River Roots GoPro footage of Ben Marr and Rush Sturges losing control at 72 KMH (45MPH) down a drainage ditch near Vancouver, British Columbia.

Seven banned foods from around the world!

Jet ski collides into another jet ski and flies into the air

If there is one message to take from the National Academy of Sciences report, Lessons Learned From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving the Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants, released today, it is that accidents can happen, and it is essential fo ...

Artist Sam Van Aken discusses his thought-provoking project and its place at the intersection of farming, sculpture, and preservation

Events like the World Cup and Olympics have a way of shining a light on host countries that reveals both good — and bad — that's often overlooked. One of those stories comes from The Huffington Post, which recently reported on the fight over a g ...

Russia has agreed to reopen a major Cold War listening post on Cuba that was used to spy on America, it was reported today. Moscow-based daily Kommersant claimed Russia and Cuba have struck a deal 'in principle' after President Vladimir Put ...

Turkish F16 Really Low Approach (3 different angle)

Don't bother taking away the iPad or setting minimum page counts. Instead, find sneaky ways to leave your children alone with books—and then see what happens.

Henry Orenstein is one such individual, a man who survived the horrors of the Holocaust through sheer guile, registering himself and his three brothers as mathematicians to ensure their usefulness and delay extermination long enough to be liberated b ...

Watch him not give a fk and give fans what they want

On Facebook, the divide between happy couples and everyone else is more complicated than you may have thought. People who post often about their fulfilling, committed relationships are the least liked on Facebook, according to a survey conducted for ...

As part of its “Sharable Science” campaign, Nokia set out to discover what happens when an egg is cracked underwater. The result is pretty cool — and we didn’t know fish ate eggs.

A team of engineers has built a prototype tracker for a different kind of football than what's in the news right now. The tracker overcomes one major difference between American football and soccer—the fact that in football, sometimes you have a ...

British legislation banning forced marriage has come into effect, with those found guilty of the largely hidden practice facing up to seven years in prison. The law applies not only within Britain but also makes it a criminal offence to force a Briti ...

In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached "phase 4" of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific regist ...

The cause of climate alarmism has suffered yet another devastating setback: new research suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not, after all disappearing due to man-made global warming, but because it has a volcano underneath.

You may not pay much notice to product trackers like barcodes and RFID tags, but they're absolutely vital in some fields; they cut back on bootlegging and help police determine the origins of bombs. Worcester Polytechnic Institute may have just ...

Back in 2,150 BC, Emperor Yu sealed his place in China’s history of eminent rulers by controlling the Yellow River’s annual flood, saving waterlogged crops. Today China’s rulers face the opposite problem: It’s water scarcity that threatens farms. So ...

“The Arsenio Hall Show” has been canceled. CBS Television Distribution revealed the somewhat surprising news on Friday, three months after it was announced that Hall’s return to late-night TV after nearly two decades had been renewed for a second sea ...