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70 Years After The Siege Of Leningrad, Russia Looks Back With Horror
Non-Russians may not appreciate the significance of the Siege of Leningrad, which ended 70 years ago today, but Michael McFaul, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, hopes to change that."As an ambassador and as...
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Rutgers Student Newspaper Apologizes For 'Distasteful' Opinion Column About...
Rutgers University student newspaper The Daily Targum has retracted and apologized for publishing an offensive opinion column about the school's Hillel — a campus center for Jewish student life.The...
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What Sand Grains Look Like Through A Microscope
Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope.Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope more than...
View ArticleNassim Taleb Explains Why We Actually Benefit From Volatility
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," spoke about volatility and disorder at the DLD conference. Here is an excerpt from his presentation where he...
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Here Are The States That Support Nearly Doubling The Minimum Wage
The recent debate over raising the minimum wage has been contentious, with revelations about fast food worker's struggles to survive on their wages striking a chord with many Americans. One of the...
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Army General Scolded For Email Joking About Masturbating To 'Smoking Hot'...
Army Brigadier General Martin P. Schweitzer received a "memoranda of concern" following a lurid set of emails between him and another general, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post....
View ArticleFacebook Is Going After B2B Marketing Spending
Social Insider is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.FACEBOOK GOES...
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This Is The Hedge In San Francisco That Separates The 1% From The 'Nazis'
Wealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins thinks that people who criticize the rich are acting like the Nazis did toward the Jews in World World II:Writing from the epicenter of progressive...
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Edward Snowden Fails 3 Elementary Tests For Justifying Whistleblowing
Economist senior editor Edward Lucas makes a strong argument against calling Edward Snowden a whistleblower in his new ebook, "The Snowden Operation."As Lucas points out, much of what Snowden disclosed...
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New York Observer Says The NYT 'Bestseller' List Wildly Skews Sales Of New...
Gabriel Sherman's new book about Fox News chief Roger Ailes — "The Loudest Voice in the Room"— built up a huge buzz in the media world leading up to its release.So far, the book's sales haven't...
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Using Hot Water To Wash Your Hands Is 'Unnecessary And Wasteful'
We’ve said for a decade hot water is not a factor in reducing microbial loads during handwashing. Friend of the blog Don Schaffner at Rutgers agrees.And now, so do researchers at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt...
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How To Make Guacamole Without A Recipe
Here at Food52, we love recipes -- but do we always use them? Of course not. Because once you realize you don't always need a recipe, you'll make your favorite dishes a lot more oftenToday: Don't...
View ArticleDid Woody Allen Molest His Adopted Daughter 22 Years Ago?
For more than 20 years, any and every new Woody Allen movie has provided occasion for handwringing over the director’s personal life: his ghastly 1992 split from Mia Farrow; his affair with Farrow’s...
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APPLE CEO: New Product Categories Are Coming This Year
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on today's earnings call that the company is still on track to release a new product category this year.Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster asked Cook if Apple still planned to...
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The For-Profit Prison Boom In One Worrying Infographic
America has a prison problem: Over two million people in this country live behind bars, the highest number in the world.Some blame the failed "War on Drugs," while others worry about bad incentives,...
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7-Eleven Is Taking Over Manhattan
Suburban convenience store 7-Eleven is pushing hard to gain acceptance in Manhattan as the company aggressively expands.New Yorkers have been less than welcoming to the chain, which began elbowing its...
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New Payments Startups Face An Uphill Battle To Disrupt The Credit Card...
The credit card industry processes a massive volume of transactions — about $4 trillion this year in the U.S., according to BI Intelligence estimates. With so much money in play, it's no wonder that a...
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Chipotle Is Launching A Satirical Series About The Dark Side Of 'Big...
Chipotle is launching a satirical TV series on the dark side of industrial agriculture in the U.S.The four-part series, called "Farmed and Dangerous," will air on Hulu and Hulu Plus beginning Feb....
View ArticleSouth Korean Girl Gets Rich Just From Eating In Front Of A Webcam
As a recent college grad who gets ethered by student loans every single month and works on these Internet streets solely to scrounge up enough change to drink myself through the weekend, this story...
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NYC Schools Embrace 'Flipped Learning,' Where Students Learn At Home And Do...
HUDSON SQUARE — When Elinor Krichmar misses something during her algebra lesson, she can just hit “rewind” and play it again.Many of the ninth-grader's math lessons are 5- to 10-minute videos she...
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