Just after 3 PM yesterday a tornado touched down just outside of Oklahoma City. An estimated two miles wide with wind speeds of almost 200 miles per hour, weather experts assigned it a ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the second most powerful type of tornado. The fact that the cyclone spent close to an hour on the ground added... Read More
If you live in the gritty cities of America, you may have slowly been noticing a shift in your neighborly demographic over the last couple of years.
Long gone are the Spike Lee days when low-income folks trod the streets of the city, and even more so mid-20th century “white flight,” when affluent white families flocked to Suburbia. Where... Read More
If you spent any time on the Internet this weekend, you might have felt a subtle disturbance in the digital universe. It could have manifested as a sense of unease, or confusion, or simply a sudden rise in angry web forum comments. What brought about this tumult in internet denizens? In a major display of digital power, Yahoo has made a... Read More
Not that you need another reason to hate hipsters, but a new study basically says that they're to blame for rising beer prices. And we're not even talking about good beer. Because the hipster chooses everything with irony in mind, they drink bad beer. This means cheap basic beer — like Pabst Blue Ribbon and Coors Light — is in more demand.... Read More