So, you’re new to grad school in chemistry. Congratulations! I’m sure you’re working hard in your classes and all, and you’re well-prepared for the academic challenges that await you. Unfortunately, so many of you are missing a critical chemistry laboratory skill: how to not kill your coworkers, by poison, fire, explosions, and the list goes…
News Update: Food Fights End in Deaths
All the bitter news that’s not fit to print, by Doug Stephan
Amanda Knox: America's New (Accused Murderer) Sweetheart
Can someone else please admit this is the first they heard of this person? The name Amanda Knox barely registered for me until yesterday.
Big Love Isn’t for Everyone
A Pennsylvania woman, Myra Morton, has just been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting her bigamist husband just hours before he was due to hop on a plane to Morocco to go visit his other wife. The Mortons, married 25 years, had converted to Islam about 20 years ago, and “in keeping…
Preppie Douchebag
Just in case you thought Robert Chambers, the so-called Preppie Killer who served fifteen years for strangling a teenage girl in Central Park during what he said was “rough sex” back in 1986, couldn’t be a bigger loser, you should think again. The convicted murderer is heading back to prison, this time for dealing drugs…
Phil Spector: You Know It’s Time to Call a Headhunter
The D.A. prosecuting Phil Spector has found yet another woman who wants to testify that the famed producer threatened her life, according to a new motion that sets out facts similar to those alleged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. The new woman, Norma Kemper, was working as Spector’s assistant in 1996…
Why Prenups Exist. And Restraining Orders.
A 76-year-old grandmother, Betty Neumar, is currently being held on half a million dollars’ bond in a North Carolina jail for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill her fourth husband to collect his life insurance payout, while police re-examine the untimely and unexpected deaths of her first child, stepson, and four of the five…