15 Year Old Chained To Bed For 3 Days For Bad Report Card

Seeded on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:32 PM EDT (wjz.com)

Watch the video. According to the video her mom is 27. 27!?! 27-15=12 AT BIRTH. Which is 11 (or so) at conception. Maybe I'm watching to many Law & Order: SVU re-runs, but I think anyone who's a mother by 12 has done plenty of other damaging things to that kid.

child, children, abuse, baltimore, us-news

'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving

Seeded on Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:02 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)

I didn't know just how right I was to describe myself as "knowledge-craving"

science, brain

How an Al-Qaeda Cell Planned a Poison-gas Attack on the N.Y. Subway

Seeded on Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:58 AM EDT (TIME)

Al-Qaeda figured out a way to disperse Nazi Death Camp style gas through the NY Subway but the plan, already in motion, was called off just 45 days before the scheduled date.

new-york, attack, terrorism, subway, terrorist, world-news, al-qaeda

24 year old goes to movies; shoots the first person he sees

Seeded on Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:54 PM EDT (The Baltimore Sun)

A 24 year old from an affluent neighborhood goes to see X-Men and 20 minutes into the film, turns around and shoots the closest patron in 3 times in the chest.

shooting, maryland, guns, crime, baltimore, us-news

'Glass carbon' is a world first

Seeded on Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:11 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)

CO2 becomes a solid under 500,000 atmospheres, but then reverts once the pressure is normalized.

space, science

Fury At McDonalds' New Super-Burger

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 9:32 PM EDT (Sky.com)

Offering a burger which is 40% bigger than a Big-Mac and has 669 calories, McDonald's is back from it's "Super Size Me" shame and ready to be a fast crappy food joint again.

food, health, mcdonalds, burger, calories

Nerd Alert! LED's Rims for Bicycle Wheels

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 12:12 AM EST (Instructables: exploring - popular)

Using LEDs and a "persistence of vision" technique, one man has come up with a way to display nearly anything on a bicycle wheel. It even comes with software to edit your own images. Click through for pictures....

technology, art, tech, led, bicycle, rims

Scientist Accidentally Discovers Algorithm To Solve All Sudoku Puzzles

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 12:07 AM EST (seedmagazine.com)

When Cornell physicist Veit Elser attempted to demystify an esoteric imaging problem for biologists, he had no idea his solution would also help subway riders and break room loiterers around the world figure out those challenging, Sudoku puzzles.

science, diffraction, microscopy, suduku