“Try not to worry too much about your grades” – this is the classic line our professors spoon-feed to us in the name of education. “To know thyself,” as the ancient Greeks once said, is infinitely more valuable than academic praise or the material payoff of an undergraduate degree. However, what happens when this belief […]

In a recent interview with Shape, vegan “House Of Cards“ actor, Kate Mara, discussed her passion for animal rights and her reason for becoming vegan. To help balance her life and all its exciting new and different facets, Kate credits these five personal truths. Discussing Mara’s “five personal truths,” which are defined as what helps “balance her life and […]

Two prominent Iranian diaspora opposition groups welcomed Saturday’s U.S.-led air strikes on Syrian chemical weapons facilities, saying the operation will help save lives in Syria’s civil war. Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) political director Majid Sadeghpour told VOA Persian via Skype that the U.S. and its allies should go further with their military action […]

There’s always been one place I’ve wanted to go to above all others. Ever since my father showed me the Indiana Jones films at age 10, I’ve associated Petra, in Jordan, with spirit and adventure. Indiana Jones shaped my early childhood dreams. I too wanted to travel the world in search of fact. (Not truth. If truth […]

Beyonce returned spectacularly to the stage Saturday with a joyous, homecoming-themed party at the Coachella festival where she delighted fans with a rare reunion of her former trio Destiny’s Child. Before a sea of some 100,000 people in the southern California desert, the pop superstar headlined the second night of the premier global music festival, […]

  We’ve seen various demonstrations of their foldable screen technology, but how exactly that was going to be incorporated into the final device is unclear – save for a few discovered Samsung Galaxy X patents. Even those parents don’t give us a good idea of how the phone will be constructed, however, as they only serve as a legal […]

We speak to scientists behind a new mission to find nearby exoplanets that could host life. TESS, a new NASA planet-hunting spacecraft, is set to write the next revolutionary chapter in astronomy by revealing more details about the nearest exoplanets and, perhaps, uncovering the first signs of life seen beyond our spinning rock. For centuries […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took home just $1 for his annual base salary last year, but the company shelled out nearly $9 million on his security and private planes. A new public filing shows Facebook significantly increased the amount it spent on keeping Zuckerberg safe in 2017, upping such expenses more than 50% from the […]

A cryptocurrency dedicated hedge fund called the Pantera Capital Management argued in the newsletter they made in April that BTC price might have just a low of $6,500. On the other hand, the cryptocurrency would reach the $20,000 price level just before the year ends. This is according to a report on Friday, April 13 […]

(NEW YORK) — It was supposed to be unsinkable. The RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that attracted some of the richest people in the world to sail on it. On its maiden voyage, the ship left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, with more than 2,200 people aboard on its way to New York […]