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The Guardian has shined some light onto the obscure, back alleyway of the internet: Freenet. Consider it digital anarchy, a unitary place where people can exchange information without identifying themselves […]
New research in quantum measurement could reveal ion flow through cell membranes in an important scientific discovery.
A meteor lit up the skies and was caught on CCTV as it zoomed over South Africa but experts are unable to work out where it landed.
A teenager who claimed to have been bitten on the neck by an older man during a showing of vampire flick ”New Moon” has admitted to having made the story up.
Making a spacecraft powered by dark matter or a black hole would be a formidable task, but appears to be possible according to top physicists.
Questions are being asked about the financial health of Dubai after a major, government-owned investment firm asked to delay the repayment of its $59bn debt pile.
The US Navy is training sea lions to assist them with underwater activities such as retrieving explosive mines and even detaining intruder divers.
A couple who gatecrashed a White House state dinner – and boasted about it on Facebook- have sparked an urgent investigation into the US Secret Service’s security procedures.
If we take another look at the space/time spectrum could we come up with a theory of quantum gravity?
A Chinese oil firm has signed an MOU with its Iranian partners to invest $6.5bn in Iranian oil refinery construction in Iran.
The trade of human beings in sex trafficking is an American problem too says Bridgette Carr the director of Michigan University’s Human Trafficking Clinic.
The CIA’s “Magic Manual”, a book on trickery and misdirection written by magician John Mulholland, has magically reappeared.
For the first time in a long time, there’s almost a glut of good news flooding green media: not only did Obama commit last week to attend December’s crucial climate […]
Greg Sargent calls our attention today to an interview Bush’s former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino gave last night on Fox News’ “Hannity.” In the interview, Perino takes the […]
Maureen Dowd has all the steadiness and heft of a tin weathervane, but like a weathervane she can point which way the wind is blowing in Washington. And her column […]
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David Lat, founder of Above the Law, recently surveyed working attorneys on their happiness levels. He has a few ideas for why the age-old cliché holds true.
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Because law schools are cash cows for universities, shortening the time it takes to get a degree is a subject institutions have always avoided.
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Former U.S. attorney and founder of Above the Law, David Lat offers tips on where lawyers should look for work in the economic downturn.
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While the legal industry may be headed for grim days, the method of payment won’t disappear any time soon, says David Lat, founder of Above the Law.
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David Lat discusses his mission of bringing sunlight to a world covered in darkness.