Monday, July 8, 2013

The Rise Of The Warrior Cop

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game â€" but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins...
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Sunday, July 7, 2013

What Countries Cook When They're Collapsing

Constantinos Polychronopoulos makes lentils. It's not a job per se, but it's as good as it gets in these troubled times. Laid off from his marketing company three years ago, he hasn't found steady work since, so he started a mobile soup kitchen that rotates around Athens, feeding the poor and hungry. He collects donated lentils -- phakes (fah-kess) in Greek -- which he simmers with tomatoes, onions, and bay leaves...
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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Why Did The NSA Whistleblower Know So Many Secrets?

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Edward Snowden sounds like a thoughtful, patriotic young man,...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

WTF Just Happened To My Subsidized Student Loan

Students participate in a news conference on student loans on Capitol Hill, June 6, in Washington, D.C. The news conference was held to protest against the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford Loans doubling from 3.4% to 6.8% on July 1. Image by Mark Wilson / Getty Images 2. What just happened? The...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Who Are The Hotshots?

The 19 firefighters who lost their lives battling a raging wildfire in central Arizona on Sunday were members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of U.S. wildfire firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona.Hotshot crewsâ€"there are roughly 107 in the U.S.â€"consist of 20 firefighters who have been specifically trained to respond to fires in remote regions with little or no logistical support."In the world...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

What Designers Can Learn From Sci-Fi Interfaces

Even though interfaces, devices, and controls in movies and TV shows are often visible just long enough to drive the story forward, many have achieved pop culture immortality, ranging from Star Trek's communicator and the WarGames WOPR computer to the Terminator HUD, and...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Why There Is Less Porn Online Than You Think

1 July 2013 Last updated at 01:42 GMT By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News Estimates of how much porn is on the web vary widely ...
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