from Aug 31

A new study showed that the air pollution created by cigarettes is 10 times worse than diesel exhaust.

The head of the EPA said that fish in almost all lakes and rivers and streams in the United States are contaminated with mercury, for which there is no safe exposure level.

It was reported that a janitor at Tate Modern in London threw out a work of art because he thought it was just a bag of garbage; the artwork, entitled “Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art,” was in fact a bag of garbage. [Reuters]

Swiss researchers found that people really do enjoy revenge. [Reuters]