This 15-Year-Old Kid May Have Just Saved Your Life

Of all the things that happened this year, one of the most important innovations is one you probably didn’t know about. A fifteen-year-old boy named Jack Andraka has developed a cheap, easy and highly accurate paper sensor for the early   Original post on crooksandliars.com    Comments on reddit.com   

The National Memo – Obama Won’t Go After State Marijuana Legalization: `We Have Bigger Fish To Fry’

In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, President Obama made his first statement on how his administration will react to ballot measures that legalized the   Original post on nationalmemo.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Highly Educated Have Biggest Debt Problems

It’s widely accepted that unscrupulous bankers tricked unknowing consumers into loans they could not afford, leading to the financial crisis. No doubt, plenty of that occurred—underscored Wednesday with a $1 billion federal suit against Bank of America’s mortgage arm Countrywide Financial.   Original post on time.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Romney: ‘We Don’t Have People Who Die Because They Don’t Have Insurance’

Mitt Romney doubled down on his suggestion that uninsured Americans can find the care they need in emergency rooms, telling The Dispatch that people will always receive the treatment they need, and do not die or suffer because they can not pay for care. He pointed to federal law that requires hospitals to admit emergency [...]   Original post on thinkprogress.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Have the Odds of Finding Life on Mars Increased? -The August 5th “Curiosity” Science-Lab Landing

New NASA research that lays out the optimal depths and locations to probe for organic molecules like those that compose living organisms as we know them, could help the newest Mars rover scout for evidence of life beneath the surface…   Original post on dailygalaxy.com    Comments on digg.com   

Delayed Baggage Should Be Reimbursed by Airlines, Report Says – Moneyland – TIME.com

[Article amended 6/20/12] After a long flight, there’s nothing worse than waiting at the baggage claim carousel for 15 minutes only to discover that your luggage hasn’t made the trip with you. Almost every traveler has been in baggage-claim hell, dealing with lost or delayed baggage.   Original post on time.com    Comments on digg.com   

Weekend Feature: “Intelligent Advanced Versions of Earth’s Dinosaurs May Have Evolved Elsewhere in Universe”

New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs — monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans — may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe.   Original post on dailygalaxy.com    Comments on digg.com   

Saturn’s Titan & Earth -”Only Worlds in Solar System that Have Rainfall”

In image above, NASAs Cassini spacecraft chronicled the change of seasons as it captured clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturns largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 18, 2010. Dr. Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, gave a talk…   Original post on dailygalaxy.com    Comments on digg.com