Italian Catholic Church to pay property tax from next yearItaly's Catholic Church will be forced to pay taxes starting in 2013 after the EU pressured the country's government to pass a controversial law stripping the Church of its historic property tax exemption.The Catholic Church in Italy is excluded from paying taxes on its land if... Continue Reading →
Hyde Park on Hudson – Official Trailer
http://youtu.be/ic3rsg6mQlA In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Academy Award nominee Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York -- the first-ever visit of a reigning English... Continue Reading →
Ever wonder how people manage to get by on minimum wage? Oftentimes, they don't...
10 explosive bubbles that will kill capitalism1. Health-care Bubble: Forget court, elections — health care will implodeDr. Marcia Angell, of the Harvard Medical School, writes in HuffingtonPost: “Why the Court’s Ruling Is Bad for Obama and Bad for American Health Care.”“The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare puts me in mind of the old proverb:... Continue Reading →
10 explosive bubbles that will kill capitalism
Roboy team aims to build robot toddler in nine months Roboy doesn't look very endearing at the moment. In fact, it looks more like a cyborg skeleton than a charming child, but it’s still a work in progress. The laboratory’s goal is to build Roboy in only nine months. Work began last June with 15 project... Continue Reading →
Roboy team aims to build robot toddler in nine months
Does Recession Mean a Crime Wave is in the Offing?The severe economic recession has brought about the possibility of a crime wave occuring in the future. The soaring unemployment rate may mean that more desparate people will resort to crime to obtain money. At the time of this writing, the official U.S unemployment rate has... Continue Reading →
Does Recession Mean a Crime Wave is in the Offing?
The Census Dotmap contains one black dot for every person in the US, and nothing elseThere are 308,450,225 dots on the map you see above. One for every person living in the United States, based on data from the 2010 Census. It doesn't seem plausible when you're looking at the entire country; metropolitan areas seem... Continue Reading →
The Census Dotmap contains one black dot for every person in the US, and nothing else
Approaching comet may outshine the moonDec 28 (Reuters) - A comet blazing toward Earth could outshine the full moon when it passes by at the end of next year - if it survives its close encounter with the sun.The recently discovered object, known as comet ISON, is due to fly within 1.2 million miles (1.9... Continue Reading →
Approaching comet may outshine the moon
Vertical Harvest of JH: A Growing System for ChangeVertical Harvest will be the first of its kind: A three story vertical farm built on an infill piece of land that will grow fresh, local produce in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, extending its four month growing season to all year round. What makes this project truly unique is... Continue Reading →
Vertical Harvest of JH: A Growing System for Change
Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium GenomeWe have synthesized a 582,970–base pair Mycoplasma genitalium genome. This synthetic genome, named M. genitalium JCVI-1.0, contains all the genes of wild-type M. genitalium G37 except MG408, which was disrupted by an antibiotic marker to block pathogenicity and to allow for selection. To identify the genome as synthetic, we inserted “watermarks”... Continue Reading →
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