The murder victim arrives (video)

The dominoes-murder-victim sparrow, after an adventure-packed life and death and afterlife, and despite a partial news cover-up, has arrived at the Nature Museum in Rotterdam. Kees Moeliker personally chauffered the bird on its final 400-kilometer journey. Moeliker, the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner  who is the museum’s curator of birds, sent us this message: […]

Penguins in Turkmenistan

There’s further news on the penguin front. According to a long chain of second-, third-, and off-hand reports: Turkmenistan‘s eccentric president is to spend millions of pounds on a lavish desert zoo – to house penguins. President Saparmurat Niyazov has issued decrees in the past banning recorded music and men with long hair. Now, he […]

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