Look out, Scott Brown: Elizabeth Warren will indeed go after your Senate seat. A host of news services—including the Boston Globe , the Huffington Post , Politico , and the AP —say the consumer advocate will formally launch her 2012 campaign tomorrow in Massachusetts. She’s been hinting at a run to reclaim…
Continue reading …A new camera system can reportedly read lies right off our faces. Scientists in Britain have combined video, thermal imaging, and algorithms to scan faces for signs of lies, the BBC reports. The system gets it right about two-thirds of the time, say its makers. The researchers worked with Britain’s…
Continue reading …US News and World Report has released its latest college rankings, and it’s full of the usual suspects, with Harvard, Princeton, and Yale topping the list; not much has changed since last year . Among liberal arts colleges , Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore lead the pack. The magazine also presents its best…
Continue reading …A new study suggests SpongeBob is a menace to kids’ attention spans, but he won’t be disappearing anytime soon from the TV screens in Mary Elizabeth Williams’ house. “The study—and the response to it—say much about adult expectations of children,” she writes in Salon . Kids who can stay…
Continue reading …Dianne Feinstein says her campaign was one of those ripped off by allegedly an fraudulent Democratic campaign treasurer Durkee, she tells the LA Times . Kinde Durkee was arrested on fraud charges two weeks ago, with California Reps. Loretta Sanchez and Susan Davis listed among her alleged victims; Davis dubbed her…
Continue reading …Pablo Escobar has made the transition in death from feared drug lord to Disney-esque tourist attraction. Visitors to Medellin, Colombia, can now shell out $40 for a three-hour tour of Escobar’s favorite haunts when he ruled the city in the 1980s, reports the Guardian . The tour includes a stop at…
Continue reading …Go figure: Horses wearing the numbers 9, 1, and 1 won the first three races at Belmont Park on the anniversary of 9/11, reports the New York Post . “The odds were probably about a million to one,” says the trainer at the stable that owns the first two winners. Not…
Continue reading …More proof celebrities are just like us: They get weird pregnancy food cravings, too. The Sun reports that Beyonce is already hankering for some pretty weird combinations, which, perhaps too predictably, include pickles. “She’s snacking on Oreo biscuits and gherkins,” says a source. Also, “Bounty ice creams with hot chili…
Continue reading …Casey Anthony isn’t welcome at her parents’ home—at least not while George Anthony is there, he tells Dr. Phil McGraw. More bits of the Anthonys’ interview with Dr. Phil are trickling out, and the AP reports that while Cindy Anthony was slightly more forgiving of the couple’s daughter, she…
Continue reading …There’s a veritable car pool lane connecting Capitol Hill to K Street, according to a new study, which found that almost 5,400 ex-congressional staffers and nearly 400 former lawmakers have taken jobs with lobbying firms over the past decade. The road goes in the opposite direction as well, with…
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