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Woman fired for being ‘irresistible’ blasts Iowa Supreme Court ruling
A dental assistant who was fired from her job because her boss claimed she was “irresistible” spoke out on Saturday. Melissa Nelson told CNN she had no idea what changed. She had worked at the position for more than 10 years without incident. Nelson said she “absolutely” wasn’t having an…
Blind juggling robot keeps balls in the air for hours
Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich have created a juggling robot, the so-called “blind juggler,” which, in spite of its lack of visual sensors, is capable of flawlessly juggling a ball or balls for hours. According to New Scientist,…
VIDEO: NRA member cuts up card in ‘tribute’ to show ‘outrage’
A video published on CNN shows a a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association as he destroys the small rectangle of paper that associates him with the organization. “This is my NRA club card,” he says. “I want to show you my tribute and how outraged I am that…
Anti-LGBT Ugandan pastor uses fruit to demonstrate gay sex on live TV
A Ugandan pastor who opposes LGBT rights recently explained why he thought homosexuality was dangerous by giving a bizarre demonstration of gay sex with the assistance of fruits and vegetables. In an appearance on the NBS talk show Morning Breeze, Reverend Martin Ssempa warned that gay men and lesbians “have…
Bodies of ‘In Cold Blood’ killers exhumed
Police have exhumed the bodies of the two killers who were the subject of author Truman Capote’s greatest work, the “nonfiction novel,” In Cold Blood. According to CNN, DNA evidence may tie Richard Hickock and Perry Smith to another mass murder, half a continent away from the site of their…
‘Debaser’ by the Pixies used for world’s first 3-D printed record
A new age of music piracy may have just begun out of the offices of the DIY-website Instructables. In a video and how-to published Thursday, Instructables’ assistant tech editor Amanda Ghassaei demonstrates how she’s created the world’s first 3-D printed records. The first among them was “Debaser,” by the Pixies.…
Rabbi slams Christian right’s reaction to Newtown as the ‘ultimate statement of heresy’
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Wednesday blasted Christian conservatives like Bryan Fischer who suggested that Americans were to blame for the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut because they had abandoned God. “The fact is that is the ultimate statement of heresy,” he said on CNN. “This is not a religious man.”…
Fox News guest: Sandy Hook victims will remember the massacre in heaven
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Tuesday asked an author selling a book that claims to offer proof that heaven is real whether or not the 20 children killed in the Newtown massacre on Friday remember how they died now that they’re supposedly in the Christian afterlife. Insisting to viewers…
Man arrested for boarding school bus with gun hours after Newtown shootings
Police in New Orleans have arrested a man for boarding a school bus and threatening students with a gun just hours after the slaughter of 20 children at a school in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday. According to court documents obtained by WWLTV, 29-year-old Keith Petit threatened to shoot every student…
Woah: Video game glitches infect the real world in viral video
In a short film called “The Glitch” that’s lit up YouTube since Monday, video game glitches infect the real world to hilarious effect. For whatever it’s worth, this video also features the stars of two leading violent video games getting blinked out of existence, all because one of them touched…
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