http://www.dailybuzzz.com Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:55:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bright teenagers are a disappearing breed, an alarming new study has revealed. The intellectual ability of the country's cleverest youngsters has declined radically, almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools. [ad#in-post] The 'high-level thinking' skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/science/intelligent-teens-a-thing-of-the-past It's no secret that the Chinese government censors web content, but what's it like to actually be a citizen trapped inside the Great Firewall of China? A new FireFox plugin called China Channel can show you. It reroutes your IP through China, allowing you to look like any other digital ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/technology/see-internet-through-chinas-firewall Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday. In all, the two men whom officials described as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people _ 14 by beheading, according to ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/culture/obama-assassination-plot-stopped The brains of people who commit suicide are chemically different to those who die from other causes, a Canadian study has suggested. Researchers analysed brain tissue from 20 dead people and, in those who killed themselves, they found a higher rate of a process that affects behaviour. [ad#in-post] Writing in Biological Psychiatry, they ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/science/science-shows-that-suicide-linked-to-brain-changes Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens vowed to fight his Monday conviction on federal corruption charges, a verdict he attributed to "repeated instances of prosecutorial misconduct." "I will fight this unjust verdict with every ounce of energy I have," the 84-year-old Stevens, the Senate's longest-serving Republican, said in a written statement after ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/politics/ted-stevens-found-guilty-on-corruption-charges An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair. The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club, police Lt. Lawrence ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/trends/child-dies-after-shooting-himself-with-an-uzi Magic Johnson says he's outraged that a pair of Minneapolis talk radio hosts accused him of faking AIDS. KTLK's Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker's conservative talk show on Wednesday. [ad#in-post] The context for the remarks wasn't clear. According to a partial transcript and audio clip posted on a ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/trends/magic-johnson-accused-of-faking-aids Thank heavens for the Internet; it's put the surprise back in October Surprise. Here is the latest big-picture conspiracy theory, which has been gathering strength on the blogosphere the way a hurricane feeds on Caribbean waters: It is widely believed, both online and, increasingly, offline, that the Bush administration intends to ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/politics/cancelling-the-election-might-be-a-possibility The Bush administration plans to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist on Saturday after getting assurances the Stalinist nation has agreed to a plan to inspect its nuclear facilities, the Associated Press has learned. President Bush signed off on the move on Friday in a bid to salvage a faltering ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/politics/united-states-un-blacklists-north-korea It would strike terror into the hearts of most sane people but Australia's newest tourist attraction involves coming face to face underwater with giant saltwater crocodiles. [ad#in-post] The newly-opened attraction, Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, offers the chance to be lowered into a tank full of crocs, among them suspected man-eaters, wearing nothing ... http://www.dailybuzzz.com/technology/up-close-with-crocodiles-with-new-attraction