Ants mate with half-eaten, dying queen
A more macabre video from the insect kingdom would be hard to find.
Source : MSNBC
What if your inbox was more like your Twitter feed, or Facebook Timeline?
Disgruntled Ex-Googlers Rethink The Way Gmail Works, With Fluent.io
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![Would You Give Job Interviewers Your Facebook Password?
Say you’re at a job interview. You’re chatting with an HR rep, and all’s going well when your interviewer asks you for … your Facebook password.
Assuming you’ve misheard, you ask, “My Facebook username?”
No no, your interviewer replies, breezily. Your password. Your Facebook password.
Yes. Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the intelligence available for public perusal is no longer enough. Prospective employers now want to see inside your profiles. They want to see into your very soul. […]
It’s striking how deep the divide can be between our conceptions of online privacy: To me, an interviewer asking for my password — Facebook or any other — would be a fairly shocking imposition. To an interviewer, though, it would be a question like any other. Common standards about what’s acceptable and what’s not when it comes to online privacy have yet to solidify in the social environment that Facebook and other networks provide. Which leads to confusions … and to violations.
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Would You Give Job Interviewers Your Facebook Password?
Say you’re at a job interview. You’re chatting with an HR rep, and all’s going well when your interviewer asks you for … your Facebook password.
Assuming you’ve misheard, you ask, “My Facebook username?”
No no, your interviewer replies, breezily. Your password. Your Facebook password.
Yes. Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the intelligence available for public perusal is no longer enough. Prospective employers now want to see inside your profiles. They want to see into your very soul. […]
It’s striking how deep the divide can be between our conceptions of online privacy: To me, an interviewer asking for my password — Facebook or any other — would be a fairly shocking imposition. To an interviewer, though, it would be a question like any other. Common standards about what’s acceptable and what’s not when it comes to online privacy have yet to solidify in the social environment that Facebook and other networks provide. Which leads to confusions … and to violations.
Read more. [Image: Goodluz/Shutterstock]
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Source : The Atlantic
In Focus: A World Without People
For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world — large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more.
See more. [Images: AP, Reuters]
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Source : The Atlantic
The Most Astounding Fact
![The Problems With ‘Stop Kony’ and Invisible Children
From million-dollar travel bills and production costs to why the filmmakers behind the Invisible Children campaign supports the corrupt Ugandan Army, there are a few things you need to know before you donate to very viral Stop Kony campaign.
Read more. [Image: Invisible Children]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0kn18D8KN1qcokc4o1_1280.png)
The Problems With ‘Stop Kony’ and Invisible Children
From million-dollar travel bills and production costs to why the filmmakers behind the Invisible Children campaign supports the corrupt Ugandan Army, there are a few things you need to know before you donate to very viral Stop Kony campaign.
Read more. [Image: Invisible Children]
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