KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything… Read More »
One evening in June 2011, at their home in a suburb of Portland, Ore., Melissa Lee and her husband sat down to a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs with their 10-month-old daughter. It was one of the first times Ruby Lee ever tasted meat. What followed, over the next few days, was a new parent’s… Read More »
A new scorecard finds that few are doing enough to address the use of drugs in their meat supply. Source: See How America’s Favorite Fast-Food Chains Stack Up When It Comes to Antibiotics | TakePart
American healthcare has received heavy criticism in recent decades due to its cost/outcome profile. The sources of poor performance in the United States are many, to be sure, and yet one source rarely gets mentioned, namely, primary care. Anyone following healthcare trends in the United States over the past decade will find few critiques of… Read More »
A new study has revealed that our chairs our killing us, suggesting that sedentary behavior and lack of physical activity are linked with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).Prolonged sitting time and reduced physical activity contribute to the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in a study of middle-aged Koreans, supporting the importance of both… Read More »
A cup of coffee in the evening may be keeping you awake for more reasons than you realise, a study suggests. Source: Coffee has secret trick to stop sleep – BBC News
Older people should boost their intake of Vitamin D with supplements to ward off dementia, a new study suggests.Researchers have found people over the age of 60 with low levels of the essential vitamin experienced mental decline up to three times faster than those with adequate readings.Vitamin D – known for its importance for bone… Read More »
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — After visiting Silicon Valley this summer for a tour of tech companies including Apple, Google and IBM, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health is coming back — this time to work.Google’s life-sciences division, now its own subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, said Tuesday that it has hired Thomas… Read More »
32.3K5682Comment625California Gov. Jerry Brown Sends Ben Carson The Climate Evidence He Couldn’t Find”Climate change is much bigger than partisan politics.”Headshot of Dhyana TaylorDhyana TaylorPolitics Intern, The Huffington PostPosted: 09/11/2015 03:36 PM EDT | Edited: 09/11/2015 05:04 PM EDTASSOCIATED PRESSRetired neurosurgeon turned Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson received a flash drive on Thursday full of the… Read More »
Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers”I do think race played a part in this.”Headshot of Christopher MathiasChristopher MathiasNational Reporter, The Huffington PostPosted: 09/11/2015 04:02 PM EDT | Edited: 09/11/2015 05:57 PM EDTPIX11NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to… Read More »
The unapologetic cop who body-slammed tennis great James Blake outside a Midtown hotel without identifying himself as an officer allegedly tried to cover up the bogus arrest.Officer James Frascatore failed to inform his superiors that he threw Blake to the sidewalk and cuffed him in the mistaken belief that he was a wanted credit card… Read More »
After three years, 30 percent of the outdoor activity group had developed nearsightedness, compared to almost 40 percent of kids in the control group, according to the results in JAMA.That means kids who spent more time outside were 23 percent less likely to develop nearsightedness, the authors write.The study doesn’t investigate why time outdoors might… Read More »
New guidelines apply to people with an elevated risk of heart disease.Doctors have long recommended taking a low-dose aspirin daily to reduce the risk of heart problems, but in the past year, those recommendations have seen reversals, with some experts saying that for people who have not had a cardiac event, a daily aspirin isn’t… Read More »
The evocative title of Timothy Snyder’s new book—Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning—is a reference to the fertile soil of Ukraine, where Adolf Hitler hoped to establish lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German race. And yet it could also be seen as an allusion to what Snyder argues is the underappreciated importance… Read More »
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration halted the sale of four R.J. Reynolds cigarette products on Wednesday, saying a scientific review found that they were potentially more harmful than the company had claimed.The agency ordered retailers who sell any of the cigarettes — Camel Crush Bold, Pall Mall Deep Set Recessed Filter, Pall Mall… Read More »
When my first baby was born, the doctor handed her to me and said, “Meet your future teenage daughter.” Then she got on the phone with her own teenage daughter, and the two of them got into a loud argument about what to eat for dinner. I still remember the daughter’s aggrieved voice, audible through… Read More »
