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“These funky chickens, oddities of nature that they are, will provide new perspectives on questions of sexual identity long thought to have been resolved,” wrote Duke University cell biologists Lindsey Barske and Blanche Capel in a Nature commentary accompanying the findings. (via Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Determination | Wired Science | Wired.com

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“I looked over my husband’s shoulder and said ‘Jesus Christ’,” Mrs Brooks told Australia’s ABC news. “My husband said ‘what is wrong now’, and I said ‘Jesus Christ’.” “It was a message of some sort but I’m just waiting to find out the answer,” she added. (via BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Caravan park ‘Christ’ draws the faithful

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It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but one family are convinced they can see the face of Jesus on the lid of a jar of Marmite. (via BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Family see Jesus image in Marmite

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A raid on suspected militants in the West Bank was cancelled yesterday after an Israeli soldier updated his Facebook status to read “On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home.” The solider has since, unsurprisingly, been relieved of combat duty for being a moron. He’ll also spend 10 days in prison for his update. (via Israeli Raid Cancelled After Very Stupid Facebook Post - Facebook - Gizmodo

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How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson

The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images. (via Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com

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