Indonesian police arrested five employees of pharma company Kimia Farma for reusing rapid antigen nasal swabs on as many as 10,000 air travelers at North Sumatra's Kualanamu International Airport over… Read the rest of the article: At Indonesia airport, 10,000 travelers may have been COVID tested with used swabs
A bottle of Pétrus 2000 wine that was "aged" for 14 months aboard the International Space Station is now for sale by Christie's. They expect it to fetch around $1… Read the rest of the article: For sale: bottle of wine aged on the International Space Station
Ohio state Sen. Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware) participated in a government Zoom video meeting while driving his car. For most of the meeting, he used a fake background of a home… Read the rest of the article: Ohio state senator caught driving during video Zoom meeting (and using a fake background)
In the Village of Hartland, Wisconsin, police issued a warning to students of Arrowhead High School: Nerf Wars should not be played naked. From the police statement: Please talk to… Read the rest of the article: Police to high schoolers: Naked "Nerf Wars" could lead to arrest
In Taipei, a criminal gang allegedly unleashed an army of 1,000 cockroaches inside a restaurant because the owner apparently owed them money. Curiously, the attack occurred during a police gathering… Read the rest of the article: Criminal gang unleashes cockroach army in attack on restaurant
In June, the Pentagon will release a report containing "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence" collected by the US Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial… Read the rest of the article: How might the stock market react to the forthcoming Pentagon report on UFOs?
Meanwhile, the girl in the bottom right nods with approval at what her peer is preaching. The kids are alright. (Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)
Yesterday, Halima Cisse, 25, of Mali, gave birth to nine babies, two more than doctors expected. Mali's government transferred Cisse to Morocco for the actual Caesarean delivery in order to… Read the rest of the article: Woman gives birth to nine babies; all are doing well
"Can I Binge?" is a curious and useful single-serving site by Web designer Brian Young that calculates how long it would take you to binge watch a TV show based… Read the rest of the article: "Can I Binge?" is an excellent single-serving site for managing your TV time
Police in Chauvin, Louisiana arrested Dawn Marie Baye, 38, a cafeteria worker at Lacache Middle School who allegedly hosted student sleepovers where teens drank alcohol, watched porn, and had sex.… Read the rest of the article: Middle school lunch lady hosted student sleepovers with booze and porn
Today is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrating the date in 1862 that the Mexican Army beat the French Empire in the Battle of Puebla. Here are some of the… Read the rest of the article: Here is what people really want to know about Cinco de Mayo, according to Google searches
In September, the last living Monkees, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz, will hit the road for what they say is their farewell tour after 55 years. From a press release:… Read the rest of the article: The remaining Monkees announced a farewell tour
Back in 1989, I purchased a Nirvana t-shirt emblazoned with a map of Upper Hell as described in Dante's Inferno. (The back of the shirt reads: "fudge packin crack smokin satan… Read the rest of the article: Nirvana sued over thirty-year-old t-shirt design featuring a 1949 illustration
In 2015, Chris Blowes was surfing off the South Australia coast when an 18-foot great white shark attacked him. Blowes, 32, lost his leg and was in a coma for… Read the rest of the article: Surfer who survived brutal shark attack finally given legal exemption to keep one of the animal's teeth as a souvenir
This is the Pine Rockland Trapdoor Spider (Ummidia richmond), a newly discovered species of spider that lives in the endangered forest surrounding a zoo in the middle of Miami, Florida. Related… Read the rest of the article: New and creepy black spider species discovered in the middle of Miami, Florida
During a Zoom meeting of the United States House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water, viewers were treated to audio from the movie Galaxy Quest and the disco sounds of… Read the rest of the article: A US House subcommittee meeting was livestreamed with Galaxy Quest accidentally playing in the background
Two years ago, comic legend Alan Moore announced his retirement from comic books. He's now signed a book deal with Bloomsbury for a five-volume epic fantasy series and a huge… Read the rest of the article: Alan Moore is back and he's "bursting with fiction"
The bouba-kiki effect (aka the maluma-takete effect) is the name of a phenomenon in which people map certain verbal sounds to shapes, no matter the language. For example, b, m,… Read the rest of the article: Is your name spiky or round? Scientific study shows people judge you based on the sound of your name
Annie Wise and Riley Loudermilk, both 18, were voted this year's prom king and queen at Kings High School at Kings High School just north of Cincinnati, Ohio where I… Read the rest of the article: Lesbian couple voted prom king and queen at Ohio school
In the New Yorker, Gideon Lewis-Kraus dives deeply into the US government's slow-but-sure acknowledgement of UFOs. Of course, just because a flying object is unidentified does not mean it's a… Read the rest of the article: Former Senator Harry Reid: Lockheed has crashed UFO debris but the Pentagon wouldn't let him see
