Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
photo: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich will end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday, making Donald Trump the party's presumptive nominee. Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the Ohio governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday. The officials spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to disclose Kasich's decision ... ---....
(Source. Gateway Grizzlies). Sauget, Ill. - Despite a pair of home runs from two new additions, the Gateway Grizzlies fell to the Southern Illinois Miners on Wednesday afternoon in preseason action at GCS Ballpark, 7-5 ...The hit made it 2-0 ... The opposite field home run was the team's first of the preseason ... Guglietti, a native of East Haven, Conn., then rocketed a fly ball to left centerfield that cleared the 16 ft. fence for a home run....
The under-siege NRL club are desperately trying to shed $570,000worth of player payments to fit under the salary cap by Friday week’s clash against South Sydney, in an attempt to earn competition points this season ... The 23-year-old signed a four-year contract in 2014 reportedly worth $250,000 a season, ......
After 2040 hits, people of color will overtake whites as the majority population in the U.S ... Here’s the gradient for the Dallas Fort-Worth metro area, which is an emerging immigrant hub, for example. (Kyle Walker) ... The graph above shows that the super-diverse areas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro are around 15 miles from the city center ... In Dallas-Fort Worth, suburban diversity leapt up dramatically between 1990 and 2010 ... ....
Chandrapur. A tiger skin, worth around Rs 15 lakh, was seized and four interstate smugglers were nabbed by the sleuths of the local crime branch during a late night picketing on Gondpipri-Ashti road on Tuesday. The accused had brought the tiger skin from Telangana and were planning into sell it in Chandrapur ...Police sources claimed that the tiger skin is worth Rs 15 lakh in the international market ... RELATED....
Criminal Minds got quite the casting shake-up in Season 11, as the always great Aisha Tyler joined the show as a (seemingly) temporary replacement for actresses A.J. Cook and Jennifer Love Hewitt, both of whom had to exit the production while on maternity leave ...TaraLewis is still very much in the drama ... And I think that Criminal Minds is definitely worth the lack of sleep and the caffeine addiction. Theyre definitely worth it ... It. Out ... ....
The first U.S. shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) arrived in Portugal last week and Gazprom did not immediately cut its own gas prices for Europe. While European media has hailed the entry of U.S. gas into the market as a game-changer and a monopoly-breaker, in the short term, nothing has changed at all. Let’s first get things straight ... and Gazprom prices laid out in an FT article from February ... Its gas is competitive....
Kenya sent a message to poachers this past weekend by setting fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns. The burning of more than 100 tons of ivory destroyed a stockpile that would have been worth a fortune to smugglers ... ....
Strong demand, especially from China, has helped ramp up the price of the ornamental resin amber, making it worth more than its weight in gold - some fear an investment bubble ... ....
Criminal Minds got quite the casting shake-up in Season 11, as the always great Aisha Tyler joined the show as a (seemingly) temporary replacement for actresses A.J. Cook and Jennifer Love Hewitt, both of whom had to exit the production while on maternity leave ...TaraLewis is still very much in the mix ... Of course ... And I think that Criminal Minds is definitely worth the lack of sleep and the caffeine addiction. Theyre definitely worth it....