Outsourcing
Among the protesters at New York City’s Gay Pride Parade on the Sunday after the Supreme Court’s historic gay-marriage decision, was a group of men outfitted in Jewish prayer garments [...]
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Posted July 22, 2015in News of the Weird
Posted July 15, 2015in News of the Weird
It pays to fail
The enormous compensation CEOs of large corporations receive is justified, in part, by their bringing prosperity to their shareholders, but last year (an excellent one for most investors), two of [...]
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Posted July 08, 2015in News of the Weird
Too real
California inventor Matt McMullen, who makes the world’s most realistic life-sized female doll, the RealDoll (with exquisite skin texture and facial and body architecture, and which sells for $5,000 to [...]
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Posted July 01, 2015in News of the Weird
That New York attitude
Gregory Reddick, 54, and his employer, SJQ Sightseeing Tours, filed a lawsuit in June against New York City for “harass(ing)” them and hampering their ability to rip off tourists, specifically, [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in News of the Weird
What cannibals can teach us
Researchers studying the human-brain-eating Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea reported in a June journal article that they have identified the specific “prion” resistance gene that appears to offer complete [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in News of the Weird
Living small
Apartment buyers in ridiculously expensive Hong Kong are now eagerly paying up to the equivalent of $500,000 (U.S.) for units not much bigger than a U.S. parking space (and typically [...]
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Posted June 10, 2015in News of the Weird
Meals 2.0
Silicon Valley code-writers and engineers work long hours — with apparently little time for “food” as we know it. Eating is “time wasted,” in the words of celebrity inventor Elon [...]
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Posted June 03, 2015in News of the Weird
Crime does pay
When officials in Richmond, California, learned in 2009 that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided on a bold program: [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in News of the Weird
Great art class!
Among the requirements of “Visual Arts 104A” at the University of California, San Diego is that, for the final exam, students would make a presentation while nude, in a darkened [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in News of the Weird
Is this a great country or what?
There’s hardly a more “generic” song in America than “Happy Birthday to You,” but to this day (until a judge renders a decision in a pending case), Warner/Chappel Music is [...]
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