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Is the New Face of the 2014 Kia Sorento Crossover? : While Kia engineers continue to test the 2014 model year Sorento Crossover in Germany at the Nürburgring and in other parts of the world under fairly heavy camouflage, the team over at Kia-World tipped us off about a single scoop image they

Volkswagen Caravelle gets Down to Business with New Luxury Edition : If there's one thing that remains unchanged from one generation of VW's van to the other, is the variety of models that cover all sorts of needs ranging from commercial editions and pickup trucks to people carriers and campers. For its latest Caravelle model, Volkswagen

This is real life. Not Tron. : This amazing photo was taken by astronaut Don Pettit on board the International Space Stations—of which you can see a chunk at the top of the frame. It's part of a whole series of absolutely stunning photos that you need to go check out as soon as you have a free 20 minutes to spend staring at your monitor and going, "Woah," to yourself over and over. Here's what Pettit had to say about the process. “My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of

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Футболист налага рефер на мач в Бразилия (ВИДЕО) : Невероятните изпълнения по футболните терени продължават, но наред с тях зрителите стават свидетели и на сблъсъци, които понякога прекрачват границите на нормалното. Един от последните такива случаи е от Бразилия, където на мача между Ирандуба и Сао Раймундо от шампионата Амазоненсе, играч на домакините нападна рефера със засилка. Това се случи след решението на арбитъра да покаже червен картон. Провинилият се играч Дерлан

What Crooks and Companies Learn When You Overshare on Facebook : You have your birthday listed on your Facebook profile, and at some point you got caught up in the local banking movement and decided to become a fan of your local credit union. In the friends list you have highlighted your family members, including your mother, whose profile is searchable under both her married and maiden names. The decision to include that information is the result of three

Is the White House Wage Gap a War on Women? : While the White House desperately paints any effort to control the size and scope of government as a “war on women,” it seems the White House has a woman problem of its own. Reports are revealing that the average female employee for the White House earns about 18 percent less than the average male employee.  It’s delicious, of course, as the Left prepares to celebrate “ Equal Pay Day ,” the feminist-manufactured holiday that supposedly represents the day when women have finally worked long enough to make up for last year’s wage gap, to have the White House face

'UFO Galaxy' NGC 2683 Spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (PHOTO) : By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/12/2012 06:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com The Hubble Space Telescope has found a UFO, but this one is filled with stars instead of little green men. The iconic space telescope snapped an amazing new photo of the "UFO Galaxy" — a galaxy 35 million light-years from Earth that is officially known as NGC 2683. "NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship," NASA officials wrote in a recent image description. The galaxy was originally discovered on Feb. 5, 1788 by famed astronomer William Herschel. It is located in the Lynx constellation in the northern sky. But it was astronomers with the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Fla., that dubbed NGC 2683 a cosmic UFO. Astronomers suspect that NGC 2683 is a barred spiral galaxy , but the edge-on view from Hubble and other te

The Advent of a Pig: Freddy Goes to Florida : During and shortly after the great Oz reread , a call came up from the comments asking me to do a Freddy the Pig reread. I must admit: my response was Freddy the what ? As I have hinted here and there and on this blog, I spent a significant amount of my childhood in Italy, where we had access to British books and those occasional American books Penguin condescended to reprint. Oz, yes. Enid Blyton, absolutely. Paddington Bear, absolutely absolutely. The Wombles of Wimbledon? Complete with the song. Freddy the

PSA: Sony SmartWatch now available in the US for $150 : What's the most useful smartwatch of them all? If you guessed Sony's, you've got reason to smile: we just got word that it's finally available here in the US of A. As expected, the SmartWatch costs $150, while those colorful (read: not black) wrist bands are priced at $20 a pop. To recap, the watch pairs with Android phones over Bluetooth, using a free app available in Google Play (if you happen to own a Sony handset, you should find that application pre-installed). Like any smartwatch worth its salt, this one lets you read emails, texts and social updates on the device. Meanwhile, the list of mini

