It costs 2.6 billion bolivars to buy one roll of toilet paper in Venezuela where inflation is 82,700%.
Researchers, faced with a large collection of uncategorized medical images, worked with the developers of the online game, EVE Online, to reward gamers for helping them classify images. “The players are very fast,” they noted.
The Russian maker of the AK-47 announced it’s getting into the electric car business.
Two runaway goats delayed subway service in NYC. The transit authority tweeted out a photo, calling them “very baaaaad boys.”
Chanel announced that it is launching its first line of makeup products for men. The “Boy” line will be available in South Korea starting September 1st.
Michelle Terry, the new head of the historic Globe Theater in London, has said she wants a fifty-fifty male-female ratio in casting from now on. The theater’s new production of Hamlet casts her as Hamlet.
A Pittsburgh production of Romeo and Juliet has been adopted for an all-female cast.
1st Lt. Misa Matsushima became Japan’s first female fighter pilot. She was inspired after watching the movie, Top Gun.
The Danish shipping company, Maersk, announced that Arctic ice has opened up enough to send a container ship over the northern coast of Russia. They join China’s COSCO that has been plying this route for the past three years.
After 110 years, Nabisco’s Animal Crackers have been freed from their cage and now roam free, no longer behind bars.
Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins for Reuters
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