Monthly Archive: August 2018
What you need to know if you were a MOBE customer by Alvaro Puig Consumer Education Specialist, FTC We recently wrote about steps that the FTC took to stop MOBE, an internet business-coaching scheme that was promoting a bogus online business opportunity to …
by Brandon A. Weber – Residents of Dade county, Florida, use electronic voting machines to cast their votes at a local polling station 29 October 2004, in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo credit ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) It’s a time-honored tradition …
by Mike Colagrossi – Shangri-La concept art, Far Cry 4, Wikimedia Commons. Throughout history, mankind has often been enthralled by stories of mythical places, cities, and paradises shrouded in secrets and lost to the sands of time. These legendary locations pervade all great …
Ben Coxworth – The Polaris Slingshot Grand Touring might even make other Slingshot owners take notice. Even though it was first introduced four years ago, the three-wheeled Polaris Slingshot is still quite the attention-getter when spotted “in the wild.” Should you …
America’s Ozone Problem Has Now Spread to Its National Parks Humans can’t leave good things alone, huh? By Peter Hess – Who doesn’t like escaping into the wilderness to get some fresh air reset their brain from the stresses of civilization? Well, we …
Rich Haridy – Mada’in Saleh: Winner in the Nature category (Credit: Gabriel Scanu). The Drone Awards is a new photography competition dedicated to the emerging art of aerial photography. This year’s inaugural competition has just revealed its winning snaps, a spectacular assortment …
by Philip Perry – What qualities define a good leader? Is it vision, the ability to understand and negotiate with people, drive, an expectation of excellence, or a stunningly brilliant intellect? A new study finds that the last one may actually be …
by Robby Berman – The dangerous Comet Swift-Tuttle in 1992. (Credit: Jim Scotti, University of Arizona). The Perseids are arguably the most famous annual meteor shower. Silently streaking across the mid-August heavens each summer, it’s a profound and beautiful event for anyone …
by Frank Jacobs – The Yangtze alone discharges as much as 1.5 million tons of plastic waste each year. Cheap, durable and multifunctional, plastic is one of humanity’s most successful inventions. From the 1950s to 2015, we’ve produced 8.3 billion metric tons …
by Robby Berman – Plants learn and remember (Pakorn worasang/immfocus studio/Big Think) Monica Gagliano studies learning and memory in plants. She’s an “evolutionary ecologist” who performs behavioral experiments on plants that are adapted from studies of animal intelligence. Her work has convinced her …
