Is there anything more frustrating than air travel ? Waiting, delays, cancellations, crowds, unintelligible announcