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Ramping up wind power in America would also dial up the nation’s temperatures, a new study out of Harvard found. While wind energy is widely celebrated as environmentally friendly, the researchers concluded that a dramatic, all-out expansion in the number of turbines could warm the country even more than climate change from burning coal and other fossil fuels, because of the way the spinning blades disturb the layers of warm and cold air in the atmosphere. Some parts of the central United States are already seeing nights that are up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) warmer because of...

Given that the Senate now has the Supplemental Report and they will view it today the press is already going bonkers over the "potential witnesses" that were not interviewed. We need to make sure we add ours. So here is the list that I know of as of this morning. Feel free to add any I overlooked. :) Steww Pid Haywood Jableauxme Amanda Hugnkiss Hugh G. Rection represented by the Law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe Hugh Jorgen Buster Hyman

House of Representatives Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the Texas Tribune that she felt famous feminists “crowding” her in her chair during her first meeting with President George W. Bush in the White House after becoming part of the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives. […] Three of these women — (Susan B.) Anthony, (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton and (Alice) Paul — were also pro-life, in contrast to Pelosi’s pro-abortion views. In her interview, Pelosi suggested that a woman’s “right” to have an abortion was non-negotiable. “One place you can’t find common ground, I can just tell you...

A new study has found more than 250 people have died in pursuit of a perfect selfie. The study published by the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care journal (and republished by the National Library of Medicine in the US) looks into how many of us social media obsessed plebs are dying for the ‘gram. Led by Dr. Agam Bansal at the India Institute of Medical Sciences, the study analyzed news articles from October 2011 to November 2017 and found there have been 259 reported deaths—dubbed selficides in one part of the article—resulting from that never-ending thirst for Instagram...

VIDEO Theresa May arrives on stage to Dancing Queen, swaying her hips, in a self-deprecatory reference to her trip to Africa. May says there are some things she would rather forget from last year's conference.

Gold, silver and platinum nuggets that survive the intense 700 Celsius fires are all that remain after a body is burnt at the Nordheim cremation facility – Switzerland's largest – in Zurich. Approximately 6,000 corpses are cremated here each year. As of earlier this month, Nordheim has put in place a machine that filters out precious metals from the ashes and the crematorium then sells them to recycling firms for profit. There has been some debate as to whether the earnings should be returned to the deceased's beneficiaries or go into state coffers. The latter is what is happening. The...

On the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2011, a backhoe dug into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and struck iron. Construction workers assumed they had hit a pipe. But when the claws of the backhoe emerged from the ground, it was dragging a body clothed in a white gown and knee-high socks. Scott Warnasch, then a New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner forensic archaeologist, initially viewed the finding as a recent homicide. “It was recorded as a crime scene,” Warnasch, 52, told The Post. “A buried body on an abandoned lot sounds pretty straightforward.” It turned out to...

Putin is shown flaunting his action man image, shooting, horse riding and fishing. Others see the president with a raft of cuddly animals including as snow leopard cub and a dog. One particularly bizarre image shows a shirtless Vlad taking a dip in Lake Seliger, just north of Moscow, as three Russian orthodox priests look on holding religious icons. The ceremony is apparently part of the celebration of Epiphany on January 6.

The rumor is now a fact: Mazda announced today that it would bring back the legendary rotary engine, though not as the main powerplant of a car. Instead, a version of the rotary will act as a range extender in one of two electric vehicles the brand will debut for 2020. As Popular Mechanics noted in our recent feature about the story and legacy of the Wankel rotary, the engine hasn't been featured in a car since the Mazda RX-8 was canceled in 2018. But there have been rays of hope for the rotary faithful. Specifically, rumors swirled earlier this...

Pre-orders have begun for the first models of a £3.1million electric car which its makers claim can accelerate from 0 to 60 in less than two seconds. The futuristic Aspark Owl, manufactured by a Japanese company, is going on display at the Paris Motor Show this week. At the launch the car's creators said it would have 430 horsepower, weigh less than 1,900 pounds - similar to an average dairy cow and less than half a typical white rhino - and accelerate to sixty in just two seconds. Customers will be able to put down their first £890,000 (€1 million)...

