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Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, sociologist Lewis Hine documented the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. He travelled around 50,000 miles a year, photographing children from Chicago to...

TAMPA, Florida — Sure, it took an extra year or so, but Northrop Grumman has finally penciled in the first flight of the giant surveillance airship it’s building for the U.S. Army. The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle — a football-field-size, helium-filled robot blimp fitted with...

Skydive With NO Parachute Stunt and SURVIVES! - YouTube Not sure how he fit his giant balls into that suit but whatever.

some buck-skinned dude and his trusty buffalo just riding the range and having wonderful buffalo adventures. For those of you with the strength, I'll include the trailer for the original masterpiece and the the movie itself. They're really quite breath taking. Buffalo. Guy On A Buffalo -...

The Conservatives will unveil their employment insurance reforms this week, in a move that will prove to be a huge disappointment to the opposition parties. The Liberals and NDP have been salivating at the prospect of EI changes that will force doctors to flip burgers and Maritime fishermen...

MONTREAL—Out-of-province money is rolling in for Quebec student activists amid warnings their protest movement could persist into the summer. Trade unions based outside Quebec have already confirmed sending more than $36,000 into...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” Saturday and received over one million “likes” from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups. More...

Facebookshares fell more than 13 percent, falling below its $38 price of its initial public offering, in the social network's second day of trading as a public company. Meanwhile, the NASDAQ exchange continued to defend itself regarding the IPO's delay on Friday. The company's shares [FB...

Some douche in his Prius wants to live vicariously through the bikers I guess, so he films them on his little I-phone or whatnot whilst not paying close enough attention. Anyway, our little friend bumps and knocks over two of the bikers. Well... A Toyota Prius lost control and slammed...

A question from small dead animals: http://smalldeadanimals.com/ Canajun, eh? Any thoughts on this (BBC World television is running a series trying to explain us)? Canada is anything but a homogenous Commonwealth state; nearly one million indigenous people rub shoulders with...

Eggsellent. he fearsome submarine was dispatched last night with Tomahawk warheads as tensions simmer on the 30th anniversary of the conflict with Argentina. The Trafalgar-class “hunter-killer” vessel slipped into a port in South Africa last week under a cloak of secrecy. Simon’s Town...

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, takes to Facebook today to review the Avengers, a movie about a bunch of superheroes banding together to save the world, “which focuses on a new, limitless clean energy source called ‘The Tesseract,’” according to...

There may be some of you that have never been to a garbage dump of any real size. The one my dad would take us (to see bears pawing thru the garbage) to as kids (near Burks Falls Ont.) was small but I can still recall the smell. Anywho, have a go at this one in the Maldives. Video on the...

This insidiousness spreads like an SBD fart kids. Start breathing through your mouth now I say. No 10 guide to changing nappies and baby talk full article: No 10 guide to changing nappies and baby talk - Telegraph But here's a better take on it: How helpless can people become, in the...

In America's 'Most Bikeable' Cities, Bike Lanes Rule The cyclists who participated in Friday's National Bike to Work Day likely planned their riding route with several criteria in mind, from convenience to safety. Those same concerns help determine how "bikeable" a town is, according to a...

I'm quite certain none of you have ever seen this before. But... if miraculously you have, then who's a good boy? You, you are. The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived. The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is fully aware that: the drugs it certifies as...

SARASOTA, Fla. - College graduation is a routine rite of passage for many students. For Shawna Machado, it's the next step in a long, challenging road. “I struggled from retail job to retail job,” Machado, 40, says, before landing what she hoped was more stable work in a medical office...

I am not exaggerating. This is Finnish writer Pentti Linkola — a man who demands that the human population reduce its size to around 500 million and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic growth — in his own words. He likens Earth today to an overflowing lifeboat:What to...

I'm not a big-dick tech guy and I hate it when something just starts happening on my machine that annoys me. I don't recall what or when it happened but in the past week I found that CC pages were a bitch to load at times. The cpu fans would go nuts, pages would shudder and burp and slow to a...

Actor and comedian Jon Lovitz went on the Sean Hannity Show Thursday night and proved that his well-known “bullsh*t” rant was no fluke: he has absolutely no problem with criticizing President Barack Obama’s tactics or policies. “What I find is [the president] is hypocritical with saying, you...