Today In Jose Canseco Tweets As Motivational Posters: Grow [Josayings] : This is a feature where we celebrate Jose Canseco by creating motivational posters out of his actual tweets. We believe it is in this context that the world can best appreciate our favorite

How to Order Wine at a Restaurant Without Looking Clueless [Food] : Wine is often perceived as a stuffy, fussy thing, but it doesn't have to be. Sure, different flavors may go better with different foods, but in the end everyone's palate is different, and there's no reason you need to be a sommelier -in-training to order a decent wine with your meal. It's easier than you think, and we sat down

Gingrich: Left doesn't believe the Wright Brothers invented flying : Newt Gingrich via the Huffington Post : "The Left has believed for at least forty years now in a concept called Peak Oil that says 'gee, we're about to run out.' Well, it turns out that our reserves in the U.S., because of new technology, which is something that the Left rejects - they don't believe the Wright Brothers invented flying, they don't believe Edison invented electric light, and they don't believe we're about to invent the next generation of interesting things. I don't think I have met anyone on 'the Left' who seriously disputes the notion that the Wright brothers were the first to succeed at powered flight but as everyone knows, the Montgolfier brothers beat them to 'flight' by more than a

Are Stars Like Johnny Depp Bullying the MPAA Over Bully Rating—or Vice Versa? : Are the Bully filmmakers and their celebrity fans still whining about the film's R-rating? Doesn't that

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An Election 2012 Surprise: California May Matter Most : There are 172 delegates at stake in the June 5 contest -- enough for Mitt Romney to solidify a victory or Rick Santorum to deny him one. A generation ago, Ronald Reagan served two terms as California's governor before becoming president. As recently as the early 1990s, Gov. Pete Wilson hoped to follow in his footsteps. Nowadays, it's very difficult for Republicans to even win the statehouse in this increasingly blue state. A Republican majority in the legislature is unthinkable. And yet, the 172 delegates at stake in the closed primary scheduled for June 5 may put California Republicans in a position to significantly influence their party's presidential nomination for the first time in decades. As a point of comparison, New Hampshire had 12 delegates at stake, South Carolina had 25, and Florida had 50. It may

Unsatisfied By Record Profits, Oil Giants Demand $2 Billion Tax Cut To Drill In Alaska : As Alaska’s North Slope oil fields get tapped out, oil companies are demanding a tax cut of more than $2 billion a year. Last week, executives from BP and Conoco Phillips told the state senate that their companies would only increase investment in drilling if state taxes on their companies are gutted. They supported the language of House Bill 110, which would cut over $2 billion a year in oil company taxes as oil prices soar: BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. and Conoco Phillips Alaska told the Senate Resources Committee there are projects the companies could do on Alaska’s North Slope to increase oil production, but those projects will have trouble attracting capital

Brain Can Instantly Skew Perception : Scientists have long known that thoughts affect our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. In a new study, investigators found that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who’ve just eaten. But this shift occurs during early perceptual stages, before higher parts of the brain have a chance to spin the sensory input from the eyes. Rémi Radel, Ph.D., of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens — whether it’s right away, as the brain receives signals from the eyes, or a little later, as the brain’s higher-level thinking processes get involved. Radel recruited 42 students with a normal

Роботи : Родни Копърботъм е гениален изобретател, който мечтае да помага на всички роботи навсякъде по света. Родни се оказва изправен срещу злия Рачет, който е решен да спре производството на резервни части, за да увеличи печалбите на фирмата си. Така Рачет принуждава роботите да си купуват цели тела, вместо да купуват само части, с които да подменят повредените или изтърканите стари части. Родни попада в свят, където открива много нови приятели, но и

Батман се завръща : Във втория филм за Батман, физически деформираният криминален гений Пингвин е решен да унищожи Готам сити. Градът трепери и чака завръщането на Батман. Единствено Батман (Майкъл Кийтън) може да предотврати тоталния хаос и да се справи с Пингвина. Появява се и Жената