UPDATE [10:23 a.m.]: According to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center, crash cleanup continues from the wreckage of an overturned tractor-trailer on the I-285 ramp to I-75 in Cobb County, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. The truck was carrying 89 cows when it tipped over, trapping some cows and spilling more than 70 on to the interstate. There is no estimated time of clearance.

A former model turned fisherwoman has reeled in tens of thousands of followers to her social media accounts, and it seems that it's not just her fishing skills that her admirers are interested in. Queensland angler Brooke Frecklington goes by her social media handle Hooked on Brooke. Her posts often show the former Australasian Penthouse Pet of the Year winner reeling in giant catches while wearing bikinis.

The smelly reality is that cows will always pass gas. But if farmers had more access to seaweed, cow flatulence might just stink a little less for the planet. That’s the thesis of a New England-based aquaculture company which is launching a drive to become the worldwide leader in an emerging effort to thwart climate change by feeding seaweed to cows. The concept of reducing livestock emissions by using seaweed as feed is the subject of ongoing scientific research, and early results are promising. University of California researchers have found that cows that eat seaweed appear to emit less methane,...

Mean Girls actor Lindsay Lohan is back in news for all the wrong reasons. The one-time teen idol, currently in Russia, posted an unsettling video of her ‘interacting’ with a family she claimed came from war-torn Syria. “Hey everyone, I just want to show you a family that I met,” she said in the video, “a Syrian refugee family that I’m really worried about. They really need help.”

In an Instagram Live video broadcast by Lohan, the actress repeatedly offers to pay for a hotel room for the family Lindsay Lohan has broadcast a bizarre video to Instagram, in which she approaches what appears to be a family of refugees and offers to pay for them to stay in a hotel room for the night. The Instagram Live video, which was uploaded on Saturday night, shows Lohan repeatedly making the offer before following the family of four, whom Lohan describes as Syrian, down the street. At one point, as the encounter becomes more hostile, Lohan accuses the parents...

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Authorities found a body in a nature preserve Thursday in southwest Ohio, but it was an investigation they were able to close quickly. That’s because the “body” was a life-size sex doll in a garbage bag. Hamilton County engineers were in Richardson Forest Preserve when they spotted from a distance what they thought was a body, the Dayton Daily New reports. According to WCPO Channel 9, the doll had been abandoned on a hillside and investigators initially had trouble getting to the site.

A WOMAN who reportedly confessed to killing and eating dozens of victims with her husband faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted at an upcoming trial. Natalia Baksheeva, 43, has been charged on one count of goading her spouse into murdering one of the victims. Her husband Dmitry Baksheev, 35, nicknamed “Devil”, is suffering from tuberculosis and his role in the macabre Russian murder and cannibalism case will be dealt with at a later hearing. Police found a gruesome collection of "steamed" and frozen human remains from their "final victim”, a 35-year-old waitress, in the couple’s kitchen in...

Oh, this is bad for Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee has just received an anonymous account that Kavanaugh did an unspecified thing at an unknown location at a time and date yet to be determined, and that he did it an un-quantifiable number of times. The declaration was signed by 1 to N "X"'s, which represent unnamed and anonymous witnesses. This nebulous and unstated accusation has thrown great uncertainty into his nomination. Senator Hirohsi (D-HI) stated, "This is just the sort of thing that puts a cloud over Brett Kavanaugh. Do we want Supreme Court Justices that are accused...

A liberal "activist" has taken to the subway armed with bottles of diluted bleach to attack men who "manspread" in public. The term "manspreading" was made famous by Hillary Clinton last year after she claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was guilty of the practice - where a man sits with his legs apart - every time they met.

I was watching Tucker Carlson and came across this creepy but totally hilarious commercial. It is so funny at the end because if we were in that guy's place I am sure we would scream my head off too. Because coming across a talking pumpkin head would indeed be a scary as hell thing!