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I am as amused as anyone by Stephen Colbert's latest stunt -- talking the National Portrait Gallery into temporarily hanging his portrai...

Pennsylvania cancer patient John Kanzius, whose field is not medicine but electronics, wondered whether radio waves might kill cancer cells....

What was the 16-inch piece of burning-hot metal that fell from the sky and through the roof of Susan Wilson's SUV outside Happy Harry...

We just don't know why 5-year-old Chucky Beutel of Sellersburg, Ind., spontaneously combusted in the bathroom .

A kitchen fire in Hartlepool was put out by a pair of extra-large knickers . For further local color, note that the fire broke out while the...

Whereas an Italian court apparently summoned Tweety Bird, Mickey Mouse and Donald and Daisy Duck to appear as witnesses in a counterfeiting...

"Who Speaks for Earth?" is a fascinating Seed magazine article that asks whether "active SETI" -- broadcasting our exi...

Sydney says my stocking cap looks like Jim Anchower's. This stops short of saying that in my stocking cap I look like Jim Anchower, b...

The Guardian reports that the dismembered body found in Dr. Hawley Crippen's coal cellar in 1910 was not that of his wife, Cora; so ...

My story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," from Jonathan Strahan's Night Shade anthology Eclipse One , has made the preliminar...

The national effort to save the inhabitants of the mining town of Shallmar, Md., from starvation in December 1949 is the subject of an inter...

Here's a wire story about parrot rescuer Brian Wilson of Damascus, Md., and here's the website of his non-profit Wilson Parrot Fou...

When is student writing a warning sign? This question is debated singlehandedly by Chris M. Anson of North Carolina State University in Ac...

Amid the tablid bonanza that is the faked death of John Darwin, the discovery of his secret passage through a wardrobe is leading headline w...

At noon every Tuesday during the semester, at the clock tower in the middle of the Frostburg State University campus, names, ages and hometo...

Since graduate school I've been fascinated by fiction in non-fictional formats. Here's one I haven't seen before, a short stor...

In the grand tradition of the Richard III vindicators, the learned Sherlockians and Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton universalists comes...

Thanks to David Lowe for passing along this last minute Christmas-gift idea.

The current Rapture Index is set at 158, meaning "Heavy prophetic activity." Its author explains: The Rapture Index is by no mea...

That Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons work in 2003, says Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert , is a very bad sign: They had the program. They...