Why You Should Buy A Home In A Good School District
Even if you don’t have or never plan to have school-age children, the quality of nearby schools can have an impact on how much you pay, and how much you sell a home for later. Here’s what you need to...
View ArticleGuards May Be Responsible For Half Of Prison Sexual Assaults
A new Justice Department study shows that allegations of sex abuse in the nation's prisons and jails are increasing — with correctional officers responsible for half of it — but prosecution is still...
View ArticleA Kazakh Mathematician Claims To Have Solved An Enormously Important Equation
A huge mathematical breakthrough might have just been made, but a language barrier is slowing things down.New Scientist reports that Kazakh mathematician Mukhtarbay Otelbayev may have solved an...
View ArticleMost Americans Aren't Getting Or Expecting A Raise
Though the economy is much improved from the lows of the recession, it doesn't seem that way to the long-term unemployed and people who aren't moving forward in their jobs. The majority of Americans...
View ArticleInside The World Of Anti-Abortion Activists Who Were Conceived In Rape And...
On Wednesday, thousands of anti-abortion activists gathered in Washington, D.C. to march and pray for an end to abortion. While the 41-year-old March for Life has focused solely on limiting abortion...
View ArticleHere's Why Economic Mobility Is Stuck In Neutral
The big news in the policy world on Thursday was the release of a new paper by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and four other authors on economic mobility.The study found that, contrary to popular belief,...
View ArticleLiberal Arts Degrees Actually Pay Off In The Long Run
If you were a liberal arts major, you were probably reminded from the first day of freshman year that your degree would mean a paltry paycheck … at least compared with that of your engineering friends....
View ArticleConservative Commentator Dinesh D'Souza Indicted On Campaign Finance Fraud...
Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative commentator, best-selling author, and filmmaker, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating federal campaign finance laws.The U.S. Attorney's Office in the...
View ArticleThe Three Mayors Making Bombshell Allegations Against Chris Christie Have...
At first, as scandals involving their cities started to unfold this month, Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) and Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer (D) couldn't talk enough.When new documents revealed the...
View ArticleLawyer's Religious Memo Reveals Why He Quit To Fight Gay Marriage Full-Time
The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has posted an exit memo by a BigLaw attorney who left his firm so he could fight gay marriage full-time in Utah.The HRC leaked the exit memo the week...
View ArticleAmerica's Manufacturers Should Get Ready To Eat China's Lunch
Veteran market strategist Rich Bernstein recently published his list of three secular investment themes.Among them: the American Industrial Renaissance."Small and mid-cap US-focused industrial and...
View ArticleAt Least 20 Whales Found Dead Off Florida's Coast
MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 20 pilot whales were found dead on Thursday off Florida's southwest coast, officials said.The whales were among a group of 23 that swam inland over the weekend near Naples,...
View ArticlePrinceton Study Saying Facebook Is Doomed Gets Destroyed In Hilarious Fashion...
Researchers at Princeton made news this week by proclaiming the impending doom of Facebook. They concluded that Facebook will lose 80% of its peak users between 2015- 2017. Naturally this research...
View ArticleFour Ways Entrepreneurs Can Prepare For The Best Year Ever
Want this year to be your best one ever? Here are four actions you can start today to help make that happen:1. Create a business budgetI’m sure you already know the importance of having a personal...
View Article"With risk assets quaking and 10s below
"With risk assets quaking and 10s below 2.80%, we are increasingly confident in our short-term target of 2.60%. Despite the fact that daily momentum remains deeply overbought, weekly momentum suggests...
View ArticlePeople Actually Smell Different When They Are Sick
Have you ever felt like you can smell someone getting sick? A new study suggests that sickness does actually have a unique odor — that of the overactive immune system. And other humans can actually...
View ArticleHow Picky Female Mice Can Show Us How To Fight Off Infections
Choosing mates based on how attractive they are to you is not as shallow as it sounds.Female mice seem to be able to choose the males they will make better babies with — babies with stronger immune...
View ArticleThe Introduction Of The Apple Macintosh In 1984 Changed My Life
For me, 1984 was the year of Van Halen’s wonderful [sic] album, The Right Stuff, and my second semester of college. It would also prove to be a time of enlightenment for me and computing. On this 30th...
View Article8 Predictions For China's Super-Rich In 2014
With the global elite gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum, a groundbreaking new report released yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists detailing the massive...
View ArticleThe Highest-Paid Players In The NBA On And Off The Court
The NBA has gone to great lengths in recent negotiations with the players' union to curb the growth of player salaries.One place where the top players are making more than ever is off the court through...
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