The Federal Aviation Administration is offering higher incentive bonuses to attract veteran controllers to move to facilities in Westbury, N.Y.; Aspen, Colo.; Nantucket, Mass.; Anchorage and Fairbanks in Alaska, among other locales. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Lasers have usually represented weapons of mass destruction in movies such as "Star Wars," but a newly completed facility has begun harnessing lasers to create a fusion reaction rivaling the power of a miniature sun. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

More than 100 countries face political chaos and mass migration in global warming catastrophe.

In a related story, The Observer wins prize for most sensational/doomsaying headlines... picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

And why no one can find them... picked by buddha 2 years ago

A mysterious 'alien like' creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower peninsula.

The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured 3ft from end to end, was described by a zoology expert today as 'like something out of Doctor Who'. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

An Upstate animal shelter is sending out mass e-mails of with pictures of animals scheduled for death in hopes of saving some of their lives. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Discovered on Dec. 28, 2004 (catalogued as 2003 EL61 and nicknamed "Santa" for a time), the minor planet now known as the dwarf planet Haumea, to honor its Hawaiian discovery, is as big across as Pluto and one-third of its mass, but shaped something "like a big squashed cigar." picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

BOSTON -- Neither snow nor rain nor the decades of time prevented the post office from completing the delivery of a June 1929 postcard to a Brighton, Mass., home. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

"People are of course responsible for their actions, but it's hard to avoid wondering what's afoot in the darkest recesses of what we like to call American exceptionalism. For so long, the national narrative has been so bullish about equality of opportunity, so persuasive in its romance of possibility for all. Is it so subversive to speculate, then, that when the engine of possibility runs i... read full post picked by lynxears 8 months 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 3 weeks ago

I noticed two things in this video:

1) How the train kept right on going as if the car were never even there...DO NOT try to outrun trains people! They cannot stop fast and have WAY WAY more mass than you ever will!

2) The cop asks "There wasn't anyone else in that car was there?" only AFTER the train pulverized it. picked by moe 2 years ago

They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running certain kinds of vulnerable applications, wrote Bojan Zdrnja, on the institute's blog. picked by indisguise 2 years ago

Ok lets move on to exactly how to track properly. Many people fail to understand this concept entirely, and what they end up with are either a) no results at all, b) a mass of results that they can’t make sense of or finally, and the most popular outcome, c) a small number of results that are easy to understand but are totally incorrect. picked by pappu 2 years ago

The Pixel House is an interesting project designed by Mass Studies and has an innovative design and a curve like geometry. It just looks like each pixel of stone jelled together to create this astonishing building, which apparently gives you an effect similar to that of a 3-dimensional picture. picked by specialthinking 2 years ago

If you have a body mass index of 35+ or "more bounce to the ounce" be prepared to pay for it out of your state issued check in Alabama. picked by Rambo2020 1 year ago

What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.

More on self sustainable living and 'earthship' housing. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Planetary nebulae are the final butterfly-like state that heralds the end of a Sun-like star's energy-generating life. They form when stars up to eight times the mass of the Sun begin to die, bloating into red giants before shedding as much as half their mass as gas and dust nebulae.
Be sure to click the 'images' link for more pictures picked by bingo 8 months ago

Continuing this weekend's unintentional theme of "toddlers and food service," today we bring you the sad tale of a Quincy, Mass. 23-month-old whose parents are suing Dunkin' Donuts after he was burned by a hash brown. A hash brown that fell out of his mouth and onto his neck.

**The comments are HOT picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

Ulrich Kortz, Professor of Chemistry at Jacobs University, and his team successfully synthesized a polyoxometalate with 100 Tungsten and 20 Cerium atoms that has a molar mass of about 30 kilo Dalton. With a maximum diameter of 4.2 nm the inorganic molecule is comparable in size to large complex bio-molecules or even small viruses. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A team of international astrophysicists, including Dr Maria Lugaro from Monash University, has discovered a new explanation for the early composition of our solar system.

The team has found that radioactive nuclei found in the earliest meteorites, dating back billions of years, could have been delivered by a nearby dying giant star of six times the mass of the sun. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago