76-Year-Old Man With Purple Urine You encounter some fascinating stuff reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Take NEJM’s Image of the Week this...
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa In case you haven’t noticed yet, at least one Techyum contributor has been making a pig of himself with...
American Scary American Scary is a fun, fascinating, wacky new documentary about the all-American tradition of horror movie hosting. From my...
Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies In her Livejournal, anthology editor Ellen Datlow links to this Centripetal Notion gallery (which Cory Doctorow also blogged at...
Starbucks PWNED by Bejing’s Forbidden City Reuters reports that The Forbidden City coffee shop has opened in the former Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. It...
$100 Laptop Offered to US Consumers (not for $100) BBC News reports that for a limited time the One Laptop Per Child Project will be selling the “$100...
H.G. Wells Stage Festival in NYC The following is from Fangoria… oh, how I wish I lived in NYC sometimes. Halloween kicks off early this...
Nine New Ebola Cases in Congo The BBC reports that nine more cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;...
Wikipedia: Only As Full of Shit As You Are, Professor One of my favorite science publications, New Scientist, drops the ball in a big way in this article on...
NASA Accepting Aps for its Astronaut Training Program Now’s your chance! NASA announced today that it’s accepting candidates for the 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class. According to today’s...