A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group in NSW’s southwest ignored a man who’d fallen off the back of their ute but they stopped to pick up alcohol that also fell out of the vehicle, police say.
The 31-year-old man, from Rochester in Victoria, died after striking his head on the road when he fell from the vehicle as it turned from Maude Road into Nap Nap Road at the town of Maude, in the early hours of this morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Redwood City man who tried to pick up blackmail money from his immigrant relatives while dressed in a clown suit has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing himself off as a federal immigration agent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an LA County sheriff’s investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Because when you’re exposed, you look like an even more gargantuan idiot and pathetic narcissist. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has been discovered to have tried to pad his reputation with a fake ID … he’s used the pseudonym PlannedChaos
to go around the web praising Scott Adams as a certified genius
.
You know, it’s a good rule of thumb that if you have to announce that you’re a genius, you aren’t a genius — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A depressed New Zealander cut off a finger, cooked it with vegetables and then ate it in a rare case of self-cannibalism, according to a report in the Australasian Psychiatry publication — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A farmer painted his entire flock of sheep orange to discourage thieves, after rise in rustling — via cartooncat.newsvine.com
A man has died after a farming accident in eastern Victoria.
Police say the man was trying to put the cow in a race at a dairy farm at Inverloch on the Bass Highway on Tuesday afternoon when the animal headbutted him in the chest and crushed him against a steel gate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police say an Ohio man has been charged with a misdemeanor for barking at a police dog.
A police report says 25-year-old Ryan James Stephens was charged with teasing a police dog in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man murdered and dismembered his wife at their home near Norwich then told police she was missing after leaving him for another man, a jury has heard.
Nicky Ward attacked Emma Ward in their bedroom and cut up her body in the bathroom, prosecuting counsel said.
No body has been found, but jurors heard that evidence revealed she had been killed by Mr Ward between April and June 2010.
Mr Ward denies murder, at Norwich Crown Court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A geologist sitting on a bush toilet in a remote part of the Northern Territory has discovered a potentially lucrative mineral discovered a potentially lucrative mineral deposit.
Rum Jungle Resources chief executive David Muller said the company was already looking for phosphate on a site near Barrow Creek, north of Alice Springs, but it was not expecting to find anything of value where it had set up its camp toilet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Spanish police say they have arrested a man who twice escaped from custody by having his wife send fake faxes ordering his release.
Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Carlos Serna was taken into custody at his home in San Lorenzo del Escorial, a suburb north of Madrid, on Friday (local time), while hiding in a hollowed-out sofa, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups: Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Jacqueline Howett falls into the former category. Her now-infamous online outburst against a two-star review of her self-published novel The Greek Seaman on Big Al’s Books and Pals, a website devoted to reviewing the output of the independent presses, is less bleeding visibly
, more an out-and-out gorefest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A suspected burglar has been rescued after being trapped for several hours down a well in a Halifax churchyard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The worst of times sometimes brings out the best in people, even in Japan’s losers
aka the Japanese mafia, the yakuza.
Hours after the first shock waves hit, two of the largest crime groups went into action, opening their offices to those stranded in Tokyo, and shipping food, water, and blankets to the devastated areas in two-ton trucks and whatever vehicles they could get moving — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chandler man convicted of stabbing his roommate with the hopes of sucking his blood as part of a vampire
ritual has been sentenced to three years probation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A hapless bank robber who abided by a Dallas teller’s request to provide two forms of identification before she could give him money is going to prison — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Scottdale man was charged with endangering the welfare of children after he was found dressed in black and playing ninja
on a street while his child was at home alone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anti-terrorist bomb squad experts have been called to a post office in Russia to make a package safe after a strange ticking sound was heard, local police say.
But all they found was a vibrator — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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