Orchids Use Wasps for One Night Stands
Region: Australia
"Male pollinators can prefer orchids to real females, prematurely end a copulation with a real female to visit an orchid, or be unable to find real female mates among false orchid signals. Unquestionably, producing sperm, ... more
Views: 2177Philadelphia Police Brutality Not Race-Based, Officials Insist
Region: PennsylvaniaIt has been reported that on Monday, May 5th, a Fox TV helicopter captured video of at least 12 and perhaps as many as 14 Philadelphia police officers surrounding a car carrying three men and dragging them out into what be... more
Views: 4389Cindy Crawford is Thirsty for Change
Region: Ohio
PUR Water Filtration Systems and former Playboy centerfold and supermodel Cindy Crawford have gotten together to help--what else?--the children and the environment. Crawford, who was once a chemistry major, says that a... more
Views: 3096Fiji Government Raises Income Tax Threshold, Lowers Trade Duties
Region: FijiActing Finance Minister Filipe Bole of Fiji's interim government has announced that his Department has raised the nation's minimum income tax threshold from $9000 to $15,000 (U.S.), a move which is getting mixed reactions ... more
Views: 2610Bush Administration Appointee Lurita Doan Bites the Dust
Region: District of Columbia
After having been head of the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) since late May of 2006 as that agency's first female leader, Lurita Doan has resigned. The GSA employs 12,000 people and is given an... more
Views: 1824May Day Demonstrations Suppressed in Turkey
Region: Turkey
On April 30th, Turkish officials announced publicly that they would use force if need to be to thwart a May Day demonstration planned to be held in the center of the capital city of Istanbul. "We will use force as the ... more
Views: 1796Morning Ring Around the Sun
Region: Florida
In the skies above Florida's Key West yesterday morning, the unusual phenomenon of a ring around the Sun could be seen, which seems to have first been sighted and officially called in by a dawn-treading sailor. Some pe... more
Views: 9180Basque Nightclub & Restaurant Lost in Early Morning Fireball
Region: California
Around 5:30 AM this morning, the Basque Nightclub and Restaurant at the world's "most famous intersection in the most famous neighborhood" of Vine street and Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles erupted into flames that reac... more
Views: 2034Microsoft Makes the COFEE
Region: WashingtonWe now know as of yesterday that, since June of 2007, law enforcement agencies have been making use of a computer security-bypassing piece of hardware made by Microsoft called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extra... more
Views: 2872Thawing the T. Rex of the Antarctic Waters
Region: New ZealandMarine biologists at the Te Papa Tongarewa museum of New Zealand are at the time of this writing thawing out and examining a Colossal Squid that was found clutching a sought Patagonian Toothfish in the Antarctic. Put t... more
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