Admit it, how many of us covet Converse, that classic American sneaker with a studly sense of style? Teenagers across the country aspired to own a pair of stitched-canvas, thick-laced, rubber-sole shoes synonymous with the greasers of the 1950s, nonconformists of the 1960s and hipsters of the 1970s. They were […]
Concerns are growing faster than the grass that used to cover school athletic fields across the country. That’s because more than 10,000 fields now comprise artificial turf mixed with “crumb rubber” – vulcanized tires spread across swaths of land on which baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and other sports are […]
Takata airbags have been a ticking time bomb and we are only now finding out they have been that way for longer than first suspected. What we know for certain is, there have been four deaths and more than 30 injuries linked to the defective airbags manufactured by the Japanese […]
Attention Keurig coffee drinkers: That wonderfully convenient, fast-as-lightning, high-technology machine could be making you sick. So says a holistic nutrition educator who calls herself “The Real Food Revivalist.” Her fear has to do with the clever contraption’s brewer and its cleanliness over time. “When I packed up my kitchen to […]
Sometimes three red groupers are a “tangible object”, but mostly they are just, well, uh, fish. In the summer of 2007, boat owner and Captain, John Yates was leading a fishing trip on his boat, the “Miss Katie”. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officer stopped the boat to inspect […]
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While cyberbullying continues to plague the youth population, another source of conflict is arising on social-media sites, concludes a 2014 study that tracks the computer habits of U.S. teens. Half of those surveyed said they got into an offline argument as a direct result of an online post. That number […]
The news about cyberbullying – a terrible trend involving online abuse between children, teens and young adults – just got worse. A study by McAfee, an Internet security company owned by Intel, reports cyberbullying incidents tripled in 2014. “Alarmingly…a whopping 87% have witnessed cyberbullying and 26% have been victims themselves,” […]
“Warning: The Internet advertising market is dangerous, unregulated and crawling with bots, scammers and questionable traffic. There’s a serious risk a quarter of your ads will never be seen by a real person. And even the biggest publishers aren’t safe.” So reads an effective graphic illustrating a story on Adweek […]
As U.S. consumers head into the shopping season – the weather is getting cooler, and the holidays are getting closer – it is a good idea to take extra precautions to protect bank accounts, credit cards and personal identity. Data breaches, such as the ones that affected Kmart and The […]
