Molecules behave like waves and particles. How can they be both?

"It took the modern theory of quantum mechanics to explain the resultsby suggesting that particles exist in a state of uncertainty, ratherthan at a specific time and place, until we observe them, forcing themto choose. Thus, the particles traveling through the plate don't have toselect slit A or slit B; in effect, they travel through [...]

Prominent Pakistani Acid Victim Commits Suicide

"Her life was a parched stretch of hard rock on which nothing bloomed,"Durrani wrote in a column in The News after Younus' suicide.More than 8,500 acid attacks, forced marriages and other forms ofviolence against women were reported in Pakistan in 2011, according toThe Aurat Foundation, a women's rights organization. Because the grouprelied [...]

How You Know You're Living In A Corrupt Land

Puerto Rico's police chief quit late Wednesday, less than a year afterbeing appointed to lead a department that federal agents have accused ofcorruption, illegal killings and civil rights violations.The resignation of Emilio Diaz Colon, a retired National Guard general,came amid criticism that he did not do enough to combat violence [...]

Afghan Women Fleeing Abuse, Rape, or Attempted Murder Against Them Go To

KABUL (Reuters) - For Afghan women, the act of fleeing domestic abuse,forced prostitution or even being stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriverby an abusive husband, may land them in jail while their abusers walkfree, Human Rights Watch said.Running away is considered a "moral crime" for women in Afghanistanwhile some rape victims are [...]

Hard Times Means Fewer Baby Boys

Pregnant women are more likely to hear "It's a girl!" when giving birthduring famine conditions than when times are flush, according to a newstudy of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward famine in China.The study reveals a dip in the ratio of boys born per girl during thefamine years in the country, Shige Song, a demographer and sociologistat [...]

Humanity Is By A Nearly Impossible Chance, Thus Intelligent Aliens Must

History's arbitrariness Nevertheless, as Conway Morris noted, the "diversity of life on Earth is enormous." That humankind looks the way it does, or that an intelligent breed of spiders did not instead evolve to build cities and smartphones, is largely due to chance, other researchers maintain. The late Stephen Jay Gould, a famous [...]

Long Hours but At What Cost?

Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week issimply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right? Wrong. According to [...]

Something Does Not Add Up

"One shooter..." We're being told, but the eye witnesses, some survivorsof the attack say there were more than one..."Something is not adding up... How did he get off of the base twice withno one noticing? There are armed guards in towers, along the outerwalls, and along the streets leading up to the gate, security gates areclosed/sealed [...]

NYPD says Iran has conducted surveillance in New York City

"People may act as if there was no warnings before the fact, like in thecase of 911, but the truth is there is always signs of a comingdisaster. People usually see what they want to see and avoid that whichmakes them uncomfortable."Iranians with ties to the Tehran government have been caught videotapingand snapping photos of New York [...]

America's Most Corrupt States

Earlier this week, the Center for Public Integrity released a report detailing the risk of corruption and lack of accountability in all 50 states. The findings of the report should worry anyone who believes state governments are transparent and free of corruption. Of course, no state is without flaws. Unfortunately, nearly every state [...]

Hunger Games, Battle Royale, And The Running Man.

We've all heard reality is stranger than fiction but what's even stranger is when fiction becomes our reality. Some Say Hunger Games Is A Rip Off of Battle Royale, But The King Had The Idea Before Either Of These Books. The state forces kids into a death match where only one is left standing. Is this the premise of "Hunger Games"? [...]

Why The film Hugo Is So Special.

"When producers make all of the decisions in cinema than money rules and the magic is lost. More independent film makers should be supported. The innovators who care about feeding the imagination should be encouraged, the art and the magic should be sought after more than the money... or originality will be lost, and everything will eventually [...]

Afghanistan vs Obama

"...The only way to think about Afghanistan is to ask the questiondirectly and without prejudice: "is it in America's vital interests tofight on in Afghanistan?" To me, the answer is an unequivocal "No."Bashing the Taliban and al Qaeda was vital 10 years ago after 9/11. Butsince then, the war against terrorists has become global, andAfghanistan [...]

