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Falling Gargoyle Kills Bride-to-Be
(Newser) - A Chicago mother of two was headed to lunch with her fiance in the city's South Loop yesterday when pieces of a gargoyle fell from a church's facade and struck her in the head, killing her. "I saw that crack on her head and thought, 'She'... More » |
Messages Sent From Brain to Brain Over 5K Miles
(Newser) - A team of neuroscientists tapped into brain-wave-reading gear, binary code, and the Internet to transmit thoughts from a subject in India to three human "receivers" in France—about 5,000 miles away, reports Popular Science . The four participants, ages 28-50, were hooked up to equipment that looked like it... More » |
Cops: Detroit Teens Murdered French Artist
(Newser) - A French street artist who worked with Tunisian revolutionaries and Libyan refugees ended up dead after coming to work in Detroit, police say. Four suspects, all of them teenagers when Bilal Berreni was murdered in July last year, are accused of shooting the 23-year-old in the face and dumping his... More » |
Hybrid, Electric Car Sales Running Out of Gas
(Newser) - Gas prices have been pretty flat lately, and the automobile industry is responding with its best August sales figures in a decade. But hybrid and electric cars appear to be the casualty, with sales accounting for 3.6% of all vehicles sold thus far in 2014, down from 3.7%... More » |
Unresponsive US Plane Crashes Near Jamaica
(Newser) - A small plane that was supposed to fly from upstate New York to Naples, Fla., has crashed in the ocean north of Jamaica, reports the AP . Two US F-15 fighter jets trailing the plane reported that the plane's pilot could be seen slumped down and the windows were iced... More » |
Boy, 14, Arrested for Refusing to Go to School
(Newser) - A 14-year-old boy in Florida really, really didn't want to go to school and was willing to accept the consequences: The St. Augustine teen was handcuffed and arrested after his mother called the cops, having first tried taking away his phone and disconnecting the Internet, reports the Smoking Gun... More »
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