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Act Up NY Activist Mark Milano holds a cat litter box with a photo of Martin Shkreli at the bottom of it. The activists were protesting the enormous price increase of Daraprim in front of the Turing Pharmaceuticals Offices in Midtown, New York City. Erik McGregor/Demotix/Corbis Advertisement What has Martin Shkreli done to earn so much disdain that news of his arrest has inspired people to celebrate with glee? The list is a long one, and it sounds like something out of a cartoonish villain's dossier. First, he made a fortune on the stock market short selling stocks. Short selling is a strategy that banks on a company's performance taking a nosedive. So let's say you suspect a particular company is going to hit some rough financial trouble. You sell off stock in that company. The only catch is you don't actually own any of that stock; you're selling something you don't possess. Short selling is totally legal. You actually do deliver stock to a buyer. And later on, you buy the stock … [Read more...] about The Most Hated Man in America Gets Arrested

Shrouded in mystery, ninja were reputed to be masters of disguise and have mythical powers like the ability to walk on water and disappear in the blink of an eye. MIKE CLARKE/AFP/Getty Images Advertisement Answer the door on Halloween and every fifth kid will be dressed as a ninja. There's just something about the legend of the ninja — secretive assassins who move silently in black robes and covered faces, leaping from rooftops and killing with throwing stars (shuriken) — that captures our popular imagination, like pirates or Robin Hood. But just like those other legendary figures, our image of the stealthy Japanese warriors is based largely on nuggets of historical truth buried under mountains of myth. But we may soon have more clues to the real origins of the ninja tradition. That's in part because in July 2017, a Japanese university announced the opening of the world's first international ninja research center. Mie University is located in Iga, in Mie Prefecture, … [Read more...] about Research Center Seeks to Separate Ninja Fact From Fiction