Multiplatinum rapper Soulja Boy, who has 2.5 million Twitter fans and has had his videos watched more than 500 million times on YouTube, talked to WSJ's Lee Hawkins as part of "WSJ Weekend Conversations. " The 20-year-old rapper discussed his Internet marketing strategy for his forthcoming single, "Speakers Going Hammer," and performed the single for a crowd of fans.
Corey Miller, bullpen catcher for the Chicago Cubs, was ticketed near Lincoln Saturday, October 23, 2010, on suspicion of possession of marijuana.
When the space shuttle Discovery launches on Thursday (weather and technology permitting), it will be ferrying an unusual passenger to the International Space Station: Robonaut 2. This humanoid robot was designed by NASA and General Motors to work alongside astronauts on the space station, and could eventually take over some tedious or dangerous tasks. Human beings who dream of becoming astronauts acquire things like advanced science degrees or the ability to fly jet planes in hopes of catchi
Lauren Lynch reports the latest news in tennis. Elena Dementieva announced her retirement from pro tennis following her loss to Francesca Schiavone at the WTA Championships in Doha today. Kim Clijsters, Vera Zvonareva, Lisa Raymond and Gisela Dulko expressed their sadness and respect for her. Vera Zvonareva swept Kim Clijsters at WTA Championships and will meet Caroline Wozniacki at the semifinal on Saturday. Wozniacki clinched the year-end No. 1 ranking.
This week China unveiled a new supercomputer that's pretty darn quick. The Tianhe-1A machine housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin reportedly works at the rate of 2.5 petaflops (a petaflop being about a thousand trillion operations per second), and reportedly will take the top spot in the rankings of world supercomputers when the people who attend to this list release the new version next month. That will bump the top U.S. machine down to number 2. Personally, I'm not going t
Using a giant radio telescope like a cop's radar gun, astronomers have made some pretty cool images of the nucleus of the comet Hartley 2: Hartley 2 is a comet that is currently very close to the Earth as these things go: last week it passed us at a distance of about 18 million km (11 million miles). Astronomers took advantage of the close pass to ping the comet with radar pulses. By timing exactly how long it took the pulses to go from the telescope to the comet and back to Earth, they can c
Halloween is a-comin' and this Sunday brings us AMC's The Walking Dead. In honor of that, we're discussing The Ethics of the Undead here at Science, Not Fiction. This is part I of IV. (Check out parts II, & III) Zombies are everywhere! Zombieland, Shawn of the Dead, and 28 Days Later in the movies; World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on the bookshelf; Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising and Resident Evil in your video games - not to mention the George A. Romero and Sam Rami classics in y
In this episode of Rant Cast regulars Ed & Paul look back on Manchester United's midweek Carling Cup victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers and ahead to the games with Tottenham Hotspur and Bursaspor in the coming week. We say happy birthday to Edwin van der Sar and wonder who United will bring in to replace him.
Finally, we take issue with Rio Ferdinand and explain exactly why Wayne Rooney wasn't nominated for this year's Ballon D'Or.
United's midweek victory over Wolverhampton and ahead to the games with Tottenham Hotspur and Bursaspor in the coming week.
United's midweek victory over Wolverhampton and ahead to the games with Tottenham Hotspur and Bursaspor in the coming week.
[Update (15:00 UT Saturday): launch was delayed again. It is now set for Wednesday, November 3, at 15:52 Eastern time.] Just a quick update: NASA has delayed the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery by a day due to gas leaks in one of the Orbiter Maneuvering System pods (those are the engines housed under the big lumps at the rear of the Orbiter). Currently, launch is set for Tuesday, November 2 at 16:17 Eastern time. This is Discovery's final scheduled flight. There may be further delays, of
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Efforts by the United States Government to combat human trafficking have resulted in the dismantling of criminal networks and the arrest and prosecution of those involved in child prostitution, but considerable challenges remain in the protection of victims, a United Nations independent human rights expert said.
The United Nations envoy for Somalia today strongly condemned the summary execution of two young women who had been accused of spying in the central town of Beledweyne by the Islamic militant group known as al-Shabaab.
Member States today reaffirmed the importance of United Nations activities aimed at helping countries in the aftermath of conflict, and called for further improving the effectiveness of its peacebuilding architecture.
The United Nations refugee agency this week closed the last two remaining camps in Zambia which hosted refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after the repatriation of the final group of refugees.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Kenyan authorities today introduced into the East African country an innovative approach to preventing the transition of the HIV virus from mothers to their babies.
With the number of confirmed cholera deaths climbing in Haiti, the United Nations and its partners continue to enhance their operations to contain the outbreak, deploying medicines and medical experts to the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today repeated his call for a credible democratic transition in Myanmar, with the United Nations human rights chief stating that, eight days before scheduled elections, conditions in the country do not meet international standards for free and fair polls.
United Nations humanitarian agencies today called for urgent additional resources for the flood relief efforts in Pakistan, warning that millions are at risk of not having enough food, shelter and warm clothing as winter approaches.
Following reports of alleged rapes of women deported from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior United Nations official has called on both countries to investigate the incidents and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned this week’s attack against three staff members of the United Nations-backed tribunal set up to try suspects in the 2005 murders of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others, calling such acts of interference and intimidation “unacceptable.”
According to the BBC (and many others)...Libido problems 'brain not mind'Scans appear to show differences in brain functioning in women with persistently low sex drives, claim researchers. The US scientists behind the study suggest it provides solid evidence that the problem can have a physical origin.The research in question (which hasn't been published yet) has been covered very well over at The Neurocritic. Basically the authors took some women with a diagnosis of "Hypoactive Sexual D
From Ed Yong: Spotting mistakes is a crucial part of typing (and indeed, life) and according to Gordon Logan and Matthew Crump, it’s a more complicated business than it might first appear. Using some clever digital trickery, the duo from Vanderbilt University found that the brain has two different ways of detecting typos. One is based on the characters that appear on the screen, and the other depends on the strokes of our fingers, as they tap away at the keys. Logan and Crump asked 22 good typis
