Thursday, March 14, 2013

Technology News and Discount Coupons!

Science and Technology is driving this world. New discoveries and inventions continue to influence and modify our lifestyles in many ways. I believe it is important to keep up with the latest science news so as to be well prepared for the future. If not we might be in for rude surprises sooner or later.

With the proliferation of internet it is not too difficult to keep up with the most current technology news 2013. All you need to do is to visit the right websites and read/ watch relevant content and get your technology quotient updated.

I found this website SciTechDaily.com very useful in this regard. The content on this website can be referred to as geek news but you don't need to be super smart to understand the content. Every confusing technology is broken down to common terms which makes it a pleasure to read.

Moreover the best thing about this website is that they carry amazing discount coupons also. The coupons will help you find great deals on various products you want to buy both technology and consumer goods. All major retailers coupons are listed on this site: Best Buy, Staples, Office Depot, Overstock.com, among others are all there. You just need to go online and get them.

Is Pope Francis really non-European?

There has been much hue and cry across the world since the resignation of Pope Benedict and appointment of Pope Francis. He has been touted as the "First non-European Pope" and so on and so forth. I have a simple question: Is he really non-European? and Who is media trying to fool? Is the media and Catholic church trying to make a fool of everyone in the world? Come on! have some logic. Just because Jorge Bergoglio aka Pope Francis I was born in Buenos Aires, it doesn't make him non-European. His parents were Italians - aka Europeans.

Whatever the media may assert and the Catholic church may proclaim, this new pope is as European as one can get. The media is just trying to hoodwink people into believing that the Catholic church has become open to having non-European Pope. They haven't even gone out of their own nation, Pope Francis is a "person of Italian Origins". Stop the media frenzy please. Reference: NPR

Money - the Focus of America

Close at heels of the other story I blogged about is this one about the US Catholic Church. As I exited from my Hotmail account this headline screamed out for attention: "US Catholic Church a $170 billion business". The article, written in the aftermath of the appointment of new pope in the Vatican is all about the challenges that he would be facing. This article focuses on the $170 billion business of the Catholic churches. The write up draws broad comparisons between the Catholic church and the few corporations that spend as much money ($170 billion) in a year. There is no data on how much the church makes, I am pretty sure it is a lot more compared to how much it spends.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

U.S. lost $433,982,548 because of Daylight Savings Time switch | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Everything in America is about economy, money, commerce, business, whatever name you call it. People here are so money oriented that everything they do is centered around the greenback. There are zillion scientists who are churning out numbers of what it costs the country and its people. The newsreport below is a classic example.

 
U.S. lost $433,982,548 because of Daylight Savings Time switch | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/u-lost-433-982-548-because-daylight-savings-003341030.html
Did you remember to set your clock forward on Sunday? Of course, it doesn't really matter since most of us operate on digital devices like our smartphones that do the one-hour adjustment automatically. But the annual switch to Daylight Savings Time reportedly continues to be a costly endeavor, resulting in a net loss of $433,982,548 [...]
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