Perhaps in an effort to entertain and likely get something off of his chest in one fell swoop, a Norwegian flight attendant informed passengers aboard a Monday flight from Paris to Stockholm that a couple had been discovered fornicating in the plane’s bathroom, the Local reported.The flight attendant, who broke the news in Swedish from… Read More »
Mixing a brew of biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, a volatile economy, world politics, a reported near-death experience and astronomical occurrences, hordes of Utahns have become convinced that calamitous events are imminent — maybe by month’s end — and are taking every precaution.They are called “preppers” and are buying up food-storage kits, flashlights, blankets and… Read More »
Whenever I first heard the word “microaggression,” sometime in the last five years, I’m sure I was unaware how big “micro” could get. The accusation of a microaggression was about to become a pervasive feature of the Internet, and particularly social media. An offense most of us didn’t even know existed, suddenly we were all… Read More »
Over the years, resveratrol, an antioxidant found in grapes, chocolate and red wine, has been touted as a possible antidote to Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes and many other conditions. Now, the first study in people with Alzheimer’s suggests that the compound, when taken in concentrated doses, may actually have benefit in slowing progression of this… Read More »
As a preventive cardiologist, Dr. Erin Michos knows the importance of exercise. As a marathon runner, she practices what she preaches.So imagine her surprise when Dr. Michos realized she is a victim of “sitting disease,” a revelation she had after donning an activity tracker.”I run an hour a day, but I was shocked to see… Read More »
Like bullies and illnesses, lawsuits can be ignored, but they won’t go away. Denise Norton learned this valuable lesson the hard way this week when she found out that a lawsuit she has tried to ignore could wind up costing Norton her North Seattle home.Her neighbor Woodrow Thompson filed a lawsuit alleging that the sound… Read More »
Attraction is an interesting beast; what one person finds attractive, another can be grossed out by completely. There is so much more to attraction than having white teeth, a great smile, a nice thick head of hair, rock hard abs, a swimmer’s body, and a symmetrical face. Once someone decides they want to get to… Read More »
You don’t need to be an expert about personal finance, know which stocks are the hottest, or come from an affluent family to strike it rich.”Like most things in life, becoming good at attracting money is no different than becoming good at anything else, be it being a sub-par golfer, losing weight, or mastering a… Read More »
Stop complaining — out loud and in your head — if you want to improve your finances.Much of what separates wealthy people from average people is mental — rich people simply think, act, and make choices differently than the rest of us.In “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,” author and self-made millionaire T. Harv Eker identifies… Read More »
Get ourtop storiesand moreDelivered to yourinbox for free!Battle of the best browsers: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. IECortana and Edge take the shine off Microsoft’s excellent OSHow to watch Apple’s iPhone 6S event today, and chat with us liveWant some Internet in your Windows 10 Start Menu? Here’s how to… Read More »
Stirling What?Now if you don’t know what a Stirling engine is, it is essentially a one piston wonder. It operates on the basic principles of cyclic compression and expansion of a gas (such as air), using temperature differential to move the piston. It is considered to be a closed cycle system which means that the… Read More »
Trouble is brewing in the orderly world of subatomic physics.New evidence from the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, suggests that certain tiny subatomic particles called leptons don’t behave as expected.So far, the data only hint at these misbehaving leptons. But if more data confirm their wayward behavior, the particles… Read More »
Aside from the truly questionable safety issue of someone riding around on a bicycle with a presumably loaded weapon (what would be point otherwise?) slung over your back, the picture implies quite a lot, doesn’t it? Here are two happy-go-lucky young white women without a care in the world, free to ride around the bucolic… Read More »
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A 24-year-old mother is in custody after her dirty, barefoot 4- and 6-year-old children were found living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave in Kansas City, Missouri.The woman was charged Friday with two counts of felony child endangerment.Jackson County detectives were serving a search warrant for an alleged… Read More »
Since Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone. She held herself up as the martyr, the good Catholic widow left to raise 11 children alone, the empress… Read More »
There was a time when knowing how to program was for the geekiest of geeks. That’s not exactly the case today. As most entrepreneurs, freelancers and marketers will tell you, learning how to program can help you succeed. Over the past year, I’ve been learning to code. It’s helped me to become a much better… Read More »
There was a moment at a recent rally when the nature of the tuition beast was suddenly, and unforgettably, revealed; when “Mandy,” an anonymous NYU junior, took the stage to tell exactly how, and why, she had no choice but to become a prostitute to meet NYU’s soaring price. Source: With No Other Choice, This… Read More »
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Burning Man founder Larry Harvey has countered criticism of the lack of racial diversity at the festival by saying that part of the reason there are so few black attendees (known as burners) is that “I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks”.In an interview with the Guardian, Harvey vowed… Read More »
Larry Harvey discusses the lack of racial diversity at Burning Man, and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the egalitarian ethos of the festival Source: Burning Man founder: ‘Black folks don’t like to camp as much as white folks’ | Culture | The Guardian
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The man accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman seen on surveillance video struggling while being grabbed off a city street has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge.Delvin Barnes, whose primary address was in Charles City County, entered the plea Thursday. His plea agreement calls for a sentence of 35 years in… Read More »
Tattoos are known conversation starters, and a 20-year-old Oregon woman’s new ink is doing just that. Source: Oregon woman’s tattoo goes viral, gets Web talking about depression | Fox News
The owner of the barbers was confused, because he didn’t have the tools to cut a woman’s hair, and his shop was advertised as a men’s barbers Source: Barber shop owner fined $750 for refusing to cut a woman’s hair
From starring in Hollywood films to writing books to snagging reality TV gigs, see which porn stars have crossed over to mainstream culture … Source: Sasha Grey – Porn stars who went mainstream – NY Daily News
Hundreds showed support for Kentucky’s first march, part of a nationwide campaign. Standing on a picnic table in the Highlands’ Willow Park, 18-year-old Nan Elpers removed her top as cameras started to roll. Stone-faced, she held her shirt to her side, taking in the scene. Beside her on the table, women held #FreetheNipple posters. In… Read More »
EVERY summer for many years now, my family has kept to our ritual. All 20 of us — my siblings, my dad, our better halves, my nieces and nephews — find a beach house big enough to fit the whole unruly clan. We journey to it from our different states and time zones. We tensely… Read More »
If you need validation that being at work before 10 a.m. feels like “torture,” here it is.Early schedules go against the body’s natural “clock” and can impact learning and health, Paul Kelly, an honorary clinical research fellow at Oxford University’s Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute said, BBC reported.Kelly addressed a crowd at the British Science… Read More »
Three-time Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton has written a book about her post-athletics foray into the world of high-priced escorts.In “Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness,” Hamilton chronicles her struggles with undiagnosed bipolar disorder that began in earnest after the 2000 Summer Games and eventually drove her into thrill-seeking behavior.See the most-read stories… Read More »
(Multix)Meet the Multix. It looks like an auto rickshaw that has been to the gym. But this mini-pickup truck is more than that.Targeted at small businessmen, the Multix can also double-up as a generator to light up homes, power tools or even run a DJ console.A joint venture between U.S.-based Polaris Industries and India’s Eicher… Read More »
This Lincoln shut down the Street Car Takeover in H-Town! Source: 1964 Continental Airs It Out
The Duke Engines 5-cylinder Axial engine, a 1,000cc beast tiny in size, which features little to no vibration, no valves, fewer moving parts and makes 125 hp. We hope to see it in a motorcycle soon, but in the mean time we spoke with the Chief Technology Officer at Duke Engines, Dr. Mike Fry, to… Read More »
Three more motorists have been confirmed killed by defective General Motors ignition switches, bringing the death toll to 80. Source: General Motors’ death toll rises to 80 in ignition-switch crisis
Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to deport all 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally, along with their U.S.-born children, sounds far-fetched. But something similar happened before.During the 1930s and into the 1940s, up to 2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported or expelled from cities and towns across the U.S. and shipped to… Read More »
The U.S. Knowingly ships 2000 American horses per week to Mexico for slaughter for human consumption. These horses regularly have received POWERFUL Equine Drugs with FDA labels stating NOT FOR FOOD ANIMALS. Prevention? This is a sick joke Source: Our Food Safety System Needs a Fully Funded FSMA | Food Safety News