10/03/2014 - 20:00
After what seemed like an eternity of baby steps and rare glimmers of hope, the jobless rate dipped to a new low – 5.9 percent in September, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
09/29/2014 - 18:42
Is Mother Nature out to get us, or are we out to get Mother Nature? Scientists report that human-caused climate change affected some -- but not all -- extreme weather in 2013.
09/26/2014 - 08:31
Traffic cameras are making news in Toledo, Ohio, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in Washington, D.C. Indeed, motorists in numerous cities across the country wish to fire robocop.
09/15/2014 - 16:06
Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. In all that time, countless movies have focused on the French Resistance, the plight of prisoners of war, D-Day, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge and the Holocaust. Even so, the movies keep coming.
09/11/2014 - 07:43
When you wander by the corner library, do you wonder whether it will someday be replaced by a grocery store, or worse, a pawn shop?
09/05/2014 - 07:15
Even though the unemployment rate – at 6.1 percent – changed little in August, a wariness plagues the American workplace.
09/04/2014 - 12:35
What if you were a bleeding-heart liberal living in a backwater Georgia town thick with Republicans or a staunch conservative living in the heart of liberal Boston? Would you express your political opinions or keep your mouth shut?
08/22/2014 - 15:33
It's hard to believe that the news about Ebola could get worse, but apparently, it can. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Aug. 22 that the extent of the virus has been underestimated.
08/20/2014 - 05:28
We already have
robots working in factories, drones flying military missions and even robo-waiters taking orders in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and mainland China. But will a mechanized evil twin soon come for
your job?
