Monthly Archive: October 2001

Plastic has this story on how Noted TV Psychic (!) John Edwards did one of his I See Dead People schtick with relatives of people who died on 9/11. This would have been a...

New Scientist also says likely postal anthrax originated in the US. Earlier here.

Good advice from someone who knows: Smell new mown hay, green corn, or something fruity? Probably a nerve agent. Breathe shallowly, head upwind. Smell bitter almonds, garlic? Probably a blood agent like cyanide or...

Does Bin Laden already have nuclear bombs, or just nuclear material sufficient to use as a radiological bomb that would posion an urban centre? Or is this just a spin story designed to leak...

Woman… flesh-eating disease… no nose… new nose growing under arm skin… graft expected…

Whatever you do, don’t get any oral action in Zambia. One poor German tourist had someone go down on him, was caught and charged with participating in an “unnatural” sex act, and is now...

Only with so many crazy people in California who value pets above people can it have taken this long to destroy this (wo)mankiller dog.

Another review of the new Pytheas book. I liked his description of the Arctic ice sheet as the pnevmon, or “the lung of the sea”, where the sea and air congealed into ice and...

This guy lived like a pauper and ate mainly peanut butter, but left $1.1m in his will, while this guy went dumpster diving and did odd jobs, but still left $1m. This probably means...

I’ve heard this before, but I liked the way this guy talked about the media’s abdication of responsibility: Talk of plot lines and demographics, sexiness and �water-cooler� appeal have polluted a mission that is...