I got into a weird discussion the other day with a New Ager. You know, someone who believes in the power of crystals (especially that big 10-karat rock her boyfriend just gave her), astrology (as done by someone who doesn't know either astrology or astronomy worth a damn), Tarot cards (her Tarot packs are all beautifully arranged on the shelves of ( Read more... )

When I was s kid, there was a pack of boys, all brothers, at my elementary school that some of the parents and teachers referred to privately as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, giving each of them appropriate nicknames to go with that. (As for us kids, we called them Boogersnot, Double Boogersnot, Turdface, and Peehole, but when they heard us ( Read more... )

Granted, arthropods are weird, all of them, what with entirely too many legs and a tendency to end up just where you don't need or want them. But the one that met its end in my bathroom last night was one for the record books ( Read more... )

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8718

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