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Dog eats police car

From Chattanoogan.com’s YouTube feed: “A Chattanooga Police officer, while running radar at 1410 Workman Road on Sunday night, had his patrol car attacked by a ferocious bulldog.

Officer Clayton Holmes said he had stopped to work on a report when he…


SXSWi News Briefs: OK Go, Ustream, Naked Chicks

To quote The Princess Bride: “Let me ’splain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” I’ve been having a great time and learning a lot at SXSW this year, but while I process some of the bigger ideas, here’s just a taste of what’s been dis…


French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD

For 50 years, residents of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit have tried to understand the “cursed bread” incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums. Now the mystery is solv…


Are You Happy, Or Just Remembering Wrong?

Here is another great TED talk, this one from TED last month in California. Are you happy? Here’s the TED summary:
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “e…