* Radiocarbon analysis reveals Ancient Egyptian civilization began 1,400 years later than our current estimation. * Female doctors and health professionals are paid 25% less than their male coworkers—25 years ago it was 20%. * The paucity in philosophy of women and people of color is often blamed on [women and
* For the past six years, the DEA has had access to AT&T phone records dating back to 1987. * With new variations emerging daily, synthetic drugs stay ahead of law enforcement, though not the ER. * Serial killing is down and the peer-to-peer economy is booming: Once again,
* Ten months after "civil unrest" began, Britain OK'd sales of nerve gas chemicals to Syria. * Syria's first lady spends while her country burns. * This very lexicon...that found its way into Heaney’s most public poetry is the same one we are speaking regarding
* They may just be the first YouTube videos to start a war. * Paleontologists announce the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in British Columbia, expect their dig will produce more. * Researchers say thinking about money problems clouds your faculties, makes it harder to solve other problems. * Why NFL helmets will
* Washington Post obtains the NSA's "black budget" from Snowden, showing precisely how the "espionage empire" spends its money. * Everyone forgets that the "March on Washington" was the "March for Jobs and Freedom." * White House and Congress work to end "
* American and British lawmakers try to slow their countries' increasingly fast march toward a strike on Syria. * From the Onion, "Syria Conflict Intensifies As Bears Enter War." * South Korean paper reports Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend has been executed for violating North Korea's
* UN weapons inspectors will leave Syria on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule. * White paper: Military interventions in favor of the rebel faction tend to increase government killings of civilians by about 40%. * Group proposes naming storms after lawmakers who deny climate change. * In South Africa, synthetic drugs with ingredients
* At the front lines of the chemical attacks in Syria. * Another look at the "red line": When chemical weapons are worse than conventional killing. * An internal debate over bombing Syria. * The pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army takes down the New York Times, attacks Twitter and HuffPo in the
* Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson credited for encouraging King to speak about his dream. * Related: Jackson sings "Closer Walk With Thee" at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1970. * California rim fire that threatens to disrupt Yosemite and San Francisco water supply can be seen from outer space. * In Thailand, "
* "While unceasingly observing and witnessing the heartbreaking bloodshed," Syrian Comment explains why intervention isn't viable. * One of America's most respected bankruptcy lawyers moonlights as a new-age healer, claiming his "energy hand" works. * If you are what you do, what are you
