Franz Kafka Doodle: Google's Logo Has Been Turned Into A Horrible Vermin. Guantanamo wi-fi shut down after Anonymous threat. Adam Jung: Why I Support Making 'Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead' Number One This Week. Malawi labels Madonna a 'bully' after recent visit. 11 April 2013Last updated at 04:37 ET.
NYPD Couldn't Find Mugger For 3 Weeks, Internet Commenters Catch Him in 1 Hour. Photo Credit: Posterboy NYC via Flickr After the NYPD had failed to catch the man behind a brutal mugging on Mar. 9, they released a video of the crime Tuesday in hopes of gaining leads.
And within minutes, they surely did. Gawker posted the video on its site on Tuesday night at 11:49 P.M. Argentina's Cristina Kirchner Described As 'An Old Hag' By President of Uruguay Jose Mujica. Reproductive Health Care Provider Uses Stork Costume To Prank Anti-Contraception Protesters (PHOTOS) A reproductive health care provider in central Wisconsin was surprisingly prepared Wednesday to be picketed by anti-contraception group 40 Days For Life.
Tiffany Bredeck, a board member of Family Planning Health Services (FPHS) in Wausau, Wis., dressed up in a stork costume, whipped out a clever sign and stood on the sidewalk outside the FPHS headquarters alongside the protesters. The Executive Director of FPHS, Lon Newman, told The Huffington Post over the phone that 40 Days For Life has long had simple messages that are easy for many people to relate to, and that the stork idea made for a "friendly, easy-to-grasp message" for the pro-choice side. FPHS is a non-profit organization that provides basic reproductive health care services in seven counties in Wisconsin. It does not provide abortion services, sterilizations or medical pre-natal care. Reproductive Health Care Provider Uses Stork Costume To Prank Anti-Contraception Protesters (PHOTOS)
A reproductive health care provider in central Wisconsin was surprisingly prepared Wednesday to be picketed by anti-contraception group 40 Days For Life.
Tiffany Bredeck, a board member of Family Planning Health Services (FPHS) in Wausau, Wis., dressed up in a stork costume, whipped out a clever sign and stood on the sidewalk outside the FPHS headquarters alongside the protesters. The Executive Director of FPHS, Lon Newman, told The Huffington Post over the phone that 40 Days For Life has long had simple messages that are easy for many people to relate to, and that the stork idea made for a "friendly, easy-to-grasp message" for the pro-choice side. FPHS is a non-profit organization that provides basic reproductive health care services in seven counties in Wisconsin. It does not provide abortion services, sterilizations or medical pre-natal care.
DNC Targets Pennsylvania Republicans Over Electoral College Redistricting Plan. The Democratic National Committee is sending robocalls to Pennsylvania voters beginning Monday, going after a GOP-sponsored plan to change the way the state allocates its Electoral College votes in presidential elections.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the DNC is targeting voters in 10 state Senate districts that are represented by Republicans. The call, coming from former Pennsylvania Gov. Exclusive: Congressional Ethics Probe Adds To Bachmann’s Political Woes. Add the Office of Congressional Ethics to the long list of probes and lawsuits that may be the only enduring legacy of Bachmann’s presidential face-plant.
John Avlon exclusively reports. The Hindenburg. The Titanic. Michele Bachmann. Eighteen months ago, the Minnesota House member was considered an unlikely but undeniable Republican rising star, winning the Iowa straw poll that unofficially begins the primary season. The Daily Beast has learned that federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged intentional campaign-finance violations. California Officials Turn Up The Heat On Secretive 'Dark Money' Groups.
When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men. In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston.
His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years. Though Mattock’s community clearly saw his self-deprivation as improper, it is quite possible that they had his wife’s suffering in mind when they decided to shun him. The Puritans believed that sexual desire was a normal and natural part of human life for both men and women (as long as it was heterosexual and confined to marriage), but that women wanted and needed sex more than men.
Yet today, the idea that men are more interested in sex than women is so pervasive that it seems almost unremarkable. The idea that men are naturally more interested in sex than women is ubiquitous that it’s difficult to imagine that people ever believed differently. Yet the times were clearly changing. Advert turns air into drinking water. 22 March 2013Last updated at 14:40 ET By Aida Prados BBC Mundo The billboard serves a dual purpose, acting to draw students to the newly established engineering university UTEC Just outside Lima, Peru, a billboard provides drinking water to whoever needs it - mainly, its neighbours.
The panel produces clean water from the humidity in the air, through filters. Researchers at the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima and advertising agency Mayo Peru DraftFCB joined forces to launch it. UTEC says it wanted to put "imagination into action" and show that it is possible to solve people's problems through engineering and technology. Bro-gressive Values Revealed: Attacking the Messenger By Any Means Necessary. Photo Credit: DavidSirota.com March 10, 2013 | Like this article?
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Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed. The ancestor of all placental mammals—the diverse lineage that includes almost all species of mammals living today, including humans—was a tiny, furry-tailed creature that evolved shortly after the dinosaurs disappeared, a new study suggests. "These new findings call for a reevaluation of the evolutionary story of placental mammals," says Anne Yoder, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who wasn't involved in the work.
The Old South's Last, Desperate Stand. In understanding the polarization and paralysis that afflict national politics in the United States, it is a mistake to think in terms of left and right. The appropriate directions are North and South. To be specific, the long, drawn-out, agonizing identity crisis of white Southerners is having effects that reverberate throughout our federal union.