Donating for dollars
Already, healthy people can donate blood, sperm and eggs, but now the nonprofit OpenBiome offers donors $40 for bowel movements — to supply “fecal transplants” for patients with nasty C. [...]
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Posted May 13, 2015in News of the Weird
Posted May 06, 2015in News of the Weird
Marital enhancement
Saudi Arabia’s very first sex accessory shop (in the holy city of Mecca) should be opening soon, according to news reports — operated by a Moroccan Muslim, backed by the [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in News of the Weird
World’s worst sculptor
It seemed like a good idea when the town of Celoron, New York, agreed in 2009 to pay for a bronze statue honoring the village’s only celebrity. Lucille Ball had [...]
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Posted April 22, 2015in News of the Weird
Hard-hitting numbers
In March, offensive lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to his curriculum vitae by co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed academic articles — “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm [...]
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Posted April 15, 2015in News of the Weird
The importance of family
On Feb. 9 a single traffic stop in Alderson, West Virginia, resulted in the arrest of six people from the same family, trafficking in stolen power tools (including one man [...]
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Posted April 08, 2015in News of the Weird
Wait, what?
An unarmed man, suspected of no crime, who three years ago was shot 16 times by police while lying in his bed, told a Seattle Times reporter in March that [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in News of the Weird
Man’s best friend
Researchers are now preparing a study seeking to confirm that dog slobber, by itself (and not just the psychological advantages of playing with and petting a dog), might provide human [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in News of the Weird
Witness protection
Even dangerous felons sometimes serve short sentences, but Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, 58 — guilty of nothing — has been locked up for nearly 900 days (as of early March) as a [...]
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Posted March 18, 2015in News of the Weird
Anatomy class in court
“This will be upsetting,” cautioned Justice Robert Graesser, addressing jurors in February in the Edmonton, Alberta, murder trial of Brad Barton. At issue was the cause of the victim’s having [...]
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Posted March 11, 2015in News of the Weird
Fine points of the law
Shooting “upskirt” photos of a 13-year-old girl is not illegal in Oregon, declared Judge Eric Butterfield in February, thus acquitting Patrick Buono, 61, of the crimes of invasion of privacy [...]
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