More U.S. states find traces of radiation from Japan - CNN.
Colorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear...
View ArticleOne Per Cent: China cuts off phone calls if word 'protest' is used.
A Beijing entrepreneur, discussing restaurant choices with his fiancée over their cellphones last week, quoted Queen Gertrude's response to Hamlet: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." The...
View ArticleElection to kick off Saturday - Canada - CBC News.
After losing a confidence vote Friday, Harper will cross the street from his home at 24 Sussex Dr. and walk through the grounds of Rideau Hall to meet Gov. Gen. David Johnston at 9 a.m. ET. There,...
View ArticleObama Explains Why We're Dropping Bombs on Libya.
Every once in a while, President Obama has to explain to the nation why he's doing stuff. He doesn't want to do it, because you guys annoy him, and you don't want to listen to it, because Dancing With...
View ArticleDunderdale pushing away: Williams - Nfld. & Labrador - CBC News.
Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams won't be fighting federal Conservatives this election as he tussles with the new leadership of his provincial Tory party. Williams is skipping...
View ArticleJapan nuclear radiation reading 'not credible' - World - CBC News.
Takashi Kurita, a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. had said the readings showed water testing 10 million times higher in radioactivity than normal in the cooling system of the reactor in...
View ArticleTaliban claim mass abduction of officers - World - CBC News.
The Taliban say they have kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in the northeast of the country. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said Sunday that the policemen, who were from Nuristan province, had just...
View ArticleWater radioactivity skyrockets in Japanese reactor - World - CBC News.
The radioactivity in water in one unit of a stricken nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan has tested 10 million times higher than normal, the plant's operator said Sunday. Leaked water in Unit 2...
View ArticleExpect Nothing! - Woken up by the Republicans.
Assholes call me at 8:34 p.m. and start asking me questions, waking me up from a nap. Like they'll get my vote. The only time I'm voting again for them is when I can vote Obama out of office.
View ArticleFood Dyes May Exacerbate Hyperactive Behavior In Some Kids.
It has long been suspected that kids with ADHD might be having some sort of reaction to common synthetic food dyes â but now the FDA is going to formally consider any links between the dyes and...
View ArticleWhen Food Is High, Corn Gets Political & The Crazy Get Going : TreeHugger.
Here's some evidence that times may be changing when it comes to farm subsidies: A newspaper story out of Kansas last week reports on a Republican House member who represents western and central Kansas...
View ArticleEuropean Union to Ban Gas Fueled Vehicles by 2050 : TreeHugger.
According to the commission´s report, the proposal aims to create a single European "transport area" wherein conventional, emission-spewing motor vehicles are phased out and replaced with...
View ArticleAngry White Ladies: The Women of Headline News.
If you're not familiar with these shrill=voiced harpies, you can catch them on HLN every night from 7 PM until your sensory organs construct a bear trap with which to destroy your miserable head. The...
View ArticlePilot finds hole in plane's fuselage; airline and FBI investigate.
A US Airways 737 pilot in Charlotte, North Carolina, discovered a small hole in the exterior of his plane's fuselage Monday, prompting the airline to take the plane out of service and for the FBI to...
View ArticleBelgium Still Doesn't Have a Government.
Last month, Belgians took off their clothes and some members of parliament stopped boning to celebrate tying Iraq's world record for days without a government, at 249 days. Today marks 289 days of...
View ArticleAirplanes' Contrails Cause Far More Warming Than Their Carbon Emissions,...
Aircraft condensation trails criss-crossing the sky may be warming the the planet on a normal day more than the carbon dioxide by all planes since the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903.
View ArticleHole in US Airways plane was caused by a bullet, sources say.
A hole in a US Airways jet that landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, was caused by a bullet that pierced the passenger cabin, three government sources told CNN Tuesday.
View ArticleTax the Super Rich now or face a revolution Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch.
Revolutions build over long periods â to critical mass, a flash point. Then they ignite suddenly, unpredictably. Like Egypt, started on a young Google executive's Facebook page. Then it goes viral,...
View ArticleThe Marines Are Using Weather Balloons to Communicate With Fighters Out of...
The US Marines' AV-8B Harriers are now flying over Libya, along with F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, Rafales, Mirages, Typhoons, Tornados, and apparently Spectres and Warthogs too. The Harriers are out of range...
View ArticleHow Race and Ethnicity is Distributed Across the U.S.
Attention, data nerds! Numbers from the 2010 Census are being released, which means it's time to start crunching numbers and making colorful maps. New Geography has a bunch, including these two showing...
View ArticleTesla sues Top Gear over
Remember that time Top Gear gave the Tesla Roadster such a thrashing it broke, except it really didn't break? Tesla does, and it's now filed suit against the BBC and Top Gear accusing the Beeb of...
View ArticleSecret Space Plane Can't Hide From Amateur Sleuths.
The U.S. military likes to be a little sneaky with its robotic space planes. Unlike typical spacecraft, these vehicles can shift their orbits, frustrating the global network of skywatchers who keep...
View ArticleWhile Libya Rages, Navy Sends Its Newest Warship to... San Diego?!?
