Since the Amazon Kindle, ebooks have passed traditional books in every possible sense of the word, and are now available on any tablet device out there. Folks embraced them all over the world. Thanks to electronic books, you no longer need to carry heavy, thick books any longer. You can go anywhere while carrying nothing but your tablet. But unfortunately, even if an ebook doesn’t require printing, shipping and distribution,...

Laura Knight-Jadczyk Sott.net Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:00 CST Happy 2012? Here we are, New Year’s Eve 2011, and a whole lot of folks on this planet believe that the World is going to End – one way or another (again) – sometime in December of the coming year: 2012. All I can think is “Geezus! Here we go again!” Back in 1996 and 1997, there was the Hale-Bopp Flopp that resulted in the mass suicide of 39...

Smoking can make your nipples fall off – this is the astonishing claim by Dr Anthony Youn, one of American’s top plastic surgeons. The practitioner from Detroit, Michigan, was quick to point out this applied to patients who underwent breast lifts to perk up their chests. He said the nicotine and carbon monoxide taken in during smoking can disrupt blood flow to different parts of the body and so disrupts the healing process...

Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05 CST It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out.True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest of America in the eye when they call us all imbeciles and complain that they shouldn’t have to apologize for...