Michael Snyder | Have you ever had a family gathering, a social function or a business meeting ruined by someone that was obsessed with checking their cell phone?

London Telegraph | Viewing trees helps people become less stressed – and the effect increases the more trees are visible.

Daily Mail | Giant chunks of the Earth’s mantle are falling off and causing quakes across the southeastern US – and more are coming, warn researchers.

LA Times | Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

Daily Caller | It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.”

London Telegraph | A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs.

Mac Slavo | It could all be over tomorrow. A truly modern threat.

Daily Mail | Google Glass may not have been the perfect start for the search giant’s move into eyewear, but now it has taken things a step further.

London Independent | The projected operation would be a 36-hour, £14m procedure involving at least 150 people, including doctors, nurses, technicians, psychologists and virtual reality engineers.

Michael Krieger | Although Lance Simmens has been intimately involved in public life for several decades, you’ve probably never heard of him. As such, a little introduction is needed.

Bloomberg | There’s nothing comical about this manga comic: office building windows shatter, trains derail and cars plunge from buckling bridges. It all happens at 4:35 p.m. on a day dubbed “Tokyo’s X Day.”

UK Express | INVESTIGATORS trying to uncover details about what goes on inside the mysterious top-secret US military base Area 51 stumbled across what they believe was a massive fire at the secretive base.