They met in college, two highly regarded basketball players who seemed to have the same winning touch on the court and off.After...
Blind, Fuzzy Moles Smell in Stereo
Label: Technology Tiny-eared and blind, common moles search for tasty meals – like crushed-up earthworms – with their noses. Now a study suggests that these unconventionally adorable critters find their food by smelling in stereo, by detecting small differences in the strength of an odor between the two nostrils.The study “shows quite directly that stereo olfaction helps with finding food,” said Upinder Bhalla,...
DealBook: $24 Billion Buyout for Dell, Biggest Since 2007
Label: Business9:32 a.m. | Updated Dell announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24.4 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.Under the terms of the deal, the buyers’ consortium, which also includes Microsoft, will pay $13.65 a share in cash. That is roughly 25 percent above where Dell’s stock traded before...
Feb
04
Suspected child molester left L.A. archdiocese for L.A. schools
Label: World A former priest and suspected child molester left employment with the Los Angeles archdiocese to work for the L.A. Unified School...
Palm-Sized Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War's Latest Spy Drone
Label: Technology British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user. This is the Black Hornet. Its Norwegian manufacturer, Prox Dynamics, bills it as the world’s smallest military-grade spy drone, with a weight of 16 grams and a length of 4 inches. Propelled by two helicopter blades, the Black Hornet carries little more...
Following Super Bowl, Beyonce announces world tour
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce was just warming up at the Super Bowl: The singer has announced a world tour.“The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” will kick off April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia. The European leg of the tour will wrap up May 29 in Stockholm, Sweden.The tour’s North American stint starts June 28 in Los Angeles and ends Aug. 3 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Barclays Center.It was also announced Monday that...
Recipes for Health: Quick One-Dish Meals, Some Cooking Required — Recipes for Health
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesThis week, in response to readers’ requests on the Recipes for Health Facebook page, I focused on quick one-dish dinners. You may have a different opinion than I do about what constitutes a quick meal. There are quick meals that involve little or no cooking – paninis and sandwiches, uncomplicated omelets, scrambled eggs, and meals that combine prepared items with...
Bucks Blog: The Question You Should Be Asking About the Stock Market
Label: BusinessCarl Richards is a financial planner in Park City, Utah, and is the director of investor education at the BAM Alliance. His book, “The Behavior Gap,” was published last year. His sketches are archived on the Bucks blog. With the stock market up more than 100 percent from those scary days in early 2009 and up 16 percent in 2012 alone, we’re now hearing plenty about how small investors are getting back...
Feb
03
L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
Label: World It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Wheatley Crater on Venus
Label: TechnologyMagellan radar image of Wheatley crater on Venus. This 72 km diameter crater shows a radar bright ejecta pattern and a generally flat floor with some rough raised areas and faulting. The crater is located in Asteria Regio at 16.6N,267E. Image: NASA/GSFC [high-resolution]Caption: N...
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