HK’s new leader unveils sweeteners to pacify angry public
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's embattled new leader, Leung Chun-ying, announced a series of welfare measures on Monday and pleaded for time to deal with scandals that have rocked the city, including...
View ArticleMichigan governor finalizing plan to raze Detroit empty homes
(Reuters) – As the next step in an April deal between financially strapped Detroit and the state of Michigan, Governor … Read More
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright Mother Lode In Oak Park, Illinios
OAK PARK, Ill. — Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, but Frank Lloyd Wright lives here.Wright died in 1959, two years before Hemingway, but the famous architect's legacy is so strong in this village...
View ArticleKosovo group claims hack of National Weather Service
The US National Weather Service computer network was hacked this week, with a group from Kosovo claiming credit and posting sensitive data, security experts said Friday. Data released by the Kosovo...
View ArticleKosovo claims hack of National Weather Service
The US National Weather Service computer network was hacked this week, with a group from Kosovo claiming credit and posting sensitive data, security experts said Friday. Data released by the Kosovo...
View ArticleWhat’s the Matter with Anarchists?
There always ;was a tension at the heart of the Occupy movement, a rupture-in-waiting between the anarchists and the social democrats. The fact that Occupy is pretty much over hasn't changed that;...
View Article“Hallucinations”: Seeing what isn’t there
Oliver Sacks may be the father of the popular neurological best-seller, but he's distinctly different from the current crop of authors, be they as substantive as Daniel Kahneman ("Thinking Fast and...
View ArticleFloating Units Offer Emergency City Space for Slums
A project aiming to provide flexible floating city spaces in wet slums has won the 2012 Architecture & Sea Level Rise award. The floating urban structures are called City Apps and can plug gaps in...
View ArticleJohn Sullivan: Combating Corruption in Transition Countries
It is important to recognize that corruption is not just a moral problem: it is an institutional problem, a matter of the underlying incentive structures that determine why things work the way they do....
View ArticleFilip Dujardin’s ‘(dis)location’ Exhibit Showcases Bizarre Architectural...
Filip Dujardin is an architectural photographer with a flair for impossible structures. Using digital collage techniques, the artist creates renderings for absurd structures, from precariously stacked...
View ArticleDarron T. Smith, Ph.D.: Status Competition and the Threat of Black Male...
More gun control is merely a Band-Aid to our social ills and does not address the underlying causes of oppressive and institutional structures that are tightly linked to American inequality as...
View ArticleBrickbat: Silencing Guns
A teacher at Denton High School in Texas asked students to write a report demonstrating different sentence structures. They could write about anything they wanted, said Dewey Christian. But when...
View ArticleSilencing Guns
A teacher at Denton High School in Texas asked students to write a report demonstrating different sentence structures. They could write about anything they wanted, said Dewey Christian. But when...
View ArticleLatin America on brink of tough post-Chavez geopolitical battle
RT: Hugo Chavez was a huge figure in South Americanpolitics - how will his death impact the continent?Adrian Salbuchi: From a continental point of view ofSouth America and the whole of Latin America,...
View Article160 Reasons to Stock Coconut Oil in Your Larder
Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available and completely natural. I use it for EVERYTHING. Literally. I buy it in 5 gallon increments and keep it all over my...
View ArticleUnearthing ET: UK researchers claim they’ve found alien life in Sri Lankan...
The UK researchers say that tiny algae-like fossils found inmeteorite fragments that landed in Sri Lanka last year can’t haveoriginated on our planet, according to the study published in the Journal of...
View ArticleMiraculous survivals as death toll in Mumbai building collapse climbs to over...
The girl, whose identity could not be verified, was immediately taken to hospital and is said to be doing well."We have named her Gudiya [doll] because she looks like a doll,” one of the hospital...
View ArticleMali gold: Splendors for foreign firms, misery for Malian miners
Mali, Africa's third-largest gold producer, has just announced it expects to double annual gold output over the next five years to 100 tons. Malian officials claim the gold-abundant south has been...
View ArticleJobs or rallies: Youth unemployment major worry for EU summit
The 5.6 million unemployed young people in Europe have been referred to as the ‘lost generation’. While those aged between 18 and 25 have no jobs, the situation is even worse in Greece and Spain,...
View ArticleWhy the US, UK, EU & Israel hate Syria
Identifying herself only as “Syrian, Patriot, anti-Neocon, anti-NWO, anti-Zionist”, early last year she set up her own YouTube Channel (YouTube/User/SyrianGirlpartisan). In a short (nine-minute) video...
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