In Arizona Execution, Murderer Took 90 Minutes to Die
Arizona death row inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood III took 90 minutes to die when he was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, theLos Angeles Timesreported. Wood, found guilty of murdering his...
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How Your Chilli Addiction Could Be Helping You Live Longer
From the flicker of heat in pepperoncini to the incendiary burn of the Carolina Reaper, the chilli has conquered the world. These pungent pods are now the most widely grown spice crop of all. But, in...
View ArticleIs This the Death of the Mass Brand?
What do you get when you cross the new Amazon Fire Phone with the rise of Etsy and the explosion of WhatsApp?Big trouble for Coca-Cola. And, for that matter, misery for McDonald’s, Ford, Gillette,...
View ArticleScientists Question the Big Price Tags of Big Data
Big data is big business in the life sciences, attracting lots of money and prestige. It’s also relatively young; the move toward big data can be traced back to 1990, when researchers joined together...
View ArticleOccupy Leader Marisa Holmes Files Lawsuit Against New York City
The New York Police Department punishes people who exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech and press, including filming police, a prominent Occupy Wall Street organizer claims in a new...
View ArticleU.N. says ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation for Women and Girls in Mosul
A U.N. official says Islamist militant group ISIS has ordered all women and girls in and around the city of Mosul in northern Iraq to undergo female gential mulitlation. There was no immediate...
View ArticleMan Says Southwest Airlines Threatened to Boot Him Off Flight for Mean Tweet
Southwest Airlines’s PR department might want to have a sit-down with its flight attendants. On Sunday, Southwest added to its recent string of public relations blunders when an attendant allegedly...
View ArticleWith an Eye on 2016, Ryan Unveils Plan to Fight Poverty
Representative Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, unveiled his long-awaited anti-poverty agenda Thursday morning, proposing to dramatically reshape federal safety net programs for the poor.The plan would combine...
View ArticleHouse Committee Votes on Party Lines to Authorize Obama Lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday took a step toward authorizing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, claiming he has overstepped his executive...
View ArticleInvestigators Find No Evidence of MH17 Black Box Tampering
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Air accident investigators successfully extracted data from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's two black boxes on Thursday, as work to recover the bodies of the 298 victims and...
View ArticleNo, A Highly Educated Wife Won’t Lead to Higher Chance of Divorce
Married heterosexual couples in which the wife attained a higher level of education than her husband are no longer at an increased risk of divorce, despite previous research suggesting as much.That’s...
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'Big Data' Will Change How You Play, See the Doctor, Even Eat
In the next few years, the term “big data” will come to seem naive, like when “information superhighway” gave way to “the Internet” in 1995. We’re entering an age of personal big data, and its impact...
View ArticleExposure to Pesticides When Pregnant Linked to 3 Generations of Disease
In the post-Silent Spring 1960s, when the pesticide DDT was discovered to be toxic to humans and wildlife and to persist for years in the environment, farmers and landscapers turned enthusiastically to...
View ArticleJohn Kerry May Leave Israel if He Doesn't Think Both Sides Want Peace
CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will soon decide if Hamas and Israel are willing to agree on a Gaza ceasefire and will not stay in the region indefinitely, a senior U.S. official...
View ArticleProposed EU Sanctions May Target Russian Billionaires
Hard-hitting European Union sanctions would target state-owned Russian banks and the export of sensitive military goods to Russia, as well as some of Russia's richest people, according to proposals set...
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Celebrating Chuck Jones, Father of Wile E. Coyote
Consider the coyote. Not the wolf-like creature (canus latrans) that has roamed the wilds of North America for millions of years and is now sometimes spotted in urban environments as diverse as Chicago...
View ArticleRoger Ebert Documentary 'Life Itself' Reminds Us of a Time When Film...
Back in the 1980s, I was working in a bookstore across from a movie theater in San Francisco, arguing with a bunch of other marginally employed English lit graduates. When things got slow—when tourists...
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Gabriel García Márquez's Secret Muse Finally Reveals Herself
Even the briefest encounter has the power to transform us, Gabriel García Márquez believed. Living in Paris in the late 1950s, he spotted Ernest Hemingway on the Boule Miche and, without thinking,...
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Who’s Keeping Your Data Safe in DNA Banks?
Thinner than average, with serious, shadowed eyes, Kevin Anderson, 36, has worked as a filmmaker for over 10 years. He’s traveled throughout Europe and the Americas producing web and sports videos,...
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Big Data is About to Change How Baseball Teams Evaluate Player Defense
The ball looked like trouble the moment it came off Justin Turner’s bat. With two outs in the ninth inning of a one-run game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets in July 2013, the tying and...
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