Submitted by IWB, on March 11th, 2016 By Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives: Pop Quiz! Without recourse to your text, your notes or a Google search, what line item is the largest asset in Uncle Sam’s financial accounts? A) U.S…. Read More ›

Is a modern womans place in the harem? Mar 11, 2016 The wife of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the harem of the Ottoman sultans as having been a good place for females. Emine Erdogan offered that view a… Read More ›

  Maya Henry, 15, from San Antonio, Texas, was thrown a $6 million party by her lawyer father Thomas J Henry Pitbull and Nick Jonas performed, Patrick Ta, who has worked with the Kardashians, did Maya’s make-up and her two… Read More ›

Public Release: 8-Mar-2016   A climate game and a game theory model show that people prefer representatives who adopt an extortionate strategy in negotiations Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Participants in major political conferences could write a book about it: negotiations constantly fail due… Read More ›

  The Modi government has not issued visas to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in time for a long planned trip to India. The goal of the Commission’s trip was to discuss and assess religious freedom conditions… Read More ›

Public Release: 1-Mar-2016   SAGE The scale of workers’ insecurity since the economic crisis is revealed in research showing that 32% believed that there was a risk of losing their jobs and 38% were anxious that their pay would be… Read More ›

Public Release: 1-Mar-2016   Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. — Is your boss always a jerk? You still may be better off than those workers whose supervisor is courteous one moment and rude the next. New research by a… Read More ›

“navigating transport networks in major cities – including London – can come perilously close to exceeding humans’ cognitive powers” Public Release: 19-Feb-2016   University of Oxford Are big-city transportation systems too complex for human minds? Many of us know the… Read More ›

Public Release: 17-Feb-2016 One billion high myopes globally by 2050 Brien Holden Vision Institute 5 billion to be short-sighted (myopic) by the year 2050 One in ten at risk of blindness Myopia to become a leading cause of permanent blindness… Read More ›

New study claims that mystery ‘hobbits’ found on Indonesian island of Flores weren’t human like us PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 16 February, 2016, 6:44pm Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens… Read More ›

Public Release: 10-Feb-2016   The JAMA Network Journals A review of euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS) cases among patients with psychiatric disorders in the Netherlands found that most had chronic, severe conditions, with histories of attempted suicides and hospitalizations, and… Read More ›

    “Unfortunately, in a case like this, where many people mistrust the government to begin with, that you would begin with our clients not being in court, statements being made against them without them there and for the conspiracy theorists… Read More ›

  Wednesday, 03 February 2016 A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches… Read More ›

Public Release: 28-Jan-2016   UCLA-led research reconstructs massive crash, which took place 4.5 billion years ago University of California – Los Angeles The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called… Read More ›

Public Release: 27-Jan-2016   American Chemical Society During the last century, private companies, as well as illustrious universities, were known for great exploratory research. But those days may soon be a memory if DuPont’s recent layoffs are any indication, according… Read More ›