A group of researchers from the remote Sierra Nevada Foothills community of North San Juan launched a P54-a3 high-altitude weather balloon late last week and discovered that the earth is curved like a taco.
Fans of Noam Chomsky are frothing at the mouth, calling for a boycott of Lagunitas IPA Beer for featuring Michel Foucault on its bottles. The "sudsy skirmish" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous Chomsky-Foucault debate of 1971, leading to a battle of the brews that has some academics hopping mad. With critics contending that the beer has "no inherent nature," and rumors of a rival "Chomskyan Cherry Stout," the heady climax of this brewing controversy leaves readers pondering the profound connection between beer and the nature of humanity, all served up with a side of linguistic lagers and philosophical puns.
The mysterious death of a programmer who worked on Steve Jobs' secret Bitcoin prototype, "iCoin," raises suspicions as he "jumped" from a hospital's 13th floor. Friends and family question the circumstances, since he was in good spirits and only in for a routine colonoscopy.
A Facebook argument broke out when a self-proclaimed Flat Earther accused a believer of the Hollow Earth Theory that he was not only out of touch, but also dangerously wrong.
