The first ‘test-tube’ hamburger is only a year away, scientists claim.
They believe the product, beef mince grown from stem cells, could pave the way for eating meat without animals being slaughtered.
The Dutch scientists predict that over the next few decades the world’s population will increase so quickly that there will not be enough livestock to feed everyone.
Harry Hucknall, a ten-year-old boy, died after hanging himself with a belt from his bunk bed. His father blames the death on Ritalin and Prozac, two drugs that the boy had been prescribed by a psychiatrist to cure his boisterous behavior and low spirits.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Police on Wednesday were investigating allegations that members of a high school wrestling team put a noose on a brown practice dummy, chained a black teammate to a locker and made racial remarks.
Worried about the influence of money in American politics, the huge cash payouts that the US supreme court waved through by its Citizens United decision – the decision that lifted most limits on election campaign spending? Corporations are having their way with American elections just as they've already had their way with our media.
Poor Uncle Sam's got a lot on his plate these days: a curdled economy, an overcooked climate, a soured populace. It's enough to give a national icon a capital case of indigestion. Anti-government sentiment is running so high that half the country seems ready to swap his stars and stripes for tar and feathers.
Numerous nuclear power plants face precarious scenarios as a result of climate change-induced extreme weather. Flooding of the Missouri river is being monitored around the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska. And wildfires have reached the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which houses nuclear-contaminated waste, in New Mexico.
A quick click through evening television reveals America’s obsession with the huge white family. A short list would include oldies like "The Brady Bunch," "The Partridge Family," "7th Heaven" and "The Waltons," as well newer entries in the scripted and reality show genres ("Big Love," "Sister Wives," "19 Kids and Counting," "Kate Plus Eight"). If television programming is a cultural bellwether, we are really into white women having lots of kids.
In 2010, the FISA court approved all 1,506 requests by the FBI to electronically monitor suspects. They were also generous with granting “national security letters," which allow the FBI to force credit card companies, financial institutions, and internet service providers to give confidential records about customers’ subscriber information, phone number, email addresses and the websites they’ve visited. The FBI got permission to spy on 14,000 people in this way.
A program entitled “Not Guilty: The Tragedy of Wrongful Convictions in the U.S., and the DNA Evidence that Frees Them,” seeks to exonerate thousands of minority inmates who falsely end up on the wrong side of prison bars, due to deep flaws found in the legal system.
I first began reporting about large elongated cracks appearing in the ground all around the world in January of this year. The story was quickly buried by fresh new stories of “more high strangeness” like dead birds falling from the sky, the assassination attempt onGabrielle Giffords, FEMA exercises in the New Madrid Fault Zone, and of course, the explosive chain reaction of Mideast uprisings that ignited from a FB inspired series of protests in Tunisia.
Cotter Corp. has received approval from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to dump 90,000 gallons of radioactive sludge and waste products from its defunct Canon City uranium mill, into an impoundment pond that officials know is leaking, The Denver Post reports.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story – insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, and can run for up to a century, an Associated Press investigation shows.
During an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was given an opportunity to set the record straight with regard tocomments she made earlier this year lauding the nation's Founding Fathers for working "tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”
Remember the Obama impersonator who recently had Republicans gathered in New Orleansrolling in the aisles over racial jokes about President Obama, but then was pulled from the stage when he started in on GOP presidential candidates such as Rep. Michele Bachmann?
DALLAS — John Wiley Price has served as Dallas County District 3 Commissioner since 1985, and was the first African-American elected to the court.
Police officers in America's big cities have some of the toughest jobs in the world: drug addicts, the criminally insane, stick-up men and gang bangers are their constant companions. Every now and then, though, you run up against cases where police officers appear to be worse than the scum they arrest. After being accused or convicted of shooting unarmed civilians, hiding evidence and planting weapons on innocent victims, the New Orleans Police Department is an unfortunate example of this abuse of power.
DALLAS - News 8 was able to talk with Commissioner John Wiley Price early this morning as he headed into work to the commissioner's court meeting at the Dallas County Administration Building in downtown Dallas.
If there is one name some residents of Amarillo, Texas wish they could forget, it’s Repent Amarillo. Based in that North Texas city, Repent Amarillo is a militant Christian fundamentalist group whose antics have ranged from staging a mock execution of Santa Claus by firing squad to posting a “spiritual warfare” map on its Web site that cited a Buddhist temple, an Islamic center, gay bars, strip clubs and sex shops as places of demonic activity.
You recently read that the NAACP was the target of protests by black residents in Harlem over their defense of teacher’s unions and underperforming public schools. In the essay below, Kim Keenan, General Counsel for the organization, gives the NAACP’s point of view on the matter. You can read it below:
Did you know that today scientists are actually producing mice that tweet like birds, cats that glow in the dark, "monster salmon", "spider goats", cow/human hybrids, pig/human hybrids and even mouse/human hybrids? The very definition of life on earth is changing right before our eyes. Many scientists believe that genetic modification holds the key to feeding the entire planet and healing all of our diseases, but others are warning that genetic modification could literally transform our environment into a desolate wasteland and cause our world to resemble a really bad science fiction movie. For decades, scientists around the globe have been fooling around with DNA and have been transplanting genes from one species to another. But now technology has advanced so dramatically that just about the only thing limiting scientists are their imaginations.
June 27, 2011 by Citizen Carol
DALLAS - Federal agents are at the home and office of Commissioner John Wiley Price.
It has also been confirmed that agents are also at multiple locations across the city that involve other people.
The FBI agents were limiting access to the Dallas County Commissioner's Court offices, where FBI agents are searching the first two floors of the Dallas County Administration Building at 411 Elm Street.
