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Bed Bugs on airplanes             Big Surprise: Bed Bugs Are Now Flying Business Class (Image via Wikipedia) Melanie Haiken, Contributor Forbes  Just because you haven’t heard much about bed bug-infested airplanes doesn’t mean that economy or business class seat is free of the icky pests. While the topic hasn’t hit […]

NASA’s massive Curiosity Rover nears launch toward Mars By John Matson Scientific American Don’t be fooled by the innocuous name—Curiosity, NASA’s new Mars rover, is a brute. Curiosity, which is slated to launch Saturday morning on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, is the biggest planetary rover ever built. […]

Malls in U.S. track shoppers’ cell phones on Black Friday CNNMoney NEW YORK- Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year’s Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. — will track guests’ movements […]

Facebook Tracks Websites Members, Non-Members Visit By Meghan Packer WFMY 2 CBS Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point    GREENSBORO, NC — There are about 800 million people who use Facebook. If you’re one of them, you may be interested in knowing the social media giant is tracking other websites you visit.   Facebook officials have admitted the company […]

Caesars group wants high-end casino in Baltimore State commission expected to decide by March By Annie Linskey The Baltimore Sun   The head of Caesars Entertainment Corp. promised Monday to bring a “world-class” Harrah’s casino to Baltimore that would be marketed heavily to 43 million gamblers in the company’s rewards program if his group is […]

Masters of the Game and Leaders by Example   Photo: Richard Perry/The New York Times           From left, James Black Jr., Justus Williams and Joshua Colas competing in Manhattan last month. Their success is a “phenomenon,” one veteran player said.   By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN The New York Times   Fewer […]

Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey Ultra-filtering Removes Pollen, Hides Honey Origins by Andrew Schneider Food Safety News   More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been […]

Americans Have Fewer Close Friends Compared to 25 Years Ago By: Shauna Wright While social media sites may have increased Americans’ overall number of acquaintances, new research slated for publication in a journal called ‘Social Networks’ shows the number of people we claim as close friends is now lower than it was 25 years ago. […]

Is this the largest wave ever ridden? By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com Garrett McNamara rode what members of his group implied was the largest wave ever successfully negotiated during a tow-surfing session Tuesday off the coast of Nazare, a small fishing town 70 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal. The wave face measured “around 90 feet,” according […]