Новости за 11.08.2014

A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.

Lawsuits are now challenging the institution of teacher tenure. Neal McCluskey comments.

In Brett Ratner's new big-budget flick Hercules, the title star portrayed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson battles mythical creatures, including a three-headed dog, giant boars and lions, and multi-headed serpents. Mike Seymour shows how the visual effects experts at Double Negative created the complicated, yet lifelike beasts.

In Brett Ratner's new big-budget flick Hercules, the title star portrayed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson battles mythical creatures, including a three-headed dog, giant boars and lions, and multi-headed serpents. Mike Seymour shows how the visual effects experts at Double Negative created the complicated, yet lifelike beasts.

This week in tennis news brought us a sneak peek at the latest magazine cover featuring an elegantly dressed Ana Ivanovic, as well as a look at the Bryan Brothers’ new Esurance commercial. Plus, see how Judy Murray reacted to news of Feliciano Lopez’s engagement, and find out which ATP player is back on tour after serving a doping ban.

В московском ГУМе выстроились многочасовые очереди желающих купить футболки с изображением президента России Владимира Путина.

From Lego cases to wireless photo printers, we find the most innovative, useful and fun bits of kit for your phone

The disclosure of a native Indian chief's fabulous salary provokes demands for greater transparency

As Real Madrid are in Wales for the Champions League final, watch archive video of Cardiff City beating the Spanish side in 1971.

As Real Madrid are in Wales for the Champions League final, watch archive video of Cardiff City beating the Spanish side in 1971.

Does the science world have its own version of the Kardashians? According to this article (written by a British geneticist Neil Hall, who himself has >1500 Twitter followers), certain scientists have way more Twitter followers than should be warranted by their publication records. To measure this effect, he invented the "Kardashian index", which is a metric similar to the h-index; however, instead of productivity, it measures the "discrepancy between a scientist’s social media profile and

A regular Los Angeles visitor discovers two dog-friendly hotels. One is high end, one is affordable — but both are treasures.

Sunday 15 August 2010

What happens today is another of the official reasons Julian came back to Sweden. Today he's to meet Rick Falkvinge and sign an agreement for WikiLeaks hosting with Pirate Party rack space in the Bahnhof bunker.

Anna comes along as the official WikiLeaks press secretary.

Pirate Party system administrator Richie Olsson also tags along to photograph the event. One of his photographs was long suppressed; it's found below. It shows Anna beaming on the far left. Читать дальше...