Every Day, the Same, Again
Gravity is “only a theory.” No one has measured gravity for every atom and every star. It is simply a religious belief that gravity is “universal.”
Good liars have little to lose and everything to gain from taking a “lie detector” test. It’s the truthful people who need to worry about polygraphs.
Grigori Perelman, the genius who solved the Poincare Conjecture, one of the hardest problems in mathematics, declined top prize.
Microwave cooking does not always eliminate harmful bacteria.
Scientists say that dolphins off Wales have their own accent.
Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds.
Chihuahuas have the longest life span of any breed of dog. If you are not ready to make an 11-18 year commitment to them, don’t get a chihuahua.
25 South African students climbed into a telephone booth in 1959 and announced they’d set the world record for a non-existent event.
Drug companies secretly track doctors’ prescriptions.
A teen was shocked with a Taser gun and several others were detained at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme park after they attacked officers responding to reports they were spitting at guests and cursing.
A 13-year-old boy has been exposed as one of Britain’s biggest internet conmen. The boy earned more than $500,000 by posing as the boss of several multinational companies selling vacuum cleaners, stationery and office supplies. Many goods weren’t sent, but he used the cash to revel in a luxury lifestyle way beyond his years: he wore designer suits, drank vintage champagne, travelled by chauffeur-driven limousine, employed a personal bodyguard, flew abroad on business trips and hired women from escort agencies. “Despite coming from a relatively humble background, he became an outrageous snob. He is a total bully and an extremely arrogant young man.”
Your ring is the mouse.
Google and Dell have teamed up to install some software on Dell computers that borders on being spyware. I say spyware because it’s hard to figure out what it is and is even harder to remove.
How the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.
The most expensive Manhattan apartment.
NYC yellow cab to be converted to gas-electric hybrids by 2012.
The American commute has never been so painful. Is there any solution?
Coyote attacked 5-year-old in New Jersey.
Alien hand syndrome, also as known as Dr. Strangelove syndrome.
I have a T-shirt that says DING DONG THE CANCER IS DEAD.
Robert Barron uses his artistry to create realistic body parts for those who are missing them.
Evolutionary scientists have never had difficulty explaining the male orgasm, closely tied as it is to reproduction. But the Darwinian logic behind the female orgasm has remained elusive. Women can have sexual intercourse and even become pregnant - doing their part for the perpetuation of the species - without experiencing orgasm. So what is its evolutionary purpose?
Aerial drone photographed over Capitola, California.
Weird water foutain.
Tom Ford doesn’t wear underwear. And while we were talking about the ladies who also do not wear underwear—Spears, Lohan, Hilton—Ford is saying that he doesn’t necessarily think they are gauche.
A ’soap’ incident between a London hotel and one of its guests.
