Conservative radio host Glenn Beck stole the show at an outdoor movie screening in Manhattan this week. Moviegoers tweeted pictures of Beck and his family at the event. Though the pictures look like nothing's wrong, on his radio show Beck said it was a "hostile situation" and that he was "harassed." His daughter had persuaded the family to go to the screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "39 Steps." Beck choked up on his show when explaining that his daughter later apologized. He said, "I called my daughter and I said 'honey, it's not your fault.'" When Beck and his family got up to leave, he said, the audience applauded. "I swear to you I think, if I had suggested, and I almost did, 'Wow, does anybody have a rope? Because there's a tree here. You could just lynch me.' And I think there would have been a couple in the crowd that would have." But some people at the event tell a different story. One person tweeted that though Beck was taunted, it was "no more than any other celeb would be at Read More »

The twittersphere is abuzz over a school bus-sized asteroid that came within 7,500 miles of Earth yesterday, zooming even below some satellites. Noted science, technology, and news outlets on Twitter sensationalized the event with tweets about the asteroid being a "near miss" and "close shave" that "buzzed earth." But there was no need to watch the movies "Armageddon" or "Deep Impact" for survival tips. NASA says the asteroid--which scientists named 2011 MD--is so small by celestial standards that it would have burned up once it entered  Earth's atmosphere. Instead the asteroid approached Earth, got swung around our planet by gravity, and then went on its way. Check out this NASA diagram of the asteroid's path. This isn't even the nearest an asteroid has come to Earth. In February, asteroid 2011 CQ1 whizzed twice as close.

Back on Earth, a politician, an actor, and a serial killer are spiking in Yahoo! Search for the same reason. Yesterday, Republican presidential hopeful and tea Read More »

Twitter is up in arms after TSA agents made a 95-year-old woman remove her adult diaper during an enhanced private pat-down in Florida. The woman, who is in a wheelchair, was going through the TSA's mandatory pat-down of people in wheelchairs. According to her daughter, the agents said "they felt something suspicious on (her mother's) leg and they couldn't determine what it was." They escorted the mother to a private room for a more thorough inspection when a TSA agent said she needed to remove her Depend undergarment. The TSA has said its agents "acted professionally and according to procedure." According to CNN, the woman's daughter burst into tears during the incident but said her mother "was very calm." The mother and daughter were on their way to Michigan so the mother, who has leukemia, could stay with relatives before eventually going to an assisted-living facility. The woman's daughter told CNN that her mother had to have a blood transfusion just to be strong enough to Read More »