Info-Overdose

Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. “Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific [...]

The Porsche 918 Spyder is only a concept, so its claims need to be taken with a degree of skepticism, but the specifications out of this car seem too good to be true. Imagine zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.2 seconds. Laps times at Nurburgring in a faster lap time than a Carrera GT. [...]

This morning I woke to a bunch of messages regarding a report on prescription drug addiction in Florida on CNN’s Campbell Brown. With an average of eleven people a day dying of overdoses from prescription drugs in Florida, this story deserves all the attention it can get. When we reported on Broward County’s pill mills four [...]

The body of a 16-year-old girl who police say was buried alive by relatives in an “honor” killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey. Turkish police discovered the body after acting on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the girl was killed after a family council [...]

A teacher and athlete from Peterborough is aiming to swim across the Atlantic as part of a global sporting feat. Dan Martin, from Haddon, is in training for an 18-month global triathlon, which he will begin in Canada in May. He aims to swim more than 3,600 miles (5,000km) from Nova Scotia to Brest in France and [...]

Arson investigators are looking into whether the Brooklyn fire that killed five on Saturday, and forced one woman to throw her two children from a third-story window, could have been sparked by a jilted boyfriend. A man seen fleeing the scene around 2:30 a.m., when the fire started, may have been owed money by a woman living [...]