Tribal gunmen kidnapped two American tourists in Yemen on Monday and are demanding the release of a jailed tribesman for the pair, security officials said. A senior State Department official in Washington confirmed the kidnappings to CBS News and said the U.S. was working with Yemeni authorities to resolve the situation. The security officials, a…
The Taliban are scary. Dinosaurs are scary. But, put together, they’re actually pretty awesome. This work of genius is courtesy Dan Evans via Atlantic
P’s oil isn’t leaking “four or fives times” faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day, it’s twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they’re using to “disperse” it is toxic, too. Now the EPA has ordered BP to find a new, less toxic dispersant. (The stuff they use…
Craig Venter creates synthetic life form Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form While it is correct to say that the individual cell was not created, a new line of cells…
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing eleven men. The oil rig then sank on April 22, 2010. Since then, oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Attempts to stop the oil spill have been met with only limited success.
Count the books now on store shelves that “reconstruct the crimes” that triggered the global meltdown. Count the Goldman Sachs jokes on late night TV. Count the hours that C-Span will devote to congressional inquiries into what happened, why it happened, and who is ultimately to blame. Forensics is a necessary process if we’re to…
Bangkok became a flaming battleground Wednesday as an army assault forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender, enraging followers who shot grenades and set fire to landmark buildings, cloaking the skyline in black smoke.
Plot twist for arts reporting Tuesday March 16, 2010 | 14:33 by András Szántó in New York City | permalink This wasn’t supposed to happen. Arts journalism is supposed to be going down the tubes. But here in New York, two arts sections are being expanded, with professional writers, editors, and, for now, what counts…
Dr. Jennifer Ashton discussed an upcoming drug that will improve sex drive in women. video attached
Roberta Smith devoted an article in “The Week in Review” section of the New York Times to the guessing game about the anonymous buyer. Bemoaning the “irksome” secrecy of art sales, she conjured a rogue’s gallery of possible bidders, including “Buyer X,” a “puppet master,” a “Russian oligarch” fearing “home invasion or too much unfriendly attention from Vladimir Putin,” and “someone with vast sums of money stashed in a Swiss bank account or a dubious tax shelter.” All very James Bond. Buyer X must be smiling.