Everyone remembers the Laci Peterson murder in the bay area a few years back. Well a panel decided to give the $250,000 life insurance payout to her mom instead of her husband who murdered her. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

U.S., Canadian and U.K.-based insurance firms hold at least $4.4 billion of investments in companies whose subsidiaries manufacture cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and related products. picked by stinkobinko 6 months ago

Have Mars landers been destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.

We need a "No s**t?" category. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

Fact: Women tend to use more medical services than men even if you factor out childbirth. This means that women pay more for insurance the same as any other group that has a higher risk pays more for their insurance. Unfair says some who think the costs should be spread to those who don't use the services. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
*this is great* picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one. picked by whi73rav3n 3 years ago

He planned on leaving the country and becoming a different person. His brother was to wire him the insurance money once he faked his death. picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

South African Absolom Morifi canceled his life insurance to pay his church tithe. A few hours later he was being cut out of the remains of his car after it had been crushed in an accident. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Life's collection of 10 million images will be available online, with "the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century" available for free for personal use. picked by suebe 3 years ago

Two men in Gastonia N.C have opened a gentleman’s club that will let you in free if you sit down with them first and get a free auto insurance quote. This is the oddest new way I have heard to get an easy free captive audience. picked by Techted 2 years ago

EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC picked by MaskedWriter 3 years ago

The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to "Break the Carbon Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a cle... read full post picked by michelleroberts 3 years ago

Now, a team of researchers working in New Mexico has found traces of life inside salty halite crystals. The discovery is "an invaluable resource for understanding the evolutionary record [of Earth] over a geological time frame." picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Emerge from the heavy foliage of the Oasis - Before you stands the 145-foot tall Tree of Life. The branches span 165 feet across. There are over 100,000 leaves on the tree and the trunk is 50 feet wide. 20 artists carved into the trunk, branches and roots over 320 animals. Thousands worked on the construction of the Tree of Life which took 18 months to build. Photos picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Designed by rednecks, for rednecks...so hop in your race car, roll the dice and begin the journey!! picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

U.S. insurance companies systematically overcharge customers and underpay home and auto claims to pad their already-fat bottom lines, a consumer group said Thursday. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR 4796A, is inferred to be in the late stages of planet formation, suggesting that the basic building blocks of life may be common in planetary systems. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Chen Xiao had pretty much given up making her own decisions and so decided to throw open her life to the whims of China's hundreds of millions of Internet users, known in China as netizens. What she stumbled upon was not only a new life but a new way to make a living. She charges about $3 an hour, and she's been asked to do almost everything from delivering pet food to caring for stray cats to ta... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago