OAKLAND, Calif. — The transit officer who shot and killed an unarmed man may have mistakenly pulled his service pistol instead of a stun gun, his lawyer said Friday. Defense attorney Michael Rains made the argument during a bail hearing for 27-year-old Johannes Mehserle. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson later set bail at [...]
If carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere are allowed to rise beyond what they are today, certain effects to the Earth’s climate will be “locked in” and irreversible for at least a thousand years, a new study finds. “Our study convinced us that current choices regarding carbon dioxide emissions will have legacies that will irreversibly [...]
Archaeologists believe it could depict an athlete, possibly a boxer JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists say they have discovered a rare 1,800-year-old figurine in a Jerusalem excavation. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the 2-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes. A statement Monday [...]
Human hair is a simple thing made of keratin and dead skin cells. Its function is to prevent heat loss from a person’s head, yet it also causes women to weep, men to buy Porsches and people to spend billions each year on its upkeep. Throughout history, humans have used their hair to represent their [...]
I can see if there is a true match with my interlocutor just by the degree of his/her knowledge of QT movies. The same applies to Social Media on a professional level. twitter, WordPress, Facebook, Linkedin absorb most of my day. In a logical sequence of arguments, let me show you how Quentin Tarantino and [...]
Clint Eastwood has become a living monument of Hollywood. He is to film what Chuck Norris is to roundhouse kicks: the founding father and ruling king. His squint alone has the ability to make lesser filmmakers renounce the craft altogether and his gravelly snarl has made plenty of punks reassess the status of their luck. [...]
This is how “gods chosen people” act right. These are the reactions of a “civilized” ‘evolved’ people. Pity worst form of patronizing, will ensure Gazans continue to whine instead of acting Observers worldwide have been expressing great pity for the people of Gaza, many of whom have been killed, injured, or forced to flee their [...]
5 Things You Didn’t Know & May Not Want To Know About Death Death scares us for a host of reasons, but it’s chiefly terrifying for its unknowable quality — any kind of change makes us nervous. But death doesn’t have to be such a grave affair. Recently, Mary Roach wrote what is possibly the [...]
Nearly every day we are inundated with new genetic discoveries. Scientists can now pinpoint many specific genes including being lean, living a long life, improved self-healing, thrill seeking behavior, and having an improved memory among many other incredible traits. Many believe that these genes can be manipulated in ordinary humans, in effect creating Super-Mutants. Isaac [...]
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