Archive for January, 2009

– Mother of Octuplets admits she had a total of 14 illegitimate in-vitro babies because she “got paid for it”. »

The search engine incorrectly labelled all other websites as potentially harmful and stopped internet users from directly clicking through to their search results. The problem arose at around 2.30pm GMT today and was only fixed after 40 minutes – by which time millions of users had been affected. »

Survey shows more than half of the British public believe that the theory of evolution cannot explain the full complexity of life on Earth, and a “designer” must have lent a hand. »

In addition to being shot in the back with an arrow and bludgeoned from behind – both of which likely caused the end to his 45-year existence – Oetzi received a nasty gash on his hand just days earlier that reached down to the bone. »

The Ultimate Aero EV from Shelby Supercars uses a twin motor system that produces 1000 horse power and 800lb-ft of torque, and can accelerate to 60mph in 2.5 seconds.  The new vehicle has a range up to 200 miles; batteries can be charged in 10 minutes. »

After 19 years on the job at Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Ledbetter found that she was the lowest paid supervisor in her plant despite being more experienced than several male counterparts. A jury found the company guilty of discrimination but the Supreme Court held that a discrimination claim must be filed within 180 days... »

The 3.8 percent annual pace of contraction in the final three months of last year was less than forecast, with a buildup of unsold goods cushioning the blow. Without the jump in inventories, the decline would have been 5.1 percent, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. »

The median sales price of existing homes fell to $175,400 in December, down 15.3% from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). And the S&P/Case-Shiller index shows that home prices in 20 cities fell 18.2% in November compared with the year before. Both measures make houses about as expensive as... »

“The current experiment marks the first in which information has traveled a significant distance — 1 meter, or a little more than 3 ft. — between two isolated atoms. ..An ultrafast laser pulse triggers the atoms to emit photons simultaneously. If the photons interact in just the right way, their parent atoms enter a... »

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“We need more than the same old empty promises,” President Obama declared on Monday. He therefore offered new empty promises, most conspicuously a vow to create “a new energy economy that puts millions of our citizens to work.” »

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NOAA researcher defines “irreversible” as change that would remain for 1,000 years even if humans stopped adding carbon to the atmosphere immediately. »

Mr Clarke apparently dismissed the idea of encouraging marriage through the tax system as “social engineering”, and warned that the Tory leader was taking on the attitudes of the American “religious right”. »

Highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year. »

An Iranian football club said it had suspended three officials for allowing the club’s female team and its youth male squad to play against one another. »

“I can laugh at a hell of a lot, but I find this chillingly, nauseatingly awful. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so sick seeing a commercial, and (of course) I’m not talking about the sexy part, but the ending. Here it is, a commercial for Agent Provocateur lingerie” »

Wife has an affair, gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy. Husband and wife divorce. Tests show the husband isn’t the father, but a court orders him to pay child support anyway. »

“I can’t imagine a conservative state like Texas not being joyfully willing to stamp their approval on that,” said J.B., one of the two men seeking marital dissolution “I think we…  should be allowed the same dignity and respect as any two people who have irreconcilable differences.” »

Britain’s economy shrank by 1.5 per cent in the last quarter of 2008, largest GDP fall since 1980; British Pound drops to $1.3688, while the Bank of England edges interest rates to zero. »

Amy Alkon on dating for men, hooking up and whether women should have sex with their husbands if not in the mood. »

Exposing Google’s transparent bias »

The atheist bus adverts that declare “there’s probably no God” have been given the green light by the advertising watchdog, despite attracting hundreds of complaints. »

The group of 40 terrorists were reported to have been killed by the plague at a training camp in Algeria earlier this month. »

Women suffer more nightmares than men because they find it harder to switch off their emotions at the end of the day, research has found. »

One of the most disturbing aspects of the global warming scam is the number of prominent people and entire segments of society bullied into silence. »

Alternative computer models seek to recognise and project into the future the climate patterns that exist in real world data. »

A book about a mother’s escape with her child from the abusive father, with main focus on how Swedish authorities ignore the mother’s desperate call for help, is exposed as a fraud. »

Pity the poor global warming alarmists such as Al Gore, James Hansen of NASA, and the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen. »

Despite all scare-mongering to the contrary, carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is not the cause of global warming. »

Inflation slowed to a half-century low this past year and industrial output fell for the first time since 2002, data showed on Friday, as the recession deepened toward year-end, raising the specter of deflation. »

Newsbusters: Kevin Grandia blogging at the Huffington Post wants you to ignore this and start worrying about the growing trend of global warming skepticism. He even catalogued the increased levels of global warming skepticism by analyzing Google search stats in excruciating detail. »

Doug Powers: Shocking news is proof that NASA needs to take action and send Al Gore to Mars to save the Red Planet. »

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“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. »

Last Friday, in one of its first actions of the 111th Congress, the House of Representatives passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act.  Although the bills purport to ensure equal pay for men and women, in truth they are a stimulus package for trial lawyers and liberal/feminist special-interest groups. »

To our hunter-gatherer and planter-herder ancestors the notion that humans could influence the elements seemed reasonable. »

Now it has been revealed that Barrack Obama’s choice of energy Czarina, Carol Browner is apparently an actual card-carrying socialist. »

US conservatives are up in arms that the election of President-Elect Barack Obama has led the show’s producers to pander to the liberal consensus in Hollywood, which they claim has led to the blacklisting of those who disagree with their anti-war views. »

The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots. »