Wednesday Linkage

Sleep is good.

Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools

Rectum-themed bar

Burning red in the evening sun, the natural 'firefall' that amazes for a few days a year

Crayon rockets

Program to help remedy shortage of rural doctors

Lexington Herald-Leader: Lesser-known GOP candidates for U.S. Senate struggle for recognition
One sings at unexpected times. One promises to be out of the U.S. Senate before his 103rd birthday. And another says he's been waterboarded. This off-beat trio of Republican U.S. Senate candidates, who haven't had luck raising millions of dollars for their campaigns, struggled until a forum earlier this month in Knox County to even get on the same stage with the front-runners. Gurley L. Martin, an 86-year-old World War II veteran, made such a fuss at being excluded from participating in a February candidates' forum in Paducah that he was escorted out by a sheriff's deputy.

Man operates strip club in his basement

Donated wedding diamonds pay for water wells in Africa

Space archaeologists!

Natural History of the Kitchen: The Microwave

'Gigantic' scorpion fossil found in Fife

Chicago Tribune: Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich challenges U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to court showdown
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich strutted up to a bank of microphones outside his lawyers' offices in jeans, a blazer and television makeup Tuesday and all but challenged U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to a duel at 10 paces. Fitzgerald lied about him engaging in a crime spree, Blagojevich steamed, promising to appear in federal court Wednesday at high noon to push a renewed defense bid to play every tape secretly made of his conversations during the corruption investigation of his administration.