Darwin’s bark spider is very small and yet constructs webs with anchor lines spanning rivers. It was discovered in 2001 in Madagascar, but a recent paper documented that its silk is stronger than Kevlar. The extra strong silk is what makes it possible for the spider to make anchor lines that are very long and can bear [...]
September 14, 2010
A German supermarket chain which fired a long-standing employee for taking home some stale bread that was no longer fit for sale was wrong to dismiss her, a court in Leipzig has ruled. The 44-year-old cashier had been asked to dispose of the bread in a bio-waste container in March this year, but it was [...]
August 30, 2010
The trophies from the big award shows all have cute little names (Oscar), and the Emmys ceremony is getting all the attention. Emmy must be very excited, right? Some Emily who was so important to the TV industry that an honor was named after her? Nope. Emmy isn’t human, is a feminization, and is totally obsolete. The television industry [...]
June 26, 2010
MONROE,, OHIO — Charred remnants remained this morning, June 15, of the large Jesus statue iconic to Interstate 75 that was destroyed following an apparent lightning strike during a thunderstorm late Monday night. The Lawrence Bishop Music Theater at Solid Rock Church on Union Road endured smoke damage, according to officials. Damages to the King [...]
June 23, 2010
With divorce on the rise in Japan, some couples are choosing to celebrate the end of an unhappy marriage by saying “I do” for a final time at a divorce ceremony before friends and family. Divorce ceremonies were pioneered about a year ago by a former salesman, Hiroki Terai, who set up a “divorce mansion” in [...]
June 2, 2010
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. The kookaburra got into trouble with her weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her sausages at barbecues. The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 [...]
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