CG: WTF with my glasses? Curious George: Are my glasses cheap pieces of crap, or is it just me? more inside

Another treasured childhood myth destroyed. Researchers officially debunk the five-second rule. If they come after the cootie shot, I'm going to get seriously ticked off.

Swiss (accidentally) invade Liechtenstein! "Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition."

Manakins are small jungle birds whose males make clicking and humming noises with their wings as part of an elaborate courtship ritual. But it's their smokin' dance moves that really get the ladies.

Curious, George: Baby, It's Hot Outside So it's unseasonably balmy where I live right now (Southern U.S.), which is just fine with me but has other folks complaining that it's just not Christmas unless it's cold enough to kill you if you get lost in the woods overnight. Which got me wondering: Are there Southern Hemisphere Christmas songs about the weather? Dashing through the sand in a one-horse open ... dune buggy, maybe? Chestnuts roasting on an open barbecue? In the Bleak Midsummer?

I'll wash your mouth out with "Stephanie"... Say "hand me the screwdriver" to a lexical-gustatory synesthete, and his mouth may be filled with the taste of strawberry ice cream. Lucky bastards. more inside