Posts tagged “News”
Weather Control
A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of hurricanes. [link via me-fi]
Late Fee
Woman returns book missing from Boston library for 80 years Last week, a young woman went to the Boston Public Library to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” a book that has been missing from the library for at least 80 years. A
Hippo News
News from Zoos
Miss Cleo
Yes! This snip from NextDraft makes me very happy: Missouri has filed lawsuits against the psychic Miss Cleo (if you have ever watched television, you know her) charging her with consumer fraud. According to the state’s attorney general: ‘Miss Cleo should have seen this coming. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to realize that ripping
Random Links
What’s special about cab driver brains? “Once the forms are removed, the computer should be one big block of concrete on the inside. Replace the cover and wipe the PC down with a damp cloth to remove any concrete that may have run out of the case.” “It is interesting to note that … it
Be alert and don’t swim with the seals.
Boys: The Weaker Sex
Dan Rather on decent, responsible journalism
Johns Hopkins
U.S. Suspends Human Research at Johns Hopkins After a Death The volunteer, Ellen Roche, died on June 2, a month after she inhaled an unapproved drug as part of a research study to examine the causes of asthma. Her lungs were destroyed, apparently by the chemical she inhaled, hexamethonium. She was 24 and a technician