Last weekend, in the Philippines, an actor was mistaken for a masked gunman by a village watchman, who jumped onto the actor’s moving motorcycle and shot him fatally. Witnesses reportedly thought the killing was part of the movie’s action. More »
The security team for Foxconn, the company that manufactures the iPhone for Apple, is said to have subjected employee Sun Danyong to “unbearable interrogation techniques,” leading him to commit suicide. He was under investigation for losing a prototype device. More »
Could a meteor strike be the reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447? The math geeks at Discover crunched some numbers and it turns out that it’s not as implausible as you might think.
My childhood was active enough. I was as fearless as any toddler. I frolicked in the mud and climbed on now-banned metal jungle gyms. I was rambunctious. Then I met the pajamas with the feet.
The historical rupture of the atomic bomb makes the moment it was dropped almost ahistorical—Hidezaku Furuya’s videogame documentary forces you to inhabit it as a crewmember of the Enola Gay. It’s quite startling.
It turns out that the engineer who crashed a train in California last year, killing 25 people, was a big fan of texting constantly with teenage boys. And letting them drive his train.
