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On the day of Apple’s 10th Retail Store anniversary, not everyone’s celebrating: in fact, a small but vocal group of Apple Store employees is working hard even now to unionize in response to what they term unfair treatment and compensation. The group is called the Apple Retail Union, whose announcement includes this modus operandi: We are launching today to get fellow employees, shoppers, and the world know that we work in one of the most demanding retail environments while suffering through unfair treatment and compensation among many other various issues… We deserve better. Our time has come Whether or not...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House Monday bemoaned the lack of "justice" experienced by protestors in Iran, and said President Barack Obama had been moved by scenes of demonstrators braving repression, especially women.

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Many leading figures in the fields of science, politics and the arts have achieved success because they had autism, a leading psychiatrist has claimed.Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, argued the characteristics linked to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) were the same as those associated with creative genius. (l-r) George Orwell, Albert Einstein and Thomas Jefferson Prof Fitzgerald cited Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, George Orwell, H G Wells and Ludwig Wittgenstein as examples of famous and brilliant individuals who showed signs of ASDs including Asperger syndrome.Beethoven, Mozart, Hans Christian Andersen and Immanuel Kant have also received post mortem...

British brains dominate list of living geniuses By Aislinn Simpson Last Updated: 1:07am GMT 29/10/2007 Britain has more living geniuses per head of population than anywhere else in the world, according to a new survey which reveals the country's influence on science, technology, business and the arts. Almost a quarter of those featured in the list of 100 living geniuses are Britons, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, in joint first place, and physicist Stephen Hawking at seven in the list. British artists and musicians feature heavily, including Brit Art leader Damien Hirst at number 15,...

Tributes have been pouring in for Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, who died on Monday at his home on the Swedish island of Fårö. He was 89. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt hailed Bergman as "one of the great dramatists in this world," and French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to "one of the geniuses of our time." "The dream ended, the music went quiet that night on the island of Fårö, where Ingmar Bergman died," Sarkozy said. "France, a land of the cultural exception that was dear to Ingmar Bergman, honours...

A new film, The Genius Club, directed by Tim Chey, is catching headlines. The film is about 7 geniuses who are forced to try to solve the world's problems in 1 night. Does this sound radical? The geniuses attempt to solve world hunger, war, oil deficiencies, and God.

The year’s least-skilled criminals Sunday, December 31, 2006 Kevin Mayhood THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Pastor Kevin Lentz had just finished a wedding at Holy Family Church in Franklinton on Aug. 12 when two homeless men tried to sell him a camera for $50. "They told me they found it in an alley," Lentz said. He thought they must have broken into a car but knew the only way to ensure that the camera got back to its owner was to buy it. He did, the men left and Lentz called police. The owner, Dave Back, was in a cruiser with officers,...

BERKELEY – Charles Pierce really likes playing video games. He practices piano and violin. He used to study aikido, but lately he's been more interested in taking up fencing. Lately, however, the 13-year-old has mostly been hitting the books. Charles is the youngest transfer student this fall at the University of California, Berkeley, where he's now in his junior year. His 14-year-old sister, Mayumi, also transferred in this fall as a junior. Attending UC Berkeley is a bit of a family tradition: Their parents, Wincie Pierce and Qin Ma, met and married while they were students at UC Berkeley in...

M.I.T. Norbert Wiener, a founder of computer science and the information age. [Review by]By CLIVE THOMPSON DARK HERO OF THE INFORMATION AGE In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. By Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. Illustrated. 423 pp. Basic Books. $27.50. TO be a truly famous scientist, you need to have a hit single. Einstein had E = mc2. Newton had the apple and gravity. Even the lesser rock-star scientists have one shining achievement for which they're known -- such as Niels Bohr's theory of the atom. But there's another kind of scientist who never breaks through,...

Halloween is a time that we expect to be frightened. Combined as it is this year with a national election, it can be truly terrifying.I’m not saying that just because one of the presidential candidates has the looks to qualify for a lead in "Night of the Living Dead." It’s because certain Hollywood types, some of whom a most kind providence has allowed us to forget, have dragged themselves back into the public eye to advertise their ignorance. Last Friday’s Miami Herald carried an item on actress/singer/activist/plastic surgery poster child Cher. That evening she was to "address a crowd of...

PARIS (AFP) - Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says. Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work. The data remarkably concur with the brutal observation made by Albert Einstein, who wrote in 1942: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never...

LONDON (Reuters) - Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s -- and mainly to impress the opposite sex. When Satoshi Kanazawa, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied biographies of prominent, mostly male scientists he discovered that they made their key discovery before their mid 30s, around the same age that criminal behavior peaks.He believes the male competitive urge to attract females is a driving force for the scientific and criminal achievements, according to New Scientist magazine. "They do whatever they do in order...

<p>LONDON (Reuters) -- Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s -- and mainly to impress the opposite sex.</p> <p>When Satoshi Kanazawa, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied biographies of prominent, mostly male scientists he discovered that they made their key discovery before their mid 30s, around the same age that criminal behavior peaks.</p>

The longer I'm around and watch the NFL, the more determined I am to reserve the label of genius for scientists and Nobel Prize winners. I will no longer refer to anybody in the NFL coaching ranks as a genius. I have seen too many geniuses turn into high school dropouts once their star players -- who represent the Xs and Os -- retire or leave the team. The first guy I ever thought was a genius was Mike Shanahan. I felt he was a step ahead of everybody after winning two Super Bowls in Denver. He had the spread...