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Video Friday: Radar (Rémi Gaillard)
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Video Friday: Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record (Obama)
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Will Quit if Obama gets re-elected
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Tim Geithner, one of President Barack Obama’s closest economic advisers, has no intention on staying on as Treasury secretary if Obama wins a second term.
Geithner, who was one of the chief architects of the government’s response to the financial crisis, told Bloomberg Television he’s “pretty confident” Obama won’t ask him to stay on.
“I’m confident he’ll be president. But I’m also confident he’s going to have the privilege of having another secretary of the Treasury,” Geithner said.
The comments, which were confirmed by the Treasury Department, mean a second four-year term in the White House would be led by an entirely different economics team than the one Obama started with. Other high-profile advisers like Larry Summers and Christine Romer have already left the White House.
FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before
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It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies — something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today’s divided Congress, much less in this election year.
And there was more recycling, in an even more forbidding climate than when the ideas were new: He pushed for an immigration overhaul that he couldn’t get past Democrats, permanent college tuition tax credits that he asked for a year ago, and familiar discouragements for companies that move overseas.
A look at Obama’s rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances: Read More @ Washington Times
Fried food heart risk ‘a myth’
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It is a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil.
They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain – where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used – and the incidence of serious heart disease.
Why scratching your ankle is as good as sex
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AN itchy ankle is the most pleasurable body part to relieve by scratching, an international scientific study has found.
Volunteers were made to itch by their skin being rubbed with cowhage, a plant so irritating to us that it is known in parts of Africa as the mad bean.
The research found that scratching an itch on the ankle, when compared with an itch on the forearm or a hard-to-reach itch on the back, was the most pleasant.
Here FRANCIS McGLONE – professor of cognitive neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of the International Forum For The Study Of The Itch – explains why the research is so important.
Former Obama Campaign Staffer Arrested in Dirty Politics Scheme
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Zachary Edwards, former Obama campaign staffer, was arrested on Friday for attempted identity theft of the Iowa Republican Secretary of State, Matt Schultz. Edwards was a prominent member of a well known Democrat campaign consulting firm, LINK Strategies.
Police say he used, or tried to use, the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in a scheme to falsely implicate Schultz in perceived unethical behavior in office.
If convicted, Edwards could face up to two years in prison.
Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK
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A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists.
A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents– a mouth spray it hopes to market in the U.S. as a treatment for cancer pain. And it hopes to see FDA approval by the end of 2013.
Sativex contains marijuana’s two best known components — delta 9-THC and cannabidiol — and already has been approved in Canada, New Zealand and eight European countries for a different usage, relieving muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis.
AeroShot Pure Energy: Inhalable Caffeine?
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There’s a new inhaler on the market that isn’t just reserved for people with breathing problems. Breathable Foods Inc. just released AeroShot Pure Energy, an inhaler filled with a mixture of caffeine and energizing vitamins to enable your fix in one effortless puff.
Harvard professor David Edwards’ innovation allows you to inhale your caffeine.
According to the product’s website, a couple of its advantages are its ability to go anywhere and its instant effects. If you’re feeling groggy in class and you can’t leave, or you’re in a room where no drinks are allowed, you can now pull out the AeroShot device, take a hit and get back in the zone.
Video Friday: The Golf War
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