Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video)

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (io9)

Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves.

social, kill, science, spiders, silk, pack, skills, prey, hunts, webs

Parakeet Tells Police His Address

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:54 PM EDT (zoenature.org)

Piko-chan flew out of the window of his home near Tokyo, and couldn’t find his way back. So he did the next best thing – stopping off at a nearby hotel and landing on the shoulder of one of the guests. The hotel called the police, who took Piko-chan into “pr …

bird, police, odd-news, tokyo, address, talked, parakeet, flew, piko-chan

Killer of 3 tells AP: Nothing to say to survivor

Tue May 15, 2012 11:45 AM EDT

By John Christoffersen, Associated Press (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

The Connecticut killer who once called himself one of the most hated men in America said in a death row interview that he tries not to think about the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters, suffers no nightmares and has nothing to say to the only survivor of the brutal 2007 attack.

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us, home, invasion, us-news, home-invasion

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says -

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 10:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

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He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.

texas, killer, politics, execution, justice, death-penalty, murder, lethal-injection, law-enforcement, mexican

Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:48 PM EDT (io9)

Forensics experts say that two Swiss dolphins died of an overdose, presumably after some idiots fed them a synthetic opiate during a two-day rave (there is some dispute as to whether the dolphins' death had anything to do with the rave, as the deaths occurred weeks after the ev …

science, party, deaths, biology, switzerland, dolphins, heroin, forensics, rave, opiates

Why Some Male Orangutans Never Want to Grow Up

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 1:06 PM EDT ()

In Interview with the Vampire, Claudia, portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in the movie version, becomes a vampire at age 6. Six decades later, she still has the body of a child but the thoughts and desires of a grown woman. In this way, orangutans are kind of like vampires. They have …

science, sex, male, females, puberty, maturity, orangutans, offspring, immaturity, sex-characterisctics

Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (Wired News)

Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of “ghoulish” photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describ …

science, brain, darwin, emotions, experiment

Can peeing in a lake really kill fish?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:38 PM EDT (io9)

There's been a story kicking around in the news recently about a fight in Hamburg, Germany, where recreational swimmers have supposedly killed fish by peeing in Eichbaum Lake, making fishermen really (get ready) pissed off. Reading this set off my potential-Internet-baloney ala …

science, fish, lake, urine, fishermen, pee, swimmers

Man pulled over for being radioactive

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:36 PM EDT (io9)

Last Wednesday, Mike Apatow was getting on to Interstate 84 in Newtown, CT, when police stopped him for no reason he could determine. When the cop told him that his car had set off his radioactivity detectors, it started making sense: Apatow was most certainly radioactive.

science, heart, cardiology, stress-test, radioactivty, radioactivity-detectors

Innocent people may have been framed for murder...by bugs?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:27 PM EDT (io9)

A couple of years ago, a 28-year-old man ran into trouble in the scenic Brenta River near Padova, Italy. Witnesses saw him struggling in the water; soon after, he drowned.

science, death, murder, body, bugs, forensics, fresh-water, entomology, forensic-scientist, crustean

'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:22 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

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Peter joins the Tea Party to get rid of the annoying government, only to find the "grassroots" organization run by his billionaire father-in-law Cater Pewterschmidt for his own evil ends. (SPOILER ALERT: After dispensing with their local government and the ensuing chaos the res …

politics, tea-party, humour, family-guy

60 facts you didn't know about Queen Elizabeth II

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:04 AM EDT (CTV News)

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a most gracious and a most charming Lady.

world-news

: Michelle Obama Thought Oprah Had Gone Too Far- And Shunned Her Because She Was Fat

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 3:08 AM EDT (the Mail online)

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Michelle Obama orders women close to her husband to be watched in case he cheats on her like John F Kennedy did to his wife, a new book claims. The First Lady is supposedly ‘unusually jealous’ and has so little trust in Barack Obama that she turns up unannounced du …

white-house, politics, president, oprah-winfrey, couple, jealous, michelle-obama, president-obama

Houston lawyer on quest to find missing moon rocks

Sun May 13, 2012 1:35 PM EDT

By Michael Graczyk, Associated Press (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

The dark suit and tie Joe Gutheinz wore set him apart from other customers inside a Texas eatery where the usual attire is jeans and cowboy hats.

