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Are You a J. Crew Democrat or a Pizza Hut Republican? How Much Is That MRI, Really? Massachusetts Shines A Light. In 49 U.S. states, spotting the squished disc in this spinal MRI is still much easier than learning the price of the MRI in advance.

How Much Is That MRI, Really? Massachusetts Shines A Light

AWelshLad/iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption AWelshLad/iStockphoto. The APEC Summit Closes With a ‘Historic’ Climate Deal Between the U.S. and China. 18 Things Navy SEALs Never Leave Home Without. DvidsHub The Navy SEAL who claims to have shot Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 and is speaking with Fox News later this week has revealed his identity to The Washington Post.

18 Things Navy SEALs Never Leave Home Without

Robert O'Neill reportedly earned 52 commendations over 16 years in the Navy. Border stat posted, and then removed. Most of the people the Border Patrol stopped from sneaking into the country last year were from countries other than Mexico, according to agency statistics, a shift that might have provided fodder for politicians leading up to Tuesday’s election.

Border stat posted, and then removed

But they didn’t get much of a chance. The Border Patrol’s annual statistics were posted on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Web site for about five hours on Oct. 10, then taken down. Now some are questioning whether that decision was an example of the Obama administration playing politics with public information. Even before Tuesday, the administration said it was waiting until after the elections to deal with immigration reform so that any losses would not be blamed on the Democrats’ proposal. Fing Shows You All the Devices Connected to Your Network.

Alpacas: Loveable Lawnmowers No More. The Alpaca Industry Matures, With Growing Pains By Kaitlin Bell Barnett on November 6, 2014 “Super Sale, Female Alpacas for $1000,” the ads proclaimed, in all caps.

Alpacas: Loveable Lawnmowers No More

Berlin leaves divisions behind as Wall's traces vanish. This sneaky substance is in almost everything you eat—and it’s destroying the planet. Last August, from the window of a jet high over Sumatra, I counted nearly a dozen plumes of smoke rising from the vast jungles and plantations below.

This sneaky substance is in almost everything you eat—and it’s destroying the planet

Some more than a half-mile wide, they looked like pillars holding up the sky. That week the Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency detected 143 new wildfires in Riau Province, the area beneath my flight. All of the fires were almost certainly related to deforestation for timber operations and agriculture—predominantly oil palm cultivation. Palm oil—which appears in a dizzying amount of food and cosmetic products and is a feedstock for biofuel—poses many environmental problems.

Tough Mudder Photo Feature. Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider Since Tough Mudder was founded in 2010, 1.3 million people have participated in one of the company's "military style" obstacle courses, which cover 10 to 12 miles of ground and include about 20 different challenges.

Tough Mudder Photo Feature

The event is part of a growing "obstacle course" trend among fitness enthusiasts and weekend warriors. There is no shortage of similar competitions, including the Spartan Race, the Warrior Dash, the Color Run, and the Superhero Scramble. 'Irish alcoholism nature' reason for job rejection for Irish teacher in South Korea. 6 November 2014Last updated at 05:31 ET By Ciaran McCauley BBC News NI Katie Mulrennan has been teaching English around the world for a number of years A teacher from the Republic of Ireland has been turned down for a job in South Korea due to the "alcoholism nature" of Irish people.

'Irish alcoholism nature' reason for job rejection for Irish teacher in South Korea

Katie Mulrennan, from County Kerry, had applied for a teaching job in Seoul. She was told by an agency that their client did not hire Irish people due to their perceived drinking habits. IBM Reboots Its Research to Focus on Cognitive Computing. As cheap cloud computing services erode IBM’s traditional hardware business with alarming speed, the company finds itself facing an uncertain future.

IBM Reboots Its Research to Focus on Cognitive Computing

If only there were some clever machine it could turn to for advice. Appropriately enough that’s what a large part of IBM’s research division is trying to create, by building on the research effort that led to Watson, the computer that won in the game show Jeopardy! In 2011. The hope is that this effort will lead to software and hardware that can answer complex questions by looking through vast amounts of information containing subtle and disparate clues. What Successful People Were Doing At 25. 60 Minutes At age 25, Sandberg had graduated at the top of the economics department from Harvard, worked at the World Bank under her former professor, mentor, and future Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and had gone back to Harvard to get her MBA, which she received in 1995.

What Successful People Were Doing At 25

She went on to work at McKinsey, and at age 29 was Summers' Chief of Staff when he became Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. Her time at HBS was a ways before Google, but that experience helped her see the potential of the internet, she said in a commencement speech to HBS grads last year: Study: Westerners join Islamic State because of peer pressure, not social media. By David Holmes On November 6, 2014 I don’t say these four words often, but here we go: Malcolm Gladwell was right.

