A 36-year-old woman who got stuck in a garbage chute in a building in Brooklyn was rescued by dozens of firefighters and other responders after falling about 15 feet down the chute.
Gamblers seeking to beat the bookies are smoking dried vulture brains, believing it will give them the power to predict match results.
Stolen truck recovered after 38 years.
What was supposed to be a honeymoon and week of vacation has turned into a nightmare for a couple who work at Erlanger Medical Center. Eric Wright was arrested by a Chattanooga Police officer when he rushed his wife Aline to the emergency room at Erlanger with stroke symptoms.
Man, whose stepson accidentally shot himself through the head while posing for a photo, is starting a five-year jail sentence.
I spent my life collecting 32,000 teabags.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission has spent most of the last two years blind to potential offenders carting around millions of riders in yellow cabs, livery cars and limousines, The Post has learned.
BP — the company accepting responsiblity for the current environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began as Imperial Oil, became Anglo-Persian Oil with its discovery of vast reserves in present-day Iran, then Anglo-Iranian, then British Petroleum, and now just BP. Related: Accidents happen to the best of companies. It is how those companies respond to big industrial accidents that shows the quality of an organization.
Wall Street’s lowest-rated stocks have turned into this year’s best performers.
Ponzi king Bernard Madoff is telling fellow jailbirds that he secretly funneled $9 billion in swiped funds to three people before he was nabbed, an inmate told The Post.
A Decade of Bank Failures.
Did nature clean up most of the Exxon Valdez oil spill?
Two researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela have studied the relationship between teenagers’ goals and antisocial behavior. The results show that the principal goal of young people is to finish their studies and leave home.
New study finds memory improved by vocalising or sub-vocalising words.
What obstacles get in the way of self managing chronic pain?
Gender Gaps in Depression Across Europe…
The surprising conclusion of a study of contacts between Brazilian prostitutes and their clients is that the network is unlikely to support the spread of HIV.
Female Viagra Doesn’t Improve Sexual Desire.
Life-extending Drug May Also Combat Obesity.
The rise of ‘ambient scenting’ - a type of smell-based marketing used in High Street stores to alter the buying behaviour of shoppers
Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash.
In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age – and where it’s taking us.
Amazon Drops Kindle Price to $189 to Compete With Nook and iPad.
Brooklyn Museum opens ‘Andy Warhol: The Last Decade’.
US artist Matthew Barney disturbs and dazzles in Basel.
More than 400 works from the corporate contemporary art collection once displayed at Lehman Brothers will be auctioned to help pay creditors of the failed investment bank..
Different berries, similar cancer-fighting effects.
Strict vegans should feel comfortable eating oysters. Since oysters don’t have a central nervous system, they’re unlikely to experience pain in a way resembling ours.
Top 10 Worst Fart-Producing Foods.
The amazing history of chewing gum.
A ludicrously botched bank robbery leads to the question, Can you be too incompetent to understand just how incompetent you are? The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is.
How to write a “Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller.”
Styles of house music.
How it feel to wake up and be the shit and the urine?
People who think riding their bicycle is saving the world and vocalists dressed in vintage-store garbage need to all move to an island somewhere where they can worship each other as much as they want. Oh wait…
every day the same again | June 22nd, 2010
