Eclipse leaves one man dead in New Zealand. A 23 year old from New Zealand believed to be a transient was found dead in a Wellington Theater following a 6:00 p.m. showing of the third installment of the Twilight saga. A staff member was cleaning the theater post viewing when he discovered...
Dr. Teddy Wu, a physician at the Christchurch Hospital, published a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, treated a woman who suffered a stroke caused by a hickey. Wu reported that one year ago, he treated a 44 year old Maori female at the emergency room of the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland...
An rescue effort is underway following an explosion within a New Zealand coal mine. The blast occurred early Saturday morning and left 29 miners, ages 17 to 62, trapped. The miners were on a saftey tour of the Pike River Mine, located 2 to 2 1/2 kilometres inside and 120 km underground. A total...
The twenty nine miners trapped 120 km underground in the Pike River Mine are believed to be dead follwing a second explosion on Wednesday. The miners were on a safety tour when a build up of gases caused the intial blast early Saturday morning. Twenty nine miners, ages 17 to 62 are believed to...
I blame the History Channel. It used to be just the kooks who believed that extraterrestrials were responsible for anything in humanity’s past, or that amazing advanced ancient societies on islands disappeared leaving only a handful of artifacts in their wake. Now, with a supposedly fact-based network backing them up, a whole new generation of people are falling for the same old BS. Here are 15 mysteries that just aren’t so mysterious.
In December 2003 researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand discovered that certain car colors were more predisposed to being involved in accidents. The study, which was published in the British Medical Journal in December 2003, showed that between the year 1988 and 1999 there...
At the turn of the 20th century, a few intrepid drivers attempted to prove the viability of the automobile by racing around the globe from New York to Paris. Some 102 years later, a group calling themselves "Project Evie" look to do a very similar thing to prove the viability of electric cars:...
It seems like every day human supremacy is encroached upon more and more by the animal kingdom. In 2007 we discovered that chimpanzees use sharpened sticks like spears when hunting, adding weaponry to the litany of tools used by animals. Then there are the stone hammers that capuchin monkeys use...
A wake forms part of funeral traditions and rites. Many cultures carry out a wake anytime from the death to the night before the burial. Depending on the culture, the wake may last one night or several nights until burial. The wake takes place at the home of the deceased, but some modern societies...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
