Your cable box never sleeps—and hence, never stops costing you money. America’s set-top boxes suck down $3 billion worth of electricity, an environmental group said in a report yesterday. The increasingly standard HD-DVRs are especially bad, consuming more than half the energy of an average new refrigerator—roughly two-thirds…
Continue reading …If we make it past 2012 , we might not be totally out of the woods when it comes to the sun. The next 11-year cycle of increased sunspot activity—expected around 2020—may be a few years late, be less powerful than anticipated, or might not happen at all, according…
Continue reading …Want the chance to grab a bite with Julian Assange? Get in line, and bring lots of cash. WikiLeaks is offering eight people the chance to dine with its founder as a fundraiser for its secret-spilling work. Bids started Monday at about $570 a head but jumped up to $800…
Continue reading …Are you tired of liberally biased summer camps? Well then the Tampa 912 Project has just the thing for your kids. This Tea Party group is running a camp this summer that instills 8- to 12-year-olds with principles such as “America is good,” “I believe in God,” and “Government cannot…
Continue reading …Yesterday’s Rutgers Board of Governors meeting got a little awkward, with the board literally building a wall between itself and an angry audience. Dozens of students, professors, and campus workers attended the public meeting to protest an employee salary freeze and the university president’s high professor salary. But the biggest…
Continue reading …Montel Williams may once again be more popular than Maury Povich: The TV and radio personality is set to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento. Williams has been a public proponent of medical marijuana since turning to it in his battle against multiple sclerosis. “I want this to be…
Continue reading …Greece’s prime minister, struggling to ensure parliamentary approval for a crucial austerity bill, said today he would reshuffle his Cabinet and seek a vote of confidence for his new government this week. He spoke after coalition talks with opposition parties failed. George Papandreou’s announcement came on a day when central…
Continue reading …Does that look like the face of a guilty man? Former senator John Edwards may have allegedly spent more than $1 million to hide his affair, but no cash can help him hide his mugshot— CNN obtained the photos through a Freedom of Information Act request. Edwards pleaded not guilty…
Continue reading …Conventional wisdom states that governors have an advantage over senators in presidential primaries—but Nate Silver decided to run the statistics just to be sure. The result? “The advantage may be even more powerful than you think,” he writes on his FiveThirtyEight blog at the New York Times . Governors don’t…
Continue reading …The “dadchelor party”—in which soon-to-be new dads are taken out by the boys for a night of drinking—is officially a trend, declares the Huffington Post . (Other names: daddymoon, dadelor party, man-shower, diaper keg.) “I’ve been on three or four of them,” says one Chicago participant. Jokes aside,…
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