Mars One Is Broke, Disorganized, and Sketchy as Hell
Remember Mars One? The mega-hyped, one way ticket to go start a colony on Mars assuming it could get a ship and funding and capable colonists and training facilities and the major technological...
View ArticleJeb Bush Calls For The Elimination Of The Federal Minimum Wage
At an event in South Carolina on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was asked whether he thinks the country should raise the minimum wage or whether the wage should be left up to...
View ArticleFCC fines Verizon $3.4 million for not telling officials about a major 911...
In October, the FCC released a damning reporting suggesting a major 911 outage affecting more than 11 million people in seven states could have been prevented. But there was, apparently, more to the...
View ArticleMexico Offered Sony $20M in Tax Breaks to portray country better in Bond film
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico since 2006 in the country's brutal drug war, which continues to perpetuate gross gang- and drug-based violence and corruption. However, while it is...
View ArticleBeware these 10 Health Food Imposters!
If you're trying to avoid foods with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you probably already keep a sharp eye out for foods made from corn, canola, and soy, all of which have had bacteria or genes...
View Article14 Ways To Eat An Avocado
Avocados are like kale’s more relaxed sibling. They both are nutritious, but avocados are more more often a culinary treat thanks to their high fat content (which is a good thing). That’snot all this...
View Article7 Foods That Are Healthier When Eaten Together
Many of us turn to whole, unprocessed foods to ensure we’re getting enough vitamins, antioxidants, and nutrients. However, there’s a way to make already healthy foods even better for you. The secret?...
View Article8 Health Benefits of Coffee That Will Make Your Day
Could your daily cup of coffee double as a health drink? A percolation of recent research reveals that the health benefits of coffee are double-espresso-style strong. But before you go on a brew binge,...
View Article10 Wholesome Foods to Consume in Moderation
Health food buzz can have a very positive effect - no one can deny that switching cake for quinoa is a step in the right direction, diet wise. But when does cleaning up your act cross the line?...
View ArticleMichelle Obama's mom was wary about her daughter marrying a man of mixed race...
A new biography of Michelle Obama has revealed that her mother was initially suspicious of her future son-in-law because he was of mixed race.Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother was a...
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More Americans Hold Passports Than Ever–But That Doesn’t Mean We’re Traveling...
More Americans hold passports than ever before, but that doesn’t mean we’re traveling more often. A confluence of issues–be it American businesses looking to foreign markets, an increasingly...
View ArticleThousands mourn death of Chinese high school principal who selflessly helped...
March 15, early morning, Guangxi province Du’an Yao autonomous county seat.Thousands appeared, wiping away tears, to say farewell to the deceased Du’an Yao autonomous county high school principal Mo...
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Austin Landlords Demolish Piñata Store, Call Mexican Tenants "Roaches": "The...
The morning of February 12, 2015, Austinite Sergio Lejarazu was driving past his small business, a piñata and bouncy house store called Jumpolin at 1401 E. Cesar Chavez Street, on his way to drop his...
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Arctic sea ice hits record low: US officials
Arctic sea ice has reached its lowest winter point since satellite observations began in the late 1970s, raising concerns about faster ice melt and rising seas due to global warming, US officials said...
View ArticleEPA Targets Summer Backyard Barbecues for Pollution Emissions
The Obama Administration knows the REAL threat to American security.And don’t think for a moment that it has anything to do with ISIS or a nuclear Iran. No, the real threat is…Drumroll, please…THE...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Obama Just Totally Backed Off His Position on This...
Yesterday at an event in Cleveland, Ohio, President Obama explained that he wanted to make voting in the United States compulsory.But twenty-four hours later, and amid mounting backlash, the President...
View ArticleAustin mayor outraged by 'white people only' stickers posted on businesses
Someone is posting stickers that say “exclusively for white people” on businesses in the Texas capital of Austin. And the mayor is not amused.“This is an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in...
View ArticleTrillion Dollar Fraudsters. Proposed Republican budgets in the House and...
By now it’s a Republican Party tradition: Every year the party produces a budget that allegedly slashes deficits, but which turns out to contain a trillion-dollar “magic asterisk” — a line that...
View ArticleStudents suspended for marijuana 1.6 times more likely to use it again,...
School administrators who suspend children for marijuana violations actually increase the likelihood the kid will use the drug, a new study finds.The American Journal of Public Health published a study...
View ArticleBernie Sanders calls for 'war tax' on millionaires. “The Republicans took us...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning to offer an amendment to the GOP budget next week that would impose a new tax on millionaires to finance U.S. military operations. The “war tax” will be one of...
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