Posts tagged “News”
Space Seeds
A geologist working for the Italian National Research Council and a professor of molecular biology at Naples University identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites kept at Naples’ mineralogical museum. The bacteria, called “cryms” (for crystal microbes) by the researchers, remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme
A prank turns deadly in New Zealand
Soopah High Rise
“If you can send a man to the moon you can certainly build a tower for 100,000 people …” Shanghai plans to build a 3,700 ft skyscraper! Dwarfing Kuala Lumpur’s twin Petronas Towers, the world’s tallest buildings at 1,483ft high, it would be set in a gigantic, wheel-shaped base incorporating shopping malls and car parks.
Bloggy Goodness
This is why I read Romenesko’s Obscure Store and Reading Room: Sisters Go Bonkers on Plane after Boozing It Up: The twin sisters, who are models, went from shouting to fighting. They smoked in the bathroom and used perfume to mask the odor, says an affidavit. One said to another: “I’ve gotta get out of
Assorted Links
A few random links …
School Rules
A fifth-grade girl at Cincinnati’s Mount Airy School says at least 15 boys have been trading soda and cash for sex with at least five girls. [link via me-fi]
Thongs Sales
The best two lines in this article – Undergarment Trend Gets New Cheeky Exposure – are: “Thong sales have unseated traditional women’s underwear as the fastest-growing lingerie niche,” and “In the same way push-up bras lifted the sagging lingerie business 10 years ago …” link via the obscure store and reading room
Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Marriage book
Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work Well … just the headline should be funny enough to make you want to read the rest of the article. But! Good heavens! Did you read the ten tips? By the time I got to the third one I thought for sure it
Texas man
A Texas man survived for more than three hours Thursday after he was cut in half by a slow-moving 18-wheeler.