Earworms Explained

from The New York Times What Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ and Other Earworm Songs Have in Common By  JOANNA KLEIN You should stop reading this now. No really, just don’t. You’re still reading. O.K., you asked for it: “Rah rah ah-ah-ah!/ Ro mah ro-mah-mah!/ Gaga...

Proxima Centauri

from SETI Institute The World Next Door By Seth Shostak Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia credit: Ian Sutton If it’s for real, it’s the closest planet beyond our solar system.  The closest planet in outer space. Astronomers using a telescope at...

Someone’s Knocking At The Door

from CNN Signal from sun-like star likely of Earthling variety By Eliott C. McLaughlin Apologies to the Tin Foil Hat Clan, but that mysterious signal emanating from a star in the constellation Hercules? Yeah, probably not an alien. If E.T. didn’t phone home,...

Van Halen Pranks

from Dangerous Minds VAN HALEN WANTED TO CRUSH A VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE WITH A TANK IN 1979… JUST TO PISS OFF AEROSMITH Today’s rock and roll history lesson comes courtesy of David Lee Roth’s highly entertaining 2000 autobiography Crazy From the Heat in which DLR recalls...

Robot Brothels Cool

from Mirror Online Robot brothels could soon become reality in UK as nation’s booming sex trade undergoes revolution BY RACHEL BISHOP A high-end sex doll in an industrial suburb of Beijing Sex robot brothels similar to those seen in Channel’s 4’s...