Right now, there are about 170,000 metric tonnes, or about 187,000 tons, of gold above ground on the planet Earth. If it were all melted down and cast into a…
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It’s very fashionable online nowadays to criticize early adopters of Google Glass, the computerized glasses. Commenters regularly deride people who appear in public wearing Google Glass, referring to them as…
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A group of six Iranians, arrested on Tuesday for filming a video tribute to Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy,” has been released on bail, reports from Tehran suggest. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia…
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Liberal bloggers are now spinning Barack Obama’s inaction on the Ukraine crisis as an intentional strategy, as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin pulls his troops back from the border with Ukraine. But while…
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Israeli churches have been vandalized with anti-Christian graffiti, as Pope Francis prepares to visit the Jewish State from May 24–26. Offensive slogans, such as “Jesus is garbage,” “Death to Christians,” and “We…
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Is the 9/11 Memorial Museum a place for Americans to mourn and pay respect to the fallen — or a place to commercialize and generate revenue? That’s the question pundits…
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A full 12 years and 249 days after the tragedy that redefined America, president Barack Obama dedicated the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York today, telling attendees that “nothing…
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In Turkey, grief-stricken family members and friends wait outside hospital entrances in the hopes of seeing their loved ones come out alive. A coal mine near Soma, a town in Western Turkey, exploded into…
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One quarter of the globe’s adult population is “deeply infected with Antisemitic attitudes,” according to a new survey published by the New York City-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The survey also found…
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When Benny Goodman recorded a song about “a slow boat to China,” it was talking about the longest trip imaginable. Today of course we can fly to China; the trip from…