Facts & Trends
A kind heart
Boston police found a scribbled checklist on suspected burglar Evan Dorsey that included such goals as "find crystal meth," "sell drugs," "rob a dealer," and "do one altruistic thing for a stranger." ...
FISH MIGRATION
Fish flee existing habitats in search of better ones. Atlantic sea bass, for example, are migrating north to cooler waters—but the heat will chase them there ...
Cannabis Selfie From Prison
A Polish prisoner triggered a crackdown on other inmates after he posted a photo of a large Cannabis plant that he'd grown in his cell. To boast about his green thumb, Dozy Zendarski took a selfie with the plant using a smuggled smartphone and posted it to ...
When going ‘green’ makes people sick
When communities like San Francisco and Seattle began banning plastic bags, said Ramesh Ponnuru, it seemed like a public-spirited thing to do. But' benign-seeming laws often have unintended consequences— and the plastic-bag ban is now producing a sickening result. The ...
Shot In The Back
Number of U.S. police officers who have been prosecuted in the past decade for shooting someone in the back: 28 Number convicted: 6 ...
Oh, That Smell
A specimen of the world’s largest flower, the titan arum, is about to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. To attract carrion insects, the flower emits a stench botanists likened to “a very dead elephant.” ...
Synchronicity
Twin sisters Erica and Tashina Ackley, 22, who found out they were pregnant on the same day, gave birth just hours apart in the same Maine hospital. “We thought it would be cool if we had our babies on the ...
Women Prisoners Who Are Mothers
Percentage of U.S. women prisoners who are mothers of young children: 61 ...
Sitting on the toilet is hazardous to your health
An astonishing 40,000 Americans are injured each year by their toilet bowls ...
