Oil and Gas Execs Out-Earn Their Peers Thanks To the Pay-for-Luck Process
Oil prices are highly variable and completely out of the control of individual executives. So why do executives earn more when oil prices go up?
Why Do Innocent Suspects Confess To Crimes They Did Not Commit?
The Reid technique can even convince some innocent suspects that they are guilty. Suspects will sometimes reenact a crime they did not commit.
De Beers to Sell Lab Diamonds: Here’s How They’re Made
High-quality fake diamonds are made by growing layers of carbon atoms using methane and stripping hydrogen away in super-clean vessels using hot plasmas.
Michael Jackson Could Have Set a Legal Precedent
In a quite extraordinary French legal judgement, five Michael Jackson fans had successfully sued the former King of Pop’s doctor.
It’s Harder Than You Might Expect for Charities To Give Back Tainted Money
When these scandals strike, charities face a dilemma – keep the money given by the now-tarnished donor or return the tainted funds.
Cracking the Mystery of the Worldwide Hum
The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time.
Experiment Shows Einstein’s Quantum Spooky Action Approaches the Human Scale
Nothing in the formulation of quantum mechanics that mandates that it should apply only to the very small, and not to the human scale.
Why the Free Market for Drugs Doesn’t Work and What We Can Do About It
While economists generally oppose government intervention in a “free market,” the current situation cries out for change.
What Big Pharma Pays Your Doctor
Receiving money from opioid makers in one year is associated with doctors prescribing more opioids the next year, according to disclosed data.
The Real Emily Bronte Was Red in Tooth and Claw, Forget the On-Screen Romance
Adapting Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights as a romance sells better, and plays down the book’s uncomfortable brutality.
Stop Worrying About How Much Energy Bitcoin Uses
Bitcoin, and other new technologies – such as data centers, computers and before them trains, planes and automobiles – are often energy-intensive.
Manchester United vs Arsenal: Ryan Giggs’ Magic Goal in 1999
Testimonies about Ryan Giggs magic goal for Manchester United against Arsenal in the semi-final of the English FA cup in 1999.
How David Beckham Caused Global Warming: The Man U Climate Model
A plot of global temperatures and the Manchester United Climate Model reveals that half of global warming is the result of Manchester United.
Trust in Digital Technology Will Be the Internet’s Next Frontier
Online information isn’t reliable, whether it is news or search results, and social media is vulnerable to manipulation by hackers or foreign powers.
Truck Drivers Are Overtired, Overworked, and Underpaid
Research shows that economic pressure pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, contributing significantly to truck crashes.
Facebook Risks Starting a War on Knowledge After Closing Its Doors To Researchers
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics.
Race of Mass Shooters Influences How the Media Cover Their Crimes, New Study Shows
Media tend to cast the violent acts of white criminals as unfortunate anomalies of illness. For black shooters they render them as inherent criminality.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT FACES A CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLAINT FOR ILLEGAL HACKING OF MOBILES PHONES
Digitalcourage filed a complaint at the Constitutional Court against the German government for using Trojan spyware to illegally read encrypted messages.
APPLE’S TRILLION DOLLARS VALUE DOES NOT MEAN IT’S THE BIGGEST COMPANY
Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a trillion dollars valuation. Does that make it the largest company in the world? Jerry Davis, University of Michigan On Aug. 2 2018, Apple became the
Police Kill About 3 Men per Day in the Us, According To New Study
Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day, about 8 percent of all adult male homicide deaths.
Think Facebook Can Manipulate You? Look Out for Virtual Reality
As Facebook users around the world are coming to understand, some of their favorite technologies can be used against them.
Silicon Valley, From Heart’s Delight to Toxic Wasteland
Silicon Valley’s rise is well documented, but the backlash against its culture and unscrupulous corporations hints at an imminent twist in its fate.
E-Sports Might Be Too Violent for the Olympics, but Traditional Sports Are Violent Too
George Orwell once said that sport involves “…sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting”.
The Media Merger Frenzy and Its Impact on Net Neutrality
Allowing mergers like AT&T and Time Warner will profoundly reshape the American media landscape and may eliminate net neutrality.
PRIVACY SHIELD: THE FRAMEWORK THAT PROTECTS EUROPEAN PERSONAL DATA IN THE US
A privacy discussion is moving toward fruition with less public attention: the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. US$260 billion are at stake.