What Happens When You Put a Book on an Air Bag? | Wired Science | Wired.com

How many times to we place things on our car's dashboard?  Imagine where our stuff would fly, if that air bag went off?  Our stuff would become a dangerous missile inside the passenger space!

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msnbc video: Are pills mommies' new little helpers?

The Beatles wrote about this is the 1960s.  All that has changed is the choice of medication.  Is there a better way?

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Too Suntanned: 4% - The ForbesWoman Files - Forbes

This could be considered illegal discrimination:  is it a sun tan or a genetically darker skin color? Also, after listing too much makeup, the author of the article missed one obvious one for women:  not enough makeup.

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Study: Minority youth have big media appetite

The question is why?  Off the top of my head: 1. Lack of safe places to play 2. Poor reading skills 3. Social isolation within the community 4. Lack of after-school activites Let's have a RATIONAL discussion....

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Is hip-hop violence here to stay?

Reading this article left me wondering why the police, public schools and other elected officials tolerate this level of violence and intimidation in these urban areas.

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Osama Bin Laden's Death: Teens Who Didn't Know Who He Was - The Daily Beast

Tina Brown's The Daily Beast posted this article.  All living Americans should know the name Osama bin Laden!  For teenagers not to know it is a MAJOR FAILURE of our education system.

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Cheerleader who wouldn't cheer for her attacker loses court case, must pay school $45,000 in legal fees | Off the Bench

With rape, the woman gets victimized over and over again.  This is a new low for the US Supreme Court and our entire legal system

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Digital Life - SPOILER ALERT! All the April Fools news on the Internets

April Fools!

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Farm supervisors take plea deal in CA heat death | ajc.com

A young girl dies on the job because her supervisors will not provide water and shade during 100-degree+ heat. The state prosecutor allows the supervisors to plead guilty to misdemeanors. No felony charge. No jail time. I am outraged!

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Samuelson: Our Burgeoning Budget and the Politics of Avoidance - Newsweek

Our Burgeoning Budget and the Politics of Avoidance

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Nurse's diagnoses can be as accurate as a surgeon's - Health - Health care - msnbc.com

Specially trained nurses, known as nurse practitioners, may help speed the diagnosis and management of patients. In a pilot study, a nurse practitioner gave patients exactly the same clinical diagnosis as two surgeons at the hospital in 100 percent of the patients she assessed.

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Apple-cranberry cobbler

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Economy's split personality revealed in data - Business - Eye on the Economy - msnbc.com

Demand will not fuel this recovery. We need a better model.

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The $100 Million Man

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