This is more than a little scary:
The New York Times is reporting that an Indian criminal court accepted a brain scan as evidence of guilt in a murder trial in India earlier this year. The developer of the the Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature (BEOS) test claims that it uses electrodes to detect when regions of the brain "light up" with guilty knowledge.
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My niece Melissa took these photos with her cell-phone camera at her house in Houston after Hurricane Ike roared through. They were jarred awake by a tree falling on their house, cutting it in half from front to back across the dining room and living room. Ten foot to the left, and the tree would have taken out all the bedrooms. They stayed together in the hallway until the eye moved over them, then made it to a neighbor's house, where they rode out the rest of the storm.
Here we go again:
The professor of statistics at Texas A&M University organized a six-member team that compared the composition of bullet fragments from the JFK shooting with other bullets from the same manufacturer.
We'd like to think so, but too often it just isn't true:
Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 150,000 followers at mass Sunday in the French shrine town of Lourdes to hold firm in their faith, telling them "love is stronger than evil."
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"The power of love is stronger than the evil which threatens us," he said.
We'd like to think so, but too often it just isn't true:
Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 150,000 followers at mass Sunday in the French shrine town of Lourdes to hold firm in their faith, telling them "love is stronger than evil."
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"The power of love is stronger than the evil which threatens us," he said.
Wall Street in meltdown, and this is what we get from the two presidential candidates:
In a statement, Obama said the upheaval was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said McCain supports.
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Barack Obama's idea of "neighborliness" is just the newest term for confiscate-and-redistribute liberal economics:
Every time there is a natural disaster -- even if it's not an "emergency" -- the economic morons start coming out of the woodwork:
Prices fluctuated from a low of at least $3.94 a gallon to a high of at least $4.39, and two New Castle gas stations reportedly advertised gasoline for as high as $4.99.
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A man of the cloth goes out on a limb:
Pastor Jason Rice will offer a special service at 11 a.m. Sunday at Muncie Morningside United Methodist Church. He'll discuss tough questions about God that people have always wanted to ask, such as "Have you ever wondered if God is real," "Who Jesus really is?", etc.
Well, heaven forbid that we reduce the number of abortions:
Sarah and Todd Palin's decision to complete her recent pregnancy, despite advance notice that their baby Trig had Down syndrome, is hailed by many in the pro-life movement as walking the walk as well as talking the talk.
Businesses near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway didn't get quite what they had hoped for:
Fans crowded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Saturday watching the motorcycles go by at record speeds qualifying for the inaugural Indianapolis MotoGP. They were also hoping to catch a glimpse of the riders and maybe snag an autograph. Although the track was busy most of the day it was not as crowded as some local business owners would have liked.
Attorneys for John R. Myers II, 33, convicted of murder for killing 19-year-old Indiana University student Jill Behrman, are seeking to have the guilty verdict overturned because of (among other reasons) "shocking jury misconduct":
Jurors in the case have previously acknowledged some behavior characterized as "giggly," including playing Frisbee and painting some of the men's toenails.
"Quick, rush me to Parkview!"
"Are you in pain, sir? Feel dizzy?"
"No, Dummy. The first inning is about to start."
It is said that baseball fans will find more than a name change:
I never thought of potatoes as being especially "unhealthy," although eating them too often would be one part of a poor diet. I love potatoes. There are dozens of ways to fix them, and I can't think of a single one I dislike. But a school in Britain found one it says the government doesn't approve of:
The death of a thousand cuts continues:
Effective next week, a Rush County newspaper says it will no longer publish on Mondays, opting to cut back to five days a week to save on newsprint, delivery, and other expenses.
Thank God neither one of them is for cancer:
If there is one war John McCain and Barack Obama agree on, it's the one against cancer.
Public safety officers have to be "asked" to do what the rest of us have always had to do:
CROWN POINT | Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez is using the current budget crisis to renew his call for hundreds of county police and corrections officers to go to a 40-hour work week.
This is an outrage, totally reprehensible. I demand that somebody do something!
There's a Hoosier look to the newest issue of Playboy.
Nearly a dozen Indiana college students are featured in the adult magazine's “Girls of the Big Ten” feature, five from Purdue and six from Indiana University.
City Councilman Glynn Hines flat out says he "does not trust" Mayor Tom Henry to do the right thing in hriring enough African Americans. So, after voting against the fire department merit commission, he changed his mind and voted along with five other council members to override the mayor's veto of forming the commission:
Kathleen Parker's take sounds right to me:
Every now and then, in walks a man or woman who turns the world inside out and upside down.
Barack Obama was such a man.
And now, Sarah Palin is such a woman.