Study: Westerners join Islamic State because of peer pressure, not social media

Or at least that’s what a new study strongly suggests, supporting one of the more controversial theses put forth by the anecdote-obsessed armchair sociologist: That revolutions occur because of real world friendships and associations, not social media. Today, the Guardian reports on an upcoming study from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Science (ICSR) which finds that British Muslims who join Islamic State fighters in Syria do so more often because of peer pressure than social media propaganda. “While online recruitment plays a role, people go because they know people who are in Syria,” ICSR director Peter Neumann told the Guardian. On GMAT, Americans Fail to Measure Up - WSJ. fMRI Data Reveals the Number of Parallel Processes Running in the Brain. The human brain is often described as a massively parallel computing machine. That raises an interesting question: just how parallel is it? Today, we get an answer thanks to the work of Harris Georgiou at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, who has counted the number of “CPU cores” at work in the brain as it performs simple tasks in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.

The answer could help lead to computers that better match the performance of the human brain. How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S. In the early '70s, New York Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman received a confidential tip that American immigration authorities knew of dozens of former Nazis — some implicated in serious war crimes — who were living in the U.S.

Holtzman looked into it and discovered that it was true, and that the formerly named Immigration and Naturalization Service wasn't doing much about it. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, according to investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau. In his new book, The Nazis Next Door, Lichtblau reports that thousands of Nazis managed to settle in the United States after World War II, often with the direct assistance of American intelligence officials who saw them as potential spies and informants in the Cold War against the Soviet Union.

Lichtblau says there were whole networks of spy groups around the world made up of Nazis — and they entered the U.S., one by one. The Effort Behind George Clooney’s Effortless Charm. George Clooney was at home in Los Angeles one afternoon in mid-January, a few days before he flew to Sudan in his new role as a United Nations “Messenger of Peace” (an appointment that overlooked reports of a recent public scuffle with Fabio, the leonine model). Clooney, who is unusual in being both very famous and, apparently, at ease with the fact—he can sometimes look like a spokesman for celebrity itself—was sitting on a long pale sofa, alongside Sarah Larson, his girlfriend. Bowls of chopped salad were on the coffee table in front of them: when Clooney’s electronic pepper grinder was activated, it sent a beam of light shining down onto the lettuce, like a police helicopter.

Nine things the British don’t understand about the Germans. Never before have I compiled a list of things the British do not understand about the Germans. For several years I instead toiled, as a correspondent in Berlin, at the vainglorious task of rendering the Germans comprehensible to readers of the Daily Telegraph. With what joy I fell on evidence that these admirable and hospitable people are just like us! David Cameron seems to have made the same error. On discovering that Angela Merkel agreed with him about some aspects of EU reform, he yielded to the belief that she must agree with him about other aspects too.

Michael Wolfe's answer to Why do some people think San Francisco is the best city in the world? The Other Side of Diversity. The prevailing narrative surrounding minorities in tech relates to how beneficial employing minorities can be for a company and/or how detrimental the lack of diverse perspectives can be. I’ve searched for, and have been disappointed to find that few studies have been done on the psychological effects of being a minority in a mostly homogeneous workplace for an extended period of time. (Update: There have been some very recently published studies surrounding this topic. Oil Prices Are Dropping. So What? - POLITICO Magazine - POLITICO Magazine. Was Guy Fawkes a fall guy? Geraldine Conti's answer to What are the best new products or inventions that most people don't know about?

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Kickstarter pulls Anonabox, a Tor-enabled router that raised over $585,000. Yasuke: The African Samurai. Fossil fuels should be 'phased out by 2100' says IPCC. Studies Cast Doubt on Value of Daylight-Saving Time - WSJ. What do you do with millions of extra graduates? Navneet Singh's answer to What foreign words are not so easy to translate into English? India's Modi vows to bring back 'black money' Cheaper Energy Could Be a Mixed Blessing - WSJ. An infinite multiverse: a bad idea or inescapable? Interview: Ha Jin, Author Of 'A Map Of Betrayal' Five Reasons Why Your Financial Outlook Just Got Better. A sitting person's guide to standing up. How Daylight Saving Time Can Be Dangerous. The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years. Halloween, Weekend Storm to Bring First Flakes For Some in New England, Great Lakes, Appalachians (FORECAST) How the Average American Man’s Body Compares to Others Around The World. Even Israel's Best Friends Understand That It Is Disconnecting From Reality.

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