irbursts/impacts by a fragmented comet or asteroid have been proposed at the Younger Dryas onset (12.80 ± 0.15 ka) based on identification of an assemblage of impact-related proxies, including microspherules, nanodiamonds, and iridium. Distributed ac
I've always wondered why we tend to glorify pirates and treasure hunters: the Indiana Joneses, the Jack Sparrows, the Long John Silvers. I think it's because most people, while it may not be reflected in their daily lives, are adventurers at heart.
Andrea Garcia (Local Arizona Activist and part of the r3VOLution) talks about teaching 8th graders about GMO's, their comments and questions after seeing GMO A Go Go
Only 11 percent of 1,000 likely voters polled believe the “president’s new policy” will make it less likely that the NSA will monitor the private phone calls of ordinary Americans. 30 percent actually believe the government is now more likely to spy
CAIRO – Egypt’s capital descended into a chaotic bloodbath Wednesday after security forces moved in on protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, sparking deadly violence.
“There is a lot of ruin in a nation,” wrote Adam Smith. His point was that it takes a long time for nations to fall, even when they’re dead on their feet. And he was certainly right.
• Tom Watkins, a retired Navy officer, Times Argus
If a corporation wants to have an effect on a congressional election, it can spend money on any candidate, in any state it wants. Congressmen average 79 percent of their fundraising from sources outside their own districts. This gives corporations th
Along with her reporting partner, Glenn Greenwald, a former lawyer and a columnist for The Guardian, Poitras flew to Hong Kong and met the N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, who gave them thousands of classified documents, setting off a major contr
Even Bloomberg.com gives a plug to anarcho-Detroit in this story on urban farming entrepreneurs. Detroit urban farmer Greg Willerer is right when he notes the city’s lack of government and the capability of people in Detroit’s anarcho-communities to
Feed brokers are exempt from organic certification. Therefore, there is no guarantee that organic feed is not commingled with non-organic feed or contaminated.
Now that enough college age Americans have been stuffed with over a trillion dollars in student debt only to get a job a McDonalds and live with their parents, folks in New York City have come up with a brilliant new concept to ensure the production
In the course of reporting his profile of Laura Poitras, Peter Maass conducted an encrypted question-and-answer session, for which Poitras served as intermediary, with Edward J. Snowden. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.
Alfredo Moser's invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity - using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with wate
Jens Stoltenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway became a taxi driver for a day this June in an effort to find out what the people of Norway are really thinking. The video of his escapades was posted yesterday on the website of Verdens Gang, a Norwegi
Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm’s way and out