Couple slips though security to crash state dinner + list of state dinner guests
The Secret Service says it’s looking into its own security procedures after determining that two people crashed Tuesday night’s state dinner at the White House. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says that President Barack Obama was never in any danger. Donovan says the party crashers we

Surprise! Your Skin Can Hear
We not only hear with our ears, but also through our skin, according to a new study. The finding, based on experiments in which participants listened to certain syllables while puffs of air hit their skin, suggests our brains take in and integrate information from various senses to build a picture of our surroundings. Along with other recent work, the research flips the traditional view of

Become a Martian
The public can assist in analyzing the plethora of Mars data available from missions like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet

Iraq was only fourth on WMD risk list, inquiry hears + peak oil, the unspoken “why”.
The full extent of how Tony Blair misled the public about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction before and after the Iraq War was laid bare yesterday. The Chilcot Inquiry heard that just ten days before the invasion of Iraq Mr Blair was told Saddam had no way of using weapons of mass destruction. And weapons experts revealed that the former Prime Minister took Britain to war based on intelligence that his own spies rated just ‘four out of ten̵

One man shows how to move stonehenge sized blocks alone
I think I saw this several years ago, but it is still interesting. One man can build construction like Stonehenge this video shows it. Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity. He is a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction. In his work exper