I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me by Edward Schlosser on June 3, 2015 I’m a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. I am… Read More »
ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss. While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in… Read More »
You can’t build a strong professional network if you don’t open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career. Sharing the right aspects of yourself in the right ways is an art form. Disclosures that feel like relationship builders in the… Read More »
a large manager of prescription-drug benefits for U.S. employers and insurers, is seeking deals with pharmaceutical companies that would set pricing for some cancer drugs based on how well they work. The effort is part of a growing push for so-called pay-for-performance deals amid complaints about the rising price of medications, some of which cost… Read More »
Flood Stories from Around the World by Mark Isaak. Copyright © 1996-2002 [Last Revision: September 2, 2002] Mirrored from http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/floods.htm Introduction he stories below are flood stories from the world’s folklore. I have included stories here if (1) they are stories; (2) they are folklore, not historical accounts… Read More »
Summer 2015 Forecast: Much of U.S. Could See Below-Average Temperatures – weather.com.
Prostitute pleads guilty in overdose death of Google exec | New York Post. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A California prostitute charged with killing a Google executive with an overdose of heroin aboard his yacht pleaded guilty Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs. A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge sentenced defendant Alix Tichelman… Read More »
Many women have their go-to oral sex moves that they know will work every. Single. Time. But why keep all of that great intel to themselves? We asked around to get real women’s best tips for amazing oral. The goal: To make it great for you and pretty damn mind-blowing for him. “Just because… Read More »
Agatha Tan added 7 new photos. October 6, 2014 · So I wrote an open letter to my principal about last week’s sex ed: Dear Dr. Hon, I am Agatha, a C1 student, and my purpose in writing this open letter to you today is to express my sincere concerns about the MSF “It’s Uncomplicated”… Read More »
There’s something undeniably intoxicating about giving your guy the kind of pleasure that will have him moaning to the rafters. Still, blow jobs always seem to take infinitely longer than initially anticipated; and unlike regular jobs, blow jobs don’t come with Internet access or free coffee to help you while away the minutes. That doesn’t… Read More »
When your parents told you about the birds and the bees, we bet they didn’t tell you that a penis up your poop chute could get you preggers. Well, luckily, that’s because about 999,999 times in a million, it can’t. When Brian Steixner, M.D., a urologist with the Jersey Urology Group in Atlantic City, was… Read More »
The city’s narcotics cops are being told to stop arresting suspects over the age of 40 — a major strategy shift designed to target younger dealers, who are more likely to carry guns and use them, The Post has learned. Top brass issued a directive that makes it all but impossible for cops to… Read More »
In a commentary in Nature timed with the publication of this study, policy analysts call for urgent regulation of this new technology. They highlight the many benefits of this work, but they also point out that “individuals with access to the yeast strain and basic skills in fermentation would be able to grow the yeast… Read More »
Autism symptoms dramatically improved after treatment with Vitamin D.
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Count Bill Gross among the world’s biggest philanthropists. The bond investor has already given away as much as $700 million and eventually will donate his remaining $2 billion fortune, a figure that’s “staggering, even to me,” Gross said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “I define success differently now than five or ten years ago,”… Read More »
The progress achieved each year is monumental, and the rate at which we are progressing is exponential. Industries are being disrupted, conventions are being proven wrong, and the world at large is completely transforming right before our eyes. Here are five tech industries that are exploding with startups, venture capital and innovation: 1. Education The… Read More »
An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. via Americans Living Abroad Set Record for Giving Up Citizenship – Bloomberg Business.
Cuba Has a Lung Cancer Vaccine—And America Wants It | WIRED.
(NaturalNews) According to the document you’re about to see, for the last eight years, government scientists have actively engineered viral vaccines designed to alter thoughts and beliefs by infecting the brain and suppressing genetic expression of neurological cells. Dispersal of these vaccines has been tested via high-altitude aerosolized sprays, highway vehicles, the water supply and… Read More »
Skiplagged founder Aktarer Zaman discusses United Airlines’ efforts to stop the website that helps people find “hidden city” ticket pairs. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West via Why Airlines Are Against ‘Hidden Cities’ – Bloomberg Business.
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
Russia throws down the gauntlet: energy supply to Europe cut off; petrodollar abandoned as currency war escalates – NaturalNews.com.
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In 1961, a DuPont toxicologist warned colleagues that exposure to their company’s increasingly popular Teflon chemicals enlarged the livers of rats and rabbits. Studies over the following decades found no safe level of exposure in animals and determined that humans, too, got sick when exposed to the chemicals — which were also seen to build… Read More »
New research suggests sugary foods such as cake and chocolate may be the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine wrote that high blood sugar levels could have “harm effects on brain function and exacerbate neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease”. • Anyone for… Read More »
Pre-marital sex is more tolerated among youth than it’s ever been but millennials are having less sex than their baby-boomer parents did, a study has revealed. Better sexual education may play a role, according to the research. A survey of 33,000 people published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 58 per cent of… Read More »
he Neurology Advisor take: It is not uncommon for people with depression or bipolar disorder to complain that their thinking has gotten less sharp. And new research, using brain scans, indicates that activity in the part of the brain involved in executive functioning, such as working memory, problem solving, and reasoning, is indeed impacted in… Read More »
HealthDay News — Fecal transplantation appears to be a safe and effective way to combat Clostridium difficile infection, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The risk for a first reoccurrence is 10% to 20%, but the rate increases to 40% to 60% after one recurrence, according to an accompanying editorial written… Read More »
OLATHE, Kan. – A woman convicted of murdering her husband in their Kansas home walked free Wednesday after serving just 9 years for the crime, reports CBS affiliate KCTV. In 1982, Melinda Raisch’s husband, 25-year-old David Harmon, was bludgeoned to death in their bedroom. At the time, Raisch told police two intruders knocked her out… Read More »
There are few things at work as stressful as feeling that you can’t communicate with someone who has an impact on how well you do your job and on the quality of your experience at work. How many times have you thought carefully about something you want to communicate to your boss, a colleague, or… Read More »
comments bob48219 April 27, 2015 5:5PM Was sitting with my dad one rainy day and saying how bored I was. He asked me to put together an old rosary that belonged to his mother. It was all in pieces in his dresser drawer. I searched for all the loose beads and when I could find… Read More »
We spend our lives reaching out to the people we love. But could it be that some people can make contact — even after they’re gone? Here’s Tracy Smith: In a way, this story is like almost the view from across the Golden Gate: intriguing, even beautiful, but sometimes hard to see through all the… Read More »
A major advance in understanding the cellular basis of aging was reported Thursday in a study by a team led by Salk Institute and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers. Researchers found what appears to be the molecular driver of a disease called Werner syndrome, that mimics accelerated aging. The same mechanism is at work in… Read More »
Could that smoke break actually be healthy? How to improve your health in two minutes – CBS News.
Based on the case, officials are now telling male Ebola survivors to avoid unprotected sex indefinitely. via 5 Months After Infection, Man Spreads Ebola Via Sex: Report – ABC News.
Bad news for anyone hoping to travel to Mars: New research in rodents suggests that exposure to cosmic rays may impair the brain functioning of astronauts on missions to the red planet. via Cosmic rays could harm crew on Mars mission – CBS News.
Now how isWayne County Assistant Prosecutor Teana Walsh had posted comments about this week’s unrest in Baltimore, which was sparked by the death of Freddie Gray after he was fatally injured in police custody, according to a screenshot of her page posted on MyFox Detroit.com. She described “large swarms of people throwing bricks etc at… Read More »
“Simple. Shoot em. Period. End of discussion,” Walsh posted. via Detroit prosecutor resigns after saying Baltimore rioters should be shot | Reuters.
ROSWELL*I-BEAM*HIEROGLYPHS UFO ALIEN HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING? the Wanderling ***** “When I was around ten years old, my Uncle, after a quick heads up from his friend the famed meteorite hunter Dr. Lincoln La Paz, took me with him to the suspected crash site at Roswell, walking much of the then nearly… Read More »
Frankly, I’ve never mentioned Bickel’s UFO detector on these pages because I thought this was one of those things best left unsaid. Living in the wilderness with all those cats caused many people to judge the old miner as a few gold flakes short of an ounce, and I didn’t want to add to that… Read More »
UFO OVER L.A.: THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES OR why no one is allowed on San Clemente Island! IN THE 1942 BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES A GIANT AERIAL OBJECT OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN APPEARS IN THE NIGHT SKY WHERE DID IT COME FROM? THE SO-CALLED BATTLE OF L.A.—800 FOOT ZEPPELIN-SIZE… Read More »
Men like happy, positive women. So don’t complain about the lack of service at a restaurant or how long you had to wait in a line. Show your upbeat personality. Dont: Paint your face like a clown, STINK of perfume, have floozy hair, yellow teeth or bad breath, be an alcoholic, have a hairy body,… Read More »
A former high class call girl is suing an ex-boyfriend after he said she was not a prostitute. Dr Brooke Magnanti — who achieved fame as blogger “Belle de Jour,” writing about her experiences as a $500 an hour call girl — is taking the legal action in Scotland, reports the Independent. It may be… Read More »
FATAL heroin overdoses in America have almost tripled in three years. More than 8,250 people a year now die from heroin. At the same time, roughly double that number are dying from prescription opioid painkillers, which are molecularly similar. Heroin has become the fallback dope when an addict can’t afford, or find, pills. Total overdose… Read More »
How this Brit wooed 2 gorgeous women into his ‘throuple’ – NY Daily News.
“The family has requested that members of the media and the public respect its privacy during this extremely difficult time,” a family spokesman said in the statement. Getty had a restraining order against his former flame, and the unidentified woman had been placed under psychiatric care in the past after… Read More »
“These findings suggest that lifestyle practices that reduce bacterial dispersal — specifically, sanitation and drinking water treatment — might be an important cause of microbiome alterations,” the University of Alberta’s Jens Walter, senior author of the Papua New Guinea study, said in a news release. Sanitation practices are generally a good thing, but scientists say… Read More »
he assortments of bacteria that live within the intestines of isolated tribes are far more diverse than the microbes found in the guts of Americans — and scientists say such findings have implications for modern-day maladies ranging from obesity to antibiotic resistance. The latest studies into the varying genetic signature of microbes found in the… Read More »