false 63803 5 Warning: The Darwin Awards are not for the tenderhearted. The vastly popular Web site, now a book, recognizes "individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." Who wins a Darwin Award? Terrorists who set their bombs on daylight saving time and delivered them on standard time, blowing themselves up. Folks who put garlands around a Bengal tiger's neck. Guys in Cambodia who took turns stomping on a land mine they'd brought into a bar. The six Egyptians who drowned trying to rescue a chicken that fell into a well. (The chicken alone survived.) The Buenos Aires husband who threw his wife out an eighth-floor window during a spat, noticed she'd gotten caught in power lines, and jumped after her, "angrily trying to finish the job, or remorsefully hoping to rescue her." He went splat; she escaped unscathed. There are some urban legends, like the sergeant said to have attached a Jet-Assisted Take-Off unit to his Chevy and hit a cliff 125 feet up (not true, says author Wendy Northcutt), and all-too-true honorable mentions, like the man who put weather balloons on his lawn chair, soared to 16,000 feet, crashed into power lines, blacked out Long Beach, California, and told police, "A man can't just sit around." My favorite winner: the man who was bitten nine times by the same king brown snake because he put it in a bag on his car seat and kept sticking his hand back into the bag. Why did he pick up the snake with his left hand? "Because I was holding a beer in my right one." And where did this take place? In Darwin, Australia. If you think somebody up there doesn't have a wicked sense of humor, <I>The Darwin Awards</I> may change your mind. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 61955 2000 The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action total:468|5:4|4:3|3:6|2:4|1:0| 468 1696 637 60 3 3 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 01:57:22 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 26 16:05:13 -0700 2009 1 3 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 15:52:38 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 15:56:05 -0800 2008 the website, then this is that. In book form. Which is much easier for toilet reading (for some reason, people still look at you funny if you bring a wifi connected laptop into the crapper).]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:00:35 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 18:11:37 -0700 2009 A sword-swallower died in Bonn after he put an umbrella down his throat-and accidentally pushed the button that opened it"

This book is not about scientifically evolution theory, but then the evolution of mind is happening and observable in life. Natural selection.. We never know ho...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 09:23:52 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 13:07:21 -0800 2009 "The Darwin Awards" is a book that awards people for improving the gene pool, b...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 08 16:06:13 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 16:10:38 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 06:48:52 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 06:52:48 -0700 2009 Amusing though frequently implausible. Some of the stories are quite gross. IE the one about the tourists who went for a walk in the tiger enclosure at ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:52:12 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:55:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun May 24 18:11:47 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 18:15:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Nov 21 15:06:44 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 15:09:49 -0800 2008 1
If you like to read on the can this would be a good book to ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Feb 13 08:22:59 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 08:23:22 -0800 2009 This book, a companion to the website of hte same name, was a quick and enjoyable read. Great stories of urban legends, and of actual Darwin Award winners: those who "ensure the long term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion."]]> 1 0 false false Sun Sep 06 14:05:57 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 14:06:57 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 23:38:46 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 23:40:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 01:37:52 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 23:38:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 07:57:21 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 07:58:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Mar 06 08:08:27 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 08:10:01 -0800 2009 at least twice 2 0 false false Sun Jan 11 10:14:17 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 10:15:50 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 25 18:29:32 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 18:30:43 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 11:20:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 11:21:22 -0700 2009 Not too informative or special, just another of those blogs-turned-book cases, but still entertaining.]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 12 12:46:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 17:15:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 26 20:30:27 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 20:33:02 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4404058