Every day, the same, again
Two men wheeled a dead man through Manhattan streets in a red office chair to a check-cashing store, and tried to cash his Social Security check.
Instead of letting the gases emitted by cremation escape into the atmosphere, UK councils want to use crematoriums to heat radiators or even generate electricity.
Man cuts off, microwaves his own hand.
When police asked the man what caused the accident, his one-word answer was pterodactyl.
A combination of thick morning fog and brush fire smoke on Interstate 4 in Florida sparked a 70-car pileup.
The “Mousetrap kid“.
What was going on with the New Hampshire polls?
Why presidential polls are wrong.
How to actually win a fist fight.
Are movies like “Hannibal” and the remake of “Halloween,” which serve up murder and mutilation as routine fare, actually making the nation safer?
What are you doing here? - man asks wife at brothel.
In Chicago, prostitutes sleep with police more often than get arrested by them. The market for street prostitution.
Researchers find women drinking more, wearing less at college parties.
When I told my wife I was going to write a story about farts, she said that if I mentioned her name I was dead meat.
One in four men who will get divorced this year don’t have any clue that it’s coming.
Canada has imposed sweeping restrictions on who can donate organs for transplant — including a ban on gay men who have been sexually active in the past five years.
Academics, musicians, even poker champs use pills to sharpen their minds, legally. Labs race to develop even more.
If it proves safe and effective, MDMA (ecstasy) would be certified as a prescription drug.
Scientists testing vaccine for cocaine users.
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors (100x smaller) designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks.
A personal nuclear reactor? Not so safe.
Britain to resume building nuclear power stations.
Absolute zero is 0 on the Kelvin scale, or about minus 460 F. You can’t get colder than that. Is there an opposite to absolute zero?
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong.
Copyright? What Copyright?
Sixt, a major car rental company in Germany, makes different Google Adwords ads.
Comcast promising ultra-fast Internet (160 megabits per second).
A single setting in Microsoft Office wastes a small state’s worth of trees every year.
Asteroid may hit Mars on Jan. 30.
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper, a self-copying 3D printer, a self-replicating machine.
A HeLa cell is an immortal cell line used in medical research. The cell line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, who died from her cancer in 1951.
Stem cells in amniotic fluid show promise.
All about stem cells.
Side by side videos of The Who playing ‘Won’t get fooled again’ filmed in 1978 and 2005.
I asked whether scientists wear many tattoos of their science.
Winner of the 2007 Partial and Freestyle Beard competition.
A wedding cake that looks just like her.
Bill Gates envisions life after Microsoft in keynote video.
