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If Europe has one defining cultural characteristic, it is that it has none. This may sound like too neat a paradox, but it’s not that far from the truth. There […]
I used to work for a couple of small mortgage lenders a few years ago. We probably closed somewhere between 150 and 200 purchase and refi loans a month at […]
In California, 2/3 of voters still remain relatively unaware of Proposition 23, a ballot measure backed by out-of-state oil and gas companies that would end California’s regulation of greenhouse gas […]
"It's possible to find traces of the dumb-blonde concept in the ancient world. Just like modern gentlemen, Romans valued blondness." Slate investigates the history of blonde jokes.
America's conservative establishment has teamed up to say that the military's budget is not the place for cutting Big Government glut. Will the tea-party movement listen?
"My turn-ons include nurturing, chamomile tea and doing more than my share of the housework. I have forsaken red meat for soy." John Keilman is the New Man.
"The U.S. midterm elections are on course to become the most expensive in history next month, estimated at well over $5bn—an indication of how much is riding on the outcome."
"Although in vitro fertilization has brought joy to many families, the Nobel Prize for its co-developer is also a reminder of the bioethical questions raised by IVF technology."
"In piecing together a life story, the mind nudges moral lapses back in time and shunts good deeds forward, these new studies suggest—creating, in effect, a doctored autobiography."
"Wasting food isn't just bad in its own right, it also represents a profound waste of energy." Scientific American reports on the amount of oil needed to support the food supply.
"'We like to speculate about technology in general', but the content of the message matters more than medium we receive it through, says The Frontal Cortex Blog.
"Are humans continuing to evolve or has modern culture stopped evolution?" The answer affects assumptions made by public policy says Yale evolutionary biologist Stephen Stearns.
"Americans are mixing it up a good deal more than they have in the past." The first comprehensive sex study in 20 years says the American sexual repertoire has expanded.
I just wanted to pass a quick new news from Colombia: Nevado del Ruiz has been placed on yellow alert status (spanish) by the Colombian survey, INGEOMINAS. The reports (spanish) describe increased […]
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The element—like an attractive woman—is very much in demand in Bolivia. Unless the government finds a national company it can partner with to industrialize lithium, private companies will soon enter […]
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“Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global,” says the Bolivian president, “because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.”
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Bolivia has joined with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba in a global uprising against capitalism.
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“Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism,” says the Bolivian president, who is disappointed that the American president has not joined him to “work for justice […]
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President Morales meets many people from the U.S. and Europe who support his policies and beliefs. Their governments, not so much.
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With many different faiths in the country “it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic,” says Morales.