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Eclipse Spooks Superstitious
Indian astrologers are predicting violence and turmoil across the world as a result of this week’s total solar eclipse, which the superstitious and religious view as a sign of potential doom. But astronomers, scientists and secularists are trying to play down claims of evil portent in connection with Wednesday’s natural spectacle, when the moon will [...]
Continue reading...700 NYC School Teachers Paid to do Nothing
23. June 2009
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do. Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to [...]
Continue reading...Teen Cracks 300-Year-Old Math Mystery
30. May 2009
A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday. In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician [...]
Continue reading...When Winning The Lottery Turn into a ‘Curse’
29. May 2009
In today’s rough economic times, the dream of winning the lottery looms large. This week, somebody’s dream came true. The lucky winner hasn’t come forward yet, but various news outlets are reporting that someone in Winner, South Dakota (yes, that’s the town’s real name), has a ticket worth $232 million. The numbers, in case you [...]
Continue reading...Man Without Fingerprints Held at US Airport
28. May 2009
A Singapore cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints — which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking. The incident, highlighted in the Annals of Oncology, was reported by the patient’s doctor, Tan Eng Huat, who advised cancer [...]
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20. July 2009
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