Pyschology professors at Notre Dame and Purdue University this week announced a study showing that a person carrying a gun is more likely to “see guns in the hands of others.”It was coincidence that the release of the findings coincided with national outrage over the slaying of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Study author…
The past few years have been rough for Buju Banton, but the incarcerated reggae star received a bit of good news earlier this week. Buju, who’s serving a decadelong sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Miami on questionable drug charges, has been nominated for two International Reggae and World Music Awards. …
The Everglades has a marketing problem. Earlier this week, officials from the Everglades National Park and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization got together for a chat about how to better market the park to lure in tourists. As the Miami Herald reports, during the meeting, park Superintendent Dan…
Last week, we looked out how a sheet of ice covering most of Greenland could threaten Broward and Miami in the distant future if it melts. The gist is that a jump in sea levels would flood massive swaths of South Florida and that there isn’t necessarily the infrastructure in…
Let’s face it: Floridians aren’t exactly oozing with state pride. The intensity of our sports fans is mild at best when compared with a bottle-wielding Boston fan or face-pummeling fatso from Philadelphia. We don’t brag about our oranges like New Yorkers brag about their pizza or bagels or everything else they…
This weekend marks the opening of “Surfing Florida,” a visual romp through the history of hanging ten in the Sunshine State. From bodacious beach babes of yesteryear to a teenage Kelly Slater, there’s bound to be something that’ll catch your attention. Hosted by Florida Atlantic University, the exhibit kicks off with…
Dony is wrapped in a pirate-themed kids’ comforter, writhing in pain. “Ahhhh, Louie,” she groans, thrashing her feet. Louie is clutching a tattoo machine and delivering precise jolts of misery into the 37-year-old’s left shoulder. The fedora and heels in which Dony started the day are tossed to the side,…
It seems like there’s a tattoo shop on every corner in Florida. Along boardwalks, boozed-up tourists can get an offensive T-shirt, a bong, and a tattoo all in one shop. There are posh parlors that charge $500 for an hour of work and so-called artists that’ll give you a lifelong…
Last week, we delivered the joyous news that the DIY Network has opted to renew the Vanilla Ice Project for a third season. Phew. Since then, Vanilla Ice’s Twitter feed suggests that he’s riding out some sort of eco-minded, juggalo-fueled renaissance that could possibly include a tie-up with WWF legend the Rock. …
A giant sheet of ice that covers most of Greenland might be a serious problem for South Florida in a few hundred or few thousand years, give or take. A new study in Nature Climate Change warns that a 1.6 degree Celsius jump in global temperatures could completely melt Greenland’s ice sheet. That’s terrible because we’re talking about…
Buju Banton’s legal team let loose in documents filed Friday and said the government’s “presentation of the facts… is untethered to the record and is so riddled with inaccuracies and misleading statements that it would be nearly impossible to address all of them.”…
Judges in Florida’s Northern and Middle districts have some of the widest variations in the country when it comes to sentencing folks on federal drug charges, according to new data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a group affiliated with Syracuse University’s law school.The findings, based on a review of “sentences imposed by 885 judges…
Stop worrying, folks. The DIY Network has renewed hometown hero Vanilla Ice’s reality show, the Vanilla Ice Project, for a third season. The bong-ripping, dirt-bike-jumping, “renegade home renovator” will be overhauling a Palm Beach home with his unique sense of flair over 13 episodes in 2013. …
Fort Lauderdale has decided to spend $26,350 on anti-panhandling ads. As discussed yesterday, the signs convey a sense that giving change to the homeless is similar to giving food to wild animals. The city argues that panhandling increases drug and alcohol abuse, distracts drivers, and leads to violent crime. In the…
Officials in Fort Lauderdale apparently think the city needs signs and ads urging passersby to stop feeding loose change to begging beasts homeless people.On Tuesday, the city approved a $26,350 campaign to plaster the slogan “Panhandling: Don’t Contribute to the Problem. Contribute to the solution” around the city. Accompanying the slogan is…
Researchers at the Jupiter campus of the Scripps Research Institute might have some new tricks for treating pain that aren’t accompanied by the nasty side effects associated with drugs like OxyContin.The National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded a team of Scripps researchers more than $3 million to carry out studies on four…
Earlier this year, our cowboy-hat-wearing secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, hosted a news conference in the Everglades to announce a federal ban on importing four species of snakes, including the much-loathed Burmese python. Now, a new proposal from Reps. Tom Rooney and Ted Deutch looks to expand the number of species…
On Monday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee arrested former Tarzan actor Steve Sipek and removed two tigers and a leopard from his Loxahatchee home. It’s hard to justify keeping giant beasts like those in a private residence, especially after police in Zanesville, Ohio, this fall had to kill dozens of exotic animals that escaped a…
At the end of January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study suggesting that Burmese pythons were decimating mammal populations in the Everglades. The numbers were shocking: a 99 percent decline in raccoon sightings, a 98 percent drop in opossum sightings, and so on. Reuters reported on Friday, however, that some…
By the end of the year, Google is expected to start selling glasses that display up-to-date information about the nearby environment on a tiny screen embedded in the lens. The glasses, according to the New York Times, “will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the…
The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bill would have added the vaccine to Florida’s list of…
Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world’s top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine — which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer — tends to be a…
