World Cup Sentiment Offers Insight into the Global Consciousness
Pity poor Brazil. Not only did their team get the thumping of a lifetime on July 8th when Germany beat them 7-1, but football (soccer) fans broke every record in the book by tweeting about it. With...
View ArticleCould We One Day Learn A Language By Popping A Pill?
What if learning Mandarin or Arabic were as simple as popping a pill? The idea may sound like a sci-fi movie plot point, but one well-known tech visionary believes we could one day learn a language...
View ArticleThese Gorgeous Photos Were Taken At 500 MPH
Sergeant Larry Reid Jr. just might be the flyest photographer you'll ever encounter. Quite literally. A photographer for the United States Air Force, Reid spends his days with the Thunderbirds, an...
View ArticleUber Driver Takes Passengers On Terrifying Car Chase
When Ryan Simonetti got into an Uber taxi he had no idea his car ride would turn out to be, as he describes, like an "episode of 'Cops.'" On Tuesday, the CEO of conferencing service company Convene got...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon Spends The Least Time Talking To Guests: Analysis
It seems someone is forgetting the "talk" part of "talk show" (not that we mind). Jimmy Fallon spends the least amount of time talking to guests out of other late night talk show hosts -- at least...
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Prince William, Prince Harry Take Selfie And Inspire Youth In Webcast:...
Some very lucky youngsters made history this week when they got to participate in the first royal Google hangout. Two of the most recognizable faces of the British monarchy, Prince William and Prince...
View ArticleCatch a Rising Star? 3 Things to Know Before Launching That Mobile App
Three weeks into the experiment of "Rising Star," ABC-TV execs are counting on the latest brand of live audience integration and mobile apps to pay off in brand awareness and loyalty. And they may be...
View ArticleMarty McFly's Hoverboard Is Going Up For Auction
Marty McFly’s hoverboard from “Back to the Future Part 2” is going up for auction in October. Radio Times reports the iconic film prop, which is currently valued between $17,000 and $26,000, is one of...
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How the Human Voice Is Traversing Society's Wellness-Tech Frontier
Wearables have been spilling into the mainstream consciousness, and are now -- some say -- geared to take the market by storm. Whether it's wrist bands such as Jawbone's UP, Nike+ Fuelband and Fitbit's...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From a Year of Software Engineering
In my first job out of college as an investment banking analyst, people used to joke about the long hours and frequently disrespectful treatment of junior employees as a form of "character building."...
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Apple Patent Hints The 'iPhone 6' Will Be Made Of Indestructible Glass
A new Apple patent gives more weight to rumors that the next iPhone will be made of a nearly indestructible type of glass. Apple won a patent this week for “fused glass device housings," a new method...
View ArticleHill Staffers Are Anonymously Editing Wikipedia Pages On The Horse Head Mask,...
WASHINGTON -- A new Twitter account is keeping track of all the Capitol Hill staffers -- or members -- who are anonymously making changes to Wikipedia pages. Whether it's a change to the page on a...
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Ancient Spider Ancestor 'Walks' Again In Creepy Video Simulation
An ancient ancestor to spiders was able to creep again, sort of, as a new video has recreated the walk of the 410-million-year-old beast. The arachnid's creepy gait was reconstructed based on...
View ArticleThis Chinese Solar Company Is Sponsoring The World Cup And Changing Renewable...
If you're one of the over 3 billion viewers estimated to be watching the 2014 World Cup, you may have noticed Chinese characters on the boards surrounding the pitches. "中国 • 英利 光伏入户" -- "Yingli Solar:...
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Rebuilding American Manufacturing Powerhouse
Over the past few decades, we've learned the hard way that once manufacturing is gone, engineering know-how quickly follows, and then later on innovation and our national security suffers the...
View ArticleMy Daughter's Disability Does Not Make Her Inspirational
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. One day after receiving a request from an editor at HuffPost to participate in a discussion about Stella Young's brilliant talk on Inspiration...
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If Even One Person Believes Steven Spielberg Killed A Dino, It's Too Many
At HuffPost Weird, we don't have much faith in humanity. But we do have enough faith to believe that almost nobody seriously thought this photo was real: Well, "real" in the sense that it seriously...
View ArticleNew Religious Emojis Will Include Peace Dove, Om Symbol, Crosses And More
(RNS) In addition to smiley faces, high heels and frogs, Unicode is rolling out a new batch of 250 emojis, among them a set of religious icons. Unicode is the character coding system that gives a...
View ArticleChuck Schumer Wants FCC To Reclassify Broadband Providers For Net Neutrality
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants true net neutrality -- and he's calling on federal regulators to take a big step to get there. Schumer called on the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to...
View ArticleFirst Spectacular Supermoon Of 2014 Will Peak This Saturday
Not one, and not two, but we've got a summer full of three "supermoons" ahead of us -- and the first one is set to peak this Saturday at 7:25 a.m. EDT. These supermoons -- July 12, Aug. 10 and Sept. 9...
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