STD costs Geico Car Insurance Company $5.2 Million
A three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a JacksonCounty Court’s decision affirming an arbitrator’s finding that the woman was entitled toan award of $5.2 million…
Google Earns Massive Fine for Refusing To Remove Offensive Videos
Google has been ordered to pay a former Australian politician, John Barilaro over $700,000. Google and comedian Jordan Shanks were initially sued in 2000 over a series of YouTube videos…
Autonomous Ship Navigation Now a Reality
The PRISM COURAGE, an 180,000 square-meter-class ultra-large LNG carrier, departed from the Freeport at the Gulf of Mexico on May 1, 2022. It is scheduled to transport LNG from Texas…
Using Science to Beat A Red Light Camera Violation
This past winter, I made a right turn on Manchester (a fairly busy thoroughfare in downtown Saint Louis) while the light was turning yellow. I stopped for a fraction of…
In This Together
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons, CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Ann Romney, wife of ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 49.…
WannaCry Virus Makes China Weep
When the criminal Shadows Brokers group stole hacking tools from the NSA and subsequently posted them on the internet no one could predict the world-wide havoc that ensued in both…
Ebola: Is the U.S. Ready?
When Ebola swept across West Africa last August, it ultimately caused over 11,100 deaths in the short time-span of two months. It took eight months after the first Ebola case…
Medtronic’s Buyout Is All About the Money
Medtronic Inc., the Minneapolis-based medical device maker is buying out Covidien Plc. for $42.9 billion, a 30% premium to Covidien’s market capitalization just prior to the merger. Due to its…
Pacific Tea: Turning Algae into Green Crude
Satellite image of green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea | Credit: Sentinel-2, Copernicus Programme; contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 Algae, the most ubiquitous renewable substance on Earth…