Super Bowl 2014 – The Harbinger of things to Come – Part 1 Mars Halftime Show:Peace,Wheat, and Pyramids Spirit World WINNER of Super Bowl 48 Good Fight: Rips Bruno Mars a New One Prepare for what? The opening of the halftime show for last night’s Super Bowl featured a group of children holding hands while standing
Report: Us Cattle Herd At Lowest Number Since 1951The lingering effects of drought across the Great Plains in recent years have led to another decrease in the U.S. cattle herd. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reports that the U.S. inventory of cattle and calves totaled 87.7 million animals as of Jan. 1. That was down
The North Star Polaris Is Getting BrighterAfter dimming for the last few decades, the North Star is beginning to shine brightly again. And over the last two centuries, the brightening has become rather dramatic. “It was unexpected to find,” Scott Engle of Villanova University in Pennsylvania told SPACE.com. Engle investigated the fluctuations of the star
Congress seeks to jack up fees on home heating oil in midst of frigid winterCongress‘ mammoth farm bill restores the imposition of an extra fee on home heating oil, hitting consumers in cold-weather states just as utility costs are spiking. The fee — two-tenths of a cent on every gallon sold — was tacked on
Police slaying of unarmed mom goes globalWhile most Americans still would not recognize the name Miriam Carey, the unarmed black mother gunned down by police in the streets of the nation’s capital after apparently making a wrong turn near the White House, the case is getting international attention. The Islamic Republic of Iran has cited
Obama to O’Reilly: Fox News Reason for My ProblemsObama twice blamed Fox News Channel for misinforming the public on issues that have bedeviled his presidency in the past year during a pre-Super Bowl interview with the network’s Bill O’Reilly. Obama spars with Fox News host in testy pre-Super Bowl interview Host Bill O’Reilly asked Obama
Currency crisis at Chinese banks ‘could trigger global meltdown’The growing problems in the Chinese banking system could spill over into a wider financial crisis, one of the most respected analysts of China’s lenders has warned. Charlene Chu, a former senior analyst at Fitch in Beijing and now the head of Asian research at Autonomous Research,
Does distopian fiction such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Suzane Collins Hunger Games serve to warn us about a totalitarian future, or does it romanticize it, implant concepts of inevitability in our minds, and serve as a roadmap to those who believe we would actually be
