Driver died sitting in car blaze

A woman in a car accident in the UK burnt to death when she refused to leave her vehicle after the accident, an inquest has been told. Truly a bizarre story."A driver burnt to death after refusing to leave her vehicle when it was set alight following a crash, an inquest was...

Obese Men Have Less Semen, More Sperm Abnormalities

Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children. Why? Read on -"Dr. A Ghiyath Shayeb, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, said that his research had shown that men with a higher body mass index (BMI) had lower volumes of seminal fluid and a...

Pedestrians to generate power as they shop

This is a really neat idea if it can be made to work - we already know that the very act of walking rather than traveling by car etc is good for the environment but now it seems our very footfall can not only decrease our carbon footprint in this way but also be an...

Bruce Springsteen's Keyboard Player, Danny Federici Dies

Danny Federici, the enigmatic keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Thursday after 40 years of playing with the Band. Federici had been battling melanoma for years and had performed a final...

Grunge is Back! Sub Pop Celebrates 20th Birthday

Time to break out the flannel, the beards, the long hair, the long sleeve waffle-weave shirt underneath the ratty t-shirt, the gunshot jeans, the Singles soundtrack, the work boots, and all that penty up anti-80s...

Filling Stations To Become Service Stations, Again! :: Oblate Spheroid

"It has been a long time, but there was a time (in the 1950's through to some of the 1970's) that when one pulled into a "gas station" to fill up, an attendant with a hat and a bowtie would ask the driver for the...

Soeharto`s health getting worse

"The health of former president Soeharto who was rushed to Pertamina hospital in South Jakarta for anemia and severe edema last Friday, got worse on Tuesday.Dr Mardjo Soebiandono, head of the presidential medical...

Canada: $6 a Gallon? Washer fluid price set to soar !

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAnd we complain about the price of a gallon of gas?Vancouver, British Columbia is Canada's leading supplier of Winterized Windsheild Washer fluid, a key ingredient...

Medical Myths "Debunked"

Well that certainly is a relief, though I still reserve the couch for a snooze after gorging on XmasTurkey, relatives be damned, they can sleep on the livingroom floor. "Researchers find some medical myths are...

The World Of Germs Becomes Deadlier In Space :: Oblate Spheroid

"That’s right, it has been discovered that germs become stronger and deadlier when they are not confined to the limitations that gravity brings to the growth and development of these microbes. This discovery...

Man With Water Sac For A Brain

A man from Marseille, France went to the doctor complaining of weakness in his left leg.  The problem?A giant sack of fluid where his brain should be.  Take that Scarecrow.The condition, known as...

Long Duck Dongs: Evolution and Sexual Organs

The interesting thing here (as it were) is that ducks seem to be able to grow their phalluses in competition with each other, thus eliminating their need to receive about 90% of email spam. However, female ducks...

Dad poisons soup, feeds it to kids to sue Campbells

A man who systematically poisoned Campbells soup and force-fed it to his young children is facing jail time. His intent, he claims, was not to harm his children but rather to sue Campbells and get financial...

Man Burns his Friend's Genitals in 'Jackass' Stunt

I do not even want to hear about anybody blaming a movie for two guys being stupid enough to do this.If someone is dumb enough to allow their you-know-whats to be sprayed with lighter fluid and then set ablaze, then sooner or later, movie or no movie, they will do mischief to...

Off-Duty NWA Worker Charged With Ejaculating on Passenger

Warning: The following article is grody to the max.A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted mid-flight by an off-duty airline employee. They were separated upon the victim's complaint to the on-duty staff; I personally feel that the perp should have been forced to sit in one...

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