Every day, the same, again
A technician at a French Polynesian television station has been suspended from work after accidentally screening a porn movie he thought he was watching alone. The error happened about 2pm, 20 minutes after a religious programme on the channel ended.
Wife laced cheating husband’s fruitcake with rat poison.
A schoolboy died after snorting heroin which he mistakenly thought was cocaine.
Child Protective Services will investigate the welfare of a 14-year-old student who birthed an infant inside a Baytown middle school restroom but allegedly drowned it during an attempt to flush it down the toilet.
Toddlers can no longer marry in Arkansas.
Sex selection—the practice of making sure your next baby isn’t of the “wrong” sex.
A completely new family of fishes may have been discovered in the coral beds of Indonesia.
The thesis of Doree Shafrir’s Observer article today about magazine writers is that the occupation is no longer as enticing a career path with young journalists. It’s a well-written, vigorously argued piece, but in our opinion, it’s dead wrong. We would posit that many of the young bloggers out there are dying to be magazine writers.
The reasons for the declines are many. First, we simply built more homes than the nation could absorb. But there are parts of the country where homes are quite affordable. So, we have to be careful when we talk about the crisis in housing. All real estate is local.
The claim that you need eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day has been debunked.
An estimated 500 dogmeat restaurants operate in Seoul, despite a ban.
Why are moths attracted to bright lights?
Jenna Jameson as a living-dead pole dancer.
Design and the elastic mind, by MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.
Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun’s activity. The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate “sceptics”, that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature.
NY Times graphic: 20 biggest cross-border sovereign wealth fund deals since 2005.
A block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo.
Isaac Newton’s three Laws of Motion.
There’s a phenomenon that has interested me for a while: When people mean “yes” they sometimes say “no, yeah” or “yeah, no” and when they mean “no” they say “yeah, no” or “no, yeah” or even “no, yeah, no.”
