Bolliger, who is head of forensic pathology at the University of Bern, went to the store and picked up 10 half-liter bottles of Feldschlösschen Original — his nation’s most popular brew. He emptied six of them, left four full and, using a precisely calibrated energy-measuring device, started dropping a steel ball on the bottles from [...]

If it’s anything like Chekhov’s Gun, this is going to be interesting…

Somehow I ended up on the Smoky Mountain Knife Works mailing list and was thusly graced with their 2009 Christmas Edition Catalog. Nothing inherently wrong with this, in and of itself (if you discount the waste of paper and ink that represents this 5oz homage to all things `Merikuhn) – and, on the plus side, [...]

There has never been a better time to be a person. The bright minds and busy hands behind technology will never cease to bring us edifying new inventions perfectly-suited to the purpose of spreading love and joy. In an era when the only way to cow terr’rists is by being the biggest, meanest, bomb-droppingest terr’rist [...]