The Worlds - lite

An article at phys.org tells us there are poop robots now. They run on human waste. Let's let our imagination run wild for a moment....

I was fascinated by a NYT story about a death ritual in India. MUMBAI, India — Fifteen years after vultures disappeared from Mumbai’s ...

Syria's Assad has killed 48,000 of his own people. If anyone needs to hang, it's this guy. Today, we learn he's cut the interne...

I love th is : MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Thursday ruled that the video of punk band Pussy Riot's performance in Russia's...

I cannot believe how essential my iPad has become to my existence. The battery lasts forever so I've only charged it twice since I got...

This sounds way too simple to be true, but it's been confirmed experimentally. If you don't want to read the article, the short ve...

Hat tip to Ed Brayton on this. He quotes from an article about Russia's inane charges against Madonna for championing gay rights du...