The world’s oldest European eel died on Friday, according to the BBC, causing an uproar among Swedes who loved that old eel. The eel was born in 1859 and lived in a well. The eel, who was known as Ale (confusing), lived in the southern town of Brantevik and was owned by Tomas Kjellman, who moved into the cottage next …

Move over radio waves, there’s a new baby monitor in town. The soon-to-be-released Sproutling baby monitor system aims to do a bit more than your average audio/video surveillance. It comes with an ankle monitor for the baby, a charger, and a mobile app. The anklet collects data like “heart rate, skin temperature, motion, and position,” and apparently adjust to the …

An 87-year-old-nudist is gunning for a new job: the sheriff of Island County, Washington. But if Dave Olinger is elected, he could face a big problem: Where would he pin the badge? Olinger is running as a write-in candidate, mainly because he was unhappy that a number of Republicans were running for elected positions unopposed. After finding out that Washington …

“Do you think you need to see where you’re shooting if someone’s on top of you, trying to kill or rape you, while their hands are slowly squeezing your neck and they’re yelling ‘I’m gonna kill you’? I didn’t think so.” This is the NRA commentator’s argument for arming the blind that the NRA just removed from its website. “Every …

The mills of the steel industry remain amongst the worst places to work if you are LGBT. While other industries have made great strides, steel mills remain “a brutal place to work,” but change may be coming. A local union has declared LGBT protections a priority and will call on the wider steelworker labor movement to do the same. Most …

A man who participated in an anti-crime, police-sponsored doughnut-eating contest in North Carolina on Wednesday was arrested only a day later, officers say, when they realized he had been wanted in two suspected break-ins. Police officials in Elizabeth City, N.C. arrested 24-year-old Bradley Hardison immediately following his sweet success in the anti-crime doughnut eating contest. Hardison put back eight doughnuts …

It would be safe to assume that the “W.W.” in “W.W. Bridal Boutique” doesn’t stand for “woman and woman.” The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania business is now facing public scrutiny after one woman complained on Facebook that she and her same-sex fiance were refused service because of their sexual orientation, writing that she was told that they “would not be able to …