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During the course of everyday life one tends to pick up all sorts of factual tidbits from the unlikeliest of places. For instance, prior to watching 12 Monkeys on TBS one Wednesday afternoon, I had no idea that 19th century physician Ignaz Phillipp Semmelweis, who expired within a Viennese sanatorium after suffering a prolonged spell […]

New York magazine has a bitchily fun piece in its current “All about the Benjamins” issue in which a reporter somehow gets a Sex & The City-esque coven group of single girlfriends to talk On The Record about the effects that their wildly-differing incomes have on their bond with each other. A socialite and a […]

Separated at Birth?
Stephen S. Hawking is to star in a new film that will not, sadly, be about his life:
Born in 1942, Hawking showed an early aptitude for maths, despite otherwise being one of those slacker kids whose ability to slouch his way to the top of the class totally pisses everyone else off.
It was […]

There’s this hot new sports drink on the market called Fabuloso. Just kidding, it’s actually a cleaning product used to sanitize floors and toilets that happens to look and smell a helluva lot like Gatorade, which is probably why over 100 people in Texas—mostly kids—mistakenly drank the stuff. Deceptive packaging for medicines and cleaning agents […]

Some scientist in Japan went out a few nights ago and got absolutely hammered. What else, besides karaoke, could possible ensue? That’s right, hilarity! Deadly, deadly hilarity:
Police have launched a frantic search for three bottles of potentially deadly poison lost after a Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals official who had been carrying them went […]

Close examination by our team of experts has revealed that the recent birth of twenty bazillion brain-damagingly cute pandas at a breeding facility in China was something other than a questionable effort to put the interests of herbivorous Ursidae ahead of those of its beleaguered populace.
In what we can only conclude is indisputable proof of […]

Recently scientists set out to determine if there is an area of the human brain designed explicitly for communication with god. And when researchers said ‘god’ they weren’t talking about some abstract metaphysical approximation; they seriously meant The Man Upstairs, the dishabille greybeard playing touchy-feely on the Sistine Chapel, the “Let there be light” guy, […]

So this MIT-educated architect based in China took a biology class once and is now designing a six-story building shaped like, you guessed it, a cell. Yeah, a real membranous human cell, not like the drunk tank where I crash from time to time. What’s more, the structure will be home to the Institute for […]