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Grimace at the Gate: America’s Ugliest Airports
There are plenty of things to complain about when flying, from TSA screeners potentially touching your junk to delays and cancellations caused by snow (or volcanoes). And then there’s the airports...
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Placing a Tax on Witches? Get Ready For a Curse
In these tough economic times, even witches have to pay taxes, at least in Romania. And not all of them are happy about it. Mind you, when witches protest, they don’t just carry signs with amusing...
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Wilgefortis? Philemon? In Search of the Perfect Christian Name
The Pope is advocating for Christian baby names. What’s a parent looking for a Christian moniker, but striving for something more unique than Mary, to do? In response to Pope Benedict XVI’s statement...
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Hearing the Past: Restoring Violins from the Holocaust
More than 60 years after the Holocaust, restored violins convey pain and loss — and hope. Today is the UN-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and CNN has a piece about a unique effort...
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The Science of Blizzards: The Truth Behind Thundersnow
We have certain expectations in life. Peanut butter is often accompanied by jelly. Cookies should be served with milk. Thunderstorms involve rain, not snow. And blizzards are curiously quiet affairs....
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Bird Bond: ‘Nano Hummingbird’ Drone Takes Spying to the Sky
This drone gives new meaning to “bird watching.” Tech company AeroVironment has announced that the unmanned, “hummingbird–like” aircraft it’s been working on since 2006 has achieved its prescribed...
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Controversial Bible Revision: About That ‘Virgin’ Thing…
Headline writers are having fun with stories about a new translation of the Bible, which has been in the works since 1994 and will finally be released on March 9 (Ash Wednesday): “Bishops boot ‘booty’...
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Shocker: Harvard Is the World’s Most Reputable University
Institutions of higher learning wondering what the world thinks of them can now point to a new Top 100 list for potential validation. The London–based Times Higher Education (THE) has ranked...
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The Book of Mormon on Broadway: Is It Really That Controversial?
The Book of Mormon, the new musical from South Park’s creators, opens on Broadway tonight at a theater named for a playwright who had a somewhat more tragic outlook on life than Trey Parker and Matt...
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An Epic Event, Scaled Down: Legoland Constructs Miniature Royal Wedding
Prince William and Kate Middleton surely had a tough decision in picking their wedding venue. NewsFeed bets they were torn between holding their wedding reception at Buckingham Palace (pros: grand...
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Praying for Will and Kate: Anglican and Catholic Churches Release...
Looking for just the right officially-sanctioned words to utter as the royal wedding approaches? The Church of England can help. Legoland built a display of their wedding. Stamps have been issued...
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Restricted Reading: South Carolina Jail Bans All Books Except for the Bible
If you’re a criminal who likes to read — and/or religious, but not Christian — then the last place you want to be jailed in is Moncks Corner, South Carolina. According to legal complaints, the only...
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‘Heil Jane Corwin’: Congressional Candidate the Focus of Ruthless Spoof Site
As one of NewsFeed’s colleagues pointed out, this is what happens when candidates only buy the .com, not the .org. Click “Meet Jane Corwin” on janecorwin.com, and you’ll learn that the Republican NY...
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Tasmanian Tiger or Marsupial Wolf? New Insights on the Extinct Thylacine
Both its nicknames reflect the fact that the thylacine was an awesome creature — one that makes the human race kick itself for helping to drive such animals to extinction — but new research suggests...
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Arthur Laurents, Famed Broadway Playwright, Dies at 93
Last night Broadway dimmed its lights in honor of Arthur Laurents, the famed writer, director, and nonagenarian who died in Manhattan Thursday. He wrote the books of two of musical theatre’s most...
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UN: One Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Uneaten
A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year. That’s about...
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Mormons, Superheroes and Stephen Colbert: Why This Year’s Tony Awards Will Be...
With the curtain about to go up on the 65th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards, NewsFeed takes a break from singing in the shower to reflect on Broadway’s big night (with an admitted musical bias). (MORE:...
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What, No Chocolate? The World’s Favorite Foods Are Pasta, Meat and Rice
NewsFeed recently learned we should be living in Australia. Of the 17 populations included in a new global Oxfam survey, only the Aussies most commonly said chocolate was their favorite food. We’re...
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Religious Rebuttal: Southern Baptists Resolve That Hell Is Real
At their convention in Phoenix this past week, Southern Baptists issued a resolution asserting their “belief in the biblical teaching on eternal, conscious punishment of the unregenerate in Hell.” …...
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Undercover Video Gives the Dirt on Pigs in Factory Farms
You might not want to have a ham sandwich for lunch today. A new undercover video showing gruesome conditions in which pigs are kept at an Iowa factory farm (emphasis on the “factory”) has hit the web,...
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