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BBC News - Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwich

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 8:28 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

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When John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, ordered beef served between slices of bread about 250 years ago he probably did not think his request would become a global convenience meal. The story goes that the Earl asked for the particular serving so that he could eat whil …

history, sandwich

An incisive design solution: The spider's venomous fang

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:23 PM EDT (Science Daily)

Among the factors that make spiders successful predators is the ingeniously composed and structured material of their fangs. Although their armour consists of the same material as their predator's fangs, flies, grasshoppers and other insects that are the usual prey of spiders …

science, research, nature, biology, predators, insects, spiders, material, prey, fangs

Deadly Frog Gets New Sanctuary

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:11 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

The golden poison dart frog, which is arguably the world's most poisonous animal, is now residing in the first ever sanctuary established to save the deadly, yet endangered, amphibian. The poison of this frog is so toxic that even coming into contact with a paper towel that ha …

science, biology, endangered, frogs, ecosystem, amphibians, toxin, poision, sancutary, poision-dart-frogs

Celebrating Motherhood in Pictures

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:03 PM EDT (smithsonianmagazine.com)

Here are some of our favorite photos recognizing moms of all kinds submitted by readers over the last nine years.

not-news, photos, pictures, mothers, moms, mothers-day, daughters

Mother's Day's Dark History

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 5:51 PM EDT (National Geographic)

As early as the 1850s, West Virginia women's organizer Ann Reeves Jarvis held Mother's Day work clubs to improve sanitary conditions and try to lower infant mortality by fighting disease and curbing milk contamination, according to historian Katharine Antolini of West Virginia …

history, women, holiday, civil-war, mothers, activist, mothers-day, postwar, orginization, ann-reeves-jarvis

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: A Neglected Wife, her X-rated diary and How Victorian Britain Discovered That Women Enjoyed Sex Also

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 1:23 PM EDT (the Mail online)

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She lay in her bed, sick from diphtheria, restless and raving with a high fever. Henry Robinson peered at his wife Isabella and then bent his head closer to try to decipher her delirious mutterings. He caught the gasped-out names of . . . men! …

world-news, sex, literature, affairs, insanity, lust, x-rated, mrs-robinson, nymphomania

Catholic Bishops Investigate The Girl Scouts

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 11:49 PM EDT (Raw Story)

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has opened an official inquiry into the Girl Scouts to determine if troops may continue meeting at local community churches, The bishops are investigating the scouts to determine whether they promote contraception and abortion,&nbs …

abortion, religion, catholic-church, catholic-bishops, contraception, u-s-news, sexuality, girl-scouts, womens-issues, doctors-without-borders

Runner's High Hardwired in People—And Dogs

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 11:25 PM EDT (National Geographic)

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People are wired to run, according to a new study that looked at the roots of the pleasurable sensation known as runner's high.Experienced during moderate to intense aerobic exercise, runner's high occurs when natural chemicals called endocannabinoids activate the part of the b …

science, sport, run, chemical, endurance, aerobic

This love train of bear cubs grooming is shockingly adorable (video)

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 1:28 PM EDT (io9)

Two bear cubs grooming each other is adorable, but a dozen cubs inspecting each other's ears at the same time is enough to give you diabetes.

not-news, video, cubs, bears, grooming, love-train

Religious Sites Riskier Than Porn Sites for Viruses

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 1:00 PM EDT (National Nine News)

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Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday. "Drive-by attacks" in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious code continue to be a bane, Websites with …

us-news, internet, viruses, malicious-code, christian-websites, drive-by-attacks, religious-internet

Romney denies targeting classmates for being gay

Thu May 10, 2012 5:28 PM EDT

By Kasie Hunt, Associated Press (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate's recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage.

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