Current events

10 of the best newspaper corrections ever. This one especially tickled me.

I, uh, er, well now:

Today in Japan, bottled wine created especially for cats goes on sale. This is not a joke. Apparently.

For some reason, this story didn't really grab my attention the first time I saw it

U.S. Senator Dan Coats testified today in support of a bill he’s authoring that would give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of the Army the authority to disinter veterans buried in national cemeteries who committed a federal or state capital crime.

Way cool:

The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday.

An excellent question at Forbes magazine:

All of which begs the question: if electronic devices are OK now, why have we been getting yelled at to turn them off for so long?

The answer is that we've been governed by regulations written back in 1976, when the dangers were more real:

Daylight Saving Time kicks in this weekend, so here's something to fret about:

It was just yesterday when I wrote about the "I know what's best for you" syndrome that tempts us all occasionally. Now comes a woman who could be the poster girl for the malady:

A Fargo, N.D., woman says she will give trick-or-treaters that she deems "moderately obese" a letter instead of candy this Halloween.

Today's report from the Institute for the Obvious:

he eyes don't lie: Men really do look at women's bodies more than their faces, according to a new study that used eye-tracking technology to prove what many women have long observed.

But it's not just men who do it -- the study found that women look at other women's bodies, too.

Well, we know at least one way they're compatible:

An Indiana woman who made a promise to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery.

Poynter explores a case of journalistic malpractice:

All suicides are tragic and complicated. And teen suicides are particularly devastating because as adults we recognize all that lost potential.