Goodbye Guantánamo!

Reversing Gitmo: Mr. Obama signed executive orders closing the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, within a year; ending the Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons; and requiring all interrogations to follow the noncoercive methods of the Army Field Manual.

Honey, do you have any antibiotics? Honey once more recognized for its medicinal properties.

Honey, once more recognized as an antibiotic

Your Carfun Footprint

Mini USA always amuses me with their marketing sites. This one lets you calculate your "Carfun" footprint a combination of your Carbon footprint and how happy drivers of your car feel. It only contains mostly recent automobile options but is fun none the less.

High Oil Prices, can be good for the US economy!

Amite Foundry's orders jumped 25% in 2007 and 30% more so far this year, spurring the company to hire dozens of workers. Why the turnaround? The price of oil.

Racing for the cure, for fuel that is. LeMans may be lapping up Diesel

It is expected to be a tense, nail-biting contest between two of Europe's top motor companies. And remarkably, they will both enter the race with cars powered by diesel engines.

Grafitin art in motion. BLU Short Film: MUTO

This is an absolutely amazing animation done completely in Buenos Aires, taking an interesting twist on grafiti.

Comcast to FCC: We block only 'excessive' traffic

Comcast is mounting an aggressive defense of its BitTorrent blocking, telling the Federal Communications Commission that its decision to slow some file transfers are absolutely necessary to keep its network operational and have been mischaracterized by critics.

Spore Specifics Finally Emerge

Like sweet, sentient life from primordial goo, firm details about Electronic Art's (ERTS) to-be blockbuster Spore by Sims genius Will Wright emerged from Maxis HQ today. The uber-highly anticipated game will be available at retailers worldwide on September 7.

US scientists puncture the ethanol biofuel bubble

Good science news (or bad, depending on your point of view) has arrived with two reports on the carbon footprint of biofuels, in the paper edition of Science magazine.

Roy Scheider, Actor in 'Jaws,' Dies at 75

Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Officer Suspended After Skateboarder Rant

A veteran Baltimore police officer was suspended after a video appeared on YouTube showing him manhandling a 14-year-old skateboarder.

Deputy dumps paralyzed man out of wheelchair

It's hard to shock people in this modern wired world, but even the chief deputy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office in Florida found the security camera video of a jailer dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair appalling.

Diet Soda can make you FAT

People who drink diet soda in an effort to lose weight may be doing more harm than good according to a recent study conducted by the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Purdue University.

New Advance in Understanding HIV

Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that the identification of a specific HIV receptor that guides the virus to the intestines where it replicates and eventually destroys  …

See's brand choclate takes responsibility in its Consumers Health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of See's brand semi-sweet chocolate chips due to possible production line contamination.

Baby Toxic Crusaders. Heated baby bottles releaseing BPA into youngins.

The study found 95 percent of all baby bottles on the market are made with bisphenol A, or BPA, a synthetic sex hormone used in making hard, polycarbonate plastic. Low levels of BPA have been linked to diseases in laboratory animals, including cancer.

Analysis: Yahoo Bid Backfire If Microsoft Can't Change? - washingtonpost.com

Microsoft 's $44.6 billion offerto purchase Yahoois a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.

U.S. Economy Unexpectedly Sheds 17,000 Jobs - New York Times

The economy lost 17,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department reported on Friday, the first monthly decline in four years and the most striking evidence yet that the United States may be slipping into a recession.

Tesla Roadster to be a one speed car. Achieves 0-60 in aprox. 4 seconds

The engineers at Tesla Motors have designed a new single-speed transmission for its sports car that will let it hit the promised zero to 60 mph in four seconds.

Blizzard achieves World Domination, now controls 10 million peoples social lives.

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its juggernaut MMO, World of Warcraft, has reached 10 million subscribers. The announcement is a note to would-be competitors – listen up Age of Conan, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and Warhammer Online* – the 800 lbs.

Microsoft Talks Standards Support for IE 8

In keeping with its ongoing aim to not "break the Web" with major changes to the Internet Explorer (IE) rendering engine, Microsoft this week revealed how it will handle its support of Web standards in the next version of the Web browser.

Work stress 'changes your body'

A stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research has indicated. The study reported in the European Heart Journal focused on more than 10,000 British civil servants.

Arnold's Healthcare plan faces do or die today.

The sweeping health care package backed by Gov.

Twins Formerly Joined at Chest, Abdomen Headed Home

Formerly conjoined 2-year-old twin girls walked, played and swatted at bubbles Tuesday during their first public appearance since risky November separation surgery, which doctors said they had only a 50 percent chance of surviving.

Man at center of abuse investigation dies from Maggots and Infection

An elderly nursing home patient found with maggots in his eyes never recovered after being taken to a hospital and died two weeks ago, his daughter said Tuesday.

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