Новости за 12.05.2016

I had to draw the line at sex toys.

A Facebook invitation titled "Girls Night In!!" promised games, wine, and "an evening of fabulous fun" at a friend's house. I read on for the rest: Would I be interested in tips and tricks to improve my relationship? And what about the chance to learn about a brand new line of products — no pressure! — from an exciting company called Pure Romance?

By then, I'd become accustomed to these kinds of parties, where friends who work for multilevel marketing companies try to sell me their wares. Читать дальше...

Chait's right. It's the idiocracy. It isn't just a movie anymore, and it isn't just fantasy. It's the Republican Party:

Think twice before making a scene at the pick-up window: They have a naughty list.

It's time you uncovered those shoulders. Your days of flaunting cleavage and baring midriff are done—this summer's trendiest accessory is the clavicle. And...

On June 9 California will join four other states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — in allowing physician-assisted suicide. Meanwhile, my state, Arizona, and a dozen or so others are considering their own “right to die” laws. As a hospice physician, about twice a year I am asked by a patient...

Ah May, when flowers are blooming, allergens are wafting and aggrieved college students are mewling about commencement speakers whose politics don't sufficiently hew to the ultra-liberal standards set by the campuses' most outspoken activists.

Eleven people are vying for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Janice Hahn, who is running for a spot on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Two of the 11 stand out from the rest: state Sen. Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) and Nanette Barragán, an attorney and former member of the...

To the editor? Thank you for calling out the city of Oakland and its partner the California Capital and Investment Group for misleading the public about coal transport being included in their plan for redeveloping an old Army base and their willingness to cause damage to the global environment...

Good morning. It is Thursday, May 12. A 12-by-5-foot sinkhole opened up in San Francisco thanks to a broken sewer line. “Holy moly — this is insane,” said one onlooker. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to disclose their funding sources so that readers can judge the possibility of bias, and the British Medical Journal recently required authors to disclose their data as well so that experts...

When he's in the middle of making a movie, Seth Rogen doesn't like to talk about the possibility of a sequel – even in jest. Why jinx things?

Since I moved to California 25 years ago, San Francisco has been the focus of my trips to the Bay Area, and I’ve loved it. But after hearing so much about how Oakland, across the bay, has become a new hipster haven, last month I made a day trip from San Francisco and found it lived up to the hype....

On Thursday the California Assembly is expected to vote on whether to place a question on the November ballot targeting the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. That's the controversial 2010 ruling in which the court held that the 1st Amendment allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts...

“Nothing is perfect,” Mark de Silva writes in his debut novel, “Square Wave.” “And no process, not at all, is really, truly stable.” In other words, progress is a myth, process our reality. Process — unstable, imperfect — is the true movement of the universe, a vacillation between zenith and nadir...

At best, a collaboration can breathe new life – and a new stream of customers – into brands. At worst, a collaboration causes fans and sometimes critics to scratch their heads. The popular fashion site Racked even parodied some of these with an Improbable Collaboration Generator tool that spit...

A Kent man was arrested at Stansted Airport and charged with actual bodily harm after a reported assault.

BI Intelligence

The connected car is already on the market and generating significant revenue for car makers and tech companies. 

Over the past year, there has been a significant uptick in the number of connected cars on the road. And as internet integration becomes more commonplace, the automobile as we know it will transform.

Over the next five to 10 years, this internet integration is expected to change the car ownership model, create a new platform for consumers to access content... Читать дальше...

Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about Thursday.

Heather Dubbeldam’s ‘Skygarden’ concept makes good use of natural light and warm outdoor spaces

Within a low-rise structure composed of two- and three-storey townhouses is this two-bedroom unit with a street-level entrance, west-facing windows and laminate floors

Owner John Scythes spent decades refurbishing the heritage-designated home built in 1879 on a bluff above Lake Ontario

A Dragon spacecraft, owned and launched by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX, returned to Earth Wednesday from the International Space Station (ISS), carrying in its hold precious scientific data, NASA said in a statement released Thursday.

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts hospital under scrutiny for releasing a man who hours later fatally stabbed two people and injured several others says state policy that governs the way it handles psychiatric patients is "misguided."