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  • Talking Points: Honeybees, Eurovision song contest, car museum

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    What unlikely activity are honeybees being trained to do in Croatia? The insects are being taught by Croatian researchers to find unexploded land mines. The bees have a good sense of smell, and they are being trained to connect the food that they eat with the scent of TNT. During the Balkan...

  • Talking points: Student kidnapper, delivering drugs, potty mouth states

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

    A student did what to avoid telling his parents he failed? Instead of coming clean about failing an English class, college student Aftab Aslam staged his own kidnapping. The Georgia Gwinnett College student purchased a mobile phone from Target, then texted his parents saying he'd been...

  • Talking Points: Space music, cop rescue, munchie-mad

    Talking Points

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    What astronaut has gone "platinum?" Guitar-playing Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a personalized rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" during his mission on the International Space Station. The performance, the first music video shot in space, was first posted Sunday and has...



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