Bath salts contain manmade chemicals related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries that is illegal in the United States. They are similar to so-called synthetic marijuana, which has also caused a surge in medical emergencies and been banned in a number of states. Link: An Alarming New Stimulant, Sold [...]

We now agree with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that eating glass freeze pops can be dangerous. Those who eat glass freeze pops are far more likely to develop shards-related ailments than those who don’t eat them. Shards O’Glass.

One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today, describing a pool of molten fuel at the bottom of the reactors containment vessel. via Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant – Telegraph.

Serious threat to the web in Italy In 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. Google took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police, and also worked with the local police to help identify [...]

Terminator v0.1a The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing. “Petman will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing [...]