It’s been almost three years since a grand experiment began in a dog park in Ithaca, N.Y., and the results are finally in.
Dog dung poses public health risks if left on the streets, hurts the environment when left near trails and takes centuries to decompose in plastic garbage bags that end up in landfills.
In the park’s experiment, corn-based compostable bags were available in the dog park. Later bins full of bags were pick up by a local composting company.
Wildlife officials in Maryland have put a bounty on the invasive snakehead, offering $200 gift cards for Bass Pro Shops as well as other prizes for catching and killing the fish.
The snakehead, which can travel on land, devastates the eco-systems of U.S. lakes, ponds and streams.
Native to Africa and Asia, it is believed to have made its way to America through Asian seafood merchants.
Canada’s stagnant job market bounced back in March with a stunning 82,300 net new jobs, the biggest jump since September 2008.
The job gains, reported by Statistics Canada on Thursday, were spread fairly evenly across several sectors and were mainly in the private sector and in full-time positions.
An Indian boy of 5, who was separated from his family for 25 years, has defied the odds by tracking them down — using little more than a vague recollection of his childhood and some help from Google Earth’s mapping technology.
The satellite image program, along with a local Indian Facebook page, helped him to find his home and reunite with his family 25 years after he boarded the wrong train, fell asleep and ended up 10 hours away, on the other side of India.
After 86 days in the South Pole, Norwegian explorer Aleksander Gamme, approached the final cache he left hidden in the snow at the start of his expedition.
Extremely hungry, he hopes to find food, but has no memory of what he stashed there for his return trip. He doesn’t expect to find anything to eat, but turns to the camera and says you should never give up hope.
“As a part of my motivational plan I have on purpose not made notes on what goodies I have left behind in the cache.. and on this last one, I didn`t expect very much.”
Watch him on the video, as he uncovers the blue bag and finds some equipment, some zinc and vaseline. Then, the ecstatic moment when he pulls out a bag of Cheese Doodles — and more happiness as he finds chocolate and candy.
WATCH his video with English translation below…
The filmmaker and studio behind documentary “Bully” on Thursday won their battle to have the movie’s rating lowered, allowing kids as young as 13 years-old to see it.
Director Lee Hirsch said he was able to keep a key scene in the anti-bullying film for which he lobbied hard, but he edited out three uses of one certain word to appease the group that rates movies based on language, sex, and violence, making it easier for schools to get behind it.
Rock and Roll is loud because Jim Marshall, a British electrical engineer, helped The Who’s Pete Townsend in 1962 to drown out the chatter from his audience so the guitarist could better concentrate on delivering his distinctive wall of sound.
As a musician and owner of Marshall Amplification, Jim began producing one of the most iconic pieces of equipment in popular music from his small West London shop. The “Marshall stack” soon stood as a monument behind all the great guitarists, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and all the rest.
Marshall died yesterday in England after battling cancer and suffering multiple strokes in recent years. He was 88.
As 12 or more tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.
As people took shelter and tried to locate loved ones, they also logged in on Facebook and Twitter to warn others of tornado touchdowns and advancing storms.
First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday unveiled a new hiring effort that will deliver thousands of portable, flexible job opportunities to military spouses.
Eleven companies have pledged more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses and veterans, with the vast majority of jobs – in areas such as customer support and telemarketing — offering opportunities to work from home.
First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday unveiled a new hiring effort that will deliver thousands of portable, flexible job opportunities to military spouses.
Eleven companies have pledged more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses and veterans, with the vast majority of jobs – in areas such as customer support and telemarketing — offering opportunities to work from home.
Amateur diggers on a trip to the aging North American Emerald Mine in Hiddenite, N.C., struck gold last week — actually, emeralds.
One couple had only been in the mine for five minutes before Kevin Barrieault flipped over a rock to find a 50.5-carat emerald.
The next day, another couple found a pocket of emerald crystals in the mine, which was newly opened to tourists by a man who wanted to earn income by letting people dig for gems.
(READ the story from ABC News)
James McCartney revealed in an interview recently that he has discussed the possibility of uniting with other sons of the Fab Four to form “the Beatles – the Next Generation”.
