the newest danger: Carcinogens form from third-hand smoke

Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens.

1

1

Nasa identifies molecule in a gas giant 63 light years away, using a tiny 30 year old telescope

The scientists reported on a new technique used with a relatively small Earth-based telescope to identify an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet nearly 63 light-years away.

4

1

IN the US drug addicts are being paid to be sterialized. Exploitive?

If you call Project Prevention's helpline it's likely that Barbara Harris, the founder of this US based organisation, will answer the phone. A warm and vivacious grandmother, her aim is to give $300 to as many drug and alcohol addicted women as possible.

6

18

62% still say the economy is bush's fault

10

4

Obama Ask Republican Lawmakers to Discuss Health Care Overhaul, wants live coverage

President Barack Obama invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate to a Feb. 25 meeting to discuss ways to get an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system through Congress.

44

180

Climate change is happening much faster than our most pessimistic models expected

Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north.

5

2

Republican senator Puts hold on every single obama nominee, because he is mad he didnt get an earmark he wanted.

Saying that the Obama administration must change its approach to an Air Force refueling tanker contract, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, moved Thursday to block Senate approval of at least four White House nominees for top federal jobs Thursday.

10

5

South Carolina measure requiring terrorists to register for $5 becomes law | Raw Story

Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government

2

1

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila., Titled:The Continuation of the Scheme

Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

3

2

Conservative Activist Sues Ill Sec of State Over Atheitist Display, Claims it Violates Establishment Clause.

a conservative activist and Illinois comptroller candidate filed a federal lawsuit against Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White late last week over an atheist display on state property over the holiday season.

7

13

Is this the best office gadget? turns shredded docs into toilet paper

A Japanese company has invented, possibly, the cleverest office gadget of the year: a machine that turns waste paper into lavatory paper.

6

8

World's Smallest Hot Rod Made Using Nanotechnology | LiveScience

Researchers have built a new super-small "nanodragster" that improves on prior nanocar designs and could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines.

3

2

Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Last week, the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey program, designed to sweep the heavens looking for near-Earth asteroids, spotted something really weird; an elongated streak that looked as if two asteroids had collided.

8

8

Reuters Withdraws 'Backdoor Taxes To Hit Middle Class' Story due to lack of real facts

According to a Reuters rep, the was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact." "The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out," she emailed us. A formal withdrawal will issued will address specific points that were incorrect later today.

34

62

New adhesive device could let humans walk on walls

Could humans one day walk on walls, like Spider-Man? A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond just might make it possible.

4

4

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections.

34

42

Honda Confirms No More Ads On Glenn Beck Or Fox News at all

On January 27, 2010 a Honda advertisement ran on Glenn Beck's show in the UK. Shortly after, the Stop Beck – UK effort contacted Honda and urged them to stop sponsoring Glenn Beck.

3

4

Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.

7

9

Scientists on Alert After Hundreds of Earthquakes Daily Rattle Yellowstone National Park | Cleveland Leader

Over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

47

111

using web cams to keep google earth more up-to-date

Google Earth may put conventional maps to shame, but its satellite and aerial imagery shows the world as it used to be, rather than as it is.

2

1

Creep Teacher has been paid 100k/yr for a decade to do nothing after making lewd comments to students

A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education "rubber room" working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated $7.8 million, The Post found.

2

1

A Critical Look at The Andre Bauer solution: Starve the poor, theyll stop breeding, then why does miss have so many poor?

For the moment, though, let's set aside the pure viciousness of that statement and address what Bauer claims is his larger point. In effect, his thesis is that government assistance actually causes poverty because it subsidizes and encourages irresponsible actions.

5

3

Gop: Be Careful What You Wish For | Deanie Mills's Blog

"In his first year in office, President Obama did better even than legendary arm-twister Lyndon Johnson in winning congressional votes on issues where he took a position, a Congressional Quarterly study finds.

4

0

Informed Comment: Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Belief: Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace.

6

7