- Front Page
- Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
- Man’s Beast Friends
- Extras
CQ: With the Internet making us globally connected, are we seeing an erosion of the concept of a “day” in favour of a “semi-random moment of synchronicity”?
Full list of 36 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Do we trust those who have actually been *in* space on their opinions about space?: Bloomberg – UFO Cover-Ups Must End, Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell Says
- Every time they posted a date, it was stumped..: BBC – ‘World’s oldest calendar’ discovered in Scottish field
- Lost in space — or time?: Metro – Stormtrooper turns up at Battle of Hastings re-enactment
- At approximately one frame per age..: Discovery News – Stoneage Artists Created Prehistoric Movies
- Does that mean the potholes will be better (tempting you on the road) or worse (make you suffer!)?: Toronto Sun – Highway to hell? Satanists want to adopt a New York highway
- What rights do you have to your skies?: The Syndey Morning Herald – Don’t like drones? Folks in Deer Trail, Colorado mull paying citizens to shoot them down
- He’s also an accomplished storyteller and showman..: The UK Sun – I was a spy for the CIA… and helped end Cold War Says Uri Geller
- Healthy, Wealthy and Wise:
- The Wealthy — first million before 10 years old!: Orange – Mini Monet brings in the money
- The Wise — although within her limited domain.: Metro – Three-year-old girl joins Mensa with higher IQ than David Cameron
- The Healthy — although the diet just makes me want more bagels..: Metro – Girl, 3, speaks for first time thanks to cream cheese diet
- 100 is the new 70..: Metro – Woman in China ‘aged 115? could be the oldest person in the world
- Always make sure you get your PIN right!: Consumerist – Woman Struck By Lightning While Cashing Out At The Grocery Store
- Well.. unless you fight about astrology.. Or look closer at whether you’re talking about something more than the random statements in your newspaper.: Smithsonian – Good News: Astrology Doesn’t Impact the Success of Your Marriage
- They might be changing their destiny (if they hurt their hands)..: Your Jewish News – People changing their fortunes through palm surgery
- I’ll have to investigate this.. further..: Metro – Women paint images on their thighs as part of new advertising craze
- (EXTRA) Because slugs have *great* skin!: Orange – Beauty salon offers live snail facials
- (EXTRA) Or maybe: the *real* character showed through, once the facade had slipped away..: NPR – Florida Man Who Woke Up Speaking Swedish Is ID’d By Sister
- (EXTRA) Just consider your LARP character to be a backup, in case the primary is damaged..: The Independent – Mystery of American who woke up speaking Swedish is solved – by a medieval re-enactment society
- (EXTRA) Did she declare them at the border?: The UK Telegraph – Woman discovers flesh-eating maggots in her brain after holiday to Peru
- (EXTRA) General response seems to be: “Yeah, it’s just that friggin’ hot out. Let ’em be.”: Orange – German tourists in naked fountain strip
- (EXTRA) It may still be due to the trip through Mordor, however.: The New York Times – Hobbits’ Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders
- (EXTRA) Because, y’know.. it’s cold in the ground!: Orange – Funeral directors offer woollen coffins
- (EXTRA) So, it works: it attracted it’s prey! We will rename this “the Tourist Trap”.: Metro – Giant ‘corpse flower’ that smells like rotting flesh attracts visitors to garden centre
- Man’s Beast Friends:
- (EXTRA) Does this change our relationship to the wild?: Orange – Girl and ape are best of ‘pri-mates’
- (EXTRA) Animals as weapons?: Metro – Police draft in gaggle of geese to fight crime on mean streets of China
- (EXTRA) Animals as snitches?: Metro – Parents offered hire of sniffer dog to check if their child is using drugs
- (EXTRA) The dog, however, gets off scot-free.: Metro – Mum brushing her dogs in park fined £50 for littering
- (EXTRA) Cryptids are often different beasts to different people. So are people, really..: Karl Shuker’s Nature – DOES THE LOCH NESS MONSTER HAVE A SPLIT PERSONALITY? REVEALING NESSIE’S STRANGEST IDENTITIES
- (EXTRA) Um.. probably disintegrating quickly on the bottom?: Mysterious Universe – Lake Monsters: Where Are The Bodies?
- (EXTRA) “Anything to declare.” “Writhing nightmares..”: Metro – Customs officials seize 10,000 sea turtles from man’s suitcase in India
- (EXTRA) Apparently, some people think insects *belong* in food…: Orange – Top chef’s ‘grub’ with a difference
- (EXTRA) Have we been inadvertantly running away from the cryptids all this time?: EsoterX – Backwards Feet Don’t Fail Me Now: Keeping it Cryptid with Monstrous Foot Fetishism
- (EXTRA) Can horses be trained not to go into MacDonalds?: Metro – Woman fined after her horse ‘does its business’ on floor of McDonald’s
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Sounds great — if your lawn in one long strip..: Metro – Mower that’s a cut above: Honda’s 1,000cc machine can reach speeds of 130mph
- (EXTRA) For SCIENCE!: New Scientist – Sound waves levitate and mix floating drops of liquid
- (EXTRA) Often overlooked, this moon should be named “Dinghy”.: Phenomenica/IANS – New Neptune moon discovered
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