Giant Burrowing Cockroach May Be World's Heaviest Insect

Australia's giant burrowing cockroach has the honor of being the world's heaviest insect. According to scientists, the giant burrowing cockroach can weigh as much 30 to 35 grams and nearly 85 millimeters in...

Poverty Olympics to protest penury

The 2010 Winter Games has received much backlash from Vancouver's homeless advocates, and the first annual Poverty Olympics is the latest display of dissent.  Think stuffed cockroaches and rats will outsell...

Roaches, get your roaches here! 25 cents a piece!

How many roaches have you squashed in your life? I know I've manhandled a few of those scurrying little suckers in my time, but maybe I should have just caught them instead. Because now, I could make a pretty...

Evolutionary Hardware: AI 2.0

I wouldn't frame this story in terms of evolution-versus-creationism, but it's a stellar read anyway: Engineers have developed a way to get systems to "evolve" thourgh self-upgrade."For decades people have tried to replicate the human mind, using more and more sophisticated...

Boys Town: Shenzhen style

"I had just crushed a cockroach on my table with a shotglass in Discover, a Shenzhen, China gay bar, Saturday night and was in the restroom unzipping at the urinal when I felt two small hands tenatively rubbing my shoulders. It was the helpful men's room attendant. He wasn't,...

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