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How the tech industry is working to combat veteran unemployment

01/08/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Our nation’s veterans are struggling to find jobs – especially young veterans. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 9.9 percent of veterans of post-9/11 wars were out of work. That’s 241,000 men and women…

No science fiction: Company shows off real-world Star Trek ‘tricorder’

01/07/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
In Walter De Brouwer’s right hand, the tricorder used on the TV series “Star Trek.” In his left hand, a real-world version he has invented. (Jeremy Kaplan/FoxNews.com) “Bones” would have approved. On a mission to boldly go where no man…

Women, wake up, men have made your life better, not worse

12/31/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
There’s a reason the text version of Camille Paglia’s opening statement at the Munk Debate, “Resolved: Men Are Obsolete” garnered 10K likes on Facebook and received more than one thousand comments at Time.com: it hit a nerve. It was a…

Remembering the Rt. Rev. Ray Price — country music star and the coolest cat in the alley

12/17/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE — Jan. 7, 2011: Country Music Hall of Fame member and Grammy award winner Ray “The Cherokee Cowboy” Price celebrates his 86th birthday by performing in Bullard Texas. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman) It was 8:15ish am. I was…

‘Invisible’ airplanes: Chinese, US race for cloaking tech

Published on Foxnews.com
Cloaking technology from BAE makes a tank (left) show up on radar screens in disguise (right). It’s one of many “invisibility cloaks” being developed. (BAE Systems) New stealth technology makes airplanes invisible not only to radar, it renders them hidden…

The man who saved the lightbulb

12/16/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Larry Birnbaum is the creator of the Newcandescent, an incadescent lightbulb that skirts a 2007 law banning the manufacture of traditional bulbs. (Larry Birnbaum) General Electric light bulbs on display at a supermarket in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) A clerk…

Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1

12/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
It’s lights out for the light bulb. On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards – and effectively outlawed the…

Why women still need husbands

12/06/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Over the past several decades, America has witnessed a profound change in the way women view men and marriage. It began with the baby boomer adage “never depend on a man.” This message resulted in a generation of women who…

Greenspan to FBN: Markets Aren’t In a Bubble

11/26/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told FOX Business Tuesday that markets aren’t in bubble territory and that Washington, D.C.’s muddled fiscal policy is causing uncertainty and curbing economic growth. In an exclusive interview with FOX Business’ Peter Barnes, Greenspan…

Please, Mr. President, for the good of the country, let’s delay ObamaCare

11/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Today, President Obama and the Democrats are faced with the opportunity to take a timeout – a timeout from ObamaCare. I believe that they should delay ObamaCare for six months to a year. America’s health care system isn’t something that…