Home » Topics » impact
Study confirms dark-skinned women get longer prison sentences
A recent study of females convicted of crimes showed a disheartening correlation that would confirm accusations of racial injustice in the legal system: The lighter a convict’s skin, the shorter their prison sentence tends to be, and the less time they serve. Researchers at Villanova University examined the records of…
NASA spacecraft speeds toward comet encounter
WASHINGTON – A NASA spacecraft is just hours from its long-anticipated encounter with a comet, and skywatchers hope the flyby will shed light on how the comet’s surface has changed since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005. The US space agency’s Stardust-NExT mission spacecraft “is within a quarter-million miles…
NASA spacecraft set to rendezvous with comet
NASA spacecraft gears up to rendezvous with comet Hartley 2 Five years after a NASA spacecraft bombarded a comet, it will visit another one Thursday. This time, there won’t be celestial fireworks. Speeding at 27,000 miles per hour, the Deep Impact craft instead will swing by a small comet, passing…
Deep Impact spacecraft readies for comet encounter
NASA recycles Deep Impact spacecraft for 2nd comet encounter; will study how comets differ A NASA spacecraft is about to have another close look at a comet. Next week, the Deep Impact spacecraft is set to pass within 435 miles of a half-mile-wide comet named Hartley 2. It will use…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Anchorman 2 trailer: Ron Burgundy is back – and it’s kind of a big deal
- John ‘The Executioner’ Martorano under microscope in trial of accused U.S. mobster James Whitey Bulger
- Reckless British bankers could face jail: commission
- World’s largest solar boat arrives in New York
- Red Cross defends keeping Guantanamo detainee records confidential
- What’s that thing in Uranus’s orbit?
- Fearing the U.S., Wikileak’s Assange will stay in Eucador’s London embassy
- North Korea threatens to kill authors who claim Kim Jong-Un urged leaders to study Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
- John Oliver: Republicans resisting immigration reform ‘like a child with vegetables’
- North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un urges top officials to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Commentary
Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
The Orange Couch does Mad Men: S6E12, “The Quality of Mercy”
By Amanda Marcotte
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
