Unknown Beast Found in Belarus

http://englishrussia.com/2013/07/25/unknown-creature-found-in-belarus/

Zimmerman Rescues Family Trapped in SUV

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19735432&sid=81

They Want Your Passwords

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

Fruit & Vegetable Prescriptions

http://gothamist.com/2013/07/23/nyc_to_offer_prescriptions_for_frui.php

Comparing Fast Food Advertisements to Reality

It is false advertising, no doubt about it. 

http://sobadsogood.com/2013/07/23/fast-food-advertisements-vs-actual-reality/

The Six Small Meals A Day Lie

http://lifehacker.com/868845439

Economic Truths

What's manipulated in our economy? Who benefits the most? Who gets screwed?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/if-we-dont-break-up-the-big-banks-they-will-manipulate-more-and-more-of-the-economy-making-us-poorer-and-poorer.html

Bombs Dropped on Great Barrier Reef

What?!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/21/bombs-dropped-great-barrier-reef

Mob Rule

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/19/mob_rule?page=0,1

Reliable CNET Shows True Colors

For any tech savvy individual who uses CNET, here's how to avoid the bloat ware that comes from new downloads. 

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/avoid-computer-bloatware-from-cnet-download-com-crapware/

Richest 300 Have More Than Poorest 3 Billion

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=a10e50a7-5b9d-4933-9bb8-decd3ce624dd

Want to be Invisible, and Not Just Metaphorically?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/attempts-at-invisibility?src=rss

Everything You Know is Wrong

Time and time again science says something is true and eventually says it isn't true after all. 

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/07/new-study-shows-that-dogs-use-color-vision-after-all/

Climate Control?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/17/4531430/the-cia-is-funding-a-study-on-geoengineering

Everything You Need to Know About Prism

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/17/4517480/nsa-spying-prism-surveillance-cheat-sheet

Will the XBOX Kinect Be Used to Spy on Your Family?

Microsoft says no, but they have lied before. 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/16/4526770/will-the-nsa-use-the-xbox-one-to-spy-on-your-family?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferf44a6&utm_medium=twitter

Collect Accomplishments, Not Things.

The rush of adding something new to a collection just isn't worth it. Find out why, if you don't already know. 

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2013/07/14/collect-accomplishments-not-stuff/

Pet Flipping

Nothing is safe anymore it seems. 

http://business.time.com/2013/07/16/pet-flipping-is-now-a-thing/

60 Years Later and Some South Korean POWs Still Detained

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/some-south-korean-pows-still-trapped-in-the-north-60-years-after-armistice/2013/07/13/0e094914-e54e-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

A Day With a Russian Billionare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gye8ukFO-9s&feature=youtu.be

Attention Shoppers

Stores are watching your every move, by using your cell phone. 

www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html

Gerrymandering

The re-election game looks like ink blotting. 

http://www.businessinsider.com/quiz-gerrymandered-us-congressional-district-or-rorscach-inkblot-2013-7?op=1

Ain't that something?

The extreme irrationality of those who attack “conspiracy theories” has been ably exposed by Communications professors Ginna Husting and Martin Orr of Boise State University. In a 2007 peer-reviewed article entitled “Dangerous Machinery: ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion,” they wrote: 

“If I call you a conspiracy theorist, it matters little whether you have actually claimed that a conspiracy exists or whether you have simply raised an issue that I would rather avoid… By labeling you, I strategically exclude you from the sphere where public speech, debate, and conflict occur.”

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/07/14/whatabout7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whatabout7

The Doctors Who Control Medicare

Does a secret cartel of doctors price fix services for Medicare? If so, is it legal?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july_august_2013/features/special_deal045641.php?page=1

Rise of the Warrior Cop

"Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it."

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/13/radley_balko_once_a_town_gets_a_swat_team_you_want_to_use_it/

Lot Lizard

In a world where money matters more than anything else we find that some people will do things that most of us would rather prefer not to know about.

http://www.lotlizardmovie.com/

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Social withdrawal is not some sort of fad that will just fade away.

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/an-infantile-disorder/

The Illusion of Choice [infographic]

Six media giants control 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to. It wasn't always that way.

http://dailyinfographic.com/the-illusion-of-choice-infographic