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…
Jonathan Franzen: ‘Egypt is the worst place to be a migratory bird’
NatureUp By Adam Welz From The Guardian UK US author sounds warning over Egyptian trapping that kills millions of birds as they migrate from Europe into Africa One of the photos shows a Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix) caught in a…
Gov’t to combine GIS, Radio Cayman and TV
From Loop Cayman Following the recommendations of the E& Y report, the government has decided to combine the Government Information Service (GIS), Radio Cayman and the Government Television as one unit as it seeks to reform its own media. According…
Tourists return to Greece’s summer resorts
By Renee Maltezou, Reuters From Toronto Sun Foreign tourists are returning to Greece’s sun-drenched islands and ancient temples, central bank data showed on Friday, boosting hopes that the key sector may help the crisis-hit country pull itself out of a…
