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Wall Street's Real Corporate Criminals are Going Unpunished[ news ] submitted by vtbarrera 16 hours 58 minutes ago Political News - Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse. Bernie Madoff and the other accused Ponzi schemers like Allen Stanford are mere pickpockets compared with Wall Street's institutional buccaneers, who, so far, have carted off up to $12.7 trillion. 5 comments |
What Reagan Was Really Trying To Do At The Berlin Wall[ news ] submitted by BullHunter 1 day 11 hours ago Political News - The president is remembered for his impassioned plea for Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall.' But his intention was to improve relations with the Soviet Union so the Cold War could end. 7 comments |
Geo-engineering a last-ditch solution for Climate Change?[ news ] submitted by ThePowerDigger 8 hours 4 minutes ago Environment - Judith Layzer says there’s no easy way out when it comes to climate change — but that geo-engineering might be a last-ditch solution. 8 comments |
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory[ news ] submitted by WordsnCollision 1 day 15 hours ago Space - An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky. 2 comments |
Badass Anti-Whaling Stealth Boat [PICS][ images ] submitted by mklopez 1 day 18 hours ago Environment - Earthrace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's new high-tech anti-whaling powerboat, rests in Auckland Harbor head of its imminent deployment for Perth, and then the Southern Ocean. The 24-meter trimaran has paint which deflects radar waves, so can approach Japanese whaling vessels almost unseen. 40 comments |
The 10 Most Beloved and Unhealthy Gaming Snacks[ news ] submitted by CourageWulf 21 hours 4 minutes ago Food & Drink - You're having people over for a night of dungeon running, or maybe you are having no people over and playing your friends online with some Left 4 Dead. Either way, you are going to need to eat something during this lengthy gaming session, preferably something you can grasp without one hand without looking. 40 comments |
Gene Therapy Using Modified HIV Virus Slows Brain Disease[ news ] submitted by weirdralph 22 hours 28 minutes ago World News - A new strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating ALD, a fatal brain disease. "We've demonstrated that this HIV-derived lentivirus vector works as was hoped for so many years," said coauthor Patrick Aubourg, professor of pediatrics. 12 comments |
Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts[ videos ] submitted by johnnr2 13 hours 20 minutes ago Health - Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts him on veterans health care 38 comments |
Want to buy 5,000 leftover Beijing Olympics condoms?[ news ] submitted by HeDiggMe 1 day ago Olympics - The words “leftover” and “condoms” are not typically combined to start a sales stampede, but one Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia is hoping he will be able to unload his 5,000 condoms from the 2008 Olympics at an auction. 23 comments |
Wall Street bonuses to rise 40%[ news ] submitted by seattlegirluw 1 day 16 hours ago Business & Finance - A new compensation survey described in The Wall Street Journal predicts that Wall Street incentive pay will rise 40% this year. For those in the fixed-income part of the industry, the increase could be closer to 60%. 37 comments |
Evergreen Solar To Move Jobs To China[ news ] submitted by bossm4n 18 hours 2 minutes ago Business & Finance - A solar panel company that received $58 million in state aid to build its factory in Massachusetts is now moving jobs overseas. Evergreen Solar is shifting some of its production, currently done at a plant in Devens, to China next year, after posting an $82 million loss in the third quarter. 35 comments |
The Country is Bleeding (MAP)[ images ] submitted by jaybol 1 day 3 hours ago Business & Finance - While the recession is "over" the unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in September from 9.7% in August. That's 214,000 more people who are jobless in the United States. The last time unemployment was this high was back in June 1983 when it was 10.1%. 99 comments |
Should I Buy Her A Drink? (Flowchart)[ images ] submitted by subtheorist 11 hours 13 minutes ago Comedy - If you end up hitting the bars tonight, we'd like you to be prepared. Sometimes knowing when and who to buy a drink for can be a challenging task for young men. We’ve developed an extremely basic reference guide to help you step up the plate and score some (probably married) tail. Good luck young Jedi. 34 comments |
Naked teen steals car with 2 children inside[ news ] submitted by raustin 13 hours 54 minutes ago Odd Stuff - Michelle Allery said she had buckled her 4-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter into their car seats Thursday morning in Dunseith and went back to her house to get her baby. She said she came out to see the car taking off with the children inside. 26 comments |
