Armageddon Map

by | Apr 10, 2019 | Weirdness

from France 24 Mapping Armaggedon: Earth’s looming tsunamis and mega-quakes A landslide from Anak Karkatau triggered a tsunami that killed 437 people and injured 30,000 in December 2018 AFP/File As villagers along the Sunda Strait were finishing their meals on...

Baseball Is Dead. (Yeah, right!)

by | Apr 8, 2019 | Mirth

from The Guardian Why baseball spent more than $1bn on three players in a month Three of the richest contracts in sports history would appear to bust the baseball-is-dying narrative, but underlying trends have exposed a rot within the mechanics of the sport’s...

Spooky Golightly

by | Apr 7, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Mirth

from The New York Post Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn was a WWII resistance spy By Reed Tucker She was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actresses. But Audrey Hepburn had a role that few knew about: spy. And unlike the characters that she portrayed on screen,...

Plague Again

by | Apr 6, 2019 | Weirdness

from MSN Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy by MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW JACOBS  Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed...