Category: TWTW

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    Kansas City beat San Francisco in the Super Bowl. It’s been a long time coming for KC (50 years for those counting) so residents were excited to see their team win, disrupting weather radar with their fireworks and setting couches on fire. Kansas’ defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi melted everyone’s heart when he lay down in the…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    Oscar Mayer is looking for new drivers of their famous Wienermobiles after a probably now former driver was pulled over for speeding in Wisconsin. Yep, that’s them up above. A Tennessee man, hauled into court to appear before a judge on marijuana possession charges, “casually reached into his pocket, pulled a joint and brazenly lit…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    After driving around waiting for a calling from God, Nadejda Reilly decided to take it up a notch and drive into the path of an oncoming car. Local police charged her with aggravated assault for causing a wreck an injuring two people. In India, a man suffered lacerations to his neck while taking his rooster…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    New analysis determined that the past 10 years are the top 10 years on record for the world’s oceans or, to put it into terms we could understand, “the amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 microwave ovens all day and all night.” A…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    Danni Morritt asked her Amazon Echo to teach her about the cardiac cycle of the heart. To her horror, someone had edited the wikipedia page that the Echo uses for source material so the Echo told Danni not only that heartbeats are “bad for the planet” but that she should, “stab herself for the common…

  • The Year That Was – 2019

    The Year That Was – 2019

    TWTW Round-up

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    Photo credit: Electronic machine used to vote on articles of impeachment. Jeep, the company behind four-wheeler brands such as Wrangler and Gladiator announced that its entire lineup will go hybrid or full-on electric by 2022 A sharp-eyed researcher discovered that Department of Agriculture listed Marvel’s mythical East African country, Wakanda, as a trading partner on a…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    A bank employee allegedly stole $88,000 from his bank and was found out after posing with stacks of cash, on his social media account. An all-electric powered seaplane took off from Vancouver, Canada, in what the operators describe as a “world first” for the aviation industry. The man who placed the winning $243,200 bid for…

  • The week that was

    The week that was

    Scientists at the University of Bath have developed an artificial neuron chip that behaves just like biological neurons. A team of researchers in Poland worked on eye-tracking technology to give them hints at the ideally shape of a woman’s boob. Finland just elected the youngest Prime Minister in the world. Sanna Marin is 34 and leads…