Landmark Atkins Related Case Scheduled for Supreme Court Hearing The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Brumfield v Cain, which came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark eighth amendment trial, Atkins v Virginia. The Atkins trial deemed it unconstitutional for capital punishment to...
Remembering Cicero, Champion of Justice Attorneys are forever indebted to the famous Roman statesman, lawyer, and philosopher, Cicero. His contribution to Latin prose is responsible for conventions of modern day rhetoric and grammar. Moreover, Cicero can be labeled a champion of justice. He fought for Rome...
Power Window Safety Explained It is horrifying to imagine, but at least twenty-five children have perished in the past decade as a result of injuries involving power windows, according to Kids and Cars, a nonprofit group that tracks auto safety as it pertains to children. Infants...
The recent domestic violence scandals plaguing the NFL have led powerful leaders to speak out against the injustice of domestic violence. The commander in chief of the world’s most powerful army was no exception. At the 57th annual Grammy Awards, telecast Sunday, February 8, 2015,...
Golf Safety Tips Golf may very well be the greatest game of all time. Traversing breezy green landscapes with friends while smashing a white ball completely unfettered from worries and care is truly blissful. Indeed, golf is just another testament to human ingenuity, arguably rivaled only...
Carbon Monoxide: The Silent Killer Carbon Monoxide, or CO, forms when there is not enough oxygen to produce carbon dioxide (CO2). An examples of this is when an internal combustion engine is operated in an enclosed space, like a garage. It is also emitted from stoves,...
Trunk Entrapment Prevention Since 2002, all cars began incorporating a glow-in-the-dark release handle inside the trunk for safety purposes. Essentially, the glow-in-the-dark release handle was designed to allow people to escape from trunks, whether they ended up there on accident or on purpose. Indeed, Martin Scorsese...
Animal Related Car Accidents 101 Driving demands a significant degree of attention. A good motor vehicle operator is aware of surrounding cars, speed, pedestrians, reckless drivers, and wandering animals. The latter is responsible for roughly 1.5 million animal-car accidents each year, causing 10,000 injuries, 150 deaths,...
A highway in the Netherlands is experimenting with solar technology to illuminate a strip of highway at night with vibrant, glow in the dark, neon. The underlying idea is that these glow in the dark highway strips can eliminate power hungry, unsightly streetlights in magnificent...
Pedestrian Safety Pedestrian Safety deserves the utmost attention, because everyone is a pedestrian at one point in their life. The word comes from the Latin ped, meaning foot, which accounts for the fact that a pedestrian is a person walking amidst traffic. Whether you are walking...