Category: Change
Insight meditation.
Researchers discover that meditation changes the structure of the brain. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 16th, 2006.
Diverging diamond interchange.
Unorthodox road design will temporarily put Kansas City drivers on the left side of the road.
Post date: Friday, March 31st, 2006.
Color of the Cross.
Movie that will portray Jesus as a black man.
Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
Spermatogonia.
Scientists have turned fish sperm cells into eggs.
Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
Oxybenzone.
Ingredient found in suntan oil is making male fish turn female. (via)
Post date: Sunday, January 22nd, 2006.
Loophole.
Thai man busted in Singapore for dealing drugs escapes caning by getting a sex change.
Post date: Saturday, January 21st, 2006.
Kicking the oil habit.
Iceland is moving permanently away from gasoline for its fuel needs. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Winds of change.
Texas grocery chain to use wind energy to power all of its electrical needs.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Water closet.
Brazilian city may require transvestite bathrooms.
Post date: Thursday, December 15th, 2005.
One solution.
Iran suggests that Israel be relocated to Alaska.
Post date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005.
Off kilter.
North Pole’s magnetic field is moving towards Siberia.
Post date: Friday, December 9th, 2005.
Mr. Floatie.
Canadian mascot fashioned as a piece of poo is running for mayor. UPDATE: The turd is backing out. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
Keep the change.
Bank of America offering new debit card program that rounds up purchases to the next dollar and invests the difference in a bank-matching account. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Truth in Age Act.
A bill is being debated that, if passed, will date the lives of all Americans from conception, making everyone 9 months older. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Sir Henry Neville.
Book claims that Shakespeare’s plays and verse were written by another person.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Revelations.
Catholic Church: Parts of the Bible are not actually true. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
Rest in mulch.
Town in Sweden to begin freeze-drying their dead. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Astrobiology.
British university is offering a degree in searching for extraterrestrial life beyond Earth.
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Dry campus.
Siena College in New York bans the drinking of any kind of beverage in a container on campus. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
CSI Britney.
Britney Spears to quit her music and pursue career in forensic science.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Pureprofile.
A reverse search engine that allows consumers to publicly advertise the products they are seeking and for the marketers of these products to reach them. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Slawesome.
A new Web service currently in alpha that lets you send emails with your voice. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
TurboTap.
Using the principles of ‘fluid mechanics‘, a frustrated college engineer creates a beer tap design which improves keg yield by 30% and pours four times faster than a conventional tap. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
BorrowMe.com
Web startup aims to be ‘the product lending library for the world’. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2005.
M.S. Interactive Entertainment.
University of Central Florida starts video game graduate school program. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Say ‘Mmm’.
Smiling to be banned on all British passports. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
The old days.
Antique gas station pumps in Vermont unable to display gas prices at $2.99 and higher are forced to shut down.
Post date: Saturday, September 3rd, 2005.
Too late.
Innocent maid criminally convicted and executed in 1945 posthumously pardoned in Georgia.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
F-ing limit.
School in England allowing students to swear at teachers a maximum of five times per lesson.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Catman.
Man transforms himself into a cat via extreme plastic surgery. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005.
Poetic lysinse.
Pissed off artist reluctantly corrects her misspellings on murals she created for the Livermore public library in San Francisco. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Sans crusts.
Invisible Crust, the ‘world’s first‘ crust-less bread, goes on sale in the U.K.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
Jump.
Knock the world off its axis next year during World Jump Day. (via)
Post date: Friday, July 29th, 2005.
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