Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he and the White House have made agreements on a "fiscal cliff" solution. WASHINGTON...
The Best of Exploration: Top 8 Stories of Space Exploration in 2012
Label: TechnologyOur recap of the year’s best exploratory exploits continues today with a look at the biggest developments in space exploration. 2012 saw the stunning debut of new spacecraft (Curiosity), the continued contributions of geriatric ones (Voyager), and the first full year since the end of the Space Shuttle program. Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society nominated 8 particularly meaningful developments from...
Green Day to get back on road in March
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – The members of Green Day said on Monday they will return to the road in March after the punk rock band canceled its fall club tour and postponed later dates as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong underwent treatment for substance abuse.“We want to thank everyone for hanging in with us for the last few months,” the band members said in a statement on their website. “We are very excited...
Well: Managing Diabetes, Then Told of Cancer
Label: HealthNine years ago, Brenda Gray, a former schoolteacher in North Carolina, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes.Since then, she has learned to manage the disease, diligently taking her medicine and keeping tabs on her blood sugar. But in September, she was told she had skin cancer, and her diabetes spun out of control.Ms. Gray started an aggressive course of treatment that included radiation therapy. But...
A Year of Market Gains, Despite Political Turmoil
Label: BusinessA year ago, some thought 2012 was destined to be the year that the euro zone — and maybe even the entire European Union — broke up. The banks that supported their governments, and that in turn depended on those same governments for bailouts if they went broke, were deemed to be particularly vulnerable to disaster. It did not happen, and while the euro zone countries hardly solved their...
Dec
30
Sens. Feinstein, Graham clash on gun control
Label: World If Washington’s effort to reach a deal on the "fiscal cliff" looks daunting, just wait for the debate over what to do about...
Wired Science's Top Image Galleries of the Year
Label: TechnologyMany of our most popular posts are image galleries, and this year our readers favorite collections included microscope photos, doomsday scenarios, auroras and lots of images of Earth from space.The satellite image above of Brasilia is part of the most popular post of the year.Above:
I think it's safe to say that our readers like looking at images of Earth from space almost as much as we do. Satellite...
‘The Hobbit’ stays atop box office for third week
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week with nearly $ 33 million.The Warner Bros. fantasy epic from director Peter Jackson, based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, has made $ 222.7 million domestically alone.Two big holiday movies — and potential awards contenders — also had strong openings. Quentin Tarantino‘s...
Well: Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain
Label: HealthAnyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances. Our brains were shaped and sharpened by movement, the idea goes, and we continue to require regular physical activity in order for...
Dec
28
Some Arctic seals now officially listed as threatened with extinction
Label: World First came the polar bear. Now, the federal government has added two other marine mammals to the list of creatures threatened...
Bridge Design Defect Drops Ice on Canadian Motorists
Label: Technology Last Wednesday, over 250 vehicles were hit and two people were injured by chunks of ice that fell from the newly constructed Port Mann Bridge that spans the Fraser River near Vancouver — the second longest bridge in North America and the widest in the world. An additional 30 drivers reported damage on the nearby Alex Fraser bridge. According to the Vancouver Sun, casualties...
Matt Damon tackles “fracking” issue in the “Promised Land”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The hot-button topic of “fracking” has finally made its way to Hollywood in the new movie “Promised Land,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday, with actors Matt Damon and John Krasinski teaming up to further the debate on the energy drilling technique.The film explores the social impact of hydraulic fracturing drilling technique, or “fracking,” which has sparked nation-wide environmental...
Surgery Returns to NYU Langone Medical Center
Label: HealthChang W. Lee/The New York TimesSenator Charles E. Schumer spoke at a news conference Thursday about the reopening of NYU Langone Medical Center. NYU Langone Medical Center opened its doors to surgical patients on Thursday, almost two months after Hurricane Sandy overflowed the banks of the East River and forced the evacuation of hundreds of patients. While the medical center had been treating...
Leaders Meet at White House in Urgent Bid for Fiscal Deal
Label: BusinessT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesSenator Harry Reid, the majority leader, returned to his office after a meeting with the president and congressional leaders on Friday. WASHINGTON — President Obama and Congressional leaders met for make-or-break talks on the fiscal crisis at the White House on Friday as they struggled to find a way to head off a looming series of automatic tax hikes and spending...
Dec
27
USC football: Matt Barkley will not play in Sun Bowl
Label: World Matt Barkley winces in pain after being sacked during USC's loss to UCLA. ...
No One Uses Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks
Label: Technology People aren’t using their internet-connected smart TVs for anything beyond, well, watching TV. It turns out, nobody wants to tweet from their TV. Or read books. Or do whatever it is people do on LinkedIn. Worse, more than 40 percent of the people who buy a connected TV aren’t even using it for its ostensible primary purpose: getting online video onto the biggest screen in your home. What gives?We...
“Rescue Me” singer Fontella Bass dies aged 72
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – American soul singer Fontella Bass, who topped the R&B chart in 1965 with the song “Rescue Me,” died in St. Louis. She was 72.Bass died in hospice care on Wednesday night from complications of a heart attack she suffered three weeks ago, her daughter, Neuka Mitchell, told Reuters. Bass had also suffered from strokes in recent years.“She’s going to be missed,” Mitchell said. “Her big...
Well: Too Young to Have a Heart Attack
Label: HealthThe foreshadowing escaped me: The night before we left for our summer vacation in Michigan, I accidentally stepped on my Kindle — which, like my heart, I cannot live without — and broke it. Reduced to reading novels on my iPhone, I made the best of it several days later, sitting in a sunroom overlooking Eight Point Lake, where my family gathers each year with friends.The day before, proving to my...
Dec
26
Toyota to pay at least $1.2 billion to settle sudden-acceleration lawsuit
Label: World Toyota Motor Co. has announced an agreement worth more than $1 billion to settle a lawsuit involving unintended acceleration...
Google Music Self-Censoring Naughty Lyrics for Some Users
Label: Technology Cee-Lo’s F*#$ You has a great beat and all, but it’s not the type of thing you want queuing up with grandma in the room. No worries. Google’s got you covered. Some Google Music users complain the service is randomly replacing expletive-intensive songs with the duller, cleaner versions.The Google Music Scan and Match feature has run afoul of some users by replacing explicit...
Q & A: Should Older Adults Be Vaccinated Against Chickenpox?
Label: HealthQ. Should a 65-year-old who has never had chickenpox be vaccinated against it? A. In someone who has never had chickenpox, the vaccine would protect against a disease that is far more serious in adults than it is in children, said Dr. Mark S. Lachs, director of geriatrics for the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. After...
Toyota Settles Lawsuit Over Accelerator Recalls’ Impact
Label: BusinessDETROIT — Toyota Motor said on Wednesday that it would spend $1.1 billion to settle a sweeping class-action lawsuit by owners of millions of vehicles that were recalled for problems with unintended acceleration. The agreement, filed in federal court in California, was called one of the largest product-liability settlements in history. If the agreement is approved by the court, Toyota...
Dec
25
N.Y. gunman wrote that 'killing people' was what he did best
Label: World This time, there was a note.Before ex-con William Spengler, 62, opened fire on firefighters who had responded to a blaze at...
A Look Inside Tarantino's <em>Django Unchained</em> Comic Book
Label: Technology Django Unchained opens in theaters today, but the big screen isn’t the only way to see the newest work by Quentin Tarantino. The issue of the Django Unchained comic book mini-series from DC/Vertigo Comics is available now in comic book stores (and online), and in advance of tomorrow’s film debut, Wired has a look at the Tarantino’s introduction to...
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