This is so scary its hard to believe that it actually occurred
For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.
Now, they know why: According to authorities, the teen was brutally abused and held captive in his own home. Most recently, [...]

 
This is a very disturbing method of bringing people to Jesus
Ohio police say a man held a woman captive in handcuffs and an adult diaper for three days while he read Bible passages to her.

Holy Cow Grandpa are you ready for WWIII?
Police say a 72-year-old Auburn man will face criminal charges after investigators found 85 guns and 800 pounds of ammunition in his home, most of them stored improperly.
Investigators zeroed in on Anthony Simulynas after a Worcester resident who was arrested for illegal possession of military-style explosives and assault [...]

After seeing the architecture from the Olympics this does not surprise me at all
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this planned Huaxi city center for Guiyang, China is just bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S! It’s an architectural fever dream created by 11 different firms, invited and overseen by Beijing-based MAD architects. It’s supposed to mimic [...]

 
Braconid parasite wasps and their caterpillar hosts form a unique host-parasite model: the wasps lay their eggs inside the caterpillars and simultaneously inject some viral particles to get around the host’s defenses and control its physiology.

hahahaha!… Behavioral Studies Show…
It’s safe to say that humans are smarter than animals, but a University of Iowa researcher is investigating the extent of that disparity in intelligence.

The global financial crisis has evolved into a worldwide recession of epic proportions. Analysts fear the sudden slump which has followed the credit crunch could even rival the Great Depression of the early 1930s and lead to global stagnation.
But who is responsible?…….

 Police have found more than 3,000 cars outside Dubai’s international airport in recent months
For many expatriate workers in Dubai it was the ultimate symbol of their tax-free wealth: a luxurious car that few could have afforded on the money they earned at home.

Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin!

We’ve always been a fan of monowheels, the hubless design that has a certain ascetic simplicity. So we were psyched to see that some folks had decided to take that concept and make monowheels for your feet. The Orbitwheel skates are just two monowheels (okay, so there’s a bit of a contradiction there) that you [...]

Art, art, and more art!

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped, Nikolai Kordulla and Dominik Schmid have just released a nifty new website called Sketchory. The site features over 250,000 sketches (cartoons, scribbles and other fascinating artwork) that you can copy, remix, embed, view as animation and so on.
The sketches use Creative Commons license, so you’re free [...]