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85How many satellites orbit the Earth?
Space is big, but it can still get crowded up there. The recent collision between two orbiting satellites, including one Iridium satellite, was just an accident waiting to happen, according to debris...
4 comments76Bloomberg Lawsuit Against Federal Reserve For Not Disclosing Emergency Loans
The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Bloomberg News...
1 comment73Electronic Cigarettes Challenge Laws - Quit Smoking or Quit Nicotine?
The electronic cigarette was developed in China in 2004 and designed to replace the smoking of tobacco cigarettes and cigars. In spite of indoor smoking bans sweeping across the globe, many smokers are...
9 comments71When to Really Start Buying Stocks and Shares Again
On an almost daily basis some financial website has an article entitled something like “Is it Time to Buy Stocks?” In these times of distress everyone wants to be in at the bottom. But for the...
0 comments70Your Mobile Phone Can Bug You Even When Turned Off
In 2006, as part of the evidence amassed against the Genovese family, the FBI had to make public the fact that they could remotely activate the microphone in a mobile phone and thereby use it to listen in...
0 comments68Top 10 Most Annoying English Phrases
Just released is a book called Damp Squid that lists the most often-used and irritating phrases in modern English. As a writer, check out which phrases to avoid and vote on your own most irritating cliche.
5 comments70Great Depression 2.0 Coming Soon
Paul Farrell, writing for Marketwatch, has been stirring around that festering brew that is our financial system and with every ladle he picks up more toil and more trouble. But as so many financial news...
0 comments70We Need a Fifth Estate: Citizen Journalism
The Fourth Estate is dead. Suffocated by an avalanche of lies and propaganda, it is obvious that corporate mainstream media no longer serves its lofty ideals but is, rather, the tool of its masters....
3 comments68Why worry about life after death?
This question has been asked throughout human history. Every civilization has had its view on death and the afterlife. The thing is, nobody really knows - belief is not knowledge. But there are ways to stop worrying about death.
1 comment65How Much is the World Worth?
An alien race visits planet Earth and they like it so much they want to buy it. “How much is it worth?” they enquire. Hard one to answer. The data that is most available is the gross world product; the...
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