The 10 luxury cars that thieves go after the most
By Richard Read, The Car Connection, From Business Insider PHOTO: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images The Highway Loss Data Institute recently reported on the Ford F-250 pickup’s popularity among car thieves. But as nice as the F-250 can be, the National Insurance…
Full Moon Silhouettes
From Mark Gee Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
In Ebola-hit SLeone, dignity in death protects the living
By ANNE CHAON, AFP From Business Insider A health worker from Sierra Leone’s Red Cross Society Burial Team 7 carries the corpse of a child in Freetown on November 12, 2014 Freetown (AFP) – Sierra Leone’s Ebola burial boys wrap…
The first photograph of a human being
By Amanda Uren From Mashable This picture, the earliest known photograph to include a recognizable human form, was taken in Paris, France, in 1838 by Louis Daguerre. The human in question is standing in the bottom-left of the photograph, on…
Forward guidance, but not a clear path
From The Financialist In announcing last August that it would be continuing its program of loose monetary policy until British unemployment levels have fallen to 7 percent, the Bank of England (BOE) intended to assure British households, businesses and investors…
In corruption debacle, FIFA satirizes itself while further besmirching the beautiful
By Sam Laird From Mashable It reads like something from a Monty Python sketch, but this is real life — or, at least, what passes for reality in the warped universe of FIFA Land. In sum: The ethics of FIFA’s…
UC Merced professor highlights racial profiling
MERCED — In a book due out next year, a UC Merced professor says a lack of judicial discretion leads to a disproportionate number of deportations to Latin America and the Caribbean. Tanya Golash-Boza, a sociology professor, said 98 percent…
World Health Organization mistakenly forwards email to BuzzFeed saying ‘BuzzFeed is banned’
By Brian Ries From Mashable BuzzFeed, it seems, is on the World Health Organization’s blacklist. The New York news organization found out the hard way on Wednesday when a WHO staffer mistakenly included a BuzzFeed reporter on an internal email….
Is this proof Jesus married and had two sons? Ancient manuscript said to be ‘lost gospel’ with a sensational twist
By Harry Mount for The Daily Mail New book ‘The Lost Gospel’ claims Mary Magdalene was original Virgin Mary It is based on manuscript found in British Library dating back 1,450 years Professor Barrie Wilson and writer Simcha Jacobovici translated…
