The dark side of El Dorado: Illegal gold mining in Peru generating more money than drug trafficking
By Patricia Rey Mallén From international Business Times Peru is the sixth-largest producer of gold in the world. Creative Commons The legend of “El Dorado” has taken a decidedly dark turn in the South American nation of Peru, where soaring…
Blood of the Irish
Blood of the Irish: What DNA tells us about the ancestry of people in Ireland From Hub Pages Blood of the Irish The Blood in Irish veins is Celtic, right? Well, not exactly. Although the history many Irish people were…
How beer created civilization
By Dina Spector From Business Insider What led early humans to begin cultivating grain some 10,000 years ago? It was beer — not bread — a growing body of research shows. Archaeologists have long hinted that Neolithic, or Stone Age,…
Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money
By Kate Cox From Consumerist Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money to install so never mind Acetaminophen, best known under the brand name Tylenol, is an incredibly common medication for children. While it’s safe…
Death Penalty Debate
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life Like all prime and national security ministers before her, Trinidad’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar is so frustrated with the number of annual murders in Trinidad that she is now leading a revived and spirited campaign to…
How the original iPhone forced Google to completely rebuild Android
By Chris Smith From BGR The day Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone model (January 9th, 2007,) Google’s Android team, which had been secretly working on a smartphone for two years, took a “kick in the stomach,” The Atlantic revealed….
World’s smallest pacemaker can be implanted without surgery
Susan Young for MIT Technology Review From Mashable Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which they can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator to…
Jacksonville doctors take medical mission trip to Jamaica: ‘Big smiles, so much gratitude’
By Beth Reese Cravey From Jacksonville.com Jacksonville surgeon Kenneth Jones had help from high-placed friends in the Caribbean and at home when he decided to stage a medical mission trip to a poor, rural area of Jamaica. For two…
Column: A challenge to our beliefs
By Thomas Sowell From Gaston Gazette Depressing news about black students scoring far below white students on various mental tests has become so familiar that people in different parts of the ideological spectrum have long ago developed their different explanations…
vintage inspired websites
An overview of vintage inspired websites By Nesslyn Aquino From Designer Daily Having a vintage look on a website can really enhance the way it looks and can appeal to your audience in a much more effective way. While vintage…
