Random links
- French driver trapped for an hour in speeding 125mph car with no brakes
- "Lecerf has filed a legal complaint after his Renault Laguna, which is adapted for disabled drivers, jammed at 200km/h (125mph) and the brakes failed, forcing him to continue careering along a vast stretch of French motorway and into Belgium. Police gave chase until he ran out of petrol and crashed into a ditch. The 36 year old was on a dual carriageway on his way to a hypermarket when the car's speed first jammed at 60mph. Each time he tried to brake, the car accelerated, eventually reaching 125mph and sticking there."
- Schoolboy excluded for wearing regular rather than clip-on tie
- The boy was "put into educational isolation for a day" ... "for breaching health and safety rules by wearing a regular rather than a clip-on tie."
- An inconvenient truth: More polar bears alive today than 40 years ago
- "Author Zac Unger was originally drawn to the arctic circle to write a “mournful elegy” about how global warming was decimating the polar bear populations. He was surprised to find that the polar bears were not in such dire straits after all. 'There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago,' Unger told NPR in an interview."
- Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?
- Are quantum effects a little more prevalent and practical than you might think?