NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft has spotted the first major activity of the new solar cycle. On May 5 STEREO-B observed a Type II radio burst and a bright, fast coronal mass ejection (CME) emanating from the far side of the sun. The activity originated in a solar active region that rotated into view from Earth on May 8. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

ROME - An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

...percentages of "fat people" by national populations. Guess who's #1? picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Unless cooler heads prevail or concerns are addressed, Gamespot could see "mass resignations". picked by punthe 2 years ago

Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it. The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The year was 1374. In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance. Scarcely pausing to rest or eat, they danced for hours or even days in succession. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

Ninety-two percent of overweight women reported having a history of sexual intercourse with a man, as opposed to 87 percent of women with a normal body mass index. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Gay marriages have pumped more than $111 million into Massachusetts since 2004. Also young, highly educated same sex couple are much more likely to move to Mass. due to the legalizing of same sex marriages.
F you, Mr. Steele picked by bernardblack 6 months ago

Betelgeuse -- the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, is a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1000 times larger than our Sun.

*Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! picked by kakana 4 months ago

HOPES AND FEARS
The authors have sifted through a vast range of material, and believe the spectrum of extraordinary social behaviour encompasses everything from faddish children to the mindless mob – from the ‘harmless’ hula-hoop mania of 1958 (in which 30 million were sold in the USA alone within four months) to the flash-mobs of the French Revolution picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

The idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will move in opposition to the structure’s oscillations and minimize any movement. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Game is in Kazan at the Tatneft-Arena. Ak Bars vs. Traktor of the Russian Superleague on Jan 08, 2008
378 penalty minutes were given out on the play
More can be found here picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

The Pope is taking steps to revive the ancient tradition of the Latin Tridentine Mass in Catholic churches worldwide, according to sources in Rome picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

WESTFIELD, Mass. (AP) — With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.

Video in the comments picked by siennablue 1 year ago

A strange Neptune-sized planet has just been discovered, with ridiculously hot surface temperatures of 520 degrees Kelvin (that's 246.85 degrees C, or 476.33 degrees F). Due to its incredibly-high mass, the water stays in a frozen state. So-called "hot ice" doesn't occur naturally on Earth, but has previously been created in a laboratory. picked by suebe 3 years ago

A $20,000 bottle of wine stolen from a Hopkinton, Mass., liquor store has been returned unopened. picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago

Got the plague? Onto the island. Vomiting? Onto the island. Fever? Island. Sniffles with a mild cough? You get the idea. You stayed there until you got well or died. Judging from the mass graves, not many got well. picked by Moe 2 years ago

Crysis's Mass Physics Engine put to 'good' use with 3,000 barrel explosion!

XD picked by PumpkinSeeds 2 years ago

The court trying Saddam Hussein has heard further graphic accounts of how hundreds of Kurdish women and children were killed and buried in mass graves. Of the 301 bodies found, 183 belonged to children with 90% of these children under 13 years of age. picked by teaya21 3 years ago