Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that college students who are heavy users of online social networks are as academically successful as those who don’t use such sites. There was no correlation found between grades and the amount of time spent using social media. The study looked at student use of Facebook, [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
The late pop star Michael Jackson’s sudden and premature death vaulted him to the top of searches on the Internet’s most popular search sites. Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., which together account for two-thirds of the world’s Internet searches, recently released their lists of most popular search queries. Michael Jackson was rated [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Jennifer Jones, Oscar-winning actress and Norton Simon Museum chair emeritus, died today at age 90. Jones, whose film career began in the 1930s, won an Academy Award for 1943′s “Song of Bernadette,” in the role as a French peasant girl who has apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Jones’ third marriage was to industrialist and art [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced a settlement involving mismanagement of Native American trust fund accounts. If approved by a federal court and Congress, the agreement will distribute $1.4 billion in royalty claims to over 300,000 individuals and $2 billion to buy back tribal lands. Tribes charged that the Interior Department had swindled Native [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Since 1959, Cormac McCarthy has written everything on an Olivetti typewriter he purchased at a Knoxville pawnshop for $50. The machine, he says, is showing “fairly serious signs of wear.” Not too surprising, when you consider that McCarthy estimates he’s typed about five million words on the Lettera 32 model. On Friday, the worn blue [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
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