What Happens When You Drop a Live Fish in Liquid Nitrogen?
Whoa! What happens when you drop a live fish into liquid nitrogen? You may not believe it. Some people are saying this is cruel, but think of the scientific potential!
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Ben Carson Suspending Campaign?
By R. Brownell The question from Carson’s fan base was obvious, “Why aren’t you taking Ben Carson’s presidential campaign seriously?” when not even a moment later Carson announced “he was putting all public campaign events on hold for a two-week book tour.” Yup, you heard it, a book tour of all things… Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben…
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Artists Sneak Hidden Messages Into ‘Homeland’- Accuse Show of Racism
Jon Albee writes at The Farrell File: Three graffiti artists hired to add authenticity to scenes of a refugee camp in an episode of Showtime’s Homeland have claimed they instead accused the show of racism with their artwork. In the second episode of the fifth season, which aired earlier this week, the show’s lead character Carrie…
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Feds’ Emergency Plans List Hundreds Of Wrong, Non-Working Numbers
Mark Tapscott People may die in the next coal-mine disaster because emergency response plans include hundreds of wrong numbers for first-responder services, according to a federal watchdog. The Mine Safety and Health Administration is required to list contacts for emergency services in case a mine collapses, but at least 260 of those phone numbers were…
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6 Government Regulations Too Stupid to Believe
From Bankable Insight: 1. Collecting rainwater If you live in Oregon, don’t even think about diverting that rain water on your property into any sort of container. One Oregon man was sentenced to 30 days in jail because he had three ponds on his property. His ponds were deemed “illegal reservoirs.” According to a really…
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Federal Regulators Undermining Awesome Potential of Drones
Guy Bentley Regulators and legislators looking to curtail the use of civilian drones could be losing out big on an economic boom, according to a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Drones offer a huge opportunity to improve the way Americans work and live, but they could be stifled by “misguided, misinformed privacy and operating…
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‘Back to the Future’ Stars Reunited to Honor October 21st, 2015
Back to Future stars Christopher Loyd and Michael J. Fox got together to discuss the predictions the iconic film made about the future we now live in. What did it get right and what did it get wrong? Toyota sponsored the advertisement which urges people to watch the classic movie on October 21st, 2015– the day…
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Scientists Make Huge Discovery, Point to Advanced Alien Life
Some scientists are getting very excited about potential megastructures they believe may be evidence of an advanced civilization. Astronomers discovered what they believe may be megastructures orbiting around a star near the Milky Way using the Kepler Space Telescope. “I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Jason Wright told The Atlantic. “Aliens should always…
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Store Fined $6 Million For Selling Gun Used To Shoot Cop
Casey Harper After a man shot two cops, the officers blamed the Wisconsin gun store and raked in a cool $6 million dollars. In 2009 two Milwaukee officers stopped Julius Burton for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk, but Burton pulled out a gun and shot both officers in the face. The cops later held the…
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Wind Turbines Are Killing Bats And Could Be Hurting Farmers
Michael Bastasch Wind turbines are killing hundreds of thousands of bats every year — bats that could be providing farmers with huge economics benefits if new research is to be believed. A new study by University of California Davis researcher Katherine Ingram claims that bats add $3.7 billion to the U.S. agriculture industry through pest control….
