Posts

After needlessly spending three decades behind bars, Lawrence McKinney’s attempts to get exonerated have been mired by red tape. A Tennessee man falsely imprisoned for more three decades is fighting to win greater compensation after state officials gave him just $75 and then sent him on his way in 2009. Lawrence McKinney, now 60, spent 31 years in prison after a Tennessee court wrongly convicted him of raping a woman and stealing a television set in 1978....

The fossil was unearthed years ago in the Green River Formation in the United States, but the study’s co-author only happened upon it at a museum while on vacation in Japan. Mizumoto et al.The 50-million-year-old fossil from the Green River Formation in the U.S. contains the remains of 259 fish. While fossils provide us clues of the basic anatomy and biology of extinct animals, rarely are they able to hint at how these ancient creatures socialized or behaved....

Fewer than 35 of these sons and daughters are known to be alive today, and one weighed in on the debate on Confederate statues. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA New Orleans city worker wearing body armor and a face covering prepared to measure the Jefferson Davis monument in New Orleans, Loiusiana as the city began the process of moving three statues of Confederate luminaries from public spaces and into museums. Protests that, at times, turned violent erupted at the site for weeks before the statue’s removal....

How did Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweet about Osama bin Laden’s death before the news media had even broken the story? Just got word that will shock the world – Land of the free…home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) May 2, 2011 On May 1, 2011, at approximately 2 PM eastern time, U.S. military forces stormed the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden....

Jacob’s Well Natural Area is a park outside of Austin, Texas, with a water system that goes at least 4,500 feet underground — and has killed at least nine people trying to explore its depths. Jacob’s Well is a spring located in Central Texas, just outside the town of Wimberley. While it may look like a giant puddle at a glance, it’s actually the mouth of an underwater cave system that can take daring divers more than 130 feet below the surface of the Earth....

The machines are motion-activated and have LED strobe lights in their eyes. Getty ImagesOfficials in Takikawa, Japan installed these monstrous wolf-like robots to scare off wandering bears. In the Japanese town of Takikawa located on the northern island of Hokkaido, there is an unusual sight: a monstrous robotic wolf. The motion-detecting robot will emit flashing lights and an intimidating sound when approached and was reportedly installed as a way to deter encroaching bears....

Recent studies have shown how psilocybin has been highly beneficial to end-of-life patients or those who suffer from depression and PTSD. Johns Hopkins Psychedelic ResearchA psilocybin therapy session conducted at Johns Hopkins University. Advocates for psilocybin as an effective method for the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder have made huge strides in recent years. The psychoactive substance, psilocybin, has traditionally been dismissed as merely a recreational drug but has recently garnered enough clinical credence for state and local governments to consider legislation around legalizing it for medical purposes....

Few places have gone through as many changes as Jerusalem. As the holy city of every Abrahamic religion, it has been the site of wars and conquests for centuries. It passed through the hands of countless kingdoms and countless people — and gone through massive changes each time. Share Flipboard Email The last great change happened in 1948, upon the foundation of Israel. Since then, Jerusalem has been claimed by both Israel and Palestine....

The trees will help protect the site from mudslides in the winter, fires in the summer, and will provide necessary habitat for local flora and fauna. Wikimedia CommonsMachu Picchu translates to “old mountain” in the indigenous Quechua language. This tree-planting campaign aims to protect that ancient structure. New Year’s resolutions are tough to stick to, but Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra is confident in his: to reforest the Machu Picchu archaeological site....

With U.S. crime down yet prisoners up, and private prisons raking in billions off their labor, it’s becoming increasingly clear that American slavery has returned with a new name. Mark Wilson / Getty Images OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, something wonderful has happened. The United States’ crime rate has sharply decreased, careening consistently downward at an unprecedented rate. Murder, rape, robbery, burglary, you name it — according to both current and historical data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, violent and property crime have both shrunk to about half of their early 1990s highs, and now sit at 50-year lows with no signs of picking back up....

