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NASA Creates Mosaic of Earth With Selfies From Around the World

Even though Ellen DeGeneres’s celebrity-packed group selfie was figuratively one of the largest tweets ever after receiving over 2.7 million retweets, a new photo from NASA might literally be the biggest selfie. Using more than 36,000 selfies submitted to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA has created an awe-inspiring, 3.2 gigapixel mosaic of Earth as seen […]

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Despite Rising Prices, U.S. Housing Market Shows Flickers of Hope

According to a newly released report from Standard & Poor’s and Case-Shiller, home prices are still on the upward swing. Year-over-year, home prices in the United States have increased by 10.3%. While some say increased prices are a sign that demand has likewise increased, the fact is that the numbers just don’t support that claim. According to […]

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Free St. Louis Dental Care Clinic Draws Thousands

“More than 200 dentists volunteered to work two days straight for more than 12 hours a day,” KSDK reports. The volunteers were able to treat at 2,000 patients, but even that wasn’t enough. The clinic opened a half-hour earlier on the second day, and dentists still had to turn away more than 100 people per day. […]

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Is Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Just Another Notch on the ADHD Diagnosis Belt?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder shows no signs of slowing down. In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 11% of children in the U.S. were diagnosed with ADHD, an all time national high. According to the CDC, these numbers continue to rise. This increase has caused some experts to question doctors, wondering if […]

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Despite the Hype, Canadian Healthcare is Light-years Ahead of Its American Counterpart

Journalist and educator Trudy Lieberman recently published an editorial with Huffington Post wherein she characterizes the American and Canadian healthcare systems as being far more similar than many Americans, particularly those looking for continued improvements in the American healthcare landscape, want to believe. While on the macro scale Lieberman’s points hold up to scrutiny, tightening […]

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Radio icon Casey Kasem spotted in Washington State

Radio icon Casey Kasem has been spotted in Washington State on Tuesday. Scott Wilson Spokesman for the sheriff’s office told to reporters that “a delegation of sheriff’s deputies went to an address given by California Adult Protective Services to see Kasem”. He further said that authorities had found Kasem and his wife at the residence […]

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Deaths at tennis star’s mansion were murder-suicide, police say

Prior to setting his property on fire, the man had shot his teenage children and wife in the head. Authorities believe that the person who owned the property of tennis star James Blake on lease at Florida mansion had allegedly committed murder. Col. Donna Lusczynski of Hillsborough County sheriff said to media reporters that the […]

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Amazon and Google bash FCC’s Internet fast lane plan

Biggest companies of internet express disapproval over the government proposal to create Fast Lane for internet access. Dozens of companies- including Google, Netflix, Amazon, Face Book, Microsoft, and Twitter sent a letter asking Federal Communications Commission to rebuff open Internet proposal of FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. It is said that the proposal has granted Internet […]

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San Francisco, California State Consider Legislation Mandating Cellphone Kill Switches

San Francisco Supervisor London Breed announced this morning that she’s planning to write new legislation mandating so-called “kill switches” for all cellphones sold within the City by the Bay. Her announcement comes two days before California’s Senate considers a state-wide bill that would mandate the same technology in all cellphones sold in the Golden State. The […]

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Climate change report says U.S. is getting warmer, urges action

Throughout the country, people of United States are already facing the impacts of global warming. But, National Climate Assessment report claims that “we can reduce the degree of risks if we speed up our collective efforts”. It goes without saying that this report has been developed with the help of thousands of scientists. It is […]