Extreme weather photographer Chad Cowan documented this other-worldly storm structure in South Dakota on July 23, 2010! Earlier in its life-span, the storm dropped a RECORD-BREAKING hail stone near the town of Vivian! The monster hail measured a whopping 8 INCHES IN DIAMETER and weighed just under TWO POUNDS!!! Check out Chad's website for more information and licensing (prints available) http://www.chasethestorms.com/ andhttp://www.tornadovideos.net for extreme weather video and news!
(CNN) -- A water-filled berm protecting a nuclear power plant in Nebraska from rising floodwaters collapsed Sunday, according to a spokesman, who said the plant remains secure.
Flying saucers are generally associated with UFOs, with that "U" in there standing for "unidentified." But the saucer shape isn't just limited to aliens from outer space: there are a fair number of entirely identified terrestrial aircraft that utilize a more or less circular and saucery design.
We've got a list of ten flying saucers for you, each of which made it far enough out of someone's imagination that at the very least a proof of concept was constructed. No blurry pictures that may or may-not-be-streetlights here: these are all real designs that actually existed.
Drivers will only dart a glance at that mammoth structure nestled in the dunes south of Rishon Litsion southeast of Tel Aviv as they speed on their way. It is forbidden to turn off the Tel Aviv-Rishon Litsion highway onto the side road leading up to that building, which is barricaded by cement walls equipped with state-of-the-art surveillanceand warning systems developed by Israel’s military industries.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader on Saturday accused the United States of supporting terrorism, pointing to American drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan that he said have killed scores of civilians.
A top U.S. admiral has confirmed to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Muammar Gaddafi, and that the need for ground troops in Libya after the embattled leader falls is anticipated.
MINOT, N.D. -- The Souris (SUHR'-is) River's full weight is being felt in Minot (MY'naht), where an estimated 2,500 homes are filling with water as the river has soared nearly 4 feet in a single day.
by Dr. Boyce Watkins.
Just a few days ago, a college football player was booted off a US Airways flight for having sagging pants. As it turns out, sagging pants is considered to be worse than a man wearing nothing but a pair ofpanties. A US Airways spokesperson confessed as much on Tuesday, as she had to try to explain the inexplicable double-standard.
WASHINGTON -- The chemical at the heart of the planet’s most widely used herbicide -- Roundup weedkiller, used in farms and gardens across the U.S. -- is coming under more intense scrutiny following the release of a new report calling for a heightened regulatory response around its use.
Floodwaters from the Missouri river overtop a levy in Brownville, Neb., Sunday, June, 19, 2011. When the Missouri River reached 42.5 feet, or 899 feet above sea level Sunday morning, the Nebraska Public Power District issued a flooding alert for its nuclear power plant, Cooper Nuclear Station. Cooper, located near Brownville, is at 903 feet elevation, and NPPD officials said the river would have to climb to 902 feet at Brownville before officials would shut down the plant. (AP)
With Boise rainfall samples measuring by far the highest concentrations of radioactive nuclides in the country, apocalyptic rumors of nuclear disaster run rampant. Higher cancer rates, lower SAT scores, genetic mutations, and birth defects are just a few of the things doomsayers expect to see in the wake of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima's Daiichi plant. But if the nuclear scare has you dumping milk and fleeing from radioactive rain, you might want to put the dangers into perspective.
I didn't have to be in the room or even in the country -- which I am not right now -- to have anticipated the rousing reception for Michelle Obama when she visited with young women and girls in South Africa's black township of Soweto. Reading the White House pool reports, as even most reporters who are there must do, reminds me that I have been there, done that. While I don't have anything like the stature of America's first lady, I am up close and personal with the profile of the kind of woman those young girls and women in Soweto listen to with intense interest and appreciation.
That maxim of 19th-century American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes is an overstatement today, but still contains a grain of wisdom. For generations of physicians, the prevailing teaching was not to prescribe too many drugs in order to avoid unwanted side-effects and drug interactions. No longer.
Time was when, at any right-wing gathering, chances were that you'd hear the justices of the Supreme Court derided as black-robed usurpers of democracy. Today, not so much. Ever since the seating of the Roberts court, the right has been pretty happy with high court's decisions, especially the outcome ofCitizens United v. FEC, the case through which the court, in a decision handed down last year, opened the floodgates of corporate money into the electoral system.
No single justice has been more stalwart for the causes of the right -- indeed, even the far right -- than Justice Clarence Thomas, who, notes ThinkProgress, may just be the most ethically challenged justice since Abe Fortas was forced to step down from the court in 1969 for accepting tens of thousands of dollars from wealthy benefactors.
Five Russian scientists who died in a plane crash on Tuesday had been helping Iran with nuclear secrets, it has been revealed.
They were among 45 killed when the plane's lights failed in heavy fog and careered into a motorway before bursting into flames - leading conspiracy theorists to believe it was a deliberate plot to kill the nuclear experts.
Russian security sources confirmed that the dead scientists worked at the controversial Bushehr nuclear plant on the Iranian Persian Gulf.
Killed (l to r): Three of the five Russian scientists who died in a plane crash were named as Sergey Ryzhov, Gennady Banyuk and Nikolay Trunov. All had worked at Iran's controversial Bushehr nuclear power plant
Mysterious: Rescue personnel stand near the crash scene, which killed five eminent Russian scientists, minutes after the aircraft came down on a motorway
By Erika Ramirez, N.Y.
From Billboard:
Missy Elliott has revealed that she's been suffering with Graves disease -- an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid -- as of 2008.
Missy reportedly shared details of the diagnosis with People Magazine, saying that the symptoms -- including mood swings and weight loss --- affected her quickly and unexpectedly.
"I was [driving and] trying to put my foot on the brake, but my leg was jumping. I couldn't keep the brake down and almost crashed," Elliott said. "I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad -- I couldn't even use a pen."
