan items as you shop, and even put you through an automated checkout.
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BMI is a simple system, but it does have some flaws.
The Body Mass Index is a popular way to measure and assess whether someone is overweight or underweight. Basically, it’s just your weight divided by your height. BMI is a simple system, but it does have some flaws. Over at the Obesity Panacea blog, Peter Janiszewski (who has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology) has a nice post explaining why BMI is sometimes useful, and also why it’s not a great measurement of individual health…
You may have noticed that tomorrow is February 29th, sometimes labeled as Leap Day. Even if you haven’t, you probably noticed that the Summer Olympics and the U.S. presidential election is happening this year, which means this is a Leap Year. C.G.P. Grey explains why we have a February 29th, but only once every four years…
The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site on the Internet, is no more. Or well, it’s not like it once was. As of this moment, they’ve taken down all torrent links on the website and will now only use ‘magnet links’.
Though it sounds really bad, it’s more of an act to “future proof” The Pirate Bay website than anything else. So don’t worry! The Pirate Bay will still be able to work. It’s not dying, it’s just changing. In their words, “just click the red button instead of the green one and all will be fine”…
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Study reveals rich people are more likely to cheat or behave badly.
While the poor might seem to have the most reason to cheat and steal, a new study shows that the rich are more likely to be dishonest.
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The ride looks like an ordinary roller coaster – but is designed to kill.
A Lithuanian engineer, Julijonas Urbonas, has come up with macabre roller coaster concept where passengers are thrilled and then ‘killed’. (Pics)
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