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Item 1 - Tuberculosis infection rates are falling worldwide. Except, of course, for those pesky COMPLETELY UNTREATABLE STRAINS.

Item 2 - The medieval menace known as the plague is making a comeback. Added bonus, it may be on the verge of developing RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS.

I'll be in the basement, hoarding food, water and ammunition.

The Delaware waterfront continues to burn late this evening, after a series of massive explosions rocked the refining and chemical facilities located on the Delaware bay ( Read more... )

  10 months and 12 miles of yarn later, an art student has knitted a full-size replica of a Ferrari.

  A chiropractor in Athens, Ohio claims he can heal pain through time travel. While the details in the story (and on his website) are sketchy, the idea seems to be that he can "reach back" to the time when the injury occurred, and prevent it from happening.

I'm going to buy this guy a pair of clippers and ask him to correct my high-school

  It turns out that Isaac Hayes probably didn't quit South Park. Instead, his church quit for him.

Curiouser and curiouser.

  I'm going to law school ( Read more... )

  There's another new Twingly & Blahb comic up at twinglyandblahb. Or, if you'd rather not read my self-aggrandizing commentary, you can view the image by itself here.

EDIT: And this isn't the BIG NEWS. The BIG NEWS contest is still going on, so get your guesses in now.

... he said, with a sarcastic sneer.

I do love science, but science reporting sometimes drives me to drink until I can't resist the urge strip naked, cover myself in maple syrup and start hurling profanity and small children at the Internet ( Read more... )