According to the CDC, the number of obese people in the United States has remained relatively the same as 10 years ago. In 2009, the CDC said that nearly 36 percent of adults and 17 percent of children were considered obese. These high obesity rates have stayed constant. These numbers have only increased slightly since […]
You’ve got former Vice President Dick Cheney having arisen from his chamber of doom to criticize the Obama Administration for it’s handling of Iran. Mind you this is the same Dick Cheney who pushed for the war against Iraq due to reports of weapons of mass destruction which cost thousands of American lives and hundreds […]
Olympus Corp. has taken legal action against 19 people including its president in regards to their roles in a $1.7 billion loss cover-up. The company is demanding in lawsuits that former president Tsuyoshi Kikukaware pay $47 million. Olympus Corp. alleges that he had a key role in the scandal, which has rocked the world’s confidence […]
A deal has been reached between Amazon.com and the state of Indiana on the issue of sales tax. Beginning in 2014, Amazon.com will voluntarily start collecting sales tax on all sales. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels alongside Amazon executives made the announcement during a recent news conference. Daniels said the Internet giant agrees with the state […]
According to scientists, a mineral thought only to be unique to the moon has been found among rocks in Australia and is dated to be more than one billion years old. Scientists have dubbed the mineral rock tranquillityite, named after the Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 landed in 1969. It was the first of […]
Korean electronics company Samsung gives thanks to Apple for all its free publicity due to the legal battle regarding the Galaxy Tab. According to Samsung Australia’s Telecommunications VP Tyler McGee, Apple inadvertently made its tablet computer a name that all households know. The company believes the legal battle has done more good in advertising than […]
The US and the rest of the world is still in shock at the accusations toward Penn State University that several boys had been the victims of abuse at the hands of the faculty there. Not only was a former coach pointed to as the prime culprit but it was soon discovered that others who […]
In an announcement that stunned the medical community and industry this past week, doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in California announced that their clinical trials using adult stem cells has resulted in astonishing improvements for patients who had suffered both heart attacks and resulting congestive heart failure. The improvements were so astonishing that further […]
Researchers from the United States and India are in the process of developing a device that could diagnose tuberculosis in symptomatic patients. The handheld device is known as the Electronic Nose and is similar to the breathalyzer that police use to detect alcohol on a person’s breath. The Electronic Nose will have sensors that were […]
The United States has sure put the fear of technology in terrorists around the globe utilizing their drone robotic weapons and it might be the first wave of how warfare is done in the future. The drones come in several configurations and are basically remote controlled devices that fly, hover and then then unleash weapons […]