Link25 (154) – The Life After Death Edition

Death is a depressingly inevitable consequence of life, but now scientists believe they may have found some light at the end of the tunnel.
The largest ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body experiences has discovered that some awareness may continue even after the brain has shut down completely.
It is a controversial subject which has, until recently, been (Click on the title to read the full article).

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Heavy rain and strong winds from Tropical Storm Erika began to bear down Friday on the Dominican Republic as authorities on the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica warned that the death toll would rise from mudslides and flooding unleashed by the system.

Authorities in Dominica had said at least four people were killed and about 20 were missing after Erika drenched (click the title to read the full article).

It was a big to-do about nothing.

Some killjoy neighbor called the cops on Jerry Seinfeld and his family for setting up a roadside lemonade stand for charity in East Hampton, New York, the New York Post reported.

In a photo posted to Instagram, Seinfeld, his son Julian and two friends playfully depicted the moment police shut down the stand, posing with (click on the title to read the full article)

LONDON – If there’s one thing Game of Thrones fans enjoy, it’s a good theory, and the newest one – which concerns the show’s most talked about character as of late, Jon Snow – definitely doesn’t disappoint.

This theory is actually a fairly complicated extension of another much talked about fan theory – the R+L=J theory, explained here in 3 minutes – which suggests that (Click the title to read the full article).

Latin superstar Ricky Martin has put Donald Trump on blast. But rather than meeting Trump on his favorite turf, Twitter, Martin went above and beyond by writing an op-ed for Univision following the presidential candidate’s very public squabble with the network’s news anchor Jorge Ramos at a campaign press event in Iowa Aug. 25.

Martin did not pull any punches when he called for the Latino community to (click the title to read the full article).

Who exactly is Donald Trump?

The answer to this seemingly simple question eludes everyone from pundits and pollsters to the Republican establishment, which is scrambling to untangle the 2016 GOP frontrunner’s surging appeal.

But there’s one political tribe that has started to figure Trump out: white supremacists. And an increasing number of them like what they see. (Click on the title to read the full article)

On Thursday, Disney took to Instagram to release a 12-second teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As has been widely reported (check out the analysis by Forbes’ Scott Mendelson), this allowed the studio to generate a ton of attention (as if a new Star Wars movie has an trouble getting attention), while releasing just a few seconds of new footage.

But the Instagram trailer release is important for another reason: For such a beloved brand, Star Wars has a rather underwhelming social presence. When you (click to read full article)