Post Overview
-
Analysis
10 years ago+1 2 1What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet
Technology has a lot to answer for: killing old businesses, destroying the middle class, Buzzfeed. Technology in the form of the internet is especially villainous, having been accused of everything from making us dumber (paywall) to aiding dictatorsh ...
0 comment(s) via qz.com -
Analysis
10 years ago+24 24 0Evidence from Eight Different Types of Studies Showing that Smaller Body Size is Related to Greater Longevity
Evidence was collected on eight different types of studies. For example, studies were found showing smaller body size is related to greater longevity within the same species. Other studies involved longevity in relation to caloric restriction, male-f ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+9 10 1McCain calls for US to hit ISIS in Syria
Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said Saturday that President Barack Obama's limited military action against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq showed a "fundamental misunderstanding of the threat," and called for strikes agai ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+20 20 0The New Mercedes-Benz Sedan Can Ward Off Bullets
Mercedes-Benz's latest luxury vehicle is in a resistance class by itself. The company unveiled its ultra-tough S600 Guard sedan, which has a fully bulletproof body and can withstand great impact — but judging from the outside, it looks like a no ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+16 16 0Case of missing Calgary family now a homicide investigation
The man police have called a ‘person of interest’ in the mysterious disappearance of a Calgary boy and his grandparents now faces murder charges. Douglas Garland was arrested around 1:30 a.m. on Monday near Airdrie, as the search for five-year-old Na ...
-
Expression
10 years ago+17 17 0If US Cities Were Videogames
If US Cities Were Videogames
-
Analysis
10 years ago+26 26 0 x 1New Study Shows Food Trucks are Safer Than Restaurants
Here's some great news for the dying food truck industry: A new study shows that in comparison to restaurants, food trucks are often a safer place to eat. A report by the Institute of Justice concluded that food trucks and carts tend to receive ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+23 23 0 x 115 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again?
For most of history, a great character or story or song has passed from its original creator into the public domain. Shakespeare and Charles Dickens and Beethoven are long dead, but Macbeth and Oliver Twist and the Fifth Symphony are part of our shar ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+26 26 0One unvaccinated child was patient zero of a measles epidemic
Despite what you think is happening when you read antivaccination blogs, most people in the developed world vaccinate their children. And in the relatively undeveloped world, they are demanding more vaccines so that their children will live longer. I ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+10 10 0Hairless Man Grows Full Head Of Hair In Yale Arthritis Drug Trial
Scientists at Yale may have discovered quite the off-label use for an FDA-approved arthritis drug. During a trial, which stretched for eight months, a 25-year-old man with almost no hair on his body grew a full head following treatment with the drug. ...
-
Expression
10 years ago+13 13 0This Brazilian Soccer Team Plays for a Chance to Battle Their Prison Guards
For one week each year, the Geraldo Beltrão maximum security penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil holds a soccer tournament for the prisoners. Five-member teams from the various cells compete against each other on a barbed-wire-encircled sand court un ...
-
Video/Audio
10 years ago+17 17 0Car Crash Explosion Fire at Gas Station Caught on Tape Police Rescue
Car Crash Explosion Fire at Gas Station Caught on Tape Police Rescue Car Crash Explosion Fire at Gas Station Caught on Tape Police Rescue Car Crash Explosion Fire at Gas Station Caught on Tape Police Rescue Car Crash Explosion Fire at Gas Station Cau ...
-
Expression
10 years ago+18 18 0Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood: Clash of the Corporate Cultures
Power lunch? No such thing in Silicon Valley. Executive suites? They're exclusively Hollywood, while celebrity chefs cook on tech campuses. Failure? For one industry, it means career jail; for the other, a rite of passage and badge of honor (gue ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+19 19 0FBI withdraws NSL after Microsoft challenged federal agency's gag order in court
Microsoft yesterday disclosed that it successfully challenged an FBI National Security Letter asking for data from one of the company's Office 365 enterprise customers. The letter, which hadn't been approved by any court, was issued last ye ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+19 19 0Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?
To change false beliefs, appealing to a person’s sense of self may be more important than the facts.
-
Analysis
10 years ago+41 41 0IBM discovers new class of ultra-tough, self-healing, recyclable plastics that could redefine almost every industry
Stop the press! IBM Research announced this morning that it has discovered a whole new class of… plastics. This might not sound quite as sexy as, say, MIT discovering a whole new state of matter — but wait until you hear what these new plastics can d ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+14 14 0Google Glass Could Tap Into Your Brain to Sell Ads
Collecting user data to serve up targeted ads is Google's bread and butter, and yet the company refuses to speak publicly about how its infamous augmented eyewear could kick that business model into high gear. Still, the tightlippedness hasn ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+34 34 0 x 1The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
Rémi Coulom is sitting in a rolling desk chair, hunched over a battered Macbook laptop, hoping it will do something no machine has ever done. That may take another ten years or so, but the long push starts here, at Japan’s University of Electro-Commu ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+8 8 0Hurt Before the Birth
It was long assumed that brain injuries in newborns resulted from insufficient oxygen during labor or delivery. Distressed parents often blamed doctors, a belief that spawned countless malpractice suits and prompted many obstetrician-gynecologists to ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+5 5 0Should a porn star be able to have a bank account?
Whether a porn star should be able to have a bank account or not might rather depend upon your moral views. You might believe they are the very devil to be cast out from all society. You might think that because they are engaged in legal and consensu ...