What, you didn’t think academia would just let the finest mind in science rot do you? When Einstein died in 1955, his grey matter was preserved for posterity. 46 slivers of his thinking cap have recently been donated to Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum. More »
A train from Baltimore to Philadelphia stalled on the tracks for ten hours last night. With doors locked and electricity waning, passengers cried and fought for emergency rations. A local news reporter happened to be on board, and tweeted it. More »
A university professor has invented a computer program with crystal ball powers, only its channel is tuned purely to predicting the probability of murders – specifically, if inmates at a Pennsylvanian prison will ever kill again. More »
Modern love is so perilous. The Missed Connection after the jump. More »
Both GameFly and Netflix package their by-mail rentals in bright, obvious envelopes, and a Philadelphia mail handler took advantage, stealing 2,200 GameFly games in just six months. When he was caught, he had 81 games on him. 81! More »
A Philadelphia jogger was killed yesterday by a falling tree when she failed to hear the warning signs of the impending crash over the music from her iPod. But let’s not be hasty and blame the iPod. More »
