An 11-year-old boy in Washington state was arrested Wednesday after he brought 400 rounds of ammunition, multiple knives, and a handgun to school. According to police, he brought the gun intending to shoot a student who he “thought was bullying his friend.”

[This week, artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada debuted his 11-acre land art portrait of a girl making a wish. Located in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, Ireland, the artwork, titled "WISH," took one month to construct and required 30,000 wooden pegs, 2,000 tons of soil, and 2,000 tons of sand. Art by and photo courtesy of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada]

Twitter may have lost $65 million in the third quarter—its biggest quarterly loss since 2010—but the company has set a price range of $17 to $20 per share for its forthcoming IPO. At $20 a share, Twitter's value would be roughly $12.5 billion.

James Taylor was asked to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 2 of the World Series in Boston Thursday night. Too bad he started singing "America the Beautiful" (which he later performed during the seventh-inning stretch, therefore making the mistake slightly more understandable).

According to documents released Thursday, Miriam Carey—the woman fatally shot earlier this month after a car chase in Washington D.C.—believed President Obama had “put her residence under electronic surveillance and that it was being fed live to all the national news outlets."

Yesterday, a baby was given the official go-ahead to serve as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England in the event his great-grandmother, grandfather, and father all suddenly cease to be. That's frightening! Thankfully there was a photographer on hand to document this weird occasion.

Metallica, three music businessmen and one headbanging scab, just announced they will do something no men who shop at Armani and "accidentally" kick children have done before: They will have a sugarless, low-calorie soda beverage send them to perform on the icy, cool, refreshing land of Antarctica.

Art school student Clayton Pettet says he's held on to his anal virginity for the past 19 years, but he's finally ready to lose it — and he wants to share his grand opening with the world.

We're no longer living in the Holocene—the geological time period that started nearly 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. We're in the "Anthropocene"—the age of humans—and it's changing our understanding of geology, the environment, and time.

Fox News’ abuse of reporters is legendary. But their treatment of Matthew Flamm, a media reporter for Crain’s New York, should be flagged for eternity for its absurdity. As first reported by NPR’s David Folkenflik (and noted in The Washington Post), the channel’s PR team planted a fake tip, using a fake email address—but using a real Fox News producer’s name—about Bill O’Reilly anchoring election coverage of the 2008 primaries, for the sole purpose of humiliating Flamm.

Katy Perry is one of the most bankable contemporary pop singers—"Roar," the first single from her new album Prism, became her eighth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August. Prism is expected to sell about 300,000 copies its first week in stores. It is a dreadful album, way too concerned with preserving Perry's star than using said star to push sonically. It is also dreadful because Perry has absolutely nothing to say.

A Virginia mother was arrested last week for firing a warning shot in the air to scare away a group of boys who were assaulting her daughter.

Here is a well-reasoned argument from the economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty that the tax rate on America's highest earners could be raised to 80% without harming the nation's economy.

The Amtrak Acela is the subject of many jokes and legends among Washington D.C. political people. Now we can add the Tale of the Blabby Ex-NSA Director.

Now we know why Angela Merkel was so upset yesterday: According to a report published by the Guardian, the NSA monitored the phone calls of at least 35 world leaders, using phone numbers provided by a U.S. official in another government department.

The office of Senator Ted Cruz told the New York Times that the Obamacare foe gets his own health coverage—through his wife's job at Goldman Sachs—"at no cost to the taxpayer." Experts estimate the Cruz family plan gets a federal tax subsidy of about $8,500.

The newest dumb argument in D.C. has to do with whether a GOP congressman said to President Obama, "I cannot even stand to look at you," during recent budget negotiations. Senators Dick Durbin and Harry Reid say the comment did happen, while Congressman John Boehner and the White House say it didn't.

A high school in Washington is cracking down on the scourge of sexy dancing Footloose-style by banning all forms of "inappropriate dancing" from school events.

It's called Reflektor, and it's streaming in full on YouTube, for now.

Mars canyon! Tree gold! Boomerang returns! Mouse immunity! Dark matter! Early humans! Old linguistics! And playing god, the fun way! It's your decrepit old Science Watch, where we watch science—with an eyebrow raised!