Six million American children are taking psychiatric drugs, but most have never been tested on children. Is this good medicine-or an uncontrolled experiment?

(Also a special on PBS tomorrow) picked by bingo 5 days ago

A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground picked by 2manyusernames 5 days ago

Bizarre and Exotic Turtles picked by cactushair 5 days ago

A few examples of the best and most creative wooden iPhone accessories. picked by iamamaniac 5 days ago

The Flying Imams, who were acting suspiciously enough to make the passengers, air crew, and numerous federal and local police agencies concerned won their lawsuit. Acting upon reasonable cause, they were arrested and questioned. The Imams claimed that they were discriminated against and sued everyone, including the passengers who they were later forced to drop from the suit. picked by 2manyusernames 5 days ago

One of the most celebrated functions of the Internet is an unprecedented ability for people to connect. This has led to social networks, online dating, and, it turns out, a lot of people connecting over really strange things. Here are some of the more interesting clubs that the internet has helped give life to. picked by iamamaniac 5 days ago

Each year, dozens have run down the streets of Boulder, CO wearing only shoes and a hollowed-out pumpkin on their heads. Not this year. Police threatened participants this year with indecent exposure charges. Or maybe it was the foot of snow that fell.. Either way.. picked by equinox 6 days ago

I wonder if "nut" and "sack" mean the same things over there as they do over here.

"David Nutt's sacking provokes mass revolt against Alan Johnson." picked by cecilberman 6 days ago

Caught in the act, a homeless Texarkana man has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor bestiality charge involving a horse. picked by equinox 6 days ago

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.

No one seems to think this is a good idea picked by bingo 6 days ago

...Computer simulations could help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.

"They experience the sights, sounds, smells and vibrations of their original experience. It is a way of overcoming a natural difficulty in using their own imagination during the therapeutic process." picked by bingo 6 days ago

For more than eight centuries, the Nasca culture prospered in the coastal valleys of Peru until its sudden downfall around 600 AD.

A team of archaeologists has now found convincing evidence the decline was self-inflicted and began with the cutting down of a tree that could have protected them from devastating climate change. picked by bingo 6 days ago

What happens when two genres meet each other somewhere in a sausage plant in Chicago? I'm talking about a true crime story and a true ghost story. Adolph Louis Luetgert wanted to get rid of his wife, and since he had this Sausage & Packing Company.... but his wife came back.

Though he still insisted to be innocent of her murder, his dead wife was haunting him and seeking her revenge, he said. picked by bingo 6 days ago

The world's oldest spider web was found by an amateur fossil hunter. The 1 millimeter threads of web, similar to those woven by orb spiders today, were encased in amber, and are around 140 million years old. picked by bingo 6 days ago

So there are really eleven, but we'll combine the two linux ones. Or just pretend that IE doesn't count. At any rate! Ten very useful 'cheat sheets' available for download for gmail, firefox, windows xp, google... go take a gander! picked by f4nt0d 6 days ago

A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one. picked by bingo 6 days ago

Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. Believe it or not, standard time and time zones were the railroad industry’s idea. picked by bingo 6 days ago

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana.

Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor. picked by bingo 6 days ago

A couple in a suburban community have filed a lawsuit against their neighbour citing the "low lying fog" of tobacco smoke that wafts over their property. picked by Moogle 6 days ago

DJ Hero released with extensive soundtrack.

To make music in DJ Hero, a very similar-looking "notes approaching" interface is repurposed to resemble a spinning record. Three different note-tracks are controlled by pressing colored buttons on the plastic turntable, just like Guitar Hero or Rock Band. You can also scratch the notes by pressing and turning at the same time. picked by cecilberman 6 days ago

You may soon be seeing Chinese, Japanese, Arabic & Cyrillic domain names.

еибЮЫШШµ.com to become a valid website. picked by Moogle 6 days ago

An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 6 days ago

Blood Energy Potion looks like real blood and comes in a resealable, transfusion-style blood bag. picked by suebe 6 days ago

Did you grab that extra hour of sleep this morning after setting the clocks back an hour? (I didn't). You probably shouldn't have. picked by suebe 6 days ago

Four years after Anthony Sowell was released from a U.S. prison after serving 15 years for a rape conviction, police found six decomposing bodies at his Ohio home. picked by drogue 6 days ago