Now that Call of Duty has cemented itself as a solid zombie-killing experience, the team at Activission Publishing have made ready a push for a whole new environment for said massacres. Inside the DLC getting pumped up for release on the second of July is an Old West map with zombies. They’re back, and they’ll
Jumping back into the dating world after a divorce can seem incredibly daunting, but with a little guidance, divorcés can enter the dating pool with ease.
Relationship expert Tamsen Fadal stopped by The Talk on Monday to offer up some advice to make dating post-divorce a little less stressful.
One of the most important things Fadal advises is to start dating on your own time, and not feeling pressured if your ex enters the dating pool first.
When Google announced it was pulling Reader’s plug (which will happen next week), the outcry was loud and viral. If I may speak for those who were most wounded by the knife in Reader’s back, the announcement shock was mixed with betrayal, anger and loss. Those who built RSS reading into their lives generally placed it at the epicenter of their online activity. Anticipating life without Reader was a black-hole view — the web with a void punched into the center.
As the wailing turned practical, exporting and migrating recommendations proliferated. The commotion died down for a while, and has now resumed for Reader’s final week. Major and minor brands are jumping into the feed-reading game, seeking to sway a vocal population looking for new homes. But is a loud community of users also a large community of users? Feed-based web consumption hasn’t had this much publicity in years. Does all this product development and media attention signal a rebirth of RSS’s geeky convenience? Or are money and effort being thrown at an ephemeral market?
For the millions of homeowners who saw the value of their properties plunge during the housing crash, a new report out Tuesday that indicates home prices are increasing at the fastest clip on record comes as welcome news.
But to some housing experts and local-level real estate professionals, the spikes are worrisome and don’t reflect a truly healthy market.
“A lot of people may be making the wrong bet right now,” said Scott Samuels, a realtor in St. Petersburg, Fla., whose clients include local small investors who are betting on future rapid price increases, as well as ordinary buyers.
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The rarefied history of video art is foreign to all but a niche group of academics and art-world types. When artists first got their hands on portable video equipment in the late 60’s, they made incredibly odd things. Most of those things remained in academic obscurity—until, of course, internet video hosting exploded. Now, the strange history of video art is at your fingertips.
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WASHINGTON — In a massive restructuring, the U.S. Army is slashing the number of active duty combat brigades from 45 to 33, and shifting thousands of soldiers out of bases around the country as it moves forward with a longtime plan to cut the size of the service by 80,000.
Officials say the sweeping changes would eliminate brigades at 10 Army bases in the U.S. by 2017, including in Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Colorado, North Carolina, New York, Kansas and Washington. The Army will also cut thousands of other jobs across the service, including soldiers in units that support the brigades, and two brigades in Germany have already been scheduled for elimination.
The Huffington Post’s Daniel Koh sat down with Franklin Project co-chair Alan Khazei in Aspen yesterday to discuss the initiative’s ambitious goals with national service.
The big idea? That a year of full-time national service should become a civic rite of passage for all young Americans. Khazei also talks about the particular challenges faced by social entrepreneurs, and why service might be the answer to political malaise.
Check out real-time tweets from the National Service Summit below.
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Bill Clinton says states need to become more responsible budgeters.
Even though most states are required to balance their budgets, in practice they don’t do it, and “years of irresponsible budgeting” have led to the current crisis, Clinton said Tuesday at a symposium in Philadelphia designed to bring attention to the eroding financial condition of state governments.
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The habitable zone of a nearby star is filled to the brim with planets that could support alien life, scientists announced today (June 25).
An international team of scientists found a record-breaking three potentially habitable planets around the star Gliese 667C, a star 22 light-years from Earth that is orbited by at least six planets, and possibly as many as seven, researchers said. The three planet contenders for alien life are in the star’s “habitable zone” — the temperature region around the star where liquid water could exist. Gliese 667C is part of a three-star system, so the planets could see three suns in their daytime skies.
The three potentially rocky planets in Gliese 667C’s habitable zone are known as super-Earths — exoplanets that are less massive than Neptune but more massive than Earth. Their orbits make them possible candidates for hosting life, officials from the European Southern Observatory said in a statement. [See images of the alien planets of star Gliese 667C]
“We knew that the star had three planets from previous studies, so we wanted to see whether there were any more,” co-leader of the study Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire, U.K. said in a statement. “By adding some new observations and revisiting existing data we were able to confirm these three and confidently reveal several more. Finding three low-mass planets in the star’s habitable zone is very exciting!”
This picture shows the sky around multiple star Gliese 667. The bright star at the center is Gliese 667 A and B, the two main components of the system, which cannot be separated in this image. Photo credit: ESO
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