Man-made miracles, move over! These beautiful natural phenomena prove that Mother Nature is the ultimate creator: Fire Rainbows The Fire Rainbow is the colloquial term for the atmospheric phenomenon known as circumhorizontal arc. This occurs when the sun is more than 58 degrees above the horizon, and the light emitted passes through cirrus clouds. Cirrus clouds, which are made up of hexagonal ice crystals, must be shaped like plates parallel to the ground for effect to occur....

Step inside the enormous, otherworldly tunnels of Vietnam’s Son Doong Cave, the largest cave on Earth. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: World’s Largest Underwater Cave Discovered In Mexico NASA Scientists Discover Mysterious Life Forms Hibernating Inside Giant Mexican Cave Crystals Experience The Unique Wonders Of China’s Reed Flute Cave 1 of 21Flickr/Doug Knuth 2 of 21National Geogreaphic 3 of 21National Geographic 4 of 21Flickr/Doug Knuth 5 of 21Flickr/Daniel Burka 6 of 21Wikimedia Commons 7 of 21Flickr/Antonio Russell...

Pieper Lewis, 17, was also sentenced to five years of probation for killing 38-year-old Zachary Brooks on June 1, 2020. TwitterPieper Lewis pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. When Pieper Lewis was 15 years old, the man who called himself her “boyfriend” started trafficking her for sex. After she was repeatedly raped by a man named Zachary Brooks, Lewis became enraged, grabbed a knife, and stabbed him to death....

Black History Month starts today. Here’s how it got started, and some dates you should know. Important leaders to remember during Black History Month. From left: Rosa Parks, Bernard Harris, Hiram Revels. Image Source: Wikipedia Today marks the beginning of Black History Month, and we assure you it does not — as actress Stacey Dash asserted on the TV show Fox & Friends — have anything to do with segregating a portion of the United States’ population....

“Most of the people say they decided to book after seeing this show. It’s almost as though they watch it and then jump on a plane over.” InstagramThe popular HBO show, Chernobyl, has inspired throngs of tourists to visit the nuclear site where many have gone to take disrespectful photos. It seems that people just never learn. It wasn’t too long ago when tourists at Auschwitz sparked international outrage for staging and snapping photos of themselves posed on the train tracks that lead into the former Nazi concentration camp....

Indonesia’s Toraja people keep their dead relatives in their homes, treating them as if they were alive until they can be given expensive, elaborate funerals. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Amount Of Dead Users On Facebook Will Outnumber Living Ones By 2070, New Study Says Three Abandoned Children Found Living With Deceased Sibling In Texas Apartment...

In 1932, Australia went to war against an enemy like none it had ever faced before: the emu. If there’s one thing that human beings are good at, it’s killing other species. This is nowhere more true than in Australia, where humans have managed to accidentally drive hundreds of native species either extinct or onto the endangered species list. Which is precisely what makes a failure in that department — specifically the Great Emu War of 1932 — is all the more interesting....

One theory suggests that Jack The Ripper was a media invention created to sell unrelated gruesome murders as one marauding serial killer. Daily Post While the mystery surrounding the true identity of “Jack The Ripper” continues to confound historians, some have chosen to ask a more fundamental question: did “Jack The Ripper” even exist? At its face, the question seems ridiculous. In 1888, five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of London....

After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Mya DeRyan decided to end her life on her own terms – but things didn’t quite go as planned. A Canadian woman has discovered a “new lease on life” after a close call with death. Last month, Mya DeRyan was fished from the frigid waters off the coast of Vancouver, after jumping from the deck of a ferry. Earlier this year DeRyan went to her doctor complaining of chronic headaches and nausea and was diagnosed with a terminal illness....

In 2014, the most recent year with available data, 247 million people used illegal drugs and 207,400 of them died because of it. But even to cite such numbers is to fail to capture the full weight and breadth of the world’s vast drug problem. Share Flipboard Email Lest we get too gloomy, it’s important to remember that both the worldwide numbers of illegal drug users and drug-related deaths have remained stable for the last half-decade....