I think we have a finalist for the Darwin Awards, here:
The 16-year-old business student, from China, was “hyped up with exhilaration” when he rebounded off the bed and out of the window, coroner Tan Boon Heng told the Straits Times newspaper.
A Whole New Meaning To “Air Guitar”
I think we have a finalist for the Darwin Awards, here:
The 16-year-old business student, from China, was “hyped up with exhilaration” when he rebounded off the bed and out of the window, coroner Tan Boon Heng told the Straits Times newspaper.
No Worries
During National Engineers Week, Robert Samuelson writes that the so-called science and engineering gap is phony.
Prepare To Have Your Tears Jerked
…and save yourself the money for the movie ticket. It’s Lego Brokeback Mountain.
Devilish Weather
We’ve lost a lot of probes in the attempt to explore Mars (though the Soviets and now Russians, have had even worse luck–have they ever had a successful Mars mission?). There even used to be grim jokes in Pasadena about the “Great Cosmic Ghoul” who ate Martian-bound robots.
But interestingly, once a mission is successful, it tends to be very successful–the rovers that landed a couple years ago were only designed (and expected to last) for three months, but they’re still going strong. Michelle Thaller has an article that explains why bad weather is good for Martian explorers.
Cultural Imperialism
Ain’t it wonderful?
People looked at me funny when I took these pictures. Why on earth is that guy taking pictures of the Red Bull? He
Appeasing Tyrants
…at Harvard (or anywhere else), doesn’t work. Larry Summers is resigning:
I’ve been disappointed by Summers’ repeated apologies for raising legitimate intellectual questions in a fair and respectful way. I consoled myself with the thought that, if Summers remained in place, he might ultimately do more for reform than he might have by standing up for principle. Now even this second-best consolation is gone, making it all the more obvious that Summers ought to have stood up to the Harvard’s dictators from the start, even if it cost him his job. Now Summers must either remain silent, or hit back and implicitly acknowledge that all those apologies were bogus.
The Slide Down The Hill Continues
So much for childhood memories–Detroit might be closing its zoo. And of course, it’s because of the evil racists:
Council member Barbara-Rose Collins said the state
Can We Call Them Traitors?
Ohio men planning attacks on troops in Iraq. If they’re American citizens, why wouldn’t this be treasonous?
Domesticity
In this corner, we have a hot-blooded (though it remains unclear whether she was hot) Argentinian woman who stabbed her husband for not having s3x with her. And further north, in the Sunshine State, a man beats his male roommate to death with a clawhammer (and a sledge hammer–apparently he thought he really needed to be hammered) for running out of toilet paper.
I guess that there are some cautionary tales here, somewhere, but as that great philosopher, Homer Simpson, once said, sometimes there is no moral to the story. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened.