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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — WBSC and KBO — South Korea’s top sports league — will make a series of exciting announcements on Wednesday, 20 May in Seoul, South Korea regarding the inaugural 2015 WBSC Premier12™...

13 May 2015, 23:00

Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the New Deal. Comparable to the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 also shared...

13 May 2015, 16:32

Start Packing: It’s Almost Camp Time!

Get Ready For A Soccer Summer To Remember! Your time at No. 1 Soccer Camps is going to be one of the most memorable of your soccer career. You’ll work hard, learn from professional coaches, improve your game, and meet like-minded soccer players.

13 May 2015, 11:23

1918 Spanish Flu Was Caused By Vaccinations, Shocking Report

Shortly after the First World War, vaccine makers had an excess supply of vaccines (originally intended for soldiers to treat yellow fever), as a result of the relatively unexpected short duration of the war.

13 May 2015, 00:16

Ten years of YouTube video tech in ten videos

2005: YouTube is born

Me at the Zoo is the first video uploaded to YouTube

2006: Google buys YouTube

One year after YouTube launches, videos play in the FLV container with the H.263 codec at a maximum resolution of 240p. We scale videos up to 640x360...

12 May 2015, 14:33

The Wedding Sting

How a police department tried to save a failing Rust Belt town by luring all the local drug dealers to one party

11 May 2015, 23:00

The U.S. National ID Law at Ten Years

In 2005, Congress gave states three years to begin issuing driver’s licenses according to national identification card standards. The REAL ID Act sought to coerce states into using machine-readable technology with federally defined data elements in their cards...

11 May 2015, 04:33

Stanford students ditch the small screen at BASES Demo Day

The BASES Challenge Finale took place in the Arrillaga Alumni Center on the afternoon of Friday, May 8. The rows of tri-fold poster boards at the event’s Public Showcase might remind a viewer of a high school science fair...

09 May 2015, 00:50

MoAD’s new show expands what 'Portraits’ mean

Visitors to the Museum of the African Diaspora may enter its just-opened exhibition, “Portraits and Other Likenesses From SFMOMA,” confident of recognizing a portrait when they see one, and leave with that confidence shaken.