Every day, the same, again
Man planned a Super Bowl massacre in response to the city of Tempe’s denial of his application for a liquor license, the FBI said. Havelock told police he bought an AR-15 rifle from the Scottsdale Gun Club because he was “distraught” over the denial, then wrote an eight-page manifesto detailing his reasons for planning an attack at the Super Bowl and mailed eight copies of the document.
Cops are investigating whether a con artist who pretended to be a pro wrestler to scam children in England is the man who impersonated Heath Ledger’s father.
A monkey, slotted to be used in a drug-product research experiment, was instead boiled alive inside an Everett laboratory.
Thai fast food sellers are enjoying a boom in rat sales.
Firefighters save dogs with mouth-to-mouth CPR.
Pre-chewed food passes HIV to kids.
This amfAR bus poster is, of course, supposed to read WE’RE FORGETTING AIDS.
10 scientists about to change your future.
Over the years, I’ve seen lots of people trying to give examples of how we know the Earth is round…
Some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise.
The difference between US and UK economists.
I moved to Pakistan in February 2006 on a research and writing fellowship. My wife left her job and joined me soon after. We had been married just three months; I convinced her that two years in Pakistan would be like a honeymoon that just wouldn’t stop.
The U.S. Navy test fired a new big gun designed to replace conventional weaponry aboard ships. The big gun uses electromagnetic energy instead of explosive chemical propellants to fire a projectile farther and faster.
List of problems solved by MacGyver.
Guide to criminal background search.
Restaurants can trigger distress among people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed.
Thermal camera’s unique view of London Zoo.
Reinventing the bic pen.
