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So this is what happens to recycled rechargeable batteries! And this is the heartwarming story of what happens to unused paint! And... thi...

I know there are even more hideous stories around the world, but somehow the thought of 50,000 to 200,000 "comfort women" (what an...

Breaking news: Over 70% of people who read newspaper articles online about towns banning plastic bags would support a ban on plastic bags i...

Doesn't this sound like an article out of an old DOS version of Sim City? "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Families victimized by tainted spinac...

China continues to crush free speech and as Internet users we're all complicit . In other news, traveling gourmet dinner parties of stra...

Five thousand rabbits blocked a highway in Hungary on Monday, tying up traffic after the truck that was carrying them collided with another...

Ozzy Osbourne: New album first I've done sober . He didn't want his life to go to "pieces." In other news of the retarded,...

Although they found a way to not return Ingrid's money to me (quel outrage), the SNCF deserves some credit for setting the world record ...

The UR has an " Emotionally Disturbed Response Team ?" I know the article isn't something to laugh at. But really, is this a t...

Sometimes the gap between average and CEO salaries can be supersized American-style the other way around -- leave it to Google. You'd t...

In terms of public health, New Mexico gets an A and Arizona gets an F .

Nerdly humor explained.

Some Belgian headlines are exciting today. More Flemings are cycling to work and school and whatnot, and more people in Antwerp cycle to wo...

Lie group E8 : "An international team of mathematicians says it has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicate...

I didn't know Wikipedia was so groovy about amplitude modulation .

The Germans can't possibly be serious. Limit speed on the autobahn ?

It's not only North Carolina that still has funny laws about personal life (and maybe public life as well?) still on the books. Ireland...

Are we better off without our emotions?

Sad and disturbing as it is, innocent fluffy white sheep being spray-painted (ooh a verbed noun!) with swastikas by miscreant German youths ...

Finally, something to remedy my aging brain's seive-like memory: exercise !