A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers by pulling over to pray while he kept the engine running. picked by suebe 2 hours ago

Water has many properties that set it apart. Most of which are still not fully understood even by today's scientists. Many of its unusual properties are vital for life as we know it such as its ability to mop up heat and it unique properties when frozen. Now a new theory may show why water is the way it is. picked by NoPantsMan 10 hours ago

A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its new games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. picked by aclister 10 hours ago

A collection of Facebook updates from some popular movie characters. Absolutely hilarious! picked by sidran32 14 hours ago

Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what they select will often be very different than what most people would pick.

Take the 60-second personality test yourself. picked by lynxears 16 hours ago

Read the headline again. WTF? picked by suebe 16 hours ago

According to the scientists at Daily Beast, you're more likely to find love in Omaha, NE or Newark, NJ than NYC.

Newark? picked by suebe 16 hours ago

When we think of animals that will destroy us, rend us limb from limb, and leave us in a bloody mess, we usually thing of the huge and horrifying. Which means we forget about the real threats: the tiny, the cute, the gorgeous. picked by Bornbad 18 hours ago

A wikipedia where every entry consists of only 10 words. picked by NoPantsMan 19 hours ago

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. The Pennsylvania Democrat was the first Vietnam combat veteran elected to congress. He had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. picked by NoPantsMan 20 hours ago

Unchanged since its launch in 1984, MTV revamps its logo and drops the "Music Television" tagline. picked by suebe 20 hours ago

The program promoting preparedness and the outdoors is on the decline. A look at the positives and negatives.

(Don't want to read much? Skip top page 3). picked by lynxears 21 hours ago

The product used is called Breform—a firm mesh cup that’s implanted under a layer of breast skin, effectively providing a support to lift and hold them. picked by cecilberman 21 hours ago

With Spain's Ferran Adrià -- often regarded as the founding father of the movement -- announcing recently he will shut down his restaurant El Bulli in 2012 for a couple of years to revisit his approach to cooking, the state of molecular cuisine is once again brought to the forefront. picked by midnightbliss10 21 hours ago

Buck Elton is the Commander of Joint Special Operations Air Component-Haiti. Small Wars Journal inadvertently received an e-mail update from Buck to his family and friends. SWJ asked if we could publish his insightful account and he most graciously agreed. What follows addresses many issues now appearing in the press – here is a boots on the ground perspective. (PDF File) picked by johnnytitan 21 hours ago

High schools in North Carolina may stop teaching US history that happened before 1877. Learning about Lincoln, the Revolution, the Civil War and the rest is just too difficult. Furthermore world history will be reduced to make way for "environmental issues" picked by 2manyusernames 22 hours ago

Interview with Omri Casspi about the sport of basketball and being the first ever Israeli NBA player. picked by dillon123 22 hours ago

The paper that put forth the theory that autism was related to vaccinations has been retracted by the journal that published it... but the impact on the "anti-vaccination" movement was profound. picked by lynxears 23 hours ago

Scantily clad dancers were the draw at a downtown men's entertainment club over the weekend for an event that raised nearly $1,000 for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. picked by cecilberman 23 hours ago

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast. Feel like a savage beast today? Then click here.

If you feel like something else, then flip through the mix list. picked by meggysue 23 hours ago

Japanese authorities are trying to identify the body of an adult man found in the main landing gear of a Delta flight from New York to Tokyo's Narita Airport. picked by suebe 23 hours ago

CSX put about 40 connected train cars on one of the three tracks that crosses the path between her home and nearby Pickett Street. Brown has had to crawl under the train cars when she goes to the store, to her mailbox on Pickett Street, to church or if she does anything else. picked by cecilberman 23 hours ago

Madison's highest paid city government employee last year wasn't the mayor. It wasn't the police chief. It wasn't even the head of Metro Transit.

It was bus driver John E. Nelson.

Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay. picked by cecilberman 24 hours ago

An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak — using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter. picked by suebe 1 day ago

Gun toting, cigar smoking, hard drinking, Stagecoach Mary Fields was a pioneer in the old west, breaking barriers of race and gender. A film is in the works about her remarkable life. picked by suebe 1 day ago