YOUR BRAIN STAYS HALF AWAKE WHEN YOU SLEEP IN A NEW PLACE
If you’ve ever slept in a hotel, gone camping, or even slept over at a friend’s pad, chances are you’ve woken up the next day feeling groggy and bleary-eyed. Even if you don’t remember
Air Canada flight finds stranded Australian yacht
They were ready to land in Australia, at the end of a 14-hour international flight, when the 270 passengers of an Air Canada flight were suddenly thrown into a high-seas search-and-rescue operation. Flight AC033
Smoky The Yorkshire Terrier Was Probably The Cutest Service Member In WWII
This is Smoky, a female Yorkshire Terrier that served in World War II. Taken on Biak Island, Indonesia in Sept. 1944. About 5,000 enemy soldiers were trapped in caves two miles away. Smoky was
Meet Temar Boggs, rescuer of a kidnapped little girl
Temar Boggs is a 15-year-old student who lives in Lancaster, Pa. He loves playing sports, hanging out with friends, skateboarding and biking. Add “being a hero” to the list. Temar was having an average
Stranger Than Fiction: Jack the Signalman
During the latter part of the 1800s, travelers to Cape Town, South Africa, along the Port Elizabeth Mainline Railroad frequently saw a curious sight as they entered the train station. The signalman operating the
Giant Tortoises
I look on the hieroglyph, weaving a dream… While the dark giant tortoise crept on ‘mid their stems, Never heeding the plash of the bright-dropping gems. Giant Tortoises Today In 2006, Adwaitya the Aldabra
That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes
The events that led teams of helicopter-borne vets to pelt the Swiss countryside with vaccine-impregnated chicken heads began in 1939. Two things were then sweeping through Poland: the Nazis, and an epidemic of rabies
Frasier’s dog Eddie dies aged 16
Moose the dog, better known as Eddie in US sitcom Frasier, has died aged 16 in Los Angeles, his trainer has said. The Jack Russell terrier passed away of old age last week at
Satirical site The Onion is now worth more than most of the real news outlets it mocks
SATIRICAL NEWS SITE The Onion – known for headlines like’World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent’ – has been valued at half a billion dollars, more than most of the news outlets it
How One Cougar Can Plant 94,000 Seeds a Year
Cougars are great gardeners. You won’t see them carefully pruning bonsai trees with their claws or paging through a Burpee seed catalog, but scientists say that one of these bigs cats can plant around