Officials at the San Diego Zoo gave members of the media a sneak peek at Xiao Liwu, the zoo’s “rambunctious” 5-month-old panda. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the cub will make his public debut on Thursday, when zoo-goers can visit the zoo’s outdoor den from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.…
Most Americans probably think that companies like Vibram and Dow Chemical are responsible for the technology behind long-lasting shoes, but self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs is asserting that durable kicks are really a “supernatural” miracle from God. During the Tuesday episode of God Know, Jacobs advised viewers to gather provisions for…
A group of neighbors in North Carolina managed to rescue an 800-pound cow from a frozen backyard pool this week after the cow wandered from its pasture several miles away. The emergency call came in Monday afternoon in Rutherford County, when Linda Lewis discovered the cow “drowning in my pool,”…
A new technology shown off at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas enables regular touch screens to sprout actual, physical buttons. Developed by a company called Tactus, it works by manipulating a transparent fluid inside the screen and causing it to press up against a top polymer layer,…
A 21-year-old Apple Valley, California woman was arrested Monday on charges that she used chili powder to punish a 2-year-old girl who was pronounced dead after suffering a seizure. Amanda Sorensen, the girlfriend of the child’s father, allegedly fought with her significant other “like crazy,” according to a neighbor who…
In a video published by Stanford’s Hoover Institution, television producer Rob Long and former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo debated whether the Republican Party needed to revise its core principles in light of the 2012 elections. Yoo, who is best known as the author of the so-called “Torture Memos,”…
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck complained Tuesday that CNN’s Piers Morgan was portraying gun rights advocates as crazed maniacs by inviting Alex Jones on his show. “Piers Morgan is trying to have gun control,” Beck said. “He is trying to make everybody who has guns and who believes the Second…
Veteran television host Al Roker admitted this week that he pooped his pants while covering an event at the Bush White House, all thanks to a recent bowel reconstruction surgery. “I probably went off and ate something I wasn’t supposed to,” he told “Dateline NBC” on Monday, relating a story…
Video released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on Monday showed a “fast moving jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotating neutron star,” but to some the image appear to more resemble the mask from Phantom of the Opera or “God smoking a joint.” In a description provided with the…
Hosts of the Atheist Experience cable access show in Austin hung up on a Christian caller over the weekend after he suggested that God might not stop the rape of a little girl because the victim was also “evil.” A Christian viewer from Phoenix named Shane called in to Sunday’s…