Urban Legend: A Yellow Pages ad reveals risqué image

True … What’s funny is that Kitchener, ON makes it into a Snopes article. We rule. Some critics have long...

“Bigfoot” fever grips rainforest

Bigfoot fever is gripping Malaysia, with local newspapers and the official news agency reporting sightings of a huge ape in...

Zambia struggles with power of HIV, witchdoctors

When Philimon Banda fell ill last year in his small village on the edge of Lake Mweru in northern Zambia,...

The Truth Is in There: Susan Clancy on recovered memories

In the late 1990s, as a twenty-year rash of high-profile sex abuse cases was winding down, Harvard Ph.D. student Susan...

LENNON’S EGG LEGACY TO GELLER

A brass egg given to former Beatle, John Lennon “by aliens” has gone on show in London. The ornament, which...

British Voodoo Vets

The mythical Voodoo curse is based on the principle of sympathetic magic: the metaphysical belief that like affects like. It...

What Is It? “Braxton Beast” Photo Mystery

Apparently amotion-activated low-res camera captured a picture of something, and all the crypto-zoologist wannabes are trying to make it into...

The new way to burn fat – set yourself on fire

Women who want to lose weight are being offered a startling new way to burn fat – by being set...

Urban Legend: The youngest mother on record was a five-year-old Peruvian girl.

True. Regardless of our squeamishness, we have to note that the claim of a five-year-old girl giving birth is apparently...

SETI@home to switch to Berkeley Open Infrastructure

SETI@home has completed its transition to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). BOINC, developed at U.C. Berkeley, is a...