The retail giant IKEA is one of the world’s largest furniture makers, using one percent of the global wood supply each year to make about 100 million pieces of inexpensive, smartly designed furniture sold through its international network of stores. Harvard University is the symbol of American intellectual and political power – producing eight US…
Facebook may prevent its users from using fake names, a German court said on Thursday, overturning a previous order from the Hamburg data protection authority. The ruling is a coup for the social network firm which has long argued its real-name policy ensures people know who they are sharing and connecting with and protects them…
In light of both the horrifying scenes of an Anaheim Klan rally this past weekend and the awkward political mainstreaming and grudging political repudiation of hatemongers like the Klan, American Renaissance, Daily Stormer, Louis Farrakhan and Stormfront, both sides of the political spectrum need to engage in introspection. For Republicans, it is unacceptable for any…
Scientists have recorded sounds from the deepest part of the ocean — and they were amazed by what they heard. Researchers used a titanium-encased microphone, or hydrophone, to detect sound waves more than 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in the Challenger Deep seabed at the bottom of the Mariana Trench near…
