World’s eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%

The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, according to a charity warning of an ever-increasing and dangerous concentration of wealth.   In a report published to coincide with the start of the week-long World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam said it was […]

To Solve Its Hardest Problems, Silicon Valley Turns to Physicists

It’s a bad time to be a physicist. At least, that’s what Oscar Boykin says. He majored in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 2002 he finished a physics PhD at UCLA. But four years ago, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland discovered the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle first […]

Man Saves Abandoned Baby Deer – (Not Safe For Sheer Cuteness)

An injured fawn was abandoned by its mother and sibling. A kind-hearted man took the baby deer into his home and saved its life. This is pretty much the most adorable thing we have seen in a while. Enjoy! Sign up for our newsletter if you want all our articles nicely in your inbox each […]