quote [ A wooden dildo maker in Lapland pushes back against criticism following a public funding agency’s decision to grant her a 200,000-euro business loan. ]

quote [ At this year's annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress from Jan. 3 to 7, senior research scientist Kannan Jagathala Krishnan dismissed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as "a big blunder" and said Isaac Newton didn't really understand how gravity works. ]

quote [ Monumental shifts were occurring in America during the time that photographer Hugh Mangum was working in North Carolina and the Virginias. It was the height of the Jim Crow era, when the nation was starting to see laws separating whites from blacks. But as a businessman who needed to support his family, Mangum didn't discriminate between clientele, therefore leaving behind an archive that tells a different story of the segregated South at the turn of the 20th century. ]

quote [ Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina.
(It mostly has to do with grease.) ]

quote [ Republican Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania has announced that he will not seek re-election after a report said he requested that a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair get an abortion. ]

quote [ Len Wein, a prolific comic book writer who collaborated on bringing to life two of the art form’s best-known characters, Wolverine and Swamp Thing, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 69. ]

quote [ WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. ]

quote [ A Clockwork Orange author only managed entries for three letters and his abortive labours were thought to have gone for ever. ]

quote [ Acclaimed Horror Comic Artist Bernie Wrightson Dead At 68 ]