Microbial life is headed to the moon Phobos, but spacecraft don’t always end up where they were supposed to be. Let’s hope Earth isn’t sowing the seeds of destruction for any life that may exist out there already.
60-year-old Qu Liming has gone to new heights to keep workers from tearing down his house for a government construction project — about 50 feet straight up.
The mayors of two feuding Paris suburbs have changed road markings to create busy one-way streets that send motorists hurtling toward each other. One way or another, this vehicular stalemate will have to be curbed.
Maybe the university has a string loose, but a new psychology class this fall is focusing on the popular video game series. It’s one course everyone wants to pick.
What the hay, a cow is going to Harvard? Now you might be thinking the school has a reached a new low, but a professor who has claimed grazing rights says he is merely trying to keep tradition alive. Hopefully he isn’t just milking the publicity.
Officials in several states who are going after tax scofflaws using social-networking sites say they only are gathering information that is publicly accessible. Hopefully we won’t have to file this one with Form 1984.
Because of faulty record keeping, the federal government accidentally sent economic-relief checks to 1,700 prison inmates throughout the country. Let’s hope someone slams the door on that problem.
A history buff, science fiction fan and occasional guitar player, John Moore has worked as a reporter or copy editor at the Rocky Mountain News; the Omaha World-Herald; and the Wichita Falls, Texas, Times Record News. He is one of the site’s editors and covers general news and stories of the bizarre.