Google recently launched a new feature that’s part of Google Trends called Top Charts. As the name suggests, Top Charts is used to view a snapshot of the top searches across a plethora of topics ranging from actors and animals to books and business people. … Read More
Australian scientists work to save koalas
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Climate shift killed Australia’s giant beasts: study
Gigantic animals which once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study Tuesday which suggests climate change played the key role in their demise. For decades, debate has centred on what wiped out megafauna such as the rhinoceros-sized, wombat-like…
GOP ‘Party Animal’ unmasked as Holocaust revisionist
Republican Party Animals operator David Stein says he is really David Cole, and that he still holds controversial views To those who knew him, or thought they they knew him, he was a cerebral, fun-loving gadfly who hosted boozy gatherings for Hollywood’s political conservatives. David Stein…
Beanie Baby manufacturer’s corrupt labor practices
CHICAGO — Ty Inc. became one of the world’s largest manufacturers of stuffed animals thanks to the Beanie Babies craze in the 1990s.But it has stayed on top partly by using an underworld of labor brokers known as raiteros, who pick up workers from Chicago’s street corners and shuttle them to Ty’s warehouse on behalf of one of the nation’s largest temp agencies. The system provides just-in-time labor at the lowest possible cost to large companies — but also effectively pushes workers’ pay far below the minimum wage. Continue Reading… … Read More
White House considering ending protection of grey wolf population
US Fish and Wildlife Service says ruling under review, two years after end of wolf protection in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming The Obama administration was on Friday on the verge of lifting protection for grey wolves across most of the country, ending a 20-year effort to bring the animals back to…
Shock alpaca slaughter ‘like a war zone’: farmer
Swedish alpaca farmers suspect that a wolf attacked and killed six of its animals on Wednesday night at their central Sweden farm, which supplies alpaca wool to the Swedish fashion industry. … Read More
