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Justices rule against police, say GPS surveillance requires search warrant
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:52 PM EST (CNN)
Police erred by not obtaining an extended search warrant before attaching a tracking device to a drug suspect's car, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling Monday. A majority of justices said that secretly placing the device and monitoring the man's movements for several …
Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed
Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 4:16 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own. The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C. It is the closest …
The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia
Seeded on Thu Dec 1, 2011 12:22 PM EST (PLoS ONE)
Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in Arabia that resemble a specific African industry, which would indicate demographic exchange across t …
Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial
Seeded on Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:09 PM EST (The Alex Jones Show - Infowars.com)
“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S.
A tale of two states -- Why has Indiana fared better than Michigan during the recession?
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:14 PM EST (The Indianapolis Star)
For academic researchers largely immune to political dogma, this last recession is full of puzzles. Among them are the relative differences in the experience of Michigan and Indiana over the very dark period from late 2007 through 2010.
E.J. Dionne: Turning budget 'failure' into success
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:01 PM EST (The Indianapolis Star)
Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing. That's right. If Congress simply fails to act between now and Jan. 1, 2013, the tax cuts passed under President George W.
Ed Feulner: Tea partiers are not Occupiers
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:32 PM EST (The Indianapolis Star)
President Obama recently compared the tea party to the Occupy Wall Street protests, telling ABC News' Jake Tapper, "in some ways they're not that different." We beg to differ. The tea party and the protestors are almost exact opposites.
The earliest oxygen-breathing life on land? - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com
Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:02 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Analysis indicates earliest estimate to date for Great Oxidation Event — 2.48 billion years ago
Artifacts Indicate 100,000-Year-Old Art Studio
Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:52 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Artifacts found in Blombos Cave indicate paint was being made as much as 100,000 years ago, an important clue to the development of symbolic thought in early humans.
Can atom smasher double as time machine?
Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:15 AM EDT (CBS News)
The Large Hadron Collider as a time machine? According to a physics professor and his assistant, the world's largest atom smasher could indeed allow people to travel back in time. Theoretical? To be sure. But they say it's theoretically possible.
"Idiot with a Tripod" (aka, "Man in a Blizzard")
Seeded on Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:54 PM EST (YouTube)
3-1/2 min. film of the New York blizzard last week; excellent photography, excellent editing, excellent development, and a fine choice of music. It's gone viral, and there are Oscar murmurs.
Grope-Out Wednesday: For Those Who Have the Courage
Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:45 PM EST
There's a movement afoot among those who are traveling next Wednesday to protest the latest TSA procedures by refusing the nudie pictures and forcing TSA to do an "enhanced pat down", otherwise known as a sexual assault.
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Loopy Music
Seeded on Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:11 PM EDT (LiveLeak.com)
Dunno how to describe this w/o sounding geeky. Just watch and listen; it's cool.
Political Scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad 'Islam Is Like a Drug'
Seeded on Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:48 PM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian-German political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad talks about his childhood as the son of an imam in Egypt, why he thinks Islam is a danger to society and his theories about the inevitable decline of the Muslim world.
National Parks Infinite Photo
Seeded on Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:58 AM EDT (National Geographic)
You've heard of wheels within wheels? This is pics within pics!
A law Arizona can live with
Seeded on Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:34 AM EDT (The Indianapolis Star)
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense -- being in the country illegally -- a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
The image Microsoft doesn't want you to see
Seeded on Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:31 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Showing Chinese sweatshop workers slumped over their desks with exhaustion, it is an image that Microsoft won't want the world to see.
Pheasant attacks man
Seeded on Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:10 PM EDT (Telegraph)
A retired ornithologist says he is frightened to leave his home because of a ferocious pheasant.
Cop Charged After Videotaped Beating of Motorist
Seeded on Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:59 PM EDT (CBS News)
A suburban Chicago police officer caught on video hitting a driver 15 times with his baton and firing a stun gun at the man's passenger has been charged with felony aggravated battery and official misconduct, and more charges are possible, prosecutors say.
Ethiopian desert yields oldest hominid skeleton
Seeded on Fri Oct 2, 2009 3:35 PM EDT (insciences.org)
Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct.
An Open Letter to Our Nation's Leadership
Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:14 PM EDT
I wish I had written this myself, because it resonates so well. I also wish I could give the author proper attribution, but I don't know who she is; I hope she will be satisfied with sharing it, since it's an open letter and it's evident she wishes to be heard.
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Up on the Roof
Seeded on Thu Jul 2, 2009 5:29 PM EDT (National Geographic)
But step out through a hatch onto the roof of the Vancouver Public Library at Library Square—nine stories above downtown—and you'll find yourself in a prairie, not an asphalt wasteland.
Pot vs. Booze: A Former Police Chief's Take
Seeded on Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:02 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
As 5:00 p.m. rolls around my interior clock starts chiming. I'll have an ice-cold, bone-dry martini, thank you. Jalapeno olives and a twist.
Church member: "I've never heard of a church giving away money."
Seeded on Tue Mar 3, 2009 2:12 PM EST (msnbc.com)
Waterfront Community Church gives weekend collection to needy members of their community.
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REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran this month was one of the latest mysterious deaths and explosions in Iran in recent years, possibly connected to the country's controversial nuclear development plans. …
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Angela Dewan | Tolerance of Islamic vigilantism is helping to breed a new generation of terrorists in Indonesia, the International Crisis Group warned in a report on Thursday.The report criticized the government and police for lax law enforcement against hardliners, who oft …
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