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 [...]
September 30, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Call them the Knights of Knitting. One evening each month the Wonder Knit shop in Columbus, Ohio, holds a men’s only knitting night. Shop owner Libby Bruce said she has as many as 15 guys attending her knitting circles. She adds they range in age from college students to older men, both [...]
September 28, 2009
Former circus performer Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, expects to have some fun when he launches to space this week, but also has serious side to his self-proclaimed “poetic social mission.” Laliberte, a 50-year-old former acrobat and the first Canadian space tourist, is headed for the International Space Station and has dedicated [...]
September 27, 2009
When an archaeological discovery in Staffordshire was recently announced, experts described it as one of the most important in British archaeological history. They said it surpassed the greatest previous discovery of its kind, a royal burial chamber unearthed in 1939 at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk. That find shaped scholars’ understanding of the warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms [...]
September 23, 2009
Witzelsucht, from the German witzeln, meaning to joke or wisecrack, and sucht meaning addiction or yearning (sucht means searching), is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by the patient’s uncontrollable tendency to pun, or tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing. It [...]
September 21, 2009
Asia seems to be a mecca for weirdness, and Hong Kong Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2010, one of Asia’s largest fashion events, is an excellent example. The show recently took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. This annual event is a meeting point for designers and manufacturers from all parts of Asia [...]
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