From a Discovery.com report: “Intense rumbling under Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano has prompted the country’s Met Office to raise the volcano’s eruption risk level to orange today (Aug. 18).  The orange alert is the fourth level […]

From an article in RNS News: “From the moment they set foot on North American soil, the Puritans who came to the continent viewed their “errand into the wilderness” through a biblical lens, seeing themselves […]

From WDRB.com, an intriguing report: “The midwest region is preparing for earthquakes that are bigger and more powerful than ever believed imaginable.  The U.S. Geological Survey updated their seismic hazards map last week, and in […]

An article on Vision-Post has many people talking.  The report, entitled, “Autonomous Security Guard Robots Launched” says: “A company called Knightscope has developed a mobile robot known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine as a […]

‘Focus on the network evening news. This is where the staging is done well. First, we have the image itself, the colors in foreground and background, the blend of restful and charged hues. The anchor […]

‘In a recent essay entitled, “The Strategic Significance of the Internet Commons,” former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff describes cyberspace and the Internet as a “global commons” that must come under “global governance.” This […]

‘David Cameron has described the apparent beheading of a US journalist by an Islamic State militant with an English accent as “shocking and depraved”. The PM has returned from his holiday for meetings on Iraq […]

‘An alarming study released today by Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks and 46000 emergency food service agencies, reveals that 1 in 7 Americans are now reliant on food aid programs such as […]

‘A CNN anchor has been the target of much backlash on social media after this morning suggesting that police could break out water cannons and use them on protesters in troubled Ferguson. In a conversation […]

‘Airstrikes launched by an unknown party targeting Islamist-led militias in Libya’s capital killed six people Monday, authorities said, as the interim government vowed to investigate the strikes amid raging street battles. The confusion over who […]