Al Jazeera Cancels Re-Airing of Bahrain Documentary
Al Jazeera has cancelled plans to re-run its 50-minute documentary “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,” under pressure from Bahraini...
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The .45 Liberator Replica: A Pricey Piece of Budget History
In the 1940s, the United States military developed an ultra-cheap, ultra-simple single-shot .45 handgun stamped out of sheet metal....
Brazil Building Nuclear Subs to Defend Oil Reserves
Here’s a turn of South American politics that seems like reality straight-up shoplifting from a cyberpunk novel….or one of...
German Teen Mag’s Victim-Blaming Date-Rape AIDS Panic Photostory Ist Nicht Ganz Toll
CAUTION: The following references to some seriously hateful victim-blaming in a fictional case of date rape may prove triggering...
Radiation Soars at Fukushima — to 10 Sieverts Per Hour
NHK English, and Al Jazeera (but, weirdly, not yet The Japan Times) are reporting that the damaged Fukushima...
The Face of a Norwegian Killer
The photo above was published, unconfirmed, on the conservative blog Politicons.net. The blogger claims it’s a photo of the...
The Terrafugia Transition: the Future of the Flying Car
About a year ago, the UK’s The Engineeer reported that the newest hope for a Future Filled With Flying...
Atlantis, Jules Verne, and Twenty Thousand “Leagues”
Misunderstanding the title of Jules Verne’s 1870 science fiction masterpiece Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea seems to be...
Bigfoot In the Sierras?
Amy Rolph at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a blog post about some evidence that some California paranormal researchers think...
The Anti-Obama Right Grabs at Anti-U.S. Pakistani Conspiracy Delusion
As a second nuclear plant in Nebraska issued a “notification of unusual event” because of rising floodwaters, right-wingers are...