Winnenden, Germany Massacre Latest in Series of School Shootings

The shootings at the Albertville technical school in Winnenden, Germany are unfortunately only the latest in a series of incidents to hit educational institutions in recent years. Erfurt was the scene of Germany's worst such attack when, in 2002, 19-year-old Robert...

Haiyang Zhu Accused in 2009 Virigina Tech Murder of Xin Yang

Details are starting to come to light about the Jan. 21, 2009 murder at Virginia Tech. Student Haiyan Zhu is being accused of decapitating fellow student Xin Yang. According to local police, there was blood on...

Virginia Tech Murder 2009: Campus Locked Down, Suspect in Custody

Virginia Tech police have confirmed that a murder took place tonight on the campus of Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech stabbing took place inside the Graduate Life Center. A male suspect is currently in custody....

VaTech, D.O.E, Russians, collaborators study rare microorganism that produces...

"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...

Virginia Tech - one year later

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...

Students Want Concealed Carry on Campus

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...

At least 15 shot at Illinois university

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...

VA Tech students back to school

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,...

Bridging The Gap

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...

Virginia Tech to reopen hall where Cho shot students

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...

Starchmobile: Another Version of the Hydrogen Car

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...

Virginia Tech Graduates - Media's Moral Hazard

"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...

Postsecret to Ryan Clark

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....

Websites Suddenly Blocked in China? This may be Why -UPDATED

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...

I didn't shoot up my school, either

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...

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