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$10K iTunes Winner Hung Up On Apple, Thought It Was a Prank
"I thought it was a prank call," says Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. "I said, 'Thank you very much, I'm not interested' and I hung up."
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Glenn Beck's Ranting Sparks Death Threats Against 78-Year-Old Sociologist
According to the New York Times, Piven has been receiving death threats after being villainized on Beck's show. /quote Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 rounds ready and I'll give My life to take Our freedom back /unquote wrote one user on Beck's news site, The Blaze.
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Diplo-Tweet? State Department Increases Reliance on Social Media to Emphasize Positions
The State Department is tightening its embrace of Twitter and other social media as crises grip the Middle East and Haiti, with officials finding new voice, cheek and influence in the era of digital diplomacy.
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Mother and 3 children shot in heads in partially burnt Indiana home
Results of an autopsy revealed Katelynn Bennett, nine, Ryan Bennett, four, and Jasmine Abbott, 14 - and their 30-year-old mother Amanda Bennett - died as a result of gunshot head wounds.
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Insane Swedish Twins Attempt Suicide on Camera After Questioning by Police (NSFW Video)
Not for the squeamish.
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'Bug Mac': Food of the future?
Dutch student Walinka van Tol inspects the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline she's holding, steels herself with a shrug, then pops it into her mouth...
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Archaeologist shows how the Romans made pottery in Britain
What the Romans in Britain lacked in aesthetics they more than made up for in efficiency – and a Stanford researcher shows how they did it by recreating and firing a kiln based on the late Iron Age and Roman models in Britain.
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Team creates 'engineered organ' model for breast cancer research
Purdue University researchers have reproduced portions of the female breast in a tiny slide-sized model dubbed 'breast on-a-chip' that will be used to test nanomedical approaches for the detection and treatment of breast cancer.
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How Poverty Hurts Young Children, and Why Rich Parents Don't Matter
The Head Case column looks at a study of 750 pairs of twins, as reported in Psychological Science.
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Using Blood-Vessel Cells In The Battle Against Cancer
Scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
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Phobos pictured in Mars Express fly by
Mars Express has returned images from the Phobos flyby of 9 January 2011. Mars Express passed Mars' largest moon at a distance of 100km.
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Notre Dame U. Reports on Experiment to Replace Textbooks With iPads
School in midst of year-long e-publishing experiment involving Apple tablet computers
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Zsa Zsa Gabor goes home after leg amputation
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is allowed home from hospital eight days after having her right leg amputated, her spokesman says.
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Horses Baptized by Fire in Annual Celebration
Every year on January 16, the eve of St. Anthony's Day, the villagers of San Bartholome de Los Pinares, in Spain, participate in an unusual tradition. They saddle up and ride their horses through raging bonfires called "Luminarias." The practice is meant to purify and bring protection to the horses that are sprinkled with holy water before they leap through flames. St. Anthony is the patron saint of animals.
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Hawaii Senate Ends Daily Chamber Prayers
Fearing a possible court challenge, Hawaii's state Senate has voted to silence the daily prayer offered before each session began - making it the first state legislative body in the nation to halt the practice.
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Android Source Code, Java, & Copyright Infringement: What's Going On?
So it's been a fun day of armchair code forensics and legal analysis on the web after Florian Mueller published a piece yesterday alleging Google directly copied somewhere between 37 and 44 Java source files in Android. That's of course a major accusation, seeing as Oracle is currently suing Google for patent and copyright infringement related to Java.
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Egypt: Militant group in Gaza behind church attack
An al-Qaida-linked group in Gaza was behind the New Year's Day suicide bombing that killed at least 21 Christians and wounded about a hundred...
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Pope: Marriage is not an absolute right
Pope Benedict XVI told priests Saturday to do a better job counseling would-be spouses to ensure their marriages last and said no one has an absolute right to a wedding.
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Surrogacy: the brave new world of making babies
As actress Nicole Kidman becomes the latest star to take delivery from a surrogate mother, the social and moral boundaries of reproduction are becoming increasingly blurred. Laura Donnelly reports Hollywood stars are good at paying tribute to the production teams who helped them create their latest masterpiece. But last week, when actress Nicole Kidman and her musician husband announced the birth of a baby girl – and thanked the "gestational carrier" in whose womb she grew – they conjured up a Brave New World indeed. In Aldous Huxley's chilling dystopia, natural reproduction has been abolished, with children created in bottling factories and decanted, to be brought up in hatcheries and conditioning centres.
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Google to Get Tougher on Spammers/Content Farms in 2011
When you're searching on Google you've surely noticed how many content farms/affiliate sites are returned in the results that don't have good content, right? Google admits spam is up, and they've made it clear that they'll be making changes to reduce spam by penalizing content farms, spammers, hacked websites, but is that enough? shouldn't they start with some human editorial intervention or just let the bots (which don't seem to be doing a good job) continue to do all of the work?
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