BEIRUT — Lebanese chefs prepared a massive plate of hummus weighing over two tons Saturday that broke a world record organizers said was previously held by Israel – a bid to reaffirm proprietorship over the popular Middle Eastern dip. “Come and fight for your bite, you know you’re right!” was the slogan for the event [...]
October 29, 2009
PARIS — The French branch of the Church of Scientology was convicted of fraud and fined nearly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris court. But the judges did not ban the church entirely, as the prosecution had demanded, saying that a change in the law prevented such an action for fraud. The church said it [...]
October 21, 2009
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — This story is so unusual that it easily found its way into Whole Weird World, but is no way amusing to me. In fact, it sort of turns my stomach. Police are investigating a case of animal neglect after an 11-pound male dog was found covered in nine pounds of dirty [...]
October 8, 2009
Buenos Aires boasts impressive waiters, whose minds are worth studying, according to the paper Strategies of Buenos Aires Waiters to Enhance Memory Capacity in a Real-Life Setting, published in the journal Behavioural Neurology. “Typical Buenos Aires senior waiters memorize all orders from clients and take the orders, without written support, of as many as ten [...]
October 1, 2009
Can you cure hiccups through rectal massage? Is Coca-Cola an effective spermicide? Scientists who have devoted their research to these burning questions, among others, are on their way to Harvard University for the 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes, the annual spoof for research that “cannot or should not be reproduced.” A bevy of genuine Nobel laureates, [...]
October 1, 2009
More than forty years after John Lennon invoked the ire of Christians by claiming his band was bigger than Jesus, he has been proven right by an analysis of search terms on Google’s search engine. In the last four weeks more computer users have typed in the search word “Beatles” on the Google website than [...]
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