On Feb. 8, Dong Nguyen announced that he would be removing his hit game Flappy Bird from both the iOS and Android app stores, saying that t...
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 12, 2014
Pakistan Kneels To The Taliban -- Myra MacDonald, War On The Rocks Pakistan has been in a state of perpetual crisis for so long that it can ...
This Plant Makes Music! (BLOG)
The Magic Kingdom is synonymous with Walt Disney World, but that name could easily stand in for Disney Research Pittsburgh, a Disney-owned r...
World News Briefs -- February 12, 2014 (Evening Edition)
Fighting Rages In Syria Despite Peace Talks -- Al Jazeera Warplanes pound rebel-held town amid reports of death toll peaking on the ground a...
Obama’s state dinners cost how much? (BLOG)
President Barack Obama and visiting French President Francois Hollande will be joined by more than 300 notable guests in a tentlike heated p...
NASA says it may have discovered flowing water on Mars (BLOG)
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say new images from the surface of Mars may hold evidence that flowing water exists on the ...
ZIRP: Great Depression vs. Great Recession
The following chart compares the 3-month treasury bill yield in the aftermath of the Great Depression to the 3-month treasury bill yield in...
CISCO: The Internet of Everything
CSCO http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-the-real-cisco-please-stand-up-2014-02-11 What happened to "the internet of everything&quo...
High school outlaws yoga pants and leggings (BLOG)
A recently enforced ban on yoga pants and leggings by a high school in Rockport, Massachusetts, has some students and parents saying the pol...
Smile At The Camera
They can watch an entire city and focus one of 65 cameras down to the point they can see the cell phone in your hand, 24/7, from 3 miles up....
World's Largest Trees Help Explain California Forests' Bald Spots (BLOG)
Trees in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, including giant sequoias, need sunlight, water and just the right kind of granite to grow...
Syria's Second Front (Video)
Frontline Looks At Rebel Fight Against Jihadists In Syria -- Frontline Syrian rebels engulfed in a three-year-old civil war against Presiden...
Gisin, Maze dead heat for women's downhill gold (BLOG)
Rosa Khutor (Russia) (AFP) - Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenian Tina Maze finished in a dead heat to share gold in the women...
Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 12, 2014
Battle On Lebanese Border As Syria Talks Falter -- Reuters (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces and fighters from Lebanese all...
US bans commercial ivory trade (BLOG)
Washington (AFP) - The United States banned the domestic trade of elephant ivory as part of a new drive to help African countries stem the r...