KISARAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar – or the Great in Arabic – came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds. Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight [...]
September 26, 2009
Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. Chess boxing fights have been organized since early 2003. The sport was started when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by fictional descriptions of the sport in the writing of Enki Bilal, organized actual matches. The sport [...]
September 26, 2009
In Southwest Philadelphia, a drunk driver arguing with a woman in another car early yesterday lost control, steered his vehicle onto the sidewalk and slammed into the headquarters of Southwest Detectives and the 18th Police District. Justin Hudson, 22, was charged with driving under the influence after the 1:15 a.m. incident. The impact knocked a [...]
September 25, 2009
There two ways of reporting this, and I’m not entirely sure which version I prefer. It seems that a crack team from University of California Santa Barbara recorded brain activity in a dead salmon. That bit of information would be truly weird and definitely qualifies as something WholeWeirdWorld would glom onto. But that’s not the [...]
September 25, 2009
The Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. The Planck team has released the probe’s first image, an observational strip (above) covering about five per cent of the sky. Its first map of the entire sky is set to be complete in about [...]
September 25, 2009
$10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 NEW YORK — Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show. “Incomprehensible,” U.S. District [...]
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