Are you sitting down? Ok. Apparently, a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter spotted a massive marijuana-growing operation in Cherokee National Forest, just miles from the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The officers seized 35,000 plants, equaling $700 million in “street value” prices.
Authorities found a campsite near the harvest, which is suspected to have been occupied by the illicit [...]
35,000 Plant, $700 Million Marijuana Bust in Newport, TN
June 24, 2008 - 7:20 pm
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Science Finally Explains The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment
June 16, 2008 - 2:45 pm
After thousands of viral YouTube videos and one Weezer music video, scientists have finally given us an explanation as to how the mysterious Diet Coke and Mentos reaction happens.
Tonya Coffey, a physicist at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and her students “tested the reactions between Diet Coke and fruit Mentos, mint Mentos, and [...]
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Harvard Students Arrested In Gay Rights Protest
May 29, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Harvard Students Arrested In Gay Rights Protest
Four members of Harvard’s “Right to Serve” tour were arrested this morning at a military recruiting station in Portland, Maine on the charge of criminal trespassing.
The arrested members were Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09, Robert J. Ross ’09, Amary K. Wiggin ’09, and Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School [...]
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7PM Suicide Girl: Flux
January 15, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Flux Suicide
Age 24
Location North Carolina
Cool:
Freedom, love, eschatology,
rational optimism, whiskey,
the study of the Classics,
war-fetters, spicy food, the
sartorialarts, IPAs, sex and
thunder, accordians, the
Blonde myth, language,horror
flicks, sushine, pirate history,
Not Cool:
Drama, vodka “martinis”, stripper
heels, naturalism as a literary
movement, stinky cheese, the left-
right political spectrum, taking
myself seriously, monolingualism,
Ayn Rand, obsessive hair removal,
consumer culture,
Fave Bands:
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
Against Me!, Gogo! [...]
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