A look at why birth rates vary so dramatically across states.
For the first time, the Obama administration has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes — three of whom were killed accidentally.
Nobody knows why we put “IIII” instead of “IV” on clocks.
http://gawker.com/right-wingers-always-want-to-execute-and-torture-medi-509305299
Aaaaaand, suddenly, they’re all concerned about press freedom.
Microsoft used words like “groundbreaking,” “innovative” and “immersive” countless times as it unveiled the Xbox One, but Leigh Alexander argues that all we saw a disconnected prayer to stop time.
This.
During Yahoo’s Flickr press event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer responded to a question about restricted content on Tumblr, and confirmed that Yahoo has no plans to cull controversial material…
OH THANK GAWD
“We’re not turning purple,” says Tumblr founder David Karp, who then drops an f-bomb.
This is a ballsy move for Yahoo. It needs a social networking platform, but Tumblr isn’t profitable. Tumblr is going to change soon, a lot. But you have to wonder - if Google can’t get everyone to leave Facebook, how is Yahoo going to do it?
One year ago tomorrow, social networking phenomenon Facebook went public in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the last decade. Leading up to the IPO, which valued the company at a whopping $104 billion — or 100 times earnings — the hype was intense.
The U.S. Treasury Department suspended sales of securities to local and state governments, the first of several steps it can take to keep funding the government without breaching the nation’s debt limit.
