Many Americans are furious at the new TSA security checks, while others say they are willing to endure them if it keeps them safe.But one small, though growing, group of people appear to be positively enjoying the new regulations.Breaking out their bikinis, Speedos, body paint and racy underwear, various passengers around America are using the stringent new measures to explore their exhibitionist sides.
via Mail Online.
This week a Darth Vader costume dating from the era of Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) is to be sold at auction at Christie’s in London. We talk to actor Dave Prowse about his time as the man behind the mask.
via BBC News – Dave Prowse: The man behind Darth Vader’s mask.
The coyote to the right was caught on video running loose in the middle of Chicago at 3:00 am on Monday morning. The police didn’t seem to know what it was doing there, but Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control told Chicago Breaking News that the coyote is let loose in the city to monitor the rodent populatio
via Let Loose the Coyotes? Chicago Embraces Rat-Hunting Predators | Discoblog | Discover Magazine.
An Idaho judge has set bond at $100,000 for a Boise woman police say posed as a physician and duped at least two other women into having their breasts examined by her at Boise-area nightclubs
via Reuters.
An angler had a shock in the US – when a mystery fish bit him back with distinctly human-looking teeth.
Frank Yarborough was fishing in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, when he hooked the fish which was 5lb and nearly 1ft 8ins long.
Surgeons in China saved a little girl’s hand – by grafting it on to her leg for three months.
Nine-year-old Ming Li lost her hand when she was run over by a tractor on her way to school in July.
But her arm was too badly damaged to reattach it to her wrist so doctors temporarily attached it to her right calf instead.
via Orange UK.
Bars of light passing across a massive tangle of cables give the sense of being surrounded by crackling electrical signals and firing neurons as you enter the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit here. Most people may visit the museum for the fossils, but this time
they’ll want to stay for the brains.
via LiveScience.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I sent something using conventional mail, but it may have been more than three years ago. I hate licking stamps and envelopes and risking a paper cut in one of the worst places I can imagine. But after spotting these Mmmvelope bacon-flavored envelopes from “bacontrepreneurs” J&D’s, I might start looking for reasons to send random stuff out. And for as little as three packs of 25 for $14.99, I can send a lot.
Unusually warm ocean temperatures in the summer and fall of 2005 caused a mass die-off of Caribbean corals that is the worst ever recorded there, according to new research published yesterday in the online journal PLoS ONE.
via Scientific American.
Parents who use number words while speaking to their young children – even if the children don’t seem to grasp their meanings at first – are giving them a considerable head start in learning math, new research suggests.
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NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and southern U.S. states. The red "jellyfish" could help researchers learn more about ...
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An "unexpected life form" that has the look of a pitch black, tar-like substance was found on a boat docking in Cleveland, Ohio — and needless to say, fans of both the Alien and X-Files franchises a...