THE BONEYARD: Here's Where Air Force Birds Go To Die
Air Force boneyards appeal to the child in us. The rows of rusted out planes look like old, forgotten toys, which a child could reach out and grab and lift into the air again.The feeling is even...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits Of 2013
Sometimes, the rights people think they have sound absurd on paper.This year, the Institute for Legal Reform, a division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, identified the most ridiculous lawsuits based...
View ArticleEstimates For iPhone Sales On China Mobile Are All Over The Place
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View ArticleBEACONS: What They Are, How They Work, And Why They're Important
To state the obvious: Modern, smartphone-toting humans spend most of their time indoors. But indoor spaces often block cell signals and also make it nearly impossible to locate devices via GPS. Beacons...
View ArticleAOL Hopes To Turn A Profit On Huffington Post Next Year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's the holiday season and Arianna Huffington, the influential woman behind the popular news website that bears her name, is busy buying sweaters - some 700 of them - as gifts to...
View ArticleStepfather Shoots And Kills Teenage Daughter Mistaken For A Burglar
A 14-year-old girl apparently sneaking back into her home early Monday morning was shot and killed by her stepfather after she was mistaken for a burglar, USA Today reports.Officers responding to the...
View ArticleLaughing Too Much Could Kill You
Laughter is good for your psychological well-being and cardiovascular health, but (don't laugh) it could also kill you, report researchers in the British Medical Journal's special Christmas issue.For...
View ArticleTexas Man Asks To Have Pregnant Wife Removed From Life Support
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man is seeking to have his pregnant wife removed from life support and may try to obtain a court injunction against a state law requiring her to be kept alive because...
View ArticleA Residential Street In Baltimore Is Home To One Of The Most Spectacular...
34th Street in northwestern Baltimore is better known as Christmas Street. Every year from the day after Thanksgiving to New Year's Day, the 22 houses in the neighborhood string lights, put out a...
View Article22 Books You Must Read To Understand Finance
Winter is always a good time to stay in and catch up on a little finance reading.In case you missed them, we've compiled a list of 22 classic works that every Wall Streeter should read.These are the...
View ArticleAbout 150 US Marines Are Moving Near South Sudan For Crisis Response
A crisis response force of about 150 U.S. Marines has been repositioned from Moron, Spain to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti to help in the evacuation of Americans inside turbulent South Sudan, CNN is...
View ArticleBill Gates Funds A Smartphone Battery That Runs On Human Urine
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to improve human sanitation, particularly in areas of the world that don't have a reliable water supply. Much of that effort is about reinventing...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Sell Your Company To Google (GOOG)
Selling to Google is something like hitting a home run in the World Series — everyone wants to do it, not many actually do, and it's an undeniable emblem of success.Over at Quora, a couple people who...
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy Victoria's Secret Lingerie With Bitcoins
You can buy a house with bitcoins, a Tesla electric car, a trip into outer space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic airline, and all kinds of other things from pizza to illegal drugs.And now, you can...
View Article14 Things Every Google Employee Must Do Before They Quit (GOOG)
Even if you want to work at Google, you probably don't want to be there forever.Well, it turns out there's a bucket list for Googlers, too. A bunch of former Googlers listed everything you should do...
View ArticleFormer Apple Interns Dish About What It's Like To Work Inside The Mothership
Apple is almost as well-known for its secretive company culture as it is for its wildly popular products.So, naturally, we were pretty stoked when we found a Quora thread being used by former Apple...
View ArticleEDWARD SNOWDEN: 'The Mission Is Already Accomplished'
It's been a whirlwind year of leaks about the inner workings of the highly secretive National Security Agency, courtesy of ex-NSA contractor and now fugitive Edward Snowden.Those disclosures have lead...
View ArticleSome Reasons To Be Concerned About Abenomics
Japan's Nikkei stock index is up another 0.8% today, hitting a new 6-year high.2013 has been a banner year for Japan, as financial markets have responded quite favorably to "Abenomics" which is the...
View ArticleFilmmaker Was Given $25,000 To Make A Promo Video For ‘Walter Mitty’ But He...
Indie Filmmaker Casey Neistat was offered $25,000 of Twentieth Century Fox's advertising budget money to create a promotional video with the theme “live your dreams" for the upcoming Ben Stiller movie,...
View ArticleThe Best-Selling Books Of The Year, According To Amazon
2013 was a year of mystery and thrills, at least according to Amazon's list of best-selling adult books for the year.While contemporary romance dominated last year's list with the likes of "50 Shades...
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