Sep 18 Crowdsourcing raises more than $76k for homeless good samaritan Screenshot Glen James, a homeless man living in Boston, received a special citation from the city's police department in honor of a good deed. The deed? Turning in a lost backpack containing almost $40,000 in traveler's checks… Continue reading
Sep 18 Today in history: Voyager snaps first ever photo of Earth with the moon NASA On this day in 1977, Voyager 1, a NASA-launched spacecraft, took the first photo of the Earth and moon together in a single frame. Thirty-six years later, Voyager 1 became the first manmade object to… Continue reading
Sep 18 Iran releases a dozen political prisoners Lawyer Nasrin #Sotoudeh with her family after being released earlier today. #hope #iran #progress pic.twitter.com/I8rk49JAEP— Meet Iran (@MeetIran) September 18, 2013 Arrested in 2010 on charges of acting against national security, Iranian… Continue reading
Sep 18 House cancels recess, will return Sept. 25 .@ljspbs reports the House just announced recess is scrapped for next week. They'll come back to town Wednesday.— Christina Bellantoni (@cbellantoni) September 18, 2013 Majority Leader Eric Cantor issued the following release: On Wednesday, September 25,… Continue reading
Sep 18 Video Series Sheds Light on Indie Side of Alaska .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Alaska Public Media's video series… Continue reading
Sep 18 Going to Starbucks? Leave your guns behind Creative commons photo via flickr user imacgyv0r We are respectfully requesting that customers not bring weapons into our stores. Here's why: http://t.co/tKLw2nImvo— Starbucks News (@Starbucksnews) September 18, 2013 To be clear, Starbucks hasn't completely… Continue reading
Sep 18 Oh mamma mia mamma mia! Master's thesis on gravity riffs epic Queen classic .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Timothy Blais, a master's student… Continue reading
Sep 18 Decoding Bernanke and the latest Fed decision Watch the livestream here. Here's a quick and early roundup of some of the thinking behind today's decision and its impact as explained by Neil Irwin from his liveblog of the Ben Bernanke press conference. Neil… Continue reading
Sep 18 WATCH: Bernanke on Fed announcement .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The Federal Open Markets Committee… Continue reading
Sep 18 AP: Death toll in massive Mexico flooding rises to 57 from Tropical Storm Manuel The probable path of Manuel. Click to see larger version. Image by NOAA. Desperation mounted Wednesday in the cut-off resort of Acapulco, where residents looted a store and thousands of exhausted, despondent tourists waited to be ferried… Continue reading