1. Over half a million people are homeless On any given night, there are over 600,000 homeless people in the US according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Most people are either spending the night in homeless shelters or in
Two skeletons of a male and female have been found in a ‘lost’ chapel in Leicestershire, England after a team of archaeologists and volunteers discovered them, according to Discover Magazine. The archaeologists, who were working a four-year excavation project at the location, revealed that the
In a landmark settlement, which Navajo president Ben Shelly describes as “fair and just,” the United States government has been ordered to pay reparation amounting to $554 million for mismanaging Navajo lands. The Navajo nation is the largest indian (native american; indigenous) tribe in the
Spaceflights around the moon will be soon available for space tourism lovers, according to Space Adventures. Last May, Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation declared that special tourists will be able to travel in 2-week journey for $45-50 million, by Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The
The ALS ice-bucket challenge (which is trying to raise money for a genetically rooted motor-neuron disease affecting less than 1% of the population), has been going viral worldwide for several months. Since you are reading this on the internet right now, I will assume
Of course, the Scandinavian countries are not perfect: crime and corruption still exist there. But, the question is not if bad things happen, but at what rate. We have to examine successful strategies already in use, and take what we can borrow to apply in our
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan decided to look beyond speculation to see how effective different social change movements (to overthrow the government or liberate territory) were between 1900 and 2006. Their study, conducted at Columbia University, revealed that non-violent uprisings involved greater parts of
The Michael Brown shooting occured on Saturday, August 9th, in Ferguson, MO. Ferguson is a suburb of St.Louis in which approximately 14,297 of 21,203 residents are black. On that August night, an unarmed 18 year old black male was killed by a white Ferguson
The headline might sound dramatic, but the actual situation is a worse than I could fit in such a small space. Petroperu managed to have several major leaks during the last week of June, but news of the disaster took several days to reach
At just 5 years old, George Takei was imprisoned in an American internment camp for being a Japanese-American. Takei speaks about the events and how a segregated Japanese-American army battalion helped to break down the prejudice against them.
