Jorn Barger points us to this information about Pynchon’s next one.

“Imagine an innovative

new transportation

device, representing a

change as significant as

the motor car’s invention

almost 100 years ago.”

Whether you are a thrill-seeker or complacent may come down to a tiny protein that controls how much stimulation it takes to cause adrenaline release. [New Scientist]

Tiny, hot and flat.

Egg Breakthrough Lifts Hopes for Infertile Women: even with donor eggs, infertile women can have their own genetic children, it appears.

Two Pairs Beats All: Woman Gives Birth To Two Sets Of Twins. “The odds are one in 24 million, but a Groton, Mass. couple beat the odds when they became the parents of two sets of identical twins.

Cheryl Scammell-Battles gave birth to four boys by C-section at St. Elizabeth’s Medial Center in Brighton early Saturday morning.” My very best wishes to the Scammell-Battles!

A writer named Jay Jennings whines about how his New York Times op-ed piece got passed around the Web without attribution. In the process, he makes bad jokes about amputees (really). Too bad this Slate article by him isn’t worth passing around without attribution.

Slate: economist Steven Landsburg on why shopping carts keep growing. Really. And it’s interesting.