Are you a 20-something with a brand new degree and looking for advice? Well, thanks to warmed-over Keynesian economics America is now a financial demilitarized zone and it isn't going to change any time soon so Forbes has crowd-sourced advice for the graduates of 2012 and condensed them into 30 pearls of wisdom that are a lot more practical than the pithy 'wear sunscreen' stuff we foisted...
read moreIn 1888, someone killed five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district and came to be called "Jack The Ripper" - since then, everyone from Sherlock Holmes to officers on "Star Trek" have weighed in on who the killer might be. The suspects are a Who's Who of people from the period because, apparently, it could just not have been some crazy, unknown sociopath, it had to be a member of...
read moreA calico lobster, a mix of orange and yellow spots, is a 1 in 30 million specimen according to researchers, and thus has been spared from being delicious.It was caught off Winter Harbor, Maine and saved from the cooking pot by Chef Jasper White at Jasper White's Summer Shack restaurant in Cambridge, Mass. after they noticed the coloration. They contacted the New England Aquarium, which then...
read moreIt's always a little irksome to see or hear 'X causes Y% of cancer' because, really, it is the kind of culturally partisan gibberish that has made it possible for disreputable genetics testing companies to make all kinds of ridiculous claims. Yes, you are more likely to get lung cancer if you smoke than if you don't, but lots of people get lung cancer who do not smoke and were never...
read moreWhile the value of antibiotics in treating illness has always been clear, the impact of overuse on farms has been debated for some time.The U.S. Food And Drug Administration has issued guidelines (voluntary) for the use of antibiotics in the agricultural industry;"judiciously" - for treating and preventing sickness. The spike in overuse of antibiotics has led to increases of drug-resistant...
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