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

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

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

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

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

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

EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC picked by MaskedWriter 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

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

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

the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide picked by Dangerman 2 years ago

Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

For the first time, satellite imagery reveals thick Martian salt deposits scattered across the planet's southern surface, which one planetary scientist claims could be sites of ancient life. The mats of sodium chloride — the same taste-enhancing mineral found on your kitchen table — serve as more evidence of Mars' watery past, and researchers think the briney pools that made them could... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Tirrell Davis and Brandon Richmond were today each given a life sentence today for murdering schoolboy Kodjo Yenga by stabbing him through the heart.

There accomplices Yemoh Kurtis, Jamel Bridgeman and Michel Williams were each given 10 years. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Launched today by the Smithsonian Institute, the EOL will attempt to document and catalogue all life on earth.

(Shame they've spelt it wrong) picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

In this article we present a view gaining attention in the origin-of-life community that takes the question out of the hatchery and places it squarely in the realm of accessible, plausible chemistry. As we see it, the early steps on the way to life are an inevitable, incremental result of the operation of the laws of chemistry and physics picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago