Myanmar has freed 2 Pulitzer-winning Reuters journalists from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon after they’d spent more than 500 days behind bars, the news agency first reported. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were convicted of breaking the … Continue reading
Ditch Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to. This is a New York Times opinion piece. It has that slow, overly-literary start, like so much of journalism and commentary. I’ve grown weary of … Continue reading
Two most common sources of infection have been longtime problems. One of the two, salmonella, can come from an array of foodsincluding vegetables, chicken, eggs, beef and pork. The other germ, campylobacter, is commonly tied to chicken. People may not hear as much … Continue reading
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s ideological divide was on full display Tuesday, and it seemed from their questioning that the court’s conservatives were likely to defer to the Trump administration on adding a question concerning citizenship to the 2020 census … Continue reading
If you missed portions of the light show from the Lyrid meteor shower on Sunday night, fret not. An encore performance is expected to last from Monday night into dawn on Tuesday. The phenomenon occurs when Earth passes through the dust trail … Continue reading
In a major college admissions scandal that laid bare the elaborate lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their children into competitive American universities, federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a brazen scheme to buy spots … Continue reading
Maria Bustillos writes a helpful and informative article on emerging technologies related to currency Bitcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble. Bitcoin is not backed by … Continue reading
Article on the US government shutdown, US immigration policy, Trump, Pelosi, and Schumer, on matters related to the proposed security wall on the US southern border by Frank Kaufmann Read the entire article here … Continue reading
Originally published Dec. 31, 1983 An essential side product, the mobile computerized object, or robot, is already flooding into industry and will, in the course of the next generation, penetrate the home. There is bound to be resistance to the … Continue reading
There is no known physics theory that is true at every scale—there may never be. The advent of quantum mechanics changed everything. When quantum mechanics is combined with relativity, it turns out, rather unexpectedly in fact, that the detailed nature … Continue reading