Video Games That Time Forgot: Jet Li: Rise to Honor 2004[ news ] submitted by nmffffd9 17 hours 51 minutes ago Gaming Industry News - You wouldn't know it from the "Expendables" trailer and the extremely low profile he's keeping now, but five years ago Jet Li was put forth as the Next Big Kung-Fu Crossover Star. 12 comments |
Dow Chemical finally agrees to clean up dioxin pollution[ news ] submitted by naturalpapa 22 hours 9 minutes ago Environment - U.S. EPA and Dow announced a deal they contend will finally address dioxin contamination from the company's chemical complex in Midland, about 200 miles from Chicago. Records show Dow has known since at least the mid-1960s that dioxins could sicken or even kill people, but the company insists the contamination does not pose health risks. 12 comments |
Chilling Letter From a Witness at the Fort Hood Massacres[ news ] submitted by Lederhosed 15 hours 41 minutes ago World News - "We signed up to be shot at but not at home. Not unarmed." Firsthand account of yesterday's tragedy at Fort Hood, from a reader who witnessed it happen. 30 comments |
Large Hadron Collider stalled again... thanks to a baguette[ news ] submitted by atomicpoet 15 hours 7 minutes ago General Sciences - The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette. 62 comments |
The 5 Best and 5 Worst NHL Jerseys of the Last Decade[ news ] submitted by thezoner 10 hours 17 minutes ago Hockey - It's been an exciting and confusing 10 years for NHL fashion, and not just because hockey fans' Jersey Fouls have become the subject of academic discourse on blogs. 20 comments |
Everything You Need to Know About Android 2.0[ news ] submitted by RunDiggMC 16 hours 45 minutes ago Tech Industry News - Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed Eclair) is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superseding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed Donut), which was actually considered "a minor platform release." 20 comments |
MacHeist Offers NanoBundle Worth $154, for FREE![ news ] submitted by Iexist08 7 hours 38 minutes ago Apple - The biggest Mac software bundle makers are offering a what appears to be prelude to their christmas bundle, for free. The list includes: Shovebox, Twitterrific, Writeroom ,TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs, MarinerWrite. There is no catch, just register and download. 18 comments |
Rite of Passage (COMIC)[ news ] submitted by MrBabyMan 23 hours 54 minutes ago Programming - That's how it always starts... 34 comments |
Some of the Universe's First Galaxies Discovered[ news ] submitted by benb24 17 hours 30 minutes ago Space - A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang. These and other galaxies from the universe's childhood could help shed light on the conditions that governed the early universe. 5 comments |
5 American Fast Food Items You Can't Get in America[ news ] submitted by absolutelytrue 12 hours 57 minutes ago Food & Drink - Pizza Hut pork stew? While America may be known around the world as a fast food paradise, there are actually some menu items you can't get stateside. Here are our Top 5 oddities from abroad. 36 comments |
UFOlogy Hits a New Low With The Fourth Kind [Spoilers!][ news ] submitted by mwtapp 15 hours 21 minutes ago Space - The Fourth Kind's unconvincing UFOlogy gives this reviewer chills. The movie stumbles directly into the biggest problems facing UFOs debates: missing evidence, too many coincidences, cover-up conspiracies and aliens that, given their high-tech know-how, are just plain dumb. [spoilers]. 18 comments |
Resurrecting Newton to do away with dark matter[ news ] submitted by benb24 1 day 14 hours ago Space - A review paper in this week's issue of Science looks at the current state of MOND theories, which seek to resurrect Newtonian gravity and are the chief competitors to the ΛCDM cosmological model, which relies on dark matter and dark energy. The verdict, according to the paper, is that MOND is still kicking. 14 comments |
Guillermo Del Toro On Making The Hobbit.[ news ] submitted by fms45 1 day 6 hours ago Movies - The cult director exclusively updates us... 32 comments |
American woman suffers amnesia after intercourse[ news ] submitted by zionoe 20 hours 10 minutes ago Health - An American woman suffered a sudden attack of amnesia after having sex with her husband. 59 comments |
Aftershocks from Slow Faults May Arrive Centuries Later[ news ] submitted by oteque 11 hours 11 minutes ago General Sciences - Models and data suggest that mid-continent earthquakes may well have been aftershocks from earthquakes that occurred more than 100 years earlier. have a deep and rather personal interest in earthquake and volcano prediction. This comes from spending most of my youth within a few kilometers of an active fault line and less than 100km..... 5 comments |
Desiree Jennings "cured" of her "vaccine-induced dystonia"?[ news ] submitted by RobertWright 17 hours 19 minutes ago Health - You remember Desiree Jennings? She's the young woman who received a seasonal flu vaccine in August and later developed what is being represented as dystonia but is almost certainly not. 53 comments |
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