A new study shows that the happiness of a first-time parent falls after the baby arrives. That may be why so many don’t end up having a second. Source: It turns out parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner – The Washington Post
Scientists keep discovering more information about how vitamin D, which is the only one the body produces by exposing the skin to sunlight, can affect our health. Source: Vitamin D helps boost testosterone levels in men
What do you get when you cross half an arachnid and an electric car? It’s called the SwinCar, and it is French, fully electric, and completely awesome. Source: Could the SwinCar Revolutionize Electric Off-Roading? – JK-Forum
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 »
Get ourtop storiesand moreDelivered to yourinbox for free!Battle of the best browsers: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. IECortana and Edge take the shine off Microsoft’s excellent OSHow to watch Apple’s iPhone 6S event today, and chat with us liveWant some Internet in your Windows 10 Start Menu? Here’s how to… Read More »
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 »
Trouble is brewing in the orderly world of subatomic physics.New evidence from the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, suggests that certain tiny subatomic particles called leptons don’t behave as expected.So far, the data only hint at these misbehaving leptons. But if more data confirm their wayward behavior, the particles… Read More »
Aside from the truly questionable safety issue of someone riding around on a bicycle with a presumably loaded weapon (what would be point otherwise?) slung over your back, the picture implies quite a lot, doesn’t it? Here are two happy-go-lucky young white women without a care in the world, free to ride around the bucolic… Read More »
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A 24-year-old mother is in custody after her dirty, barefoot 4- and 6-year-old children were found living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave in Kansas City, Missouri.The woman was charged Friday with two counts of felony child endangerment.Jackson County detectives were serving a search warrant for an alleged… Read More »
There was a time when knowing how to program was for the geekiest of geeks. That’s not exactly the case today. As most entrepreneurs, freelancers and marketers will tell you, learning how to program can help you succeed. Over the past year, I’ve been learning to code. It’s helped me to become a much better… Read More »
Kit Contains: 1 Full Size STARTINGLINE HVLP Gravity Feed Paint Spray Gun with a 1.3mm (Finish Coat) Fluid Tip and a 600cc (20 oz.) Metal Cup. This 1.3mm set-up is ideal for the Atomization of Basecoats, Clear Coats, and other Light Viscosity Coatings. Spray Gun Specifications: 30 PSI inlet pressure delivers 10 PSI air cap… Read More »
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey has countered criticism of the lack of racial diversity at the festival by saying that part of the reason there are so few black attendees (known as burners) is that “I don’t think black folks like to camp as much as white folks”.In an interview with the Guardian, Harvey vowed… Read More »
Larry Harvey discusses the lack of racial diversity at Burning Man, and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the egalitarian ethos of the festival Source: Burning Man founder: ‘Black folks don’t like to camp as much as white folks’ | Culture | The Guardian
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The man accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman seen on surveillance video struggling while being grabbed off a city street has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge.Delvin Barnes, whose primary address was in Charles City County, entered the plea Thursday. His plea agreement calls for a sentence of 35 years in… Read More »
Tattoos are known conversation starters, and a 20-year-old Oregon woman’s new ink is doing just that. Source: Oregon woman’s tattoo goes viral, gets Web talking about depression | Fox News
From starring in Hollywood films to writing books to snagging reality TV gigs, see which porn stars have crossed over to mainstream culture … Source: Sasha Grey – Porn stars who went mainstream – NY Daily News
(Multix)Meet the Multix. It looks like an auto rickshaw that has been to the gym. But this mini-pickup truck is more than that.Targeted at small businessmen, the Multix can also double-up as a generator to light up homes, power tools or even run a DJ console.A joint venture between U.S.-based Polaris Industries and India’s Eicher… Read More »
This Lincoln shut down the Street Car Takeover in H-Town! Source: 1964 Continental Airs It Out
The Duke Engines 5-cylinder Axial engine, a 1,000cc beast tiny in size, which features little to no vibration, no valves, fewer moving parts and makes 125 hp. We hope to see it in a motorcycle soon, but in the mean time we spoke with the Chief Technology Officer at Duke Engines, Dr. Mike Fry, to… Read More »
Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to deport all 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally, along with their U.S.-born children, sounds far-fetched. But something similar happened before.During the 1930s and into the 1940s, up to 2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported or expelled from cities and towns across the U.S. and shipped to… Read More »
The U.S. Knowingly ships 2000 American horses per week to Mexico for slaughter for human consumption. These horses regularly have received POWERFUL Equine Drugs with FDA labels stating NOT FOR FOOD ANIMALS. Prevention? This is a sick joke Source: Our Food Safety System Needs a Fully Funded FSMA | Food Safety News
With new clients, there are two high-impact symptoms that I prioritize and address rapidly and aggressively: constipation and insomnia (or poor-quality sleep). To become wildly satisfied clients, they need to see major results – and fast. Helping your clients to get quick relief increases their confidence in you as a practitioner and also their faith… Read More »
MSG Source: Cofactors and Neurochemistry: The Missing Link for a Healthy Mind and Body | Living Well Today
After getting extensive biochemical data on more than 3,000 persons diagnosed with clinical depression, we found that 95% of them fit neatly into one of 5 separate biochemical classifications. Depression is not a single condition, but an umbrella term covering several completely different conditions. Anyway, we believe we have identified the 5 primary phenotypes….. each… Read More »