Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs?
Too hot to be an engineer or prison guard? Good looks can kill a woman’s chances of snaring jobs considered “masculine,” according to a study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Attractive women faced discrimination when they applied for jobs where appearance was not seen as important. These positions included job titles like [...]
Don’t Tax the Internet
A new piece of legislation claims to level the playing field between Internet retailers and brick-and-mortar stores, but this “fairness” bill is anything but. Internet stores and direct mail operations have long been targeted by money hungry legislatures as potential sources of more tax money for government coffers. There’s always a bill in the works [...]
Fox News has oldest cable audience
According to the latest Nielsen data, the average audience of the four major broadcasters is older than ever. In a study released by analyst Steve Sternberg, ABC’s median viewership aged one year last season — to 51. CBS also grew a year, to 55. NBC gained two years, to 49. And Fox stayed the same, [...]
A.J. Jacobs’ year of living biblically
Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically — following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
Shaping Up PE: The rise in childhood obesity prompts a gym class makeover
Teacher Donald Hawkins shouts enthusiastically to his 3- and 4-year-old students: “Can you name any animals that hop?” The answers trickle in from the sleepy but smiling youngsters: a kangaroo, a frog, a rabbit. They decide to mimic the frog. It’s 9:30ish in the morning inside Browne Education Campus’s comfortably warm gymnasium in Northeast Washington. [...]
‘World’s Largest Clock’: Saudis Build Giant Clock, Want ‘Mecca Time’ To Replace GMT
Saudi Arabia is hoping that the debut of what is said to be the world’s largest clock in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca will help establish the city as an alternative time standard to the Greenwich meridian. The new four-faced clock, which looms over Mecca’s Grand Mosque and is perched atop what is expected to be the [...]
Eric Schmidt On Privacy: Google CEO Says Anonymity Online Is ‘Dangerous’
Google knows what you watch, what you search, and even with whom you’re friends. The availability of all this information raises an important question: Where does Google CEO Eric Schmidt stand on the issue of online privacy?
Fairhaven, MA: Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Thousands, Lack Of Oxygen In Warm Waters To Blame (VIDEO)
On Monday, vacationing beach residents awoke to a foul smell when thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a small island on the east side of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, CNN reports. Marine fisheries explained that the fish were killed due to a lack of oxygen caused by warm waters. All of the fish were Menhaden, which are [...]
Even If Bush Tax Cuts Expire, Rich Americans Will Still Pay Less Than Pre-2001 Rates
As debate heats up over President Obama’s proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy but to extend them for everyone else, a nonpartisan Congressional analysis circulated on Capitol Hill on Tuesday provides a look at the impact the plan would have on high-income taxpayers. Given the progressive nature of the federal income [...]
But Will It Make You Happy?
A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people. Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.” So one day she stepped off. Inspired [...]
New Report suggests iPhone will launch on Verizon as expected
Evidence continues to mount to support expectations that Apple’s iPhone 4 will finally launch on Verizon this coming January. The latest: Sources close to Apple’s hardware suppliers say that Apple has ordered millions of CDMA chipsets from Qualcomm. CDMA is the wireless technology used by Verizon. The report comes from TechCrunch contributor Steve Cheney, who [...]
Gallup Poll: Four Moral Issues Sharply Divide Americans
Partisan disagreement drives national controversy on gay relations, abortion Americans generally agree about the morality of 12 out of 16 behaviors or social policies that sometimes spark public controversy, with sizable majorities saying each is either “morally acceptable” or “morally wrong.” By contrast, views on doctor-assisted suicide, gay and lesbian relations, abortion, and having a [...]
Stephen Hawking Predicts the End of Humanity, Again
Stephen Hawking, brilliant astrophysicist and nefarious alien doomsday prophet, is again atop his soapbox preaching the end of humanity should we not board spaceships and colonize the solar system and beyond. He’s made the “get your ass to Mars or anywhere else but earth, humanity or die” prophecy claim before, mind you, but this time around [...]
Bill Gates expects the web to be the best single source of education within 5 years
Bill Gates just might be the world’s most famous college dropout (sorry, Kanye), but lest you think he’s changed his mind about the educational establishment, he’s got a few words of reassurance for you. As the closing speaker of the Techonomy 2010 conference, Bill dished out his vision of how learning will evolve over the next few [...]
RIM BlackPad tablet priced at $499 when it ships in November?
Come on, admit it, you want to believe that RIM is working on a tablet called the BlackPad don’t you? You’d better, because Apple Daily is piling on with more unsubstantiated rumor this morning. So, in addition to the 9.7-inch display, Bluetooth, WiFi, and front- and rear-facing cameras already mentionedby Bloomberg‘s sources, Apple Daily claims that Quanta won the bid [...]
Growing up too soon? Puberty strikes 7-year-old girls
Study in 3 major cities finds precocious puberty rising among 2nd graders The changes in Kiera’s body scared her parents. Though the 8-year-old seemed her usual chipper self, she’d started to develop headaches and acne. More alarming to her mom, Sharon, were the budding breasts on Kiera’s thin little chest. “I thought, she’s too young,” remembers [...]
Sean Penn On Wyclef: ‘He Has Been A Non-Presence’
Could the slew of Verizon iPhone rumors finally be coming to an end–and could the phoneactually be available on Verizon within a year? There is near-constant speculation regarding when AT&T will lose its iPhone exclusivity, but there is new evidence that the iPhone could be coming to Verizon January 2011, according toTechCrunch’s Steve Cheney, who [...]
HIV/AIDS Medicine Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Sometimes you have to look back to see how far you’ve come. An article in Bloomberg Businessweek — – ‘AIDS Drugs Flow to the Third World’ – reports on new ways HIV/AIDS drugs are being manufactured and distributed in developing countries. It’s a remarkable story. In 2002, antiretroviral (ARV) medicine cost between $10,000 — $15,000 per person [...]
How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago
Nagasaki, which lost over 70,000 civilians (and a few military personnel) to a new weapon 65 years ago today, has always been The Forgotten A-Bomb City. No one ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. Yet in some ways, Nagasaki is the modern A-bomb city. For one thing, when [...]
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are 12 Times Support for Renewables, Study Shows
Global subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. Governments last year gave $43 billion to $46 billion of support to renewable energy through tax credits, guaranteed electricity prices known as feed-in tariffs and alternative energy credits, the London-based [...]
Scientists develop ‘designer protein,’ opening new door in cancer research
A major breakthrough in how to target and destroy the most malignant and aggressive brain cancer cells has been made by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Scientists have identified a way to target and destroy Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cells without harming healthy cells. The finding allows for new possibilities in cancer research [...]
