Do you have that special Tweet to immortalize?
Ever composed a tweet so poignant, so incisive, that you’ve wanted to carve it into titanium, wear it on your ring finger and lovingly call it “My Precious”? Well, now you can, thanks to Tweet Rings…
Julian Assange Pledged to Reveal Confidential Tax Details of 2,000 Wealthy People
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, today pledged to make public the confidential tax details of 2,000 wealthy and prominent individuals, after being passed the data by a Swiss banker who claims the information potentially reveals instances of money-laundering and large-scale illegal tax evasion.
Consumers Beware – Reloadable Prepaid Debit Cards Loaded with Fees
Reloadable prepaid debit cards represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the financial services industry.
Last year, Michael Abukhader’s 12-year-old son, Jacob, received a $30 NASCAR prepaid Visa card from an aunt who thought it would provide a convenient way to give him cash for birthdays and other events. But once Abukhader, who lives in Queen Creek, Ariz., reviewed the terms of the card, he closed the account.
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Undergraduates Show Small Gains in First Two Years of College
Academics are not a priority during a students first two years of college.
Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.
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Slegoon – An Extreme Sports Sled
Slegoon
The Slegoon is a new kind of snow sled. Not only it offers protection in the event of a roll-over but it is designed to continue gliding even while rolling. It should take a tree or a big rock to stop you descending a snowed slope and even then you will probably walk unharmed.
Starbucks Offers Ginormous New Drink Size
Starbucks is now offering the trenta size, which is just one ounce short of a full quart. Sadly, it will not be available for straight coffee — just icy drinks. In this infographic, Andrew Barr of Canada’s National Post points out that this size is larger than the average adult stomach capacity…
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Bank in India Launches Branch Without Locks
Shani Shingnapur, the world famous temple town in Maharashtra where houses have neither doors nor locks, now befittingly has its first commercial bank branch with no locks on its front door. The public sector UCO Bank is the first to throw open the doors of commercial banking to this unique town of 3,000 people. Bowing to local religious sentiments, the bank last week decided to open the branch without a lock on its front door…
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Smoking Causes Genetic Damage to the Body in Minutes Rather Than Years
Effect of smoking is so fast that it’s equivalent to injecting the substance directly into the bloodstream.
Smoking a single cigarette causes genetic damage to the body within minutes rather than years, researchers say.
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First Woolly Mammoth to be Cloned Within Five Years
Scientist plans to clone a mammoth in the next five years.
Using a technique that produced a mouse from tissue frozen for 16 years, a scientist at Kyoto University plans to clone a mammoth within the next four to five years.
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Number One Page on Facebook is Facebook
#1 page in Facebook is Facebook
It might sound a little ironic, but Facebook just recently became the #1 Facebook page on Facebook surpassing longtime leader – Texas Hold’em Poker.
Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey
The White-Headed Duck is among many threatened fowl.
Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkey’s Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world that initially provoked much international alarm. But though scientists have emphasized such incidents are not a sign of broader dangers, plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey…
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Economists Predict Unemployment Will Remain Historically High Over the Next Decade
The “new normal” unemployment will be worse than the “old normal”.
The American Economics Association held its annual meeting in Denver last weekend. Most attendees appeared to be in a very forgiving mood. While the economists in Denver recognised the severity of the economic slump hitting the United States and much of the world, there were few who seemed to view this as a serious failure of the economics profession.
