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GREEN RIDGE, Mo. Eunice Holcomb has long been a valued employee at the Swift Poultry Processing plant in this idyllic town in central Missouri that features a horseshoe pit on the town square and not […]
GREEN RIDGE, Mo. Eunice Holcomb has long been a valued employee at the Swift Poultry Processing plant in this idyllic town in central Missouri that features a horseshoe pit on the town square and not […]
Higgs bosons play no role in daily life, and they haven’t done anything of interest since the early moments of the universe. Matt Strassler, Waves in an Impossible Sea I got home late because […]
Koga, a 24-year-old male gorilla, escaped from his cage at the Buffalo zoo and was captured in the staff lounge. Associated Press “Stupid humans get lounge why no lounge for Koga?” Cold cold cold […]
In recent years Harvard’s basketball team has been cited for recruiting violations, had several players quit the team because of a cheating scandal, and won its first NCAA tournament game. News items It’s a grey […]
CONCORD, Mass. Ethel Farley has been a teacher in the schools here for over two decades, long enough to be able to spot a young girl with a broken heart halfway across a crowded lunch […]
BOSTON. It’s noontime on Federal Street, a curious three-block byway that despite its short length is home to some of Boston’s most powerful financial and professional institutions. “With all the bankers and lawyers and such, […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A newly-released study is lending stature to a group of artists long dismissed as either inscrutable or merely annoying: mimes, who according to a white paper funded by the International Brother-and-Sisterhood of Mimes, […]
Wondering if the busybodies at the TSA will let you bring bottle rockets on board an airplane? Concerned that your “support” Komodo dragon won’t fit in the overhead compartment? Ask Your Travel-Packing Advisor, he knows […]
A Russian bomb squad was summoned to defuse a ticking package. It contained a vibrator that had been turned on by accident. The Telegraph Ready to roll! Another day, another round of potentially deadly […]
Isadore Singer, one of the most important mathematicians of his era, took correspondence courses to learn the prerequisites for relativity and quantum mechanics. Obituary, The New York Times “Boys, today we’re going to make a […]