Teenage girl who suffered crippling migraines due to a rare brain condition finally cured after a tube was attached between her skull and her stomach, allowing her to digest her own brain fluid.
Woman to be stoned to death in Iran will be hanged instead.
The plan was for the heroin to go from anus to mouth, to mouth, and then all the way to anus again.
3-year-old caught with pot in school.
James Richmond did not expose his genitals as police, prosecutors and angry parents said he did, the jury found. Instead, he used a Halloween costume that featured a large fake penis.
Woman sets husband’s penis alight to stop him cheating.
Multi-millionaire owner of Segway died in a freak accident while riding Segway
Elevator buttons harbours nearly 40 times as many germs as a public toilet seat, researchers have found.
A Toronto judge has struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, saying provisions meant to protect women and residential neighbourhoods are endangering sex workers’ lives.
The true Pope lives in a town of 130 people in rural Kansas.
Food production company fined after a man found a dead mouse in a loaf of bread as he made sandwiches for his children.
Cops find 20 frozen cats in vacant rowhouse.
Indian authorities have drafted in a crack troop of monkeys to guard foreign athletes.
Two-legged pig becomes tourist attraction in China.
Ever wonder what’s in those delicious dumplings? The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums.
Las Vegas hotel guests left with severe burns from ‘death ray’ caused by building’s design.
Las Vegas faces its deepest slide since the 1940s.
Smokers average about four 15-minutes smoking breaks a day, wasting an employer more than a year of the smoker’s working life, according to a new study.
Germany will make its last reparations payment for World War I on Oct. 3, settling its outstanding debt from the 1919 Versailles Treaty.
The Federal Reserve Board announced a delay in the issue date of the redesigned $100 note.
The baby-carrot industry tried to reposition its product as junk food, starting a $25 million advertising campaign whose defining characteristics include heavy metal music, a phone app and a young man in a grocery cart dodging baby-carrot bullets fired by a woman in tight jeans.
In two landmark studies, research teams reveal two techniques proven to identify dissolved cocaine in bottles of wine or rum. These tools will allow customs officials to quickly identify bottles being used to smuggle cocaine, without the need to open or disturb the container.
Researchers in the Midwest are developing microelectronic circuitry to guide the growth of axons in damaged brains.
The answer to any question these days seems to be “mirror neurons” as if magic was an acceptable explanation if the magician was a neuron.
Cell phones, cancer, and scientific oversimplification.
Faith in God associated with improved survival after liver transplantation.
Why young adults change their religious beliefs.
Study finds genital herpes vaccine ineffective in women.
Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from our real-life partner, according to new research.
The difference between linguistics and logistics.
OMG, CEO, BFF… When did we start speaking in sets of capital letters? Lane Greene looks into the rise of the acronym and its sibling the initialism.
Words That Google Instant Doesn’t Like.
Yahoo and RealNetworks appealed the crazy fee formula, and ASCAP appealed the claim that a download was not a public performance. The Second Circuit appeals court has now ruled and gone against ASCAP on both issues.
How are you able to fund a label with such a niche audience?
Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, but they are also deeply ignorant about religion. “Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperform all the other religious groups in our survey.”
After a lifetime’s research, Roland Huntford thinks he has finally nailed the myth of Scott of the Antarctic: far from being a national hero, the explorer was an amateur whose incompetence condemned his men to death.
A child rapist and cannibal, also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman.
Track and forecast public debt in countries around the world, live.
Christianity today.
I need a future.
every day the same again | October 3rd, 2010
