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A giant underground Salt Mine cavity in New Mexico is a “time bomb waiting to implode” according to geologists who expect the surrounding region to sink into a hole at any moment.
Just like the time Slate’s Jacob Weisberg invited me to join his Mafia family, his latest tweet made me think some wiseass had hacked his Twitter account: “If you’re looking […]
How many friends do you have who, under the “religious views” section of their Facebook profile, list “environmentalist,” “nature,” “mother earth,” “dirty hippy,” “dirt-worshiping treehugger,” or some variation thereof? Well, […]
Reporting from Mexico for the December issue of the The Atlantic, author Philip Caputo writes that “drug trafficking and its attendant corruption are a malignancy that has spread into Mexico’s […]
Ebay has mapped out its Black Friday transactions. It’s was a real east-of-the-Mississipi kind of day. Let’s all give thanks for a robust 2nd Amendment. Animal rights activists react to […]
Graham Greene’sThe Quiet American and Antonio Giustozzi’s Decoding the New Taliban — two books that I’ve started more or less simultaneously — are jostling in my brain. In the very […]
New evidence suggests that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite that crashed into Antarctica 13,000 years ago.
Unidentified authorities have reportedly removed the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi’s bank safety deposit box.
A British student who pleaded guilty to outraging public decency has been spared jail by a court after he was arrested for urinating on a war memorial.
While most of the more prominent details of the 9/11 attacks have been made bare, the search to find the psychological undertones of these tragic events goes on. But as […]
For the first time in a long time, there’s almost a glut of good news flooding green media: not only did Obama commit last week to attend December’s crucial climate […]
Residents of an Australian community have been overrun by an invasion of thousands of camels – and many people are scared to leave their homes.
China has put to death two of the key players in a milk poisoning scandal that led to the deaths of six infants in 2007.
An internet romance that ended in the disappearance of a woman has left police with a homicide investigation but no evidence and no body.
A 14-year-old girl could be charged as an accomplice to the gang-rape of her ninth-grade classmate after she spoke to reporters last week.
A Chinese dissident who criticized the government after a school collapsed, killing thousands of children, has been sentenced to three years in jail.
If the title “Riverkeeper” sounds like a mythic, sacred charge worthy of Tolkien, that’s because it is. Few natural phenomena have ever been as threatened by the forces of human […]
I came home from Sunday night’s thrilling Major League Soccer championship game sure that I would finish my weekend by writing about the explosive aftermath of the World Cup qualifying match between Egypt […]
An army investigation has unearthed another unmarked casket at the historic burial site at Arlington, prompting fears that unofficial burials are taking place.
The story by Evelyn Theiss of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer has been online since Friday and I can’t stop wondering how Vietnam will react to it. The headline: “My Lai […]
Creepiest incentive ever to exercise: Peruvian cops have arrested a gang that, they say, kills people for their fat. The extracted adipose tissue was then allegedly sold for cosmetics made […]
Three men have been charged by the feds for a 2008 stunt that replaced cable giant Comcast’s homepage with a message to other hackers – costing the company an over $128,000.
A gang have been arrested on suspicion of killing people and selling their fat on the black market.
Senator John Kerry’s daughter was arrested yesterday in Las Angeles on suspicion of driving while under the influence.
“Would you please turn the lights up,” Robert F Kennedy Jr. asked the stage crew as he took the floor of New York’s Town Hall in Times Square, about to […]
In South Africa a polygamist businessman has been convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and the attempted murder of his second wife.
A super-submarine left over from the Second World War has been found in Hawaii.
The new Atlantic magazine has an intriguing dispatch about how “Iranians line up daily to cross the Astara River to buy and sell jeans, chickens, bras, laptops—and often sex and […]
It looks like the Iranians have balked on their promise to ship lowly enriched uranium to Russia. One wonders if the whole thing was a ruse to tamp down the […]
An Australian senator has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organization and has called for its investigation by the police.