“I’d be up for it,” the 34-year-old said. “Sean [Lennon] seemed to be into it, Dhani [Harrison] seemed to be into it … I don’t think it’s something that Zak [Starkey] wants to do. Maybe Jason [Starkey, another drummer] would want to do it … I don’t know, you’d have to wait and see.”
President Obama joined a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders in a signing ceremony to enact and praise their STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act) to ban ‘insider trading’ on Capitol Hill.
“The STOCK Act makes it clear that if members of Congress use nonpublic information to gain an unfair advantage in the stock market, then they are breaking the law,” he explained during a rare moment of cooperation between the White House and Capitol Hill.
The law creates new disclosure requirements and new measures of accountability and transparency for thousands of federal employees who previously had been free to use the insider information to benefit financially in the stock market.
Instead of driving through morning rush hour, what if you could fly over it?
Terrafugia Inc. said that it hopes to begin selling its 2-seat flying car with folding wings within the next year. On March 23, its production prototype flew its successful maiden voyage for eight minutes at an altitude of 1,400 feet.
The dual-purpose flying machine, called Transition, carries vital necessities of the road, such as airbags, and a structural cage on its revolutionary flying car, which has a 115 mph cruising speed (in the air).
The Transistion is capable of driving on roads and highways, parking in a single car garage, and flying with unleaded automotive fuel.
CEO and co-founder Carl Dietrich said, “This first flight is a major milestone for Terrafugia. With this flight, the team demonstrated an ability to accomplish what had been called an impossible dream. We look forward to continuing to show that the challenges of bringing a practical street legal airplane to market can be overcome.”
Around 100 people have already put down a $10,000 deposit to get a Transition when they go on sale, and those numbers will likely rise after Terrafugia introduces the Transition to the public later this week at the New York Auto Show.
Terrafugia is Latin for “escape the earth.” The ticket price to do so? $279,000.
(READ more in the AP story in the Washington Post)
WATCH the 2009 video demonstration below and visit Terrafugia’s website for more details…
Instead of driving through morning rush hour, what if you could fly over it?
Terrafugia Inc. said that it hopes to begin selling its 2-seat flying car with folding wings within the next year. On March 23, its production prototype flew its successful maiden voyage for eight minutes at an altitude of 1,400 feet.
The dual-purpose flying machine, called Transition, carries vital necessities of the road, such as airbags, and a structural cage on its revolutionary flying car, which has a 115 mph cruising speed (in the air).
A woman took over the controls mid-flight and landed a small plane in northeastern Wisc., when her husband, the pilot was stricken.
Helen and John Collins were married for 58 years. When visiting family, they often didn’t drive – they flew in a twin engine Cessna.
While flying to see one of their sons Monday afternoon, he suffered a heart attack and his 80-year-old non-pilot wife had to take over.
(READ the story or watch the video at CBS News)
The Baylor University Lady Bears left no doubt last night who reigns as the best team in the country. In fact, they’re perfect.
A dominating victory over Notre Dame (80-61) in the NCAA women’s basketball championship on Tuesday night, capped a 40-0 season for the Waco, Texas team.
They became the first team in NCAA history — women’s or men’s — to win 40 games.
In the Los Angeles community of Pasadena — a suburban mix of nice restaurants and well-tended front lawns — there is a home wedged in among the other houses where the entire front yard is edible.
A man’s little family farm, in the midst of American suburbia, is his way of breaking free without really going anywhere.
His property has became quite beautiful, and the independent family of five sells what it doesn’t eat to local restaurants.
A little over 30 years ago, a teenager in India began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace to grow a refuge for wildlife.
“The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. I alerted the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees there,” he told the Times of India. “They said nothing would grow there. Instead, they asked me to try growing bamboo.”
Everyone in the UK is being asked to clear out their drawers, wardrobes and cupboards – and take their excess clothing and accessories to the clothing retail chain TK Maxx anytime in April, to contribute towards the fight against kids’ cancer.
Since 2004, the annual campaign, Give up Clothes for Good, has raised a whopping £10 million, with hopes this year to raise an additional £2.5 million for Cancer Research UK.
