Thousands of Egyptian women have held rallies in Cairo against their treatment by security forces. Demonstrators brandished photos of a woman who was beaten and dragged along the ground, exposing her underwear - an incident that has outraged Egyptians. The rally took place in Tahrir Square, which... Read more...
He's gonna read this and throw one of those "Blow" parties like in the movie The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker" Tuesday. The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a boost from Mexican actress Kate Del Castil... Read more...
One in seven Chicagoans age 19 to 24 are dropouts and the costs to the city and state are staggering, according "High School Dropouts in Chicago and Illinois: The Growing Labor Market, Income, Civic, Social and Fiscal Costs of Dropping Out of High School," a report Northeastern University research... Read more...
Every year over 21 million shipping pallets end up in a landfill. Used worldwide to ship goods of all kinds in mass quantities, a Brooklyn-based design firm looked past the intended use of a pallet and saw a versatile, recyclable, sustainable and inexpensive building material that could be used to a... Read more...
The Philly comedy scene may be small compared with New York’s or Chicago’s, but you wouldn’t know it browsing the impressive database of local comedy shows and performers on Witout.net. Launched a year ago by local stand-up comic Luke Giordano, the comedian-run blog is essentially a... Read more...
Warning: PCSS, or Post Christmas Stress Syndrome is a common affliction that affects scores of people during the month of January. Untreated, this malady seriously impairs one’s ability to cope with several post holiday tasks, including: Removing, packing and storing of Christmas decoratio... Read more...
Scientists have used DNA lurking inside the teeth of medieval Black Death victims to figure out the entire genetic code of the deadly bacterium that swept across Europe more than 600 years ago, killing an estimated half of the population. The researchers didn't find any genetic feature th... Read more...
On September 3, 2010 Askia Sabur was attacked and beaten by 4 Philadelphia police from the 19th district. On October 26, 2010 Tanya Yates, Askia's cousin, was also attacked by 19th District police in what the police claim is an unrelated incident. Over this past year over a hundre... Read more...
Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unveiled today the latest batch of released files from the whistleblowing organisation. Speaking to a number ... Read more...