Conspiracy mongering over TWA flight 800 disaster heats up with new documentary. Documentary aims to ‘break silence’ on crash of TWA Flight 800 – CNN.com. A coming documentary on the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster offers “solid proof that there was an external detonation,” Tom Stalcup, a co-producer of the documentary, told CNN’s “New Day”…

Henry Fountain, writing for the New York Times: There are many ways to demolish a building, and some of them are spectacular: blowing it up from the inside so it collapses on itself, or smashing it to bits with a two-ton wrecking ball. But here in Tokyo, a cheek-by-jowl city with many outdated high-rises and [...]∞

Internships are the new entry-level jobs. In this economy, critics often argue, the unpaid internship is a good way into a company. It helps give one demonstrate experience demanded for real jobs, and it provides a great opportunity to display talent. But it doesn’t really work out that nicely. According to a piece by Jordan Weissmann at the Atlantic: For three years, the National Association of Colleges and Employers has asked graduating seniors if they've received a job offer and if […]

The latest Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada was recently released, and contains wide array of interesting entomological articles including: regular features like letters from the ESC President, Dear Buggy, The Student Wing and The Last Word; a trip report from University of Guelph entomologists riding the rails & looking for insects along the […]

We all know about the massive dust and wind storms on Mars (and Earth for that matter), but what about our evil twin Venus? It turns our that the winds on Venus, at over 180Mph (300Km/h) are getting faster! After analyzing more than six years of data collected by the Venus Express has shown that … Continue reading »