This photograph was posted today showing a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City after Central America was devastated by tropical storm Agatha. The sinkhole, located in an intersection, swallowed a three-story building but no injuries were reported. The storm only briefly hit tropical storm stregnth on Saturday as it came ashore from [...]

British Petroleum has added to their severely tarnished record today when they admitted today that their highly praised attempt to plug the gushing oil leak by pumping mud into the well has completely failed. In true BP fashion, they have already said that they are preparing another approach to fight the spill after a series [...]

Gary Coleman, the much troubled child star of the hit 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” whose later career was ruined by various medical and legal problems, has died after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42 years old. and is survived by his wife, Shannon. Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank said life [...]

According to officials, engineers have at least temporarily stopped (some sources say that the better term would be “slowed”) the oil pumping into the Gulf of Mexico from a British Petroleum well. This comes from the mouth of the federal government’s top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, this morning. The “top kill” [...]

If love is defined as dropping a bunch of cash on a ultra cool Tesla Roadster for the wife you’ve cheated on multiple times, then Tiger Woods really loves Elin Nordegren. Amid speculation that a divorce is in the works, Tiger and Elin were trying to hang out on the DL over at a dealership in [...]

Linda Hamilton has aged a bit since the above photo was taken back in her Terminator days but, it seems her career may be getting a bit of CPR, with Hamilton getting a multi-episode guest spot on the Showtime hit, Weeds. Entertainment Weekly reports that the 53-year-old will play the role of Linda, “an eco-conscious marijuana [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the University of Nevada, Reno just over $1.2 million to develop and operate the National Geothermal Institute. The National Geothermal Institute is a consortium of top geothermal schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Stanford University, the Oregon Institute of Technology, the University of Utah and [...]

U2 frontman Bono ran into President Obama recently and the two exchanged an email about the state of Africa and whether the U.S. should be investing time and resources in helping people in other countries. Here is an excerpt from the Globe and Mail article. Bono: Wherever we went on my last trip to Africa, almost everyone [...]

Both the National Climatic Data Center and NASA have recently released some scary reports that state the temperatures so far through April, 2010, make 2010 the warmest year ever recorded. The climate center (NCDC) reports that the Earth’s combined land and ocean average surface temperature from January-April was 56 degrees, which is 1.24 degrees above [...]

With the oil spill causing havoc on the underwater eco system in the Gulf of Mexico, Waterworld star (heh) Kevin Costner is stepping forward to lend a hand. As well as donating a whopping $26 million, Costner and his scientist brother Dan, will demonstrate a device designed to separate oil and water. Records from the [...]