People Actually Smell Different When They Are Sick
Have you ever felt like you can smell someone getting sick? A new study suggests that sickness does actually have a unique odor — that of the overactive immune system. And other humans can actually...
View ArticleHow Picky Female Mice Can Show Us How To Fight Off Infections
Choosing mates based on how attractive they are to you is not as shallow as it sounds.Female mice seem to be able to choose the males they will make better babies with — babies with stronger immune...
View Article8 Predictions For China's Super-Rich In 2014
With the global elite gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum, a groundbreaking new report released yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists detailing the massive...
View ArticleThe Highest-Paid Players In The NBA On And Off The Court
The NBA has gone to great lengths in recent negotiations with the players' union to curb the growth of player salaries.One place where the top players are making more than ever is off the court through...
View ArticleTwitter's Really Cool Video App Vine Is A Year Old: Here Are Two Of The Best...
A year ago Twitter launched a video sharing app called Vine. It lets you take a six-second video and post it on Twitter and Facebook.It's a really fun app.To celebrate its birthday, Vine posted some of...
View ArticleHere's How I Found Out Who Unfollowed Me On Twitter
I noticed that my Twitter followers were beginning to dwindle. Although the number of people who followed me was a paltry number, I couldn't understand who was leaving my profile and why.Fortunately, I...
View ArticleGoogle Will Pay A Year's Salary To Hackers Who Find One Really Bad Security...
Google wants hackers to break into its Chrome OS operating system.As long as they tell Google how they did it.It announced plans for its fourth annual hacking contest called Pwnium 4, held in March at...
View ArticleTired Of Missing Deliveries? This Startup Is Your Dream Come True
Zander Adell is founder of Doorman, a logistics startup that aims to solve the famous "last mile" problem for mail and package delivery. By receiving your deliveries for you remotely and delivering...
View Article'Sherlock,' 'Downton Abbey,' And 13 Other Great British TV Shows You Can...
Several hundred channels seems like a lot. So why is there nothing to watch? That’s where Hola, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, comes in. The program disguises your device’s location,...
View Article22 Top Squash Players Working In Finance
This week, the prestigious J.P.Morgan Tournament of Champions squash event took place in Grand Central Station's Vanderbilt Hall. Squash happens to be one of the more popular sports played by finance...
View ArticleTurkey Is The Epitome Of What Can Go Wrong In The Emerging Markets
The Turkish lira (TRY) fell to new record lows on Friday.Many of Turkey's current problem relate to risks that even novice emerging market investors should know about. So in many ways, Turkey is...
View ArticleROUBINI: We Just Saw A 'Mini Perfect Storm'
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, geopolitics took center stage, while concerns about the economy faded into the background.But the global market gyrations of the last two days are a...
View ArticleThe New Mitt Romney Documentary Is Fantastic, And It Exposes The Fundamental...
"Tonight, I want to speak about what lies ahead. About the tomorrow we can build together. … That freedom, so integral to the American experience, will again propel us forward to new heights of...
View Article12 Things Successful People Do Before Breakfast
“If it has to happen, then it has to happen first,” writes Laura Vanderkam, time management expert and author of “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast.”Those among us who have managed to...
View ArticleIHOP Boosted Sales By Making Three Major Changes To The Menu
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View ArticleHere's What It Would Take For Justin Bieber To Get Deported
Since Justin Bieber's arrest for allegedly drag racing and driving drunk, Americans may be wondering whether the 19-year-old heartthrob could get deported to his native Canada.Join the conversation...
View ArticlePig Heads In Boxes Were Sent To The Israeli Embassy In Rome
Boxes containing pigs' heads have been sent to the Israeli embassy in Rome and the city's synagogue, Italian media reported Saturday.The package mailed to the embassy in the wealthy Parioli area of the...
View ArticleVC: Criticism Of The Super-Rich Is Like Nazis Going After The Jews
Tom Perkins, the founder of venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, wrote a letter to the editor in today's Wall Street Journal in which he compares criticism of the rich to the...
View ArticleThree People Dead In Mall Shooting Near Baltimore
At least three people were killed Saturday in a shooting inside a mall in Columbia, Md., a suburb of Baltimore, Howard County police said on Twitter.Police said in a news conference this afternoon that...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Used To Act Like A Brat, But Now He's One Of The Planet's...
Ten years ago this spring, Mark Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old Harvard-going know-it-all.Join the conversation about this story »
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