Exhaustion may have induced the epileptic seizure that killed a young Merrill Lynch intern in London. The coroner can't be sure, but she told reporters that fatigue is an epilepsy "trigger." The man's family says he didn't complain of strain, but he sometimes sent them emails after ostensibly working through the night.
If you think you were blown away by the Breaking Bad series finale, just imagine what it was like for the stars of the show to learn the fate of their own characters.
Perhaps you heard the news that Charles Manson is maybe, possibly engaged to a 25-year-old? Or at least that's what Manson's paramour, Star (left, with her bb on the right), told Rolling Stone's Erik Hedegaard during the arduous process of assembling a lengthy profile on the very famous convicted murderer. Unfortunately for the aspiring bride, when Manson was asked about their impending nuptials, he rebuffed the idea as "a bunch of garbage." But apparently that's just something endearing the face of evil does.
Old water! Wind maps! Dry bugs! Fur seals! Science books! Star explosions! Tiny particles! Sea snails! And other wet and wondrous creatures! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—with scrutiny!
[Two Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in Gaza City. Photo by Hatem Moussa via AP]
Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, was found guilty of second-degree murder today. Mangum stabbed her boyfriend during an argument in 2011. He died 10 days later. Mangum's attorneys had argued she was acting in self-defense against an abusive partner.
YouTube comments are known the Internet over as some of the most petty, petulant, and just plain vile exchanges between ostensible humans.
In this digital age of nonstop wireless on-demand pornography, it can be difficult to maintain an attitude of zen. Not if you redefine "zen" as "Uhhh, electron shit running through my brain," though. Then it works out fine.
Today is a day of solemn remembrance, a day when we reflect on the life and work of our fallen President John F. Kennedy, and also on his slampieces. Here is a greatest-hits list of women the playboy president definitely fucked, may have fucked, and almost certainly fucked.
A weird relic rested on the bookcase in my family's last home in New Orleans: a wooden pipe that had belonged to Jim Garrison, the Orleans Parish district attorney who tried and failed to convict a local businessman named Clay Shaw for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The pipe still smelled of the tobacco its owner had packed and lit before setting it down at a cocktail party. Garrison—that's him on the right—had left the party and forgotten his pipe. And because he was still a hero to some, and especially to my mom, she took Garrison's pipe home as a souvenir.
