The Greek government began its first mass-firing of public-sector workers in more than 100 years this week, part of an effort to lay off 180,000 by 2015 under Europe-imposed austerity. Original post on csmonitor.com Comments on reddit.com
ROME (AP) — In his most significant break with tradition yet, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of two young women at a juvenile detention center — a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual to men.No pope has ever washed the feet of a woman before, and Francis’ gesture sparked a debate among some conservatives and liturgical purists, who lamented he had set a Original post on ap.org Comments on reddit.com
Graphene, a wonder material that promises to transform the future, is already the stuff of scientific legend. As a piece of brilliant serendipity it stands alongside the accidental disc Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Explosion rivalled nuclear blast, but rock was still too small for advance-warning networks to spot. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
(Phys.org)—A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new research led by astronomers Valeri Hambaryan and Ralph Neuhӓuser. The two scientists, based at the Astrophysics Institute of the… Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
The unified web presence for the NASA Astrobiology Program which includes the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP), Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) and Exobiology Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, including people who work at major Hollywood studios. Those who are said to be suffering the most from online piracy are no stranger to sharing copyrighted files themselves. New data reveals that employees at Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox are openly pirating movies, games and other forms of entertainment while at work. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar died in San Diego on Tuesday. He was 92. Original post on thestar.com Comments on reddit.com
While the company’s shareholders rake in $16 billion per year, the average worker at America’s largest employer makes just $8.81 an hour. Original post on prospect.org Comments on reddit.com
Researchers say a large deposit of sediment in Lake Geneva is evidence of a deadly tsunami from the sixth century caused by a rockfall, and it could happen again. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of scripture: Original post on msn.com Comments on reddit.com
On Fridays, Elon Musk gathers his engineers in an old hangar in Los Angeles. The building, next to a municipal airport a couple miles south of the Hollywood Park race track and casino, is now a research and development facility for Musk’s electric car company, Tesla Motors. Musk uses these meetings Original post on businessweek.com Comments on reddit.com
But retrieving data takes three to five hours, and is potentially costly. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Moscow’s top court upholds a ban on gay pride marches in the Russian capital for the next 100 years. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Unesco has decided the Bamiyan Buddhas will not be rebuilt but a group of German conservationists are pushing to change its mind Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
With an evacuation order following last year’s atomic crisis and rampant fears about radiation, the 1,000-year-old wild horse chase was all but cancelled following last year’s disaster. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on digg.com
Most scientists say humans are still evolving. But some evolutionary benefits have left us vulnerable to contemporary health problems like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Original post on wsj.com Comments on reddit.com
A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact on development in the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a British astrophysicist at Oxford University who discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, for which Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin, said:… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on digg.com
The latest interest-rate-fixing LIBOR scandal is being heralded as the most egregious in a generation Original post on time.com Comments on reddit.com
The interest rate scandal surrounding Barclays is corruption like we’ve never seen it before. Original post on thenation.com Comments on reddit.com
On July 4 at 9 a.m. in Geneva (3 a.m. in New York), officials at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland are expected to present new results on, and possibly the discovery of, the Higgs boson, the final missing… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
Moscow city court has upheld a decision to turn down the LGBT activists’ request for permission to hold gay pride parades for the next 100 years. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our moon. Astronomers didn’t aim NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken in preparation to observe the transit of Venus… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalising clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from Britain’s Roanoke Island in the late 16th century. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The availability of in-car technologies is growing at a phenomenal rate, but some experts are concerned that the wide-spread adoption of advanced electronic components could leave vehicles susceptible to cyber hacking. Although vehicle hacking mig Original post on leftlanenews.com Comments on digg.com
An alternative timeline for the past two millennia SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Original post on economist.com Comments on reddit.com
