July 31st, In the News

Exxon Mobil made nearly $1500 per second while we paid $$$ at the pump!
Exxon Mobil has reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history. They posted a net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter. That profit works out to $1,485.55 a second. That barely beat the previous corporate record of $11.66 billion, also set by Exxon in the fourth quarter of 2007.
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Dead woman found in Airplane Lav

Flight attendants discovered the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane shortly before the flight landed in Atlanta.

It was unclear how she died or how long she was in the restroom. The crew on the Los Angeles-to-Atlanta flight noticed the restroom was occupied on final approach.




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Van Gogh Mystery

There is a mysterious painting underneath Van Gogh's famous work 'Patch of grass' .Conventional X-ray techniques give a colorless, partial view of the hidden painting and only show vague contours of a person behind 'Patch of Grass'.

By recycling his work Van Gogh painted many layers over the original painting but the scientists managed to scan all the different elements in those layers of the relevant area with X-ray fluorescence.

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The bear had head stuck in jug met his match.

Minnesota wildlife officials say that they tried for six days to capture a bear that had a plastic jar stuck over its head, but ended up killing the animal after it wandered into a city during a festival. The wild black bear -- whose head got stuck inside a 2½-gallon clear plastic jug presumably while foraging for food -- ambled into the city of Frazee, about 200 miles northwest of the Twin Cities, during the town's busy Turkey Days celebration.

Coincidentally, bear season opens September 1.