Nearly 20 Percent Of Young Adults Use Their Smartphones During Sex: Survey
"The survey from Harris Interactive on behalf of startup Jumio did not ask respondents what they are 'using' the phones for. Perhaps there's something much more kinky going on here. Probably though it's just a lot of people surreptitiously glancing at their iPhones to see if they got a text or a new comment on their Facebook post."
Jobs enjoy spring rebound | Boston Herald
(Also, apropos nothing much, what is the opposite of “rebound”?)
Egg rationing in America has officially begun - The Washington Post
"The news, as the grocer suggests, comes on the heels of what has been a devastating several months for egg farmers in the United States. Avian flu, which has proven lethal in other parts of the world, has spread throughout the United States like wildfire. Since April, when cases began spreading by the thousands each week, the virus has escalated to a point of national crisis."
…it was possible to buy a thing called a burger in a place called a joint and maybe, if this was a ritzy joint, it would come with a dill pickle spear on the side, and then you would squirt some ketchup on it (the burger, not the pickle), and it was good. Now you need a degree in eatology…
DealNews Pro Tip: Find every location near you giving away free donuts, and run from one to the next during your lunch break on June 5. You might burn off the calories of half a donut!
The Justice Department alleges that the 14 soccer pooh-bahs detained so far accepted more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over a 24-year period.
It’s a presidential tradition as old as the campaign itself: When candidates visit the early primary states, they’re expected to pander to the local voters on the state’s pet issue.
In a step toward a future in which custom-grown limbs are transplanted in people, Boston researchers have regrown muscles on the chopped-off arms of rats. When they were re-attached to the rodents, vascular channels filled with blood. And when a low current was applied to the muscles, they twitched.
"Of course they are looking for who is coming in, but that doe snot mean they are not looking at what is going out."
…a city that is 99.22% white and 95% Republican…Owsley County, Kentucky is a community of about 5,000, residents earning the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Census.
Changing over to the metric system is “one of many things” the U.S. should do to become more international, he said, noting as he did on Wednesday that the U.S. is alone with Myanmar and Liberia as the only countries still not using the system. He did not go into further detail.
Mr. Perry is the latest candidate to officially enter a crowded field of Republican presidential contenders, declared and undeclared…
“Among other things, I agreed with other persons in or around 1992 to facilitate the acceptance of a bribe in conjunction with the selection of the host nation for the 1998 World Cup,” Blazer told the court.
In the last year, all three major airlines have increased the degree of eliteness necessary to book a premium economy seat well in advance, free. On United and American, this now requires reaching the 50,000-mile elite tier. Delta, true to its promise of greater exclusivity, reserves that benefit for Platinum Medallions, who fly at least 75,000 miles.And it gets worse. Oh my.
The founder of the church, Bill Levin, told The Washington Times that the IRS notified him last week of his organization’s newly approved 501(c)(3) status, which will allow individual federal tax write-offs for people who make charitable donations to the church.
Members of the First Church of Cannabis believe that smoking marijuana is a religious observance. In Indiana, the use of marijuana is still illegal, whether for recreational or medical purposes.
Masked as “reform,” the governor proposed a plan that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
The English muffin is not exactly English.
As it turns out, Thomas’ English Muffins were invented…in New York.[Tatiana Schlossberg in the New York Times]
“You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data mined and sold off for God-knows-what advertising purpose,” Cook said. “We think some day, customers will see this for what it is.”
Mike Huckabee said he wishes he could've been transgender in high school so he could've showered with girls, Buzzfeed reports him saying to a religious crowd earlier this year.
All marijuana grown for sale in Mass dispensaries must be submitted to an accredited lab, where they are tested for various compounds, including heavy metals and cannabinoids, the active ingredients in the plant. Those labs then send results to the dispensaries, which report them to the state.
“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.
A day after forcing a temporary shutdown of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of America's metadata, the Kentucky Republican said Monday night that his actions actually boosted the surveillance-reform bill known as the USA Freedom Act, which will likely pass the Senate in the coming days despite his repeated—and vociferous—objections that it doesn't go far enough protecting the privacy rights of Americans.
The footnote, a landmark in the history of civilization, took centuries to invent and to spread. It has taken mere years nearly to destroy. A footnote used to say, “Here is how I know this and where I found it.” A footnote that’s a link says, “Here is what I used to know and where I once found it, but chances are it’s not there anymore.”(The Wayback Machine is here. Or was.)
Ivy Coach offers an “unlimited package” for students for $100,000, which includes helping them throughout high school with all aspects of their college applications: testing, essays, letters of recommendation, working with high school counselors.
“Anyone who does not perform due to the sun will receive a written warning,” the rules state. A second offense is grounds for elimination from the program.
When people want to taste their ice cream with grass notes and floral undertones, it turns out, they want them without delay. Never mind that they may be standing beside a crime scene.
Under the proposed plan, the BLM estimates that it will issue 28 new coal leases, which could open up the mining of 10 billion tons of coal over the next 20 years.
To take pictures of the world around them, and to inject those photos into and across the screens that consume their mornings, their days, their nights, and a good portion of their present lives. Not to mention the entirety their future lives, as many of them report anticipating.
It turns out barely having an Internet infrastructure is a really good way to avoid the kind of "cyber-Pearl Harbor" U.S. officials have been warning about for years.
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— Esquire Magazine (@esquire) June 1, 2015
Lindsey Graham launches presidential campaign http://t.co/DSnS6TGH22
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 1, 2015
"In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons," Abadi said in an interview with Iraqiya state TV. "We lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone."
While the exact price of the vehicles varies depending on how they are armored and equipped, it is clearly a hugely expensive loss that has boosted IS' capabilities.
Though it’s clearly upsetting news that people in the U.S. can’t trust government agencies to protect their privacy, it isn’t news, and it’s comforting on some level that at least people are paying attention.
The padlocks weigh almost 45 tons all together; part of the bridge collapsed last year under their weight. The 19th-century iron grates to which many of the locks are attached will be replaced with clear panels later this year.
"GENEVA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in bike crash Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group."
