Near Earth Flyby: Huge Asteroid has a Moon!

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A newly released video of a giant asteroid's Earth flyby last week reveals key details about the enigmatic space rock  and its attendant moon.

The enormous asteroid 1998 QE2sailed past our planet at a distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) on May 31, making its closest approach for at least the next two centuries.

Food the Condemned Chose as Their Last Meal before Execution

From the web pages of 'Criminal Library' is an interesting slideshow of what condemned inmates picked for their last meal. Some choices are very unusual and surprising!

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 Stanley Allison Baker Jr.: Two 16-ounce ribeyes, one pound turkey breast (sliced thin), twelve strips of bacon, two large hamburgers with mayo, onion and lettuce, two large baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, cheese and chives, four slices of cheese or one-half pound of grated cheddar cheese, chef salad with blue cheese dressing, two ears of corn on the cob, one pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream and four vanilla Cokes or Mr. Pibb

Blacks Arrested for Marijuana Far More Often Than Whites

 Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana far more often than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study.

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The ACLU's analysis of federal crime data, released Tuesday, found marijuana arrest rates for black people were 3.73 times greater than those for white people nationally in 2010. In some counties, the arrest rate was 10 to 30 times greater for blacks. In two Alabama counties, 100 percent of those arrested for marijuana possession were black, the ACLU said

Father, Son Storm Chasers Killed by Tornado That Took 13 Lives in Oklahoma city

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Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they loved: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms like the one inOklahoma that ended their final pursuit.

Tim Samaras, his son Paul and colleague Carl Young died Friday night when an EF3 tornado with winds up to 165 mph turned on them near El Reno, Okla. After years of sharing dramatic videos with television viewers and weather researchers, they died chasing a storm that killed 13 in Oklahoma City and its suburbs.