The jig, it would seem, is finally up for UK homeopaths. Parliament has decided that homeopathy is a waste of tax money, and have asked the NHS to stop funding homeopathic medicines and hospitals.
Remember that Belgian guy who was in a coma, and then his doctors found out he was awake and could communicate? Turns out that he’s probably not awake, and certainly cannot communicate. Turns out that the doctor used a much discredited method called facilitated communication. It’s so discredited that they discredited it on an episode of Law and Order.
There are lots of sports stats geeks out there on the Internet. There are lots of comics geeks, as well. But it takes a special soul to closely examine every single Charlie Brown comic strip in order to calculate the character’s baseball statistics.
Amongst the group of things being banned in Australian pornography are porn stars with small breasts. Australian censors wants to make sure that all porn is big-titty porn.
Prosecutors in the United States are trying to show that risque photos can ruin their lives — by ruining their lives. The practice of charging children with producing child pornography when they pose for photographs with their clothes on is currently being challenged in court.
A new year — a new decade — approaches. Like everybody else, you’re probably wondering what did I miss out on reading over these past ten years? Never fear, dear reader — The Guardian has anticipated this concern, and is here to help with the decade’s best unread books.
We are the last to post the following video to the Internet. I have seen it tweeted multiple times, and on every website I visit on a regular basis. It is still sufficiently awesome to include in the morning coffee:
RT @BackpackingDad: Based on the amount of time I spend using it now, the high school class with the most important knowledge was keyboa ... 4 hours ago
@AudreyAmazin305 peanut butter sandwiches? Even to those allergic? Sounds slightly cruel. 4 hours ago