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Brain-to-Brain Interface Lets Rats Communicate With Their Minds
Scientists at Duke University have developed a way for rats to communicate with one another, using only the electrical transmissions of their brains. They have created a brain-to-brain interface that...
View ArticleRomney Was Convinced He Would Win, Says 'It Kills Me Not To Be' in White House
In his first interview since losing the presidential election in November, Mitt Romney criticized the President, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that Obama could have avoided the sequester with more...
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How Nasty Comments Can Change the Way We Think
They call it "the nasty effect." Strong-worded comments can change a readers understanding of an article, especially when it comes to science reporting. Writing in today's New York Times, a group of...
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Israeli Bus Company Introducing 'Palestinian Only' Buses
Following complaints by West Bank settlers that Palestinians posed a "security risk" to fellow bus riders, the Afikim bus company will begin running separate buses for settlers and Palestinians...
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Montgomery Police Chief Apologizes to Freedom Riders
When the Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery, Alabama in May of 1961, they were greeted and beaten by a mob at the Greyhound station. The civil rights activists were not welcome in the deep south, and...
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Baby Born With HIV Is Cured
Researchers at a major AIDS conference in Atlanta announced today that a 2½ year child in Mississippi born with HIV has been cured of the virus after taking an aggressive regimen of drugs since birth....
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Expectant Brooklyn Couple Killed in Car Accident on Way to Hospital
Early Sunday morning, a young man and his pregnant wife were killed in a hit-and-run car accident in Brooklyn. The couple, Nachman and Raizel Glauber, both 21, were rushing to the hospital in the back...
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Man Fakes His Own Kidnapping to Avoid Angry Girlfriend, Gets Arrested
After Rahmell Pettway spent several weeks away from home without telling his girlfriend where he was, the 36-year-old probably knew he was in trouble. So Pettway, whom the NYPD describe as a career...
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$250 Million Island-Collecting Widow Dumped Two Children She Adopted from China
Christine Svenningsen is a rich, New York widow who enjoys collecting and remodeling estates in Long Island Sound. She is also, apparently, a rich, New York widow who enjoys collecting—I'm sorry,...
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Keith Olbermann Wants to Work at ESPN Again
Keith Olbermann, famed observer of reckless drivers and occasional Gawker emailer, is reportedly testing the waters at ESPN, the station he left in 1997 in a typically bridge-burning/napalming...
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Adult Film Company Releases Definitive Proof that Ex-Miss Delaware Teen...
Now-former Miss Delaware Teen USA Melissa King initially denied any connection to the recently surfaced porn video that forced her to resign her crown, telling The News Journal it was "absolutely not"...
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Nurse Ignores 911 Dispatcher's Heartbreaking Pleas to Perform CPR on Dying Woman
A senior living facility in Bakesfield, California, says one its nurses was just doing her job when she refused a 911 dispatchers repeated pleas to perform CPR on an elderly resident who ultimately...
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Man Dressed As Batman Drops Wanted Criminal Off at Police Station, Then...
A "portly" individual wearing a Batman costume surprised authorities in the Northern England city of Bradford when he arrived unexpectedly at a local police station to drop off a man wanted for...
View ArticleNorwegian Teen Single-Handedly Revives the Internet's Most Dangerous 'Game'
The "Knife Game Song" isn't all that new: It first appeared online way back in 2011, and even managed to garner over 100k views shortly after it appeared on YouTube. Still, somewhere between then and...
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Woman Stabs Husband to Death for Trying to Kill Her Cat
A Siberian woman has been arrested and charged with murder for stabbing her husband to death after he attempted to kill her cat with a rake. The 56-year-old woman and her husband had, surprisingly,...
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School Suspends Second Grader for Eating His Pop-Tart Into the Shape of a Gun
7-year-old John Welch of Baltimore still isn't quite sure why he was suspended from Park Elementary School, though he understands it had something to do with his breakfast pastry's slight resemblance...
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Student Debt Is Perfectly Following the Financial Meltdown Script
Just when the stock market recovers and public optimism returns and you start to lose faith in the power of American capitalism to constantly repeat its past mistakes in the form of foreseeable...
View ArticleTalking Hamster Helps Russian Driver Get On Police Officer's Good Side
All other toy commercials could stand to learn a thing or two from this Russian ad for a talking hamster doll called "WoodyOTime." The robotic rodent is capable of repeating a person's sentences back...
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Oberlin Cancels Classes After Figure in KKK Robes Spotted Near African...
A figure "wearing KKK regalia" was spotted at Oberlin College this morning, the culmination of a month of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic graffiti being discovered on buildings around the Ohio...
View ArticleTwo More Minutes of Nothing But Goats Yelling Like Humans
Three weeks ago, The Roosevelts nearly broke the Internet when they released the first-ever supercut of goats yelling like humans. In honor of the original video surpassing 10 million views on...
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