Karzai slams U.S. over massacre

"A series of blunders by the United States, including the killings inKandahar province on Sunday and the inadvertent burning of copies of theKoran at a NATO base last month, has further strained already tenserelations between the countries."This has been going on for too long. You have heard me before. It is byall means the end of the [...]

Technology and Intelligence, hand in hand? Dependence on technology isn't a very good thing...

The GPS was to blame for these tourists driving into the ocean... No,seriously.Three Japanese tourists in Australia, misled by their GPS device.Fairfax Media/Getty Images Three Japanese tourists in Australia found themselves in an embarrassingsituation after their GPS navigation system lured them down the wrongpath.The three, who are [...]

Biggest Bankruptcy In American History

First there was Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Then, Jefferson County,Alabama. Now, hold onto your hats folks -- we could be just days awayfrom seeing the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. In California, the city of Stockton boasts a population of almost300,000 ... and a fiscal emergency. The first number means that ifStockton [...]

A Good Man, A Family Man, A Crazed Killer?

Then, in the middle of the night last Sunday, shots rang out in a pairof villages within walking distance of the base. Soon after, asurveillance camera mounted to a blimp captured an image of a soldierthe Army identifies as Bales returning in the dark. A traditional Afghanshawl was draped over the gun in his hands. As he reached the [...]

"What Happened to Families in Our Nation?

"A few of us our blessed with unbroken homes, but the truth is still so apparent. Not since Germany post World War 1 has there been a nation with such a lack of fathers.After the first Great World War Germany was the nation which suffered the most losses and this nation was mostly fatherless after the cause. Children grew up needing [...]

Royal Raymond Rife And The Cure For Cancer

"One of those things, you know... Another sad story. Not really a revelation to us, just a confirmation of the depressing truth we already know, but we usually try not to dwell on; the greedy ones with wealth and power have always run this world, they determine who is lifted up and who is brought down... And they are only ever [...]

Meaning & Purpose In America

"A vision or a will in life should never be about wealth, pleasure, or power, but this is how most Americans' view life. It is no revelation to the world that most Americans' always want the nicer car, bigger TV, more attractive partner, and a more exuberant home. They are never satisfied, always wanting more, and never really appreciating [...]

When Will Our Tsunami Hit?

The existence of slow-slip events, which scientists discovered onlyrecently, is turning out to be especially important for accurateforecasting. In a slow-slip event, movement is gradual enough not tocreate detectable ground motion, but the energy release can be theequivalent of a normal magnitude 6 earthquake. The big question iswhether [...]

Are You Prepared?

Billionaire Donald Trump says the U.S. economy is poised for "massive inflation" and is warning investors to take steps now to protect themselves. In the gripping CNBC interview, Trump also told investors they should not trust official government statistics. He even questioned the "official unemployment" numbers. "It's over 20 percent. [...]

Outrage over suicide of Moroccan teen forced to marry rapist

A minister in Morocco's Islamist government on Thursday called for a change to a law allowing a rapist to marry his victim after a 16-year-old teenager forced into such a union committed suicide. Bassima Hakkaoui, Minister for Women and Families and the only woman in the cabinet, called for a debate to reform the law, in comments [...]

Manchurian Candidate Comes To Mind...

SEATTLE (AP) - The U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghanvillagers last weekend had been reluctant to leave on his fourthdeployment and surprised to be deployed to Afghanistan, where soldiersat his base were shaken by the serious injury of a comrade a day beforethe shooting rampage, his lawyer said Thursday.Browne declined to [...]

Who is He Kidding?

Karzai is confident that Afghan security forces know "a thousand times better than any foreign troops the culturally sensitive ways of dealing with their own people," Mosazai said. If the NATO troops did pullback, it would leave vast areas of the country unprotected and essentially mean the end of the strategy of trying to win hearts [...]

Hijacked

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is safe after a hijacked truck rushedan airfield runway ramp as his plane was landing in southernAfghanistan Wednesday, Pentagon officials and journalists travelingwith him report."An Afghan civilian stole a military pickup truck, rammed through afence, and crashed into a ditch by a runway around the time [...]