The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

This image made from amateur video purports to show the spread of fires as a result of the shelling of Homs, Syria, by government forces. (Photo by Shaam News Network / AP)

Vitamin E lowers chance of liver cancer

Individuals could reduce their risk of developing liver cancer by consuming more vitamin E — either from diet or using vitamin supplements — according to a new study.

Medical News Today

Study: Fertilizing oceans with iron dust helps sink carbon

Dumping iron in the seas can help transfer carbon from the atmosphere and bury it on the ocean floor for centuries, helping to fight climate change.

Reuters

Thousands flee as Syrian rebels wage war

Rebels pressed their guerrilla fight to topple Syria’s regime deeper into the capital, ambushing troops and police stations as thousands of terrified civilians fled to Lebanon and Iraq to escape.

USA TODAY

Syria: Assad regime starts to unravel

Guardian

Damascus, Syria, refugees flee to Lebanon

YouTube

Federal judge dismisses largest human trafficking case

A federal judge dismissed human trafficking charges against executives and business associates of a labor recruiting company accused of exploiting hundreds of farmer workers from Thailand.

NPR

Road opens for connected cars

In the same way the smartphone was changed by the app, car manufacturers are now betting on small pieces of software to drive the future of cars.

BBC

Honda to link smartphones to cars

UPI.com

NATION

Colorado movie theater shooting: Community, police search for answers

Colorado police continue to deal with the booby-trapped apartment of the suspected gunman who opened fire inside of a mall’s packed movie theater.

ABC News

Special section:

Colorado theater massacre

CBS News

California added 38,000 jobs in June

California provided a ray of light in an otherwise gloomy monthly jobs report, reporting an increase of more than 38,000 jobs in June and accounting for nearly half the growth in payrolls across the nation.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

As election approaches, presidential candidates beef up spending

Less than four months before the U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney’s campaign is beefing up on personnel and investing more cash internally as outside groups pour millions into television ads.

Reuters

Romney sprints ahead in race for cash

The presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney surged ahead of President Obama last month in fundraising efforts.

NPR

BUSINESS

In heavyweight fight over card fees, consumers are the likely losers

Congress capped the swipe fee on debit card transactions but banks can still charge fees on credit cards. Merchants are fighting back by pursuing a lawsuit that accuses banks of price-fixing.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Your credit card costs small biz thousands

CNNMoney

The end of Wall Street as we know it?

Ask the man on the street if banking has changed since the credit crisis and you will get the answer: no. Ask the man on Wall Street if banking has changed, and you will get a different answer.

The Independent

Now big banks are suffering foreclosure

CNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Entire organism simulated by software

Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium.

Austin Statesman

Big things, small invaders

Associate Professor Brian Hedlund says our genome is not complete without our microbes. They make up the microbiome, a dynamic ecosystem mapped by the Human Microbiome Project initiative.

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Gene therapy nears approval in Europe

Europe is on the cusp of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field.

BBC

First gene therapy in West, for a rare disease, on the horizon

Baltimore Sun

Good-natured jokes ease pain

An amiable joke can be much more effective than dark humor at improving mood, according to recent research from Stanford University.

Scientific American

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Jim Merlino):

Post Aurora: Do not expect new gun laws

Politico

Editorial:

Obama, Americans should not be shocked by mass killing

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Rochelle Riley):

Why do we allow weapons of war among us?

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Glen Weldon):

Catharsis in a cape: comic book heroes and real violence

(NPR)

Monkey See

Blog (Michael W. Twitty):

Sylvia Woods beyond the label: a legacy of dignity and inspiration

(CNN)

Eatocracy

Blog (Oliver Burkeman):

Colorado shooting: Now is not the time for a gun control debate

Guardian

Editorial:

Cyber excess: Taxpayers should not over-fund charter schools

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Michael Barone):

Success is a government benefit in Obama’s world

Boston Herald

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Pallavi Sukhia, Lukas Dregne and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Vitamin D may protect smokers’ lungs

Vitamin D may have a protective effect against the effects of smoking on lung function, according to a new study from researchers in Boston.

ScienceDaily

Kids leverage online networks for greater civic engagement

Social media is a tool that enables kids to engage in issues they care about and help to bring about real change in our society. Just ask Seventeen magazine and Universal Studios.

Christian Science Monitor

After girl’s death, mom goes to Africa to honor her clean-water wish

Rachel Beckwith’s wish was for people less fortunate than her to be able to have clean water to drink. A year after her death, her wish has come true for thousands of people she never met.

NBCNews.com

WORLD

North Korean leader takes control of economy from military

After purge of top general, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un moves to adopt China’s model, opening up the economy and making farm reforms.

Christian Science Monitor

Shifts inside North Korea

CNN

Did the Breivik massacre change Norwegian politics?

After last year’s massacre in Oslo, Norway wanted to demonstrate the power of democracy and tolerance. But one year later, the cracks are beginning to show.

Spiegel International

ENVIRONMENT

Alaskans wonder where the king salmon have all gone

Some of Alaska’s largest and best rivers are closed to king fishing because the largest of the salmon species are not showing up in enough numbers to ensure sustainable future runs.

BusinessWeek

Environment body raises concern over proposal in tiger reserve

A high-level body of environment ministry in India has expressed anguish over a proposal seeking permission to build a patrol road in Mizoram along a tiger reserve bordering Bangladesh.

Times of India

India scientists try to predict monsoon

Scientists aided by supercomputers are trying to unravel one of Mother Nature’s biggest mysteries — the vagaries of the summer monsoon rains that bring life, and sometimes death, to India.

Al Jazeera

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Survey finds 19 percent of Americans without religious affiliation

People who check “None” for their religious affiliation now represent nearly one in five Americans, the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press.

USA TODAY

Memory of French Resistance is strong

It is difficult to forget World War II in Cahors, France, and that is a matter of not-inconsequential pride. The Resistance movement was born here and the reminders are everywhere.

Forward

EDUCATION

The new community college try

Unknown to them, students have applied to be test subjects in a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges.

New York Times

Assessing damage of private loans

Inside Higher Ed

School districts bring software programmers in-house

Some educators are using the new online landscape to build their own applications and software, bypassing the typically costly and lengthy procurement process.

Education Week

SPORTS

Your logo here: How logos become icons

The most iconic company logos are visual cues that are seared onto people‘s consciousness without their even realizing it. That kind of influence has always been valuable, but now it is priceless.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog:

Coming soon: ads on NBA jerseys

(ESPN)

True Hoop

Tennessean Brandt Snedeker surges to lead at British Open

Amid all the wayward swings, Brandt Snedeker and Adam Scott were steady as can be at the British Open.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Yuck factor: surprising power of disgust

A psychologist conducted an experiment to investigate whether a whiff of something disgusting can influence a person’s judgments.

New Scientist

Turkey battles to repatriate antiquities

Turkey envisions a giant new museum in Ankara as the crown jewel in its effort to embrace a multicultural past.

Spiegel International

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other