Today is the day Taco Bell makes its big, waffle-shaped push into the fast food breakfast market, and Ronald McDonald is leading the way. A whole army of Ronald McDonalds, in fact.

Surgeons are preparing to place patients between life and death in the first-ever human trial of a new suspended animation technique. Victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds will have their bodies rapidly cooled at Pittsburgh's UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, buying doctors an extra 2 hours to save them.

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls. This is their final recap.

On Tuesday, Curtis Reissig found himself trapped on the fifth-floor balcony of a burning apartment building. "The flames were getting closer and hotter," he told the Associated Press. "I knew I had to do something."

After 48 years on Japan's death row, Iwao Hakamada has been freed. A court "concluded investigators had likely fabricated evidence" in his trial. This month, both America's and the world's longest-serving death row inmates have been exonerated.

Tyler Cowen, a professor at George Mason University law school and one of the most popular econobloggers in America, was pepper sprayed in class yesterday by someone trying to make a "citizen's arrest."

A Thai satellite captured images of about 300 large objects in Flight 370's search zone, less than 130 miles from the area where a French satellite spotted 122 "potential objects" earlier this week.

Authorities say California State Senator Leland Yee is a corrupt politician who sold political favors, bragged about a friendship with an arms dealer, and attempted to broker a multi-million dollar weapons sale with an undercover FBI agent.

Wu-Tang Clan will only sell one copy of an album they secretly recorded over the last few years. According to RZA, "This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king."

One man has made it his life's focus to prank people obliviously carrying on loud cell phone conversations in public. This week, he picked a new hunting ground: the happiest place on earth.

No, peeing in the pool won't magically turn the water around you a different color, but according to a new study there's a much more nefarious chemical reaction at play when you let it flow where the pool toys go.

[Search and rescue workers are still combing through the wreckage of Saturday's mudslide in Washington. Authorities say the debris field is a square-mile wide and as deep as 40 feet with a "moon-like surface" of mud, ice, and quicksand-like pits. Image by Rick Wilking via AP.]

Nancy Grace, a person who was in fact at one point a licensed attorney, has abandoned her murder-themed catchphrases for a more direct approach—repeating comments about porn on Good Morning America until her microphone stops working.

“Mr. Silver has frequently criticized what he calls ‘pundits’ and ‘opinion journalists,’ including those who write for The Times,” writes Nate Silver on his brand new anti-pundit blog, FiveThirtyEight.

As Russia seizes control of Crimea, one of the stranger things it will be taking over is a unit of trained military dolphins run by the Ukrainian Navy since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ukraine had planned to disband the program in April due to a lack of funds, but Russia has decided to keep it running.

A politics expert explains that because three Secret Service agents got drunk in Amsterdam, President Obama now faces "the worst thing that can happen to a president": a negative narrative about his perceived competence. This may harm his ability to "improve his overall job approval numbers."

This is the introduction to an article about a spoof of the generic footage and buzzword-heavy messages contained in most advertising. It uses the conceit of parodying the parody in an attempt to make the reader curious enough to watch and share the video.

In 2013, there were 10,885 published, peer-reviewed articles that researched anthropogenic, or man-made, climate change. Only two argued that the phenomenon wasn't real, according to the geochemist who compiled them.

The Soyuz TMA-12M space ship, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, blasts off at a Russian-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Onboard are two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut. Image via Dmitry Lovetsky/AP.

Earlier this week, a student at McGill University in Montreal tried to register to vote. The student—who remains anonymous—lives in Montreal 49 weeks of the year. And for no apparent reason, he was rejected—one of several McGill students that have been prevented from registering in the city where they live and study.