UPDATE: The Great FireWall of China website is no longer offering a test, since the test is no longer reliable.There is another site you can try to see if your site is blocked: Website TestGot a question below about what to do about it, from a webhost provider, the only idea...
"An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow's hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute...
It will forever be one of those events that you remember where you were when you heard about it. I remember I was back in Vancouver for my spring break from school and I was standing in my kitchen making a cup of...
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On April 7, less than a year after it was formed, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus passed the 25,000-members mark and made note of the fact that approximately one out of every 755 college students in the United...
SEE MAIN STORY AT NOWPUBLIC"A gunman has wounded at least 15 people when he opened fire with a shotgun in a university classroom outside Chicago, authorities said.
It appears that the gunman had been killed.
Campus police report that the immediate danger has passed,' the...
Picture this: You are a high school senior in the United States. You have just witnessed the most horrendous school shooting in your country's history play itself out over and over again in the media. You are sitting...
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After a summer of mourning the shootings which took 31 students, Virginia Tech reopened doors to students today. The fall semester begins on a hopeful note; this in spite of the news that five VA Tech students, all...
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A new bridge now spans the gap between Blacksburg and Gaffney in Cherokee County crossing the Broad River. This is a look at the old and new side by side before the old steel bridge was destroyed. It will...
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As the terrible story of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus began to unfold last week, the tens of thousands of moving pieces that make up the main stream media were kicked into high gear. The effort to get...
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Norris Hall, the building where Seung-Hui Cho shot thirty Virginia Tech students and himself on April 16, is set to be reopened later this month. The decision to reopen was handed down by Virginia Tech President...
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Rather than using aluminum pellets, this version of the alt-fuel car would use starch from the local grocery store.The obstacles are efficiency of conversion and the medium in which the hydrogen is carried."The...
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"Saturday, May 12 2007 marks graduation at Virginia Tech the end of the media stake-out of Blacksburg Virginia. Since the April 16 shootings in Ambler Johnston and Norris Halls, every news organization from BBC to...
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UPDATE: Jeremy's father and the parents of his fiancee have posted memorials to NowPublic. I want to thank them for sharing their thoughts about Jeremy and hope that writing their words here has helped them cope, or...
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R. Kelly has written a new song, "Rise Up,"
about healing in the aftermath of the April 16 shootings at
Virginia Tech. A gunman killed 32 people and himself on the
university's campus in Blacksburg, Va. "Rise Up" will be available digitally May 15, and 100 percent
of...
Postsecret is a blog where people send in anonymous confessions or thoughts on a postcard. It's updated every Sunday. This week someone sent in a note about Ryan Clark, one of the people killed at Virginia Tech. The...