How Cockroaches Escape, How Paraplegic Bank Robbers Don’t
and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday
Cutting-edge work from the Methodological Chemistry Institute of the National Research Council of Italy on . . well . . how American cockroaches plan and execute their escape routes when confronted by a predator (or a shoe). New York Times
A paraplegic guy robbed an F State credit union on Friday, but he didn't get far ("probably miscalculated his ability to flee the scene," said Lt. DeSantis). Florida Today (Melbourne)
An academic's report for Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare revealed that more than a third of marrieds don't have sex anymore, which in the long term will present taxation problems for old-age benefits. Daily Telegraph (London)
The Dallas (Tex.) public school system got caught systematically making up Social Security Numbers for the foreign-national teachers it was recruiting, just because it made the paperwork easier. (Bonus: Caught 'em earlier doing it, in 2004, and they said they'd stop, but they didn't!) Dallas Morning News
Awesome! Maryland lobbyist Gilbert Genn had a run-in with a crazed deer outside his home, got seriously antlered (in the chest and the "groin area"), fought it off, applied a homemade fix to stanch the bleeding, and hobbled away to Annapolis for a meeting with the state House Speaker. ("There was no way I could miss this meeting.") WTOP Radio (Washington, D.C.)
A candy-oriented dispatch from Dubai: "Nobody thought about using camel milk before, then people from the camel world met people from the chocolate world." Yum! The Times (London)
From The Smoking Gun's weekly collection: Pretty clear, isn't it, which of the three is most guilty, then next-most? Am I right?
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Here are two whole pages celebrating architects on acid, or some such thing, that led them to not only think of designing structures that look like this, but then actually building the damned things. Unusual Architecture
Today's Newsrangers: Pete Randall, Bruce Townley, Steve Miller, Sam Gaines
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Cutting-edge work from the Methodological Chemistry Institute of the National Research Council of Italy on . . well . . how American cockroaches plan and execute their escape routes when confronted by a predator (or a shoe). New York Times
A paraplegic guy robbed an F State credit union on Friday, but he didn't get far ("probably miscalculated his ability to flee the scene," said Lt. DeSantis). Florida Today (Melbourne)
An academic's report for Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare revealed that more than a third of marrieds don't have sex anymore, which in the long term will present taxation problems for old-age benefits. Daily Telegraph (London)
The Dallas (Tex.) public school system got caught systematically making up Social Security Numbers for the foreign-national teachers it was recruiting, just because it made the paperwork easier. (Bonus: Caught 'em earlier doing it, in 2004, and they said they'd stop, but they didn't!) Dallas Morning News
Awesome! Maryland lobbyist Gilbert Genn had a run-in with a crazed deer outside his home, got seriously antlered (in the chest and the "groin area"), fought it off, applied a homemade fix to stanch the bleeding, and hobbled away to Annapolis for a meeting with the state House Speaker. ("There was no way I could miss this meeting.") WTOP Radio (Washington, D.C.)
A candy-oriented dispatch from Dubai: "Nobody thought about using camel milk before, then people from the camel world met people from the chocolate world." Yum! The Times (London)
From The Smoking Gun's weekly collection: Pretty clear, isn't it, which of the three is most guilty, then next-most? Am I right?
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Here are two whole pages celebrating architects on acid, or some such thing, that led them to not only think of designing structures that look like this, but then actually building the damned things. Unusual Architecture
Today's Newsrangers: Pete Randall, Bruce Townley, Steve Miller, Sam Gaines
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