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Big Data May Not Be All It’s Cut Out to Be
The National Ecological Observatory Network, funded by Congress for $434 million, will equip 106 U.S. sites with sensors to gather ecological data all day, every day, for 30 years after it goes...
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Digging Through Big Data to Find Alien Life
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields. Like a giant car antenna, it...
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Want to Know When You'll Die? 'Big Data' Could Tell You
Last year, a life insurance agent came to Nathan DeWall’s Lexington, Kentucky, home to weigh him, take his blood pressure and ask a litany of health- and life-related questions to predict when the...
View Article#AskNewsweek Twitter Chat: Border Crisis
During our first #AskNewsweek, reporter Karla Zabludovsky discussed with readers her cover story about the immigration crisis at the border. After arriving in Brooks County, Texas, for a different...
View ArticleJohn Walsh, Democratic U.S. Senator from Montana, Plagiarized His Master’s...
Senator John Walsh, a Montana Democrat, “appropriated” at least 25 percent of his thesis for his Master’s degree at the United States Army War College, an investigation by the New York Times revealed....
View ArticleThe Spy Software You Didn’t Know Was Tracking You
Some of the Web’s top sites are tracking their users’ browsing habits through a new technique that can’t be thwarted by standard privacy software, a recent study found.As ProPublica reported, the...
View ArticleJapan Should Pay 'Comfort Women,' U.N. Panel Says
GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights panel called on Japan on Thursday to undertake independent investigations of wartime sex slavery and apologise to the women who were victims before it...
View ArticleShould Israel Retreat Once the Tunnels Are Destroyed?
The day began positively. My son woke me to tell me that the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) had changed its mind and, late last night, gave the green light to airlines to resume flights to Israel....
View ArticleGermany Pushes Back Against U.S. and British Spying
For the first time since 1945, Germany will begin spying on intelligence services from Britain and the United States operating on German soil, according to German news reports. While the quaint story...
View ArticleWashington Post Correspondent Among Four Journalists Reported Detained in Iran
The Iran correspondent for The Washington Post is one of four journalists, including three American citizens, detained in Tehran this week, according to the paper and U.S. officials. Jason Rezaian,...
View ArticlePassenger Jets Are Sitting Ducks
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down at over 30,000 feet by a sophisticated missile system, but even a cheap shoulder-fired weapon of the kind that has proliferated since the wars in Libya and...
View ArticleWho Needs King James? Cleveland May Already Have a Championship in the Bag
You already know that former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel is about to debut with the Cleveland Browns. You may have heard that four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James is returning home...
View ArticleBad Weather Likely Cause of Fatal Air Algerie Crash, Say French
PARIS (Reuters) - Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 116 people on board, French officials said on...
View ArticleFollowing Outrage Over Conchita, Russia Is Reviving Its Own Straight Eurovision
When Conchita Wurst raised her microphone-shaped winner’s trophy at the Eurovision Song Contest in May, she smashed through a lavender ceiling. Boy George described her victory as “a vote for gay...
View ArticleHere's How You End Up on the U.S. Watchlist for Terrorists
“Watchlisting is not an exact science,” says a document produced by the government intelligence agencies responsible for placing individuals on no-fly and terrorism watch lists. But it is something...
View ArticleGaza Ceasefire Talks Deadlocked as Death Toll Tops 800
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread...
View ArticleA Year After His Death, Roger Ebert Is 'Talking More Than Ever'
Back in the 1980s, I was working in a bookstore across from a movie theatre in San Francisco, arguing with a bunch of other marginally-employed English lit graduates. When things got slow – when...
View ArticleStudy Finds That Men Like Nice Women, But Not the Other Way Around
Scientifically, nice (heterosexual) guys might actually finish last. A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin recently found that while men were attracted to nice-seeming women...
View ArticleViolent Clashes Erupt in the West Bank After 10,000-Strong March
Four Palestinians have been shot dead and two wounded today in a clashes with police and a Jewish settler on the West Bank, according to the Associated Press. An Israeli civilian shot one protester...
View ArticleFormer Workers Point to Safety Violations at McDonald’s No. 1 Meat Supplier
The American meat company that is the No. 1 protein supplier for McDonald’s worldwide is already at the center of a major food safety scandal in Asia. Making matters worse for the company, which posted...
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