VIA “huffingtonpost.com” by Jenny Studenroth Gerson When I was pregnant, everyone was all about “warning” me about what was coming next. I walked around much of those 10 (let’s face it, pregnancy is 10, not nine, months) absolutely terrified. The warnings flew at me from every angle — in the checkout line at Target, on […]
VIA “theminduneashed.org” by Anna Lemind The Sun is the closest star to our planet and it would be logical to assume that all living beings here are strongly affected by its activity. It seems that along with determining Earth’s climate and biological cycles in nature, our star also affects our behavior, mental health and even […]
VIA “washingtontimes.com” by Cheryl K. Chumley Yemen President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is being held captive by rebels who have attacked his compound, just as the U.S. military has moved the USS Iwo Jima and the USS Fort McHenry into the Red Sea, in position to take aboard evacuees from the U.S. Embassy in Yemen […]
VIA “washingtonpost.com” by Chris Fancescani NEW YORK — More than 1,000 people representing activist groups large and small began marching from Harlem to the United Nations at 1:15 p.m. Monday, calling for justice and an end to police brutality. “No justice, no peace.” “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “We will not remain silent while police […]
VIA “washingtonpost.com” by Jackson Diehl As oil prices continued to plunge last week, it was instructive to watch the disparate reactions of three governments whose whopping losses are likely to produce some of the biggest international stories of 2015. There was the panicked scrambling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who skipped his own state of […]
VIA “themindunleashed.org” by Anna Lemind Hang onto your chair and prepare to have your mind blown.. New research reveals that a big portion of the Earth’s water is older than previously thought, and actually predates the age of the Sun. Moreover, the findings of the study suggest that water – and life – could exist on exoplanets […]
VIA “espn.go.com” by Dan Rafael The fight the world has wanted to see for the better part of six years — a long-awaited summit meeting between welterweight champions Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the two top boxers in the world — is not done, but it has cleared a major hurdle. Pacquiao and Top […]
VIA “washingtonexaminer.com” by Byron York It took a while for Republicans to catch on to what President Obama is doing with the U.S. terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But now that it’s clear Obama is rushing to empty the place, Republicans are stepping up efforts to stop him. Whether they succeed could have a […]
VIA “wsj.com” by Maria Abi-Habib, Margaret Coker, Hakim Almasmari Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on a Paris magazine by two French brothers, reasserting its dominance among terror organizations targeting the West. The announcement on Wednesday came as French investigators said they are searching for another man whom they have identified […]
VIA “pulptastic.com”, author not specified Meet Mason Wartman Mason left his job at Wall Street as an equity researcher to start up Rosa’s Fresh Pizza — a pizza business named after his mother — in Philadelphia. Mason sells a slice of pizza for $1 in his restaurant His customer’s can pay it forward by buying a […]
