Man awarded $59K for being wrongly diagnosed as near death
It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: Being diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only months to live. Of course, there's always the extremely rare chance it was all a mistake. Luckily for a...
View ArticleUS Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11
80% of JSOC missions prior to 2000 remain classified.After Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration began waging a global war on terrorism both openly and on the "dark side."The full scale of the shadow...
View ArticleChinese citizens, frustrated by censorship in their own country, are using...
In the last week, at least a dozen petitions that appear to be penned by Chinese citizens have been submitted to the White House's "We the People" petition site. Like the petitions that Americans have...
View Article"In the Midst of a Warzone there’s an Afghani Skateboarding School for Girls"
There’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female.In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty...
View ArticleWho founded Mother’s Day?
Mother’s Day was founded in 1907 by a West Virginia woman as a tribute to her own mother. In her 40s, Anna Marie Jarvis, a college graduate, quit her job and incorporated herself as the Mother’s Day...
View ArticleNY man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand
At last, it is written. Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstate New York church."Every single...
View ArticleThe ecosystem inside you
Your body harbors trillions of bacteria that have profound effects on your health, your weight, and even your moodDon't bacteria make people sick?Many of them do, and antibiotics that kill them have...
View ArticleFarmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community in Wisconsin
Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches.Raw milk drinkers are outraged that Wisconsin DATCP is bringing criminal charges against a farmer who serves a...
View ArticleArizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing...
Raymond Michael was bored this week, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the state capitol with his iPhone.The 33-year-old man ended...
View ArticleAustralia has a new program that offers millionaires residency in return for...
Australia said that so far it has attracted 170 applicants to a new program to develop foreign investment by offering overseas millionaires the right of residency in return for a portion of their...
View ArticleThe U.S. has Spent $8 Trillion Protecting the Straits of Hormuz
A group of nine student journalists from the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative have created a website as part of a project to report on the US energy security situation. An incredibly...
View ArticleWhat 90 Percent Of Americans Agree On?
Can we agree on this? Americans still think alike much of the time even if our politicians don’t.What can 9 out of 10 Americans agree on? Survey says: not much.That’s partly because the big polls such...
View ArticlePrincipal suspends teen for Instagramming her mug shot
An enterprising young man named Keandre Varner thought he'd discover whether his high school principal was, or ever had been, a criminal.What joy, perhaps, for him to discover that there existed a...
View ArticleThe amazing health benefits of turmeric
Turmeric, an orange-colored spice imported from India, is part the ginger family and has been a staple in Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian cooking for thousands of years. In addition, ayurvedic and...
View Article7 Hours Sleep Just Right
THE GIST- Seven hours appears to be the magic number for sleep.- The risk of cardiovascular disease increases for those who sleep more or less than seven hours a night.- The most at-risk group was...
View Article6 Perks Of Looking On The Bright Side
Do you see the proverbial glass half empty or glass half full? If you chose the latter, you're not alone -- most people around the world are optimistic about the future, according to a new study.The...
View Article10 Wonderful Health Benefits of Wild Rice
Most of us tend to avoid white rice, when we are trying to lose weight and stay fit. For the sake of cutting down on intake of calories and carbohydrates, rice-lovers need not completely eliminate this...
View ArticleJail Terms For Unlocking Cellphones Shows The True Black Heart Of The...
The discussion around people’s banished right to unlock their own cellphones has been framed as an unexpected and unanticipated effect of the copyright monopoly. To the contrary, it shows the heart of...
View ArticleApple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for...
Apple receives so many police demands to decrypt seized iPhones that it has created a "waiting list" to handle the deluge of requests, CNET has learned.Court documents show that federal agents were so...
View ArticleSwaziland makes it illegal for a witch to fly a broomstick above 150m
Witches flying broomsticks in Swaziland above 150 metres will be subject to arrest and a hefty fine of R500 000, civil aviation authorities said, according to a report.Witches’ broomsticks are...
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