FORGET THE CONTROVERSY: Qatar Plows Ahead With Stunning New World Cup Designs — Business Insider/Rory Stott

        Read more: http://www.archdaily.com/523041/qatar-unveils-designs-for-second-world-cup-stadium/#ixzz37DyI5WmV   SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2014.  4:30 a.m. [GMT]

Watch It Swallow An Entire Tree In Seconds – Robert Krulwich/NPR

    They are called excavator mulchers. That’s polite. What they really do is swallow trees. This one, a DAH Forestry Mulcher,  from Quebec’s manufacturer , Denis Cimaf, consumes a 30-foot-tall, mature spruce (starting at the top, landing at the bottom) in 15 seconds. The tree that was, suddenly isn’t.   Read the rest of […]

Overtexting Reportedly Caused A Man’s Retina To Detach – Business Insider

  The diagnosis is strange because detached retinas are more commonly found in the elderly, or in those whose eyes have already deteriorated significantly. Eye expert Yu Bin told WantChinaTimes that although this is an extreme case, people using smartphones for extended periods of time often experience dry eyes or contract conjunctivitis (pink eye) and keratitis […]

This 26-Year-Old Is Raising $50 Million To Fund His VC Firm – Rebecca Borison

  Krishna Gupta   As a senior at MIT back in 2008, Krishna Gupta realized that there was a gap in the venture capital world.   There were all these students coming up with great ideas for companies, but there were few places for them to look to for support. VC firms were growing and less […]

CNN’s Isha Sesay ain’t a Nigerian expert; worse, she lacks two interviewer’s qualifications: knowledge of subject & civility – Uche Ezechukwu

Mr. Ezechukwu, Thanks for speaking the minds of millions of Nigerians about this woman who – I hate to go personal –  happens to be one of the reasons I hardly watch the CNN these days. My Significant Other called me to tune in to CNN on one of her breathless “reporting” last week and […]

For Barbara Walters, today is sign-off day from television hosting after five decades!

THE WRAP  —  Matthew Bramlet   Check out this photograph and see how many of the powerful ladies you do NOT know.  If they are more than those you know, you must be  – let me see – a “Millenia”?  TOLA.   READ THE STORY: https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/barbara-walters-epic-farewell-photo-most-powerful-female-222300902.html   FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014.  6:58 a.m. [GMT]

Meet the new editor of the New York Times – Hunter Walker

Dean Baquet, the new chief of the newsroom at the NYTimes.  Image Credit:  Wikipedia   Dean Baquet emerged as the new leader in the New York Times newsroom Wednesday after the paper’s abrupt announcement Executive Editor Jill Abramson would be “unexpectedly leaving” her position due to what publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. described as “an issue […]

Something spectacular from outer space to awe as well as shock us from complacency, hopefully – Fayth Daramola

                                                                                Blood Moon     As I was about to close my shift at the end […]

Meet The Three Female Medical Students Who Destroyed Gender Norms A Century Ago- Huffington Post

Huffington Post by Malika Rao   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/19th-century-women-medical-school_n_5093603.html   MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014.  4:07 a.m. [GMT]

The Heartbleed internet bug & what to do now that it’s been exposed – [U.S.] NPR

  http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/08/300602785/the-security-bug-that-affects-most-of-the-internet-explained?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140413&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/301006236/what-to-do-now-that-the-heartbleed-bug-exposed-the-internet?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140413&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews   MONDAY,APRIL 14, 2014.  3:35 a.m. [GMT]