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A leading scientist has declared homeopathy a “therapeutic dead-end” after a systematic review concluded the controversial treatment was no more effective than placebo drugs. Professor Paul Glasziou, a leading academic in evidence based medicine at Bond University, was the chair of a working party by the National Health and Medical Research Council which was tasked…
Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest ENLARGE Dataminr says it first notified clients about the March attacks in Brussels 10 minutes ahead of news media. PHOTO: GEERT VANDEN/ZUMA PRESS By CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART and MARK MAREMONT May 8, 2016 7:54 p.m. ET 53 COMMENTS Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies…
A Brief Encounter with Alexia Tsotsis (Credit: Getty Images — I’ll get rid of it if you really want me to I promise just email me.) I did not know Alexia when I worked at HuffPost. I still don’t know her. I don’t engage with her on Facebook, I don’t write witty replies to her tweets. I’m…
Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt, left, and Jane Krakowski as Jacqueline Voorhees. (Eric Liebowitz/Netflix) The second season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” debuts on Netflix on Friday, which will no doubt send viewers on a binge-watching spree to either re-watch Season 1 or catch up on episodes they missed. Ellie Kemper stars as the titular character, who…
AddThis Sharing Buttons above Written by Victoria Myers Illustrations by Desiree Nasim April 28th, 2016 In 1944, journalist Martha Gellhorn hid in the bathroom of a hospital ship crossing the English Channel and became the only woman to land on Normandy Beach. In 1945, she was one of the first journalists—male or female—to visit and…
Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr This photo of the San Juan River Utah is among dozens of thousands I’ve put up on Flickr. it might be collateral damage if Yahoo dies or fails to sell the service to a worthy buyer. Flickr is far from perfect, but it is also by far the best online…
After a series of recent hashtag campaigns — #MyYellowfaceStory, #MyBrownfaceStory, #whitewashedOUT — in which Asian Americans and others spoke out against the lack of Asian and Asian-American representation in film, theater, and books, a new campaign launched Thursday which is propelling the conversation to the next level. #StarringJohnCho is a social movement and social media…
The last time my mother and I had an actual conversation was on Mother’s Day 2014, when she told me that I shouldn’t have bothered calling her. Switching between Russian and heavily accented English, she said it was insulting for me to wish her well on this holiday when I hadn’t done anything to make…
Chances are the last time you ate at a Sbarro restaurant, you were at the mall. For many in Generations X and Y, the weekends meant window shopping at mall chain stores — KB Toys, Waldenbooks, Sam Goody, Aeropostale — and then hitting the Sbarro at the food court. What was significant about a restaurant…
A group of young black women poised to graduate from the United States Military Academy gathered on the steps of West Point’s oldest barracks last week in traditional gray dress uniforms, complete with sabers, for a group photo. Known as an “Old Corps” photograph because it mimics historical portraits, it was nearly identical to thousands…