The Worst Literary Sex of 2005
Don't click teh link if you're offended by sexual content or bad writing. You've been warned.
The Worst Of The South
The final article of The Oxford American's Best of the South issue is Hal Crowther's splenetic rant about the region's less savory characteristics.
The Worst Radio Interview Ever?
Luke Burbank attempted to interview Sigur Ros on NPR. Watch the video to realize how difficult it is to conduct an interview when the interviewee isn't a self-winding talking points machine.
The Worst Record Covers of All Time?
A lot of these are fugly, but I bet any Stereophile reader worth his (or her) salt has seen much worse flipping through yard sales.
Then the Miracle Fabric
Another hand process is stretching and fitting various layers of adhesive-impregnated glass-fiber material to the front and back of the foam center. Again, depending on the driver's purpose, different amounts of glass fiber layers are employed. Since Focal controls the flare, drive system, and crossover, the company has massive amounts of control over elements like mass and Q.
There Is Another Emperor Besides the Emperor of Ice Cream
All hail the emperor Norton!
There Were Other Scientists Working in 1905
Although 1905 is remembered as Einstein's annus mirabilis, there were other scientists doing good work then, too. Tony Rothman gives a few of them a shout-out.
There's an Upside to Color Blindness?
Researcher Amanda Melin posits that color blindness might be an advantageous adaptation for capuchins hunting camouflaged insects. For us humans? Not so much—"selection pressure for maintaining color vision could have relaxed because it wasn’t a big advantage in the habitat or types of hunting used at the time."
They Are Made Out of Meat
A seven-minute science fiction film.
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They Couldn't Write It If It Wasn't True
Headline of the year.