Clean air doesn’t just give Americans a pleasant, smog-free view. It’s added an average of five months to our lives. In a study of three decades of health data from 51 U.S. cities, researchers found that people are living about three years longer than they did before. Controlling for changes in income, education, demographics and smoking, about …
Because George W. Bush did so many great things for America…
In an effort to better understand how people use the web, Mozilla has launched a new data gathering project for usability studies called Test Pilot. It’s still just a concept, but as an aggregation model, it shows great promise.
Wanted to reach out to folks with an update on Digg and our priorities for 2009 as well as address some of the recent speculation about our business.
While astronomers haven’t found a perfect fit yet, they have found plenty that are too big, too hot, too cold, too dense, too close to their star, or too distant.
2009 Oscar Nominations complete list of nominations, Dark Knight not up for Best Picture!
John Travolta is the centre of an alleged extortion plot that is said to involve a photograph of his son Jett that was taken as he was dying. He was contacted by a pair of alleged extortionists who demanded ‘millions of dollars’ or threatened to sell the photo to the highest bidder.
Documents Show Caylee Anthony Was Left in Laundry Bag, Had Duct Tape Around Mouth, Newly-released documents in the murder of Florida child Caylee Anthony show that she was buried in a laundry hamper bag and had silver duct tape around her mouth.
There are some jobs where one can work fewer than 40 hours per week and make more than average. The hours may not be significantly less — generally between 35 and 38 hours a week — but these jobs offer more value in both time and money. They all pay salaries that exceed the ,036 median U.S. income.
Slatterz writes “Bill Gates declared in 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that spam would be ‘a thing of the past’ within five years. However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, has written in a blog post that ‘with the prophecy’s five-year anniversary approaching, spam continues to cause a headache for companies and home users.'”
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