Every day, the same, again
Lawrence King, a 15-year old student at E.O. Green Junior High in Ventura County, California was shot by a fellow student with whom he’d had an ealier “altercation” over the fact that other students perceived him to be gay.
Federal health officials are issuing a warning about a choking game.
Man found dead with corkscrew in head in Brooklyn.
It was nothing more than a warm handshake.
Imagine you are a gorilla who has just made a momentous discovery: having sex while facing your partner. Related: From quadrupedalism to bipedalism.
O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend, Christine Prody, is in intensive care at a Miami hospital after hitting her head during a fall at a Southwest Miami-Dade gas station.
How Creationists peer-review their “academic” scholarship.
WTF.
A woman who has the remarkable ability to recall every trivial detail of every day of her life may be the key to unlocking the secret of how the human mind works. Previously: EP has two types of amnesia—anterograde, which means he can’t form new memories, and retrograde, which means he can’t remember old memories either, at least not since 1960.
Last year in the United States, spending on upscale women’s fragrances declined, as part of a multiyear trend. The group said $1.97 billion was spent, down from $2 billion in 2002.
People here don’t have to work. Every week, sometimes every day, 35kg sacks of cocaine drift in from the sea. The economy of this entire town of 50,000 tranquil souls is addicted to cocaine. “The schools and churches are not built by the Government, that money comes from the fishermen and their finds.”
The festival in question is not a gathering of eunuchs, strictly speaking, but of hijras, as they are called in India. Hijras are men who live as women, or to put it another way, transsexuals with religion. Many hijras say you cannot be a true hijra until you have been castrated. The highly ritualized operation is done without anesthetic. Two quick cuts are made, severing both testicles and penis.
The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere in early March.
Canon is using Iris watermarking to take photographer’s copyright protection to the next level.
The Great Wall of China, 11 facts.
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth , according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
