cited: The Guardian
Even as 17-year-old Mike Perham lands in Portsmouth tomorrow as the youngest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe, 10,000 miles away in Queensland, Australia, another teenager is poised to try to wrest the record from him.
Jessica Watson, 16, is the next in a queue of super-teens eager to pit themselves against the elements. [...]
Cited: The Wall Street Journal
Friday, luxury-jewelry retailer, Tiffany & Co. stated that their second-quarter profits fell 30%. Correction, only 30%, which was less than they were expecting. Not only that, but the company saw improved results from Europe and Asia, which helped compensate for U.S. shoppers’ cutbacks.
Outside of Japan, Asian comparable sales were up 5%, [...]
Have you ever been stuck with an odd remainder on the end of a giftcard? What are you supposed to do with $7 to Bloomingdales or $12 at Home Depot? Now, an answer is popping up that makes us feel good about more than just not wasting: donating them.
On average, each household in the United [...]
cited: New York Times
The debate has waged for years: are men or women likelier to engage in “mate poaching”? Yes, there have been surveys indicating that men go after other people’s partners more often, but are they simply more willing to admit it? Now, data has arisen from an experiment conducted by two social psychologists, [...]
cited: New York Times
Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) revealed that, for the first time, the building blocks of life as we know it were found on a comet. They found animo acid glycine, the forerunners of protein, on pieces of comet brought back from the 2006 probe, Stardust. This discovery goes [...]
cited: US News & World Report
New research has found that elderly, overweight people have significantly less brain tissue than their counterparts of a normal weight.
“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their healthy counterparts while [those of] overweight people looked 8 years older,” said UCLA neuroscientist Paul Thompson, senior author of a [...]
cited: MTV News
Country queen, Reba McEntire has hit it big with her second #1 country album debut, Keep on Loving You. Thanks to selling 96,000 copies (according to Nielson SoundScan), it will take its top spot on the Billboard 200 next week. Third Eye Blind, the 1990’s alternative pop band that hasn’t released a new [...]
Cited: Associated Press
Superman, Aquaman, Iron Man, X-Men: all these undefeatable superheroes have suffered defeat at the hands of an industry that often functions more as a money-making tool than actual entertainment.
So calling “Batman: Arkham Asylum” (Eidos, $59.99, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) one of the best superhero games ever is kind of a backhanded [...]
Cited: Wall Street Journal
First, YouTube gave “David After Dentist” fame. Now, it’s giving him a headstart on college tuition. The website announced Tuesday that it would begin offering its 15-minute, one-off stars the kind of ad revenue that was once reserved for high-posting partners and mega-companies.
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Viral hit “David After Dentist,” one of the intended beneficiaries [...]
cited: InformationWeek
McAfee just released its third annual list of the internet’s most risky celebrities. They found that 20% of searches for “Jessica Biel,” “Jessica Biel downloads,” Jessica Biel photos”, etc., take the searcher to malware-full websites. Spyware, adware, spam, viruses, and phishing mechanisms all fall under the company’s definition of malicious programs. If a computer [...]
