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The Fourth of July is a spectacular day: barbeques, fireworks, fun in the sun (one hopes) and music, all in the name of our country’s freedom. While you’re out celebrating with family and friends, here is some strange Independence Day trivia to share, courtesy of ABC News, History.com and Fourth of July Trivia. What day […]

What’s the first thing you do when you are looking for a new restaurant, a hotel or a recommendation for a business? You may ask a friend or family member for a recommendation, but most likely you go to “Google” to search, or visit a website such as Yelp, Google Places or CitySearch to look […]

TECHMore: Mink Grace Choi TechCrunch Disrupt ALYSON SHONTELL MAY 6, 2014, 12:50 PM 735,947 Grace Choi Grace Choi   GraceChoi was at Harvard Business School when she decided to disrupt the beauty industry. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors.  “The makeup […]

Password Managers Reviewed: Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass and PasswordBox – WSJ.com There’s a war raging between hackers and companies, and you’re caught in the crossfire. Every time a company gets hacked, you have to change your password. And don’t you dare reuse it somewhere else. Dreaming up a different password for every site and service is […]

A new Gallup survey of 30,000 college graduates of all ages in all 50 states has found that highly selective schools don’t produce better workers or happier people, but inspiring professors—no matter where they teach—just might. The poll, undertaken this spring, is part of a growing effort to measure how well colleges do their jobs. […]

The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade By NINA TEICHOLZ May 2, 2014 6:48 p.m. ET “Saturated fat does not cause heart disease”—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal […]

Raise your hand if you’ve heard that you shouldn’t ever close your oldest credit card. The logic behind this piece of misguided advice seems sound at first: The average age of your credit lines affects your credit score, and the older, the better. Your oldest credit card, therefore, weights the average to lengthen the overall […]

The question of how to win at Rock-Paper-Scissors has, believe it or not, plagued mathematicians and game theorists for quite some time. While they previously had devised a theoretical answer to the question, a new experiment by Zhijian Wang at Zhejiang University in China that used real players, has revealed an interesting wrinkle to the […]