There are surprising and obscure laws still on the books in states across the country. A Brief History of Divorce In the Colonies Western Kentucky University economists Claudia Strow and Brian Strow attribute the rising divorce rates in the country to the availability of opportunities for women out...
“Stellar Sterility” is a scientific study of NASA materials concerning the existence of aliens in our solar system and universe. Most people have given up on the truth and resigned themselves to fables and fictions to sooth their pains and fears about life. Even half of NASA believes in E....
Quentin Dupieux’s name would be at the very top of the list. While other directors resort to bemused realism to tackle the Surrealist icon’s notoriously slippery persona, Dupieux is a kindred spirit who fearlessly jumps right in to what makes ...
Laws I love to read the laws that are still on the books that they do not use any more, I can read them for hours, thank you TaylorMMD,2017/07/23 Most laws are fake or not weird.. This app is entertaining(for the first 5 minutes) but I ran into some laws that weren't weird...
Among the dilemmas lawyers and doctors could face: If a fetus is growing in a tank, would a decision to shut off its support systems be protected under liberal states’ abortion laws, which are typically based on the rights of a pregnant person? Would a fetus engineered solely to grow orga...
The city landscape across America reveals a startling fact: in many places, there’s more room for cars than for people. From Seattle to Des Moines, the concrete sprawl of these lots often surpasses the space set aside for housing. This phenomenon isn’t just an urban planner’s nightmare;...
the site was blocked by internet service providers in australia and new zealand. now it appears that the freewheeling days of 8chan in manila could be at risk. jim watkins and his son have long argued that the site’s us-hosted content only need abide by american laws, which extend gener...
the state of Florida has one that's even odder when it comes to laws that are bound by time. According to a state regulation, people may not pass gas in a public building after six p.m.; however, what makes this law even stranger is that it only observed on one day of the week...
The bottom line is it’s hard to apply human laws to robot persons. Let’s say a human shoots a robot, causing it to malfunction, lose power, and “die.” But the robot, once “murdered,” is rebuilt as good as new. If copies of its personality data are in safe storage, then th...
Sir William Blackstone, the authority on the English law on which the Constitution is based, defines “crimes and misdemeanors” (“Commentaries on the Laws of England”) Book IV Chapter 1, as follows: “A CRIME, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public ...