With a war taking place along the Libyan coast, the newest ships the U.S. Navy has for coastline warfare are maxing and relaxing. One of the new Littoral Combat Ships, the U.S.S. Freedom, is sitting in...
View ArticleGoogle Settles With FTC Over
The FTC announced today that Google has settled with the commission over the "Buzz" privacy debacle â agreeing to 20 years of privacy audits. The commission said in a statement that this is the first...
View ArticleSt. Lawrence Seaway reopens after stranded ship freed by tugboats.
MONTREAL - Tugboats took about five minutes to pull free a massive cargo ship that had been grounded at a skewed angle in the St. Lawrence Seaway on Thursday, shutting it down for several hours. Two...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen disappoints in Detroit - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News.
They got the ranting. It just wasn't funny.
View ArticleRadioactive water leaking from Japanese plant - World - CBC News.
Highly radioactive water was leaking into the sea Saturday from a crack discovered at a Japanese nuclear power plant destabilized by last month's earthquake and tsunami, Japanese nuclear safety...
View ArticleEx-Congressman in Libya to 'Help' Once Proposed Arming Gadhafi.
Former Congressman Curt Weldon traveled repeatedly to Libya during the last decade, becoming so close with the Gadhafi regime that the firm Weldon worked for even floated the idea of selling arms to...
View ArticleCanada's power grid needs $293B infusion: report - Canada - CBC News.
Canada's power grid will need an annual investment of $15 billion for the next 20 years in order to maintain aging facilities and meet rising demand, according to a report released Thursday.
View ArticleFox news anchor tricked into licking iPad on air [video].
Look, we like the iPad just as much as the next person, but that doesn't mean we're going to go around licking it -- in public, anyway. Raoul Martinez, a local�Fox news anchor in San Diego, pulled...
View ArticleJapan pushes to find tsunami dead despite radiation - World - CBC News.
Nearly a month after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake generated the tsunami along Japan's northeastern coast, more than 14,700 people are still missing, officials said Thursday. Many of those may have been...
View ArticleSouth Korea schools close over radiation in rain fears - World - CBC News.
More than 100 South Korean schools have cancelled or shortened classes over fears that rain falling across the country may include radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.
View ArticleVirgin Galactic's Private SpaceShip Soars Over San Francisco.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo private spaceliner flies over San Francisco's Bay Area Bridge with the city as a backdrop while en route to San Francisco International Airport with the Virgin America...
View ArticleJon Stewart Examines Geraldo Rivera's Role in Libya.
You can tell that a war zone has really gotten out of control when Geraldo Rivera shows up�and that's exactly what just happened in Libya. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart...
View ArticleLarry King Is Hawking Breath Mints Now.
Ever since Larry King departed CNN, the talk show legend has had a hard time finding things to fill his time�which is probably why he (and wife Shawn) agreed to shill for BreathGemz in this...
View ArticleWhy Glenn Beck's Show Was Cancelled [POLL].
The Twittersphere is exploding over news of Glenn Beck's "transition" away from his daily Fox News program later this year.
View ArticleHSBC Economist Says We've Got Just 50 Years of Oil Left : TreeHugger.
"But what is shocking to me is the calmness with which the line is delivered and how outside of specialist reporting such statements are seldom to be heard." - Calm because they are lying?
View ArticleListen to the Pilot Who Joked Through an Emergency Landing.
Twice, upon receiving authorization to fly below 500 feet along the shoreline, the pilot replied, "Roger," but stretched it out and pronounced it, "rod-jaaah," according to the recording. He also told...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen Is Trying to Copyright His Catchphrases.
America's favorite fighter jet Charlie Sheen, apparently realizing he is sitting on a hypothetical goldmine of branded paraphernalia, is attempting to trademark 22 of the phrases he's coined during his...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Now Uses GPS to Blow Shit Up With Extreme Precision.
The APMI XM395 cartridge employs a standard 120-millimeter projectile body, but packed in the nose is a GPS receiver and controller that ensures the aerodynamic directional fins guide the shell toward...
View ArticleMan Gives Wife World's First Mosquito-Borne STD.
In what is either a medical first or the best "sorry I gave you an STD, babe" defense of all time, an American biologist has passed the rare Zika virus�received via mosquito bite�to his...
View ArticleHow the Japan Tsunami's Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii.
If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here are some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center,...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane.
Loss of consciousness and death would soon follow purely from oxygen deprivation to the brain...At the same time, temperatures of -70 degrees Fahrenheit (-57 degrees Celsius) - made even colder by the...
View ArticleLong Island's Serial Killer Is a Little Too Smart.
As police try to unravel the case of a suspected serial killer in Long Island, they've found their work hampered by the killer's unusual savviness. The killer seems so well-versed in police techniques...
View ArticleSix Dead in Shopping Mall Shooting.
A shooter with an automatic weapon opened fire in a shopping mall in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn, killing six and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It's the second shooting in as many...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland police defuse huge bomb.
Authorities in Northern Ireland on Saturday defused a bomb packed into a bin containing 500 pounds of homemade explosives, police said.
View ArticleWatch jarring footage of China's massive ghost towns.
Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns. It's all part of the government's efforts to...
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