A wife and mother drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway with a van full of kids and a body full of alcohol, and ends up in a crash that kills eight - this is how the two families are handling the aftermath.
Here is a collection of world’s best microscope photography from the last 35 years in Wired. A lot more exciting the the plant stems I got to look at during science class.
The Google Street View Van (previously spotted running over a poor, defenseless deer) captured, in its perverse-flipbookish way, the moment a fire truck collided with a cyclist on Jordanus Hoornstraat in the Dutch city of Amersfoort.
Out of a group of 500 people that were polled ten days after the assassination, the majority reported learning about the shooting from other people—either by phone, by a co-worker or out while shopping or eating. Almost half said they learned about it first directly from another person, the checked the radio or TV to confirm.
For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are above.
The story was written by Kevin Simpson with Michael Riley and Bruce Finley. It was reported by Riley in Colorado and at Fort Benning, Ga., Finley at Fort Carson and in Iraq, and photographer Craig F. Walker throughout.
Photographer Eric Lusito travelled from East Germany to Mongolia and from Poland to Kazakhstan in search of former Soviet military bases that were abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Empire. There are lots more photos on his website.
Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old Toronto singer-songwriter, was hiking alone in the Breton Highlands national park, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday when she was attacked and killed by coyotes.
This is a video from the 350’s International Day of Climate Action campaign - supermodels stripping (because the planet is too hot!) and encouraging people to contact their representatives about climate legislation. The goal of 350.org is to show the world’s leaders that there is a global movement for them to come to an agreement on a carbon emissions treaty at the UN Climate talks in Copenhagen in December. 350.org is named after the number that scientists think is upper level of parts per million of safe carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — we have already passed this number, making action all the more critical.
