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Man Dressed as Cow Steals Milk

Seeded on Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:38 PM EDT ()

Got milk? How about 26 gallons of it? One man did, at least for a little while. And that man was dressed in a cow costume. In the category of You Can't Make This Stuff Up If You Tried, the 18-year-old crawled into a Stafford, Va., Walmart on all fours, reported PotomacLocal.com.

wal-mart, police, theft, milk, odd-news, cow-costume

Why biggest stellar explosions often happen in tiniest galaxies: Ultraviolet probe sheds light on mystery

Seeded on Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:02 AM EDT (Science Daily)

"It's like finding a sumo wrestler in a little 'Smart Car,'" said Don Neill, a member of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and lead author of a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal.

space, stars, science, astrophysics, hayden-planetarium, galxies

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Frank Fennel: "I will not run for POTUS in 2012 unless my country needs me."

Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:14 AM EDT

By Walt D (Clipped by rwarner)

Today, Frank Fennel's RCPAC released a statement claiming that the good Doctor has "absolutely no plans to run for office" in 2012, adding "unless my country needs me".

Continue reading this entry ...

trump, politics, gop, democrat, libertarian, rubber-chicken, palin, tea-party, dr-frank-fennel, frank-fennel

First homosexual caveman found

Seeded on Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:43 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.

science, archaeology, homosexual, ethnology, prague

New dinosaur species is a missing link

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:42 AM EDT (CNN)

It's fitting that a place called Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, would yield the discovery of a scary-looking creature. But it's not a ghost - it's a dinosaur.

science, dinosaurs, paleotology

A new spin on superconductivity?

Seeded on Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:30 AM EDT (MIT)

MIT scientists have synthesized, for the first time, a crystal they believe to be a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: a solid material whose atomic spins continue to have motion, even at absolute zero temperature.

science, crystal, m-i-t, super-conductor

Top 10 Tax Avoiders List

Seeded on Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:30 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

1) ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings. [Note: Our post last April reported that ExxonMobil was owed $46 million by the IRS.]

economy, taxes, us-news, rich, corporations, bernie-sanders, g-o-p, super-rich, i-r-s

French vegans on trial for starving their baby to death

Seeded on Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:21 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Two vegans who fed their 11-month-old daughter only mother's milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin deficiency.

france, child-abuse, world-news, neglect, vegan, starvation, vegan-diet, vitamin-deficiency

Poland wants to question 2 detainees at Guantanimo in torture case

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:05 AM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)

Polish prosecutors investigating a secret CIA prison have asked U.S. authorities to question two Guantánamo Bay prisoners who allege they were held and abused in Poland.

poland, torture, world-news, c-i-a, guantanimo

Romney sends $25K to GOP in Christie's New Jersey GOP

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:55 AM EDT (TheHill.com)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) dispatched $25,000 to New Jersey's state Republican Party, building more support through financial support to state parties.

conservatives, politics, republicans, mitt-romney, u-s-news, g-o-p

The Kill Team

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:28 AM EDT (Rolling Stone)

Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji.

iraq, military, murder, world-news, afganistan, u-s-soldiers

Farmers from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra narrate bitter Bt cotton tales

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:59 AM EDT (dnaindia.com)

The debate on genetically modified crops is gaining momentum again.

india, crops, genetically-modified, farms, world-news, g-m-o, farm-animal-deaths

China Toddler Weighs 132 Pounds, Baffles Doctors

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:50 AM EDT (ABC News)

Lu Hao, a three year old toddler in China, weighed less than six pounds at birth. But he gained weight rapidly, and today tips the scales at an astonishing 132 pounds -- five times the normal size of a child his age.

china, toddler, obesity, world-news, medical-mystery

AstraZeneca settles tax dispute and saves $1bn |

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:23 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

AstraZeneca has settled a long-running tax dispute in a deal which sees HM Revenue & Customs refund tax payments that will now go to America instead.

taxes, internal-revenue-service, world-news, big-pharma, astra-zeneca

Brooklyn School Begins Reciting 'Pledge' for First Time in a Decade

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:19 AM EDT (WNYC New York Public Radio)

Children at PS 29 in Brooklyn Heights are set to say the Pledge of Allegiance Monday for the first time in more than a decade.

school, us-news, pledge-of-allegiance

Riceland Foods wins $137 million from Bayer for genetic contamination

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:16 AM EDT (foodfreedom.wordpress.com)

The circuit court jury awarded $16.9 million in total damages Friday — laying blame at 70 percent for Bayer Crop Science and 30 percent for Riceland Foods — resulting in $11.9 million for Riceland Foods. Riceland also received $125 million in punitive damages.

food, farmers, bayer, farms, us-news, riceland, g-m-o, biotechgenetically-engineered-food

Two Stars Become One

Seeded on Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:00 AM EDT (Discovery.com)

Scientists have directly observed for the first time the merger of two closely orbiting stars. Experts have suggested for decades that such stars -- which whirl so close to each other that their outer layers actually touch — should ultimately commingle.

space, stars, research, science, astronomy, astrophysics

FBI: She hired hit man off website

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:05 AM EDT (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

What do you do when you want your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend rubbed out? Why, you go to hitmanforhire.com, of course.

murder, us-news, hitman

Giant Rabbit Fossil Found: Biggest Bunny Was "Roly-Poly"

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:36 AM EDT (National Geographic)

he Easter bunny came early this year for a few scientists working on the Spanish island of Minorca (see map). The team has just announced the discovery of Earth's biggest known rabbit species, an oddly unbunny-like giant dubbed Nuralagus rex—"the Minorcan king of the hares."

science, fossils, archaeology, scientists, rabbit, minorca

American Family Association not happy that African-Americans support Obama

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:21 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Fresh from American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer using what can be deemed as a racial slur to describe President Obama, the organization itself has begun making pointed but unproven assumptions regarding the President and the African-American vote in general.

race, conservatives, politics, obama, tea-party, p-o-t-u-s

Elizabeth Taylor Dies: Legendary Actress Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:12 AM EDT (q13fox.com)

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. ABC News reports Taylor died early Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure. She had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

entertainment, elizabeth-taylor, liz-taylor

4 year old U.S. citizen gets deported: sent to Guatemala after grandfather's detained

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:43 AM EDT (NY Daily News)

The feds deported a 4-year-old Long Island girl - who is a U.S. citizen - after officials detained her grandfather while he was bringing her back from a visit to Guatemala. "I'm just shocked," the family's lawyer, David Sperling, said Tuesday.

immigration, citizen, u-s, us-news, deportation, guatamala

Pet Shop Boys launch first ballet

Seeded on Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:39 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Venezuelan dancer Javier De Frutos has choreographed the piece, a fairytale about a ruler who offers his daughter and half his kingdom in a contest. The result, writes Judith Mackrell in The Guardian, "stretches the concept of ballet into new terrain".

entertainment, ballet, pet-shop-boys

Star-hungry black hole could blow galactic 'bubbles'

Seeded on Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:08 AM EDT (physicsworld.com)

Giant bubbles of gamma-ray-emitting materials surrounding the Milky Way are created by our galaxy's central black hole – and its appetite for stars – according to an international team of astronomers.

space, physics, science, black-hole, milky-way

4chan Hackers Leak Internal Bank of America Emails

Seeded on Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:05 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Anonymous, a group of online hackers that frequently take up politically charged causes such as bringing down the websites for Visa and other credit card companies, has released a massive batch of internal Bank of America emails.

bank-of-america, corruption, world-news, anonymous, wikileaks, assange

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