Offbeat: Could we be in hot water? —
In a paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers, including lead author Joshua Stoll of the University of Maine School of Marine...
Offbeat: How stress leads to Facebook addiction —
Friends on social media such as Facebook can be a great source of comfort during periods of stress. However, if they don't receive...
Offbeat: Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’ —
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history -- and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on...
Offbeat: Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study reveals...
Australian university students give far more credit than the previous generation to the science of human evolution and far less to creationism or...
Offbeat: Hydropower in Cambodia could threaten food security of region — (Reports)
Farmers and anglers in Cambodia depend on the Mekong River's predictable seasonal patterns, but new dams for hydroelectricity are altering the hydrology of...
Offbeat: Shortcoming of ITQ systems for fisheries —
Individual transferable quota systems for fisheries around the world may be ideal for some fisheries, but they can exclude rural, indigenous, low-income and...
Offbeat: Guidelines for a standardized data format for use in cross-linguistic studies —
An international team of researchers, members of the Cross-Linguistic Data Formats Initiative (CLDF) led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of...
Offbeat: How should autonomous vehicles be programmed? Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and...
A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some...
Hussain Saeed Alnahdi: Saudi student killed after violent assault in US
Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, 24, a junior from Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, has died following an assault early Sunday morning in downtown Menomonie. Witnesses say a...
Offbeat: Golf course managers challenged by fungicide-resistant turf grass disease —
Dollar spot -- the most common, troublesome and damaging turfgrass disease plaguing golf courses -- is becoming increasingly resistant to fungicides applied to...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
