After the community rallied around a Detroit teacher who was fired after she used a broom to break up a violent fight among two male students, Tiffani Eaton has her job back.
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Ann Coulter Bring Back Our Girls parody goes wrong, Gets BLASTED on Twitter
Twitter activism is a powerful strategy in many ways, namely the “Bring Back Our Girls” hashtag campaign that has reportedly seen some positive results. Some politicians, however, do not fully believe that Twitter can be used in such a way and have taken to mocking this campaign. The most recent addition to this came from conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who …
Read More »Glen Campbell Unlikely to Perform Again, Wife Says
Country music icon Glen Campbell will probably never perform again, his wife said Monday. Kim Woolen claims Campbell’s Alzheimer’s disease symptoms have robbed him of his ability to recall lyrics and play the guitar.
Read More »Turkey mine collapse : Death toll reaches above 205, hundreds still trapped
At least 205 miners have been killed and hundreds more remain trapped underground after the explosion and fire in the coalmine in the western Turkish province of Manisa, according to the country’s energy minister. The survivor blames unsafe work practices at the site for the deaths.
Read More »Mount Hood climber dies in 500 to 700 foot fall, Report
A 57-year-old priest from New Jersey fell to his death on the northeast side of Mount Hood Tuesday morning, authorities said. The climber was identified as Robert J. Cormier, a Catholic priest from Jersey City, N.J. Another climber who witnessed the fall, which happened at about 8 a.m., said Cormier was on the summit and looked north, when he fell …
Read More »Google begins demonstrating self-drive cars to press (Video)
Google is “very actively” working on how to put its driverless cars to public use in the next three years, according to the founder of its experimental “X” lab, after the search company’s recent breakthroughs in autonomous navigation of city streets. They’re not just for freeway driving anymore. Those self-driving cars from Google are now roaming city streets, whirling through …
Read More »Scientists identify genetic marker for OCD
Scientists have stumbled onto a genetic marker that’s linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). “If this finding is confirmed, it could be useful,” said lead study author Gerald Nestadt, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Johns Hopkins’ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Program, via a press release. “We might ultimately …
Read More »YouTube : Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s ‘Space Oddity’ is going offline
The video that launched astronaut Chris Hadfield into stardom is being taken off YouTube today. Hadfield’s cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” has been viewed more than 22-million times since it was posted May 12, 2013.
Read More »NASA shows how neutron stars collide to form black holes (Video)
An amazing new NASA video shows two super-dense neutron stars tearing each other apart in a cataclysmic cosmic merger that ultimately forms a black hole. The neutron star collision video, which was produced by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is a supercomputer simulation. It starts off with two neutron stars — the city-size, dense remnants of a violent …
Read More »Medications can help people quit drinking, Study
Medications that could help alcoholics quit drinking are rarely prescribed, according to a new study released Tuesday. The drugs — acamprosate and naltrexone — reduce cravings for alcohol, but researchers say there’s a lack of awareness and understanding of their efficacy among doctors.
Read More »Stacy Keibler Shows Off Baby Bump In A Bikini (Photo)
Stacy Keibler can’t wait become a mom and the pregnant Supermarket Superstar host shared her excitement and her baby baby bump in a bikini on Mother’s Day.
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