fotojournalismus:

A Palestinian protester throws a molotov cocktail towards Israeli security forces during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah April 17, 2012. The clashes broke out during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners Day. At least 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday, upping the stakes in a protest movement that has put the Jewish state under pressure.

[Credit : Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

An underwater volcano that recently erupted for the first time in over a century has led to the formation of a brand new island in the Red Sea’s Zubair archipelago.

The volcano was first sighted spewing lava on December 19th by Yemeni fishermen. The lava was cooled by the seawater, resulting in the new island.

It is unclear if the island is here to stay, but the 500-meter-wide land mass continues to expand suggesting it’s only a matter of time before the first Starbucks opens.

[newscientist.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

thedailywhat: PROTIP of the Day: If you’re going to mug someone, make sure they’re not mixed-martial artists.

Better still — don’t mug people.

24-year-old Anthony Miranda, a convicted felon, was arrested and charged with armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm after a botched attempt to mug an unidentified victim who turned out to be an MMA champ.

According to police, Miranda approached the victim’s parked car on Chicago’s Southwest Side last Friday and demanded money while brandishing a handgun.

Initially successful, Miranda pressed his luck and ordered the man to step out of the vehicle. It was then that the tables were turned and Miranda soon found himself being pummelled by the victim.

During the scuffle, Miranda’s gun discharged and he was shot in the ankle.

His various wounds were treated at Holy Cross Hospital, and he is currently being held on $350,000 bail.  

[trib / myfoxchi.]

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#yikes - Honda vehicles are swamped at the flooded Honda factory in the Rojuna industrial district in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Ayutthaya’s factories have been underwater for the last month as a result of Thailand’s worst flooding in 50 years.

(see more — 2011: Thailand Floods)

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this never aired on fox news…

Space Rainbow — This NASA image taken on Monday from the International Space Station shows dazzling red and green aurora colors above the Earth.

see more — Earth Seen From Space

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it’s true…

comedychicago:

Groupon is sponsoring the 25th Anniversary Screening of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and to help celebrate they’ve brought in Sherman Edwards and Kevin Miller from Tomato | Tomatoe to emcee the event at the iconic Wrigley Field Stadium this Saturday.

More about the event can be…

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i don’t know what he’s so frustrated about #sarcasm

whaaaaaaaaat!?

BY Corinne Lestch

A firebrand educator with ties to a white supremacist group is running a Bronx Catholic school where most of the students are black and Latino, the Daily News has learned.

Frank Borzellieri, 48, was quietly promoted to principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School two years ago - despite a history of controversial writings and campaigns, including a push to ban a biography on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 2004, Borzellieri wrote the book “Don’t Take It Personally: Race, Immigration, Crime and Other Heresies,” in which he declares “diversity is a weakness” and says the rising black and Hispanic populations in America will lead to the “New Dark Age.”

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that’s one of the saddest things i’ve ever heard

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nprfreshair:

Tomorrow: neuroscientist Dean Buonomano. He says our brains are adapted for a prehistoric world very different than our own — and its quirks affect the way we think and behave. (His lab)

nprfreshair:

Also tomorrow: The impact of smart phones. We talk to Wired Magazine’s Brian Chen about what it means to live in a world where we’re constantly connected.

iphone Cookie (by ayu@nanami)

who lives in a pineapple under the sea? - SCIENCE!!

Posted by Christine Dell’Amore of National Geographic News

Mushrooms are poisonous, hallucinogenic, glowing, and now, thanks to a new study, named after a children’s cartoon character.

The new species, Spongiforma squarepantsii— found in 2010 in Sarawak, Malaysia—has a spongy appearance that reminded scientists of TV’s Spongebob Squarepants.

“It’s just like a sponge with these big hollow holes,” San Francisco State University’s Dennis Desjardin said in a statement. “When it’s wet and moist and fresh, you can wring water out of it and it will spring back to its original size. Most mushrooms don’t do that.” (Read more about the mushroom.)

There’s only one other species known so far in the Spongiforma genus, which lives in central Thailand and has a different color and odor. S. squarepantsii has a bright orange hue and smells “vaguely fruity or strongly musty,” according to the study, published in May in the journal Mycologia.

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By Devin Faraci

A few years ago Danny Elfman and Sam Raimi had a falling out. What kind of a falling out? Well, back when I was at CHUD I got this interview with Elfman:

Elfman: Spider-Man 2 was a miserable experience.

Q: Why? Was it too fast or –

Elfman: It’s a complicated thing.

Q: Why was it complicated?

Elfman: My connection to Sam got completely severed. As far as I’m concerned, he went to sleep and somebody put a pod next to him and when he awoke, he wasn’t the same person I’ve known for a decade.

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“this thing is ready to do damage” he had no idea…

Bill Maher: The Weinerlogues with Jane Lynch

Sucks that a politician that actually seems to care about working class people has to go down like this.  But it’s fun to watch sometimes.

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