Man hires hitman to kill wife. Wife Kills Hitman!

When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.

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An Amazing Economics Experiment

How an economist and a farmer got field workers to pick a lot more strawberries.

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The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green

With the threat of global warming looming, it's more important than ever that all of us appear to care about the environment.

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Teenage DNA Detectives Expose US Fish Fraud

Up to a quarter of fish in stores and restaurants in New York City was mislabelled as a more expensive variety, according to samples collected by two US teenagers and tested with genetic "barcoding" methods. In the worst cases, two samples of filleted fish sold as red snapper, caught mostly off the southeast United States and in the Caribbean, were

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AP: Drinking Water of 41 Million Americans Contaminated

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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Just How Nasty Is Space Food?

I’ve whipped up meals in fancy copper saucepans, in battered woks, and in my grandfather’s old iron skillet, but never before have I used a syringe to make dinner.

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Your Printer is lying to you, and what you can do about it.

Out of ink? Already? When Farhad Manjoo's Brother printer abruptly stopped zipping out prints, he began to wonder if the printer wasn't simply lying that it was out of toner in order to trick him into buying more before he needed it. The prints hadn't been fading at all, but the printer simply refused to go on without a new cartridge.

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Company Uses Shredded Checks As Package Cushioning

A Texas cannery has been using shredded checks from the local bank as packing materials for the past twenty years.

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Top 10 Newly Discovered Species

Thousands of species were discovered or "newly described" in the past year, according to the annual "State of Observed Species" report produced by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists.

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JUST ASKING: Is Michael Phelps A Douche?

After carefully reviewing extensive photographic evidence of what he looks like when he’s wearing street clothes instead of Speedos, I have to at least ask the question: “Is Michael Phelps a douche?” Before expressing your outrage over this seemingly premature Blagglash, at least allow me to present the following evidence for your consideration

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Michael Phelps' Freakish Physique Explained

The science behind the infamous Liopleurodon

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3 Controversial Maps

Three maps that have cartographers (and normal folk) up in arms.

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Where Particles, Physics Theories Collide [PICS]

Considered one of the world's largest physics experiments to date, the Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground. It was built by the European Organization for nuclear Research, also known as CERN.

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BREAKING! Toxin Found on Mars Could Mean No Life?

No wonder they notified the White House... Solid Rocket Fuel Source = $$$

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Massive 8ft Eagle That Catches Tennis Balls [PICS+VIDEO]

It's the ultimate game of fetch, but with a difference - it's played with an eagle.

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The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High

Thanks for the 20th century cocaine!

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Obama's crime? Acting too presidential.

The pundits' verdict is in: Obama is too confident, too well spoken and too believable as a president...

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HAVE They Found Poo on the Red Planet?

Space websites around the world are abuzz with speculation about what NASA's latest Mars probe may have found.

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Impressive Movie Box Office Vizualization

I had an idea for displaying box office data graphically and here are the results. Each page displays trends in the top 25 movies at the box office for each weekend in a year. The color is based on the movie's debut week. Because of that, long-running movies will gradually start to stand out from newer movies with different colors.

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The Idiot Test

Simply click on the square to begin.

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Phoenix About to Announce "Potential For Life" on Mars

It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more "provocative" than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the Mars regolith on Thursday

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Phoenix has Found Something More Compelling than Water

On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water….

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The Long Lost "Drunk Larry King" Tape

I have been looking for a classic clip of Larry King drunk on his radio show that I heard way back in the dawn of the public Internet when my friend downloaded it from a newsgroup. It's NOWHERE online now. My friend finally found the cassette tape he transfered it to back then (yes, a cassette tape!) and redigitized it.

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