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Protect Your Assets

from InsideHook HOW (NOT) TO LOSE A MILLION DOLLARS You’ll need: One of these travel bags + one Faraday cage We recently told you how to spend $344,511. Now, we’re going to tell you how to hide it. With a little assist from SDR Traveller, makers of “ultra light, ultra strong, discreet luggage for the […]

Global Warming

from The New York Daily News Upstate New York mountain reaches minus 114 wind chill at its summit BY ALFRED NG THE WILD CENTER While New York City had its coldest start to Valentine’s Day in 100 years on Sunday, it would seem balmy compared with the wicked wind chill at upstate Whiteface Mountain. As […]

The First Eyeteur

from The New York Post This filmmaker replaced his eyeball with a camera By Andrea Morabito Rob Spence lost eyesight in right eye from a shotgun accident when he was nine. Photo: Brian Zak As a kid, Toronto filmmaker Rob Spence played with a “Six Million Dollar Man” action figure. At 43, he’s turned himself into a […]

Once Upon A Long, Long Time Ago….

from BBC News Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say Researchers found Beauty and the Beast was about 4,000 years old / PA Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon. Using techniques normally employed by biologists, academics studied […]

Good Drone, Bad Drone

from WIRED When Good Drones Go Bad GETTY IMAGES LATE IN THE summer of 2014, surveillance footage of Syria’s Tabqa air base showed up on YouTube. That it was taken by ISIS forces is unremarkable. That it was shot with a DJI Phantom FC40—a popular consumer drone at the time, the kind you might have […]

AMERICAN GOTHIC Casting Call (Toronto)

from Craigslist AMERICAN GOTHIC – CASTING FEMALE TWINS (4-7yrs) (Toronto) Looking for female twins aged 4-7 for CBS’ new television series! Open call this Friday 3pm-6pm – Send pictures for location details and sides. Thanks! [ click to view at Craigslist ]

The Origins of War

from The Guardian Stone-age massacre offers earliest evidence of human warfare Researchers say remains of 27 murdered tribespeople in Kenya prove attacks were normal part of hunter-gatherer relations  by Maev Kennedy Part of a man’s skeleton found lying in the lagoon. The skull has multiple lesions on the front and left side consistent with wounds from […]

Juliet Rylance, Stephanie Leonidas to AMERICAN GOTHIC

from TVLine The Knick‘s Juliet Rylance, Defiance‘s Stephanie Leonidas Join CBS’ Summer Mystery Thriller American Gothic By Michael Ausiello Getty Images CBS is rounding out the cast of its 13-episode summer series American Gothic, adding The Knick‘s Juliet Rylance and Defiance‘s Stephanie Leonidas as series regulars, TVLine has learned exclusively. Gabriel Bateman, best known as Dylan McDermott’s son on […]

Robots To Destroy Mankind

from The Sunday Express The Terminator could become REAL: Intelligent AI robots capable of DESTROYING mankind FREE-THINKING AI robots could end up destroying mankind or even completely change what it means to be human if we let them think for themselves, a scientist has warned. By JON AUSTIN Arnie as the Terminator in the film […]

Razors Are For Girls

from CNBC Beards boom, and so do businesses catering to them by Denise Garcia | @denisejaeg Javier David | CNBC Politicians sometimes wear them, and so do a few chief executives. Urban hipsters have become synonymous with them, yet rugged outdoorsmen have been sporting them for years. Beards — having become so popular that they’ve even had […]