You may have heard that print is dead, but one South Asian newspaper is showing how it can make a newspaper thrive — and save lives at the same time. Concerned about the rise of dengue fever — a potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus that has such symptoms as high fever, severe headaches and nausea — one Sri Lankan newspaper …

The findings of Facebook’s psychological experiment, which turned 689,003 users into test subjects without their consent, were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, a horror-show of anti-ethics, presents an online reality that’s ominous to the point of parody: We show, via a massive experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to …

KGW reports that recently, a Seattle woman was wandering nekkid around her 26th-floor apartment. As one does. (If chillin’ in your underwear on a Sunday afternoon is wrong, I don’t want to be right.) But she looked outside her window and spotted something unexpected and alarming: a drone. “It was freaky,” said Pleiss. “You don’t expect to be walking around …

GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, the married, “family values” guy caught on tape in April making out with his staffer, announced today that he will run for re-election. McAllister once had the coveted Duck Dynasty endorsement, but now one of the DD guys is running against him for the GOP nomination in Louisiana’s 5th district. Christian GOP Congressman Caught Cheating on …

UNIONS have never been uncontroversial in American society, but the battles over labor have grown fiercer in recent years: Witness the fight over public-employee unions in Wisconsin, or the 2012 decision by Michigan lawmakers to join the ranks of “right to work” states. On Monday a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court fired its own salvo in the war on …

Finding steady housing is a huge challenge for anyone getting out of jail or prison. But for the elderly or disabled, many of whom have special needs, it’s an even greater problem. As more nursing homes conclude that ex-offenders are bad for business, states are scrambling for solutions of where to house them. Connecticut opened a nursing home, 60 West, …

The elite club of astronauts is limited to just over 500 people. But if you’ve ever wanted to make the voyage yourself, it might only cost you $10. The Urgency Network, a nonprofit startup, is behind several goodwill campaigns that use their connections to celebrities like Hugh Jackman, Paul McCartney, Thom Yorke and Richard Branson to offer donors unique experiences. …