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Saving energy is easy as taking off your tie? Chile’s government says so! (video)

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via Merco Press The campaign, inspired in Spain and Japan, points out that using a tie needs more cooling and air conditioning than with out a tie. If air conditioner temperatures are increased one to three degrees, the savings in power can reach 3% which means the equivalent of 10 million dollars in considerable savings… [Continue Reading]

Latinos heading to Sundance

It’s that time of year again! The newest and freshest in the independent film industry will gather in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. While the past few years has found commercialization encroaching on what was once an event for film lovers, Sundance Institute has found itself pushing back on the Hollywood experience,… [Continue Reading]

The future of your passwords

If you’re like most Americans, you are probably faced with the daily frustration of remembering passwords for all of the technology in your life. Let’s face it – there is a large demand for security in everything that we do, and until computers catch up with science fiction and are able to scan fingerprints or… [Continue Reading]

Wikipedia ‘blacks out’ against SOPA

Students and lovers of encyclopedic knowledge be warned – get your work done early, because Wikipedia will be shutting down this Wednesday. The popular open source encyclopedia will be blocked for 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation.

Beware of the breast

As humans, there are certain necessary things we do in private (for the most part). We defecate, urinate, have sex, pass gas, shave our bodies, and clip our toenails. We all do these things. It’s natural, but we choose to do them behind closed doors. If we were to see someone doing any of these… [Continue Reading]

A new year, a new tax season

As the new year progresses, there is one thing that will be on all of our to-do lists: filing our taxes. It’s something that no one necessarily likes to do, but it’s something we all have to do. So, you might as well get it out of the way as soon as possible. Once you… [Continue Reading]

“Yes We Can,” but later

The Obama administration recently proposed a “regulatory change” that would keep families intact longer while loved ones file for legal residency, and the entire Latino community has praised the gesture – or, at least, that’s what members of the mainstream media who claim to know the heart and mind of the Latino community would have… [Continue Reading]