For 60 years, Americans poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their cars. Then Clair Patterson, a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth, took on a billion-dollar industry.
How much can a misplaced comma cost you?
If you’re texting a loved one or dashing off an email to a colleague, the cost of misplacing a piece of punctuation will be – at worst – a red face and a minor mix-up.
But for some, contentious commas can be a path to the poor house.
Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments something useful?
In 2016, Stanford Graduate School of Business student Charlie Olson went to Scottsdale, Arizona to discuss his business idea with baseball players during their spring training. The plan which he developed along with his classmate from Stanford Eric Lax, who done research on the problematics with labor economists, was focused on the idea of ‘income pooling.’
A man had to have part of his right index finger amputated after it was infected by flesh-eating bacteria.
Quoting from a Facebook post by the victim’s friend, Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday that the man’s finger was pricked while he was cleaning prawns he had bought from a wet market.
A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a way to add a layer of anonymity or privacy to your internet browsing.
But, it doesn’t come for free.
VPN companies host these networks, and you must subscribe. There are dozens of options to choose from, and they vary in both speed and effectiveness. We’ve tested some of the most popular VPNs and evaluated them based on how fast they are, as many users want to know whether or not the service they’re using is one of the fastest VPNs available.
Thomas Friedman is pretty much the expert on globalization. He’s authored books that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, he writes a column for the New York Times, and he’s won three Pulitzer Prizes for his deft observations on global unrest, international commerce, and the changing relationships of the world’s superpowers.
“Why is so much writing so hard to understand? Why must a typical reader struggle to follow an academic article, the fine print on a tax return, or the instructions for setting up a wireless home network?”
The unmasking of the Salisbury poisoning suspects by a new digital journalism outfit was an embarrassment for Putin – and evidence that Russian spies are not what they once were. By Luke Harding