Daily dose of cute. I gotta say the otter picture is helluva cute. picked by doggylives 2 days ago

A tech-savvy White Plains woman whose apartment was burglarized solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said. picked by maxriter 2 days ago

A collection of on-air personalities losing their 'professionalism', from New York's Sue Simmons dropping the F-bomb this week, to classic clips of Sam Donaldson and Leslie Stahl. (NSFW language) picked by tigertony 2 days ago

The World's Most Terrifying Weapons.If you have ever lost sleep thinking about what military labs the world over are cooking up to shoot up, blow up, or otherwise maim their enemies (and sometimes innocent civilians). picked by Bornbad 2 days ago

Iron my tomorrow pantsuit! picked by Bornbad 2 days ago

Don't want to spoil anything here more than the headline already has. picked by Bornbad 2 days ago

A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state. Picture source. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

Find out what recruits are told, and the difference between what really happens.

Eye opening, particularly as I visited a recruiting office this week. picked by JoshSF49 2 days ago

Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

A woman kicked out of a women's toilet after a New York City restaurant mistook her for a man has settled her discrimination lawsuit for $US35,000 ($37,116). picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

The Get Out Clause is an unsigned band from Manchester, UK and they've created quite a clever little video thru the use of public security cameras. picked by sbcea 2 days ago

The Weinstein Co. is taking Fraggle Rock to the big screen! Jim Henson's classic series will become a live-action musical, directed by Hoodwinked! director Cory Edwards. picked by sbcea 2 days ago

There are a few real life archaeologists who served as models for Dr. Jones and also for his villainous rivals. picked by aardvark 2 days ago

Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson surveys this landscape with unease. A college that champions diversity, he believes, must think beyond courses in gay literature, Chicano studies and feminist theory. “We should also talk about intellectual diversity,” he says. picked by ImNotBlue 2 days ago

They're like the Mythbusters, but lower budget and Australian. picked by gratheo 2 days ago

Child traffickers are targeting the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of Burma's catastrophic cyclone and two suspects have already been arrested, the United Nations has reported. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

After a season shadowing a star footballer, a lucky boot boy might find himself the recipient of some souvenir kit. Or maybe even a pair of the player's old boots.

James McPike got a Mercedes. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.

The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

The most energetic particles in the universe have regained some of their former mystery. Last year, it seemed that the origin of these particles had finally been tracked down to a set of giant black holes in nearby galaxies, but a new study casts doubt on that conclusion picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

British UFO 'sightings' investigated by a secret branch of the MoD are soon to be revealed and officials are braced for a torrent of inquiries. picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

An adorable cub was born at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, but its mother has not been taking care of it. The cub is now under veterinarians' care and will be reintroduced to its mother on Tuesday. picked by dollyllama 2 days ago

The new federal requirement that states pay for "Jane Doe rape kits" is aimed at removing one of the biggest obstacles to prosecuting rape cases: Some women are so traumatized they don't come forward until it is too late to collect hair, semen or other samples. picked by dollyllama 2 days ago

New Titanic Conspiracy will blow your mind. (created by maddox) picked by mewhitenoise 2 days ago

Oktar, born in 1956, is the driving force behind a richly funded movement based in Turkey that champions creationism, the belief that God literally created the world in six days as told in the Bible and the Koran. Istanbul-based Oktar, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, has created waves in the past few years by sending out thousands of unsolicited texts advocating Islamic creationism to ... read full post picked by Jetka 2 days ago

It has long been assumed that Albert Einstein weighted science and religion equally, but a letter written by him in 1954 may well revise that. Describing god as the expression and product of human weakness and the bible as a collection of primitive legends does not sit well with the previously held assumption that he weighted science and religious belief in equal regard. An abridged version of ... read full post picked by pocksucket 2 days ago