Einstein wanted to be cremated and his ashes spread in a secret location to avoid creating a shrine or anything weird.He got the weird instead. Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist on call the evening Einsten died of a burst aortic aneurysm, stole his brain. Why? Who knows why, he was no brain specialist. He got retroactive permission from Einstein's son, Hans...
read moreI drank raw milk as a kid. If you were poor and living in the country decades ago, when dairy farmers still had some measure of autonomy from government rules, you probably did too. It didn't hurt me. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to drink it; now, instead of poor people in the country who didn't want to pay a lot for milk in a store because it was price controlled by the...
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A six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at birth that it would not survive - and now the Swiss public has fallen in love with Lilli.Farmer Andreas Knutti from Weissenburg told Blick that a curve in her spine means that Lilli may never become a normal milk cow. Regardless, he couldn't euthanize her because she is just too darn cute.Lilli. Photograph: Peter...
read moreThe New York City Department of Education wants to remove words that might upset special interests from standardized tests. Which special interests? Apparently all of them, if you look at the list, even special interests no one knew existed.
read moreThere was a time when people on the right trusted science far more than moderates and liberals. Distrust of scientists, including levels that verged on raging paranoia, was limited to the left side of the political spectrum. read...
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