POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Robert Essenhigh, a professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State, has written an essay disputing the idea that human activity is causing global warming. He is part of an academic group that opposes the Kyoto treaty. Although I have a Ph.D. in physical...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Canadian authorities had little trouble identifying the two suspects who stole outdoor surveillance cameras at a museum in Prince George, British Columbia. Before they were stolen, the cameras recorded the crimes. “They are very clear, good-quality...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Though far from being an all-out pothead, I occasionally smoke a little smoke and, to the best of my knowledge, have never experienced any ill effects (aside from that way-natty brownie I ate on my 18th birthday). I have, however, heard a ton of nonsense...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - After a man flagged down a sheriff’s deputy in Brown County, Ohio, to report that someone had stolen a large construction trailer, worth $12,000, from a job site, investigators observed that the trailer had been hauled away with its air brakes locked,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A character in Christopher Buckley’s 1994 novel Thank You for Smoking (now a film) quotes a then-current prediction in the medical journal The Lancet: “[In the] next 10 years, 250 million people in the industrialized world are going to die...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Philadelphia police investigating a bank robbery identified Daniel Magee, 29, as their suspect after they recovered a jacket that witnesses said the fleeing robber tossed into a trashcan. In one of the pockets, officers found a pawn ticket for a digital...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - For decades I’ve wondered, and assuming the answer would be highly personal, have failed to ask: What’s the deal with the extra-long pinkie fingernail on people from the Orient (Middle East, India, Southeast Asia)? 'Jim Mundy, Pawhuska,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - After watching countless spy movies, Westerns, and TV cop shows, I wonder: how easy is it to knock someone out by smacking them on the back of the head with a pistol, club, etc.? Since I’m not willing to act as a test subject, although I’m...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Police in Pleasanton, Calif., reported receiving a call that someone had hit two parked cars and sped away with his horn honking. Minutes later, another caller said that his roommate had parked his pickup truck in the driveway with extensive front-end...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We all know that oil came from dinosaurs, or, at least, from the decomposition of organic (i.e., formerly living) materials'hence the term “fossil fuels” and the Sinclair dinosaur. But is it really true? Were there really enough dinosaurs'or...