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The grassroots group Million Student March says affordable education is a human right. Source: Student Protesters Nationwide Demand Free Tuition, $15 Minimum Wage, No Student Debt | Money.com

Of the identifiable viruses, the most common skin cell-invading variety was the human papilloma virus, which can cause warts and is linked to some cancers. But the vast majority of identifiable viruses were phages—viruses that infect only bacteria.Some phages can kill off specific types of bacteria, thus altering whole bacterial communities that inhabit the skin.… Read More »

The hookers who found Lamar Odom unconscious told cops they heard him snorting something inside his brothel bathroom. Source: Hookers heard Lamar Odom snorting in bathroom: affidavit – NY Daily News

The super-affluent throw tens of millions of dollars into candidate and “super PAC” coffers, seeking to influence the 2016 presidential race. From Fracking to Finance, a Torrent of Campaign Cash By ERIC LICHTBLAU and NICHOLAS CONFESSOREOCT. 10, 2015 Continue reading the main story WASH. Each dot represents a family of donors. Mont. Me. N.D. Joe… Read More »

The super-affluent throw tens of millions of dollars into candidate and “super PAC” coffers, seeking to influence the 2016 presidential race. Source: From Fracking to Finance, a Torrent of Campaign Cash – The New York Times

The model minority is losing patience Asian-Americans are the United States’ most successful minority, but they are complaining ever more vigorously about discrimination, especially in academia Oct 3rd 2015 | From the print edition MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible;… Read More »

A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it By Roger D. Hodge Photographs By Gregg Segal October 4, 2015 1.8kShare 1.2kTweet Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, the online shoe and clothing store, lives in a trailer park in downtown Las Vegas. The Airstream Park, as it’s called, occupies… Read More »

Scientists were looking for planets forming in the large disk of dust surrounding a young star when they encountered a surprise: fast-moving, wavelike arches racing across the disk like ripples in water. The team first spotted the five structures in data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile while searching for lumps… Read More »

How can we prevent future tragedies like the shooting that took place in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday? TODAY’S SPONSOR: Some doctors believe that the key to preventing this kind of violence is to literally treat it like disease. One is Gary Slutkin, an epidemiologist who spent a decade fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera in Asia… Read More »

Forget the Common Core, Finland’s youngsters are in charge of determining what happens in the classroom. “The changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do.” The difference between first grade and kindergarten… Read More »

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones. Emotional intelligence (EQ)… Read More »

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that more corporate executives should have been prosecuted for their actions leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.Bernanke told USA Today that the U.S. Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies focused on investigating or indicting financial firms.”But it would have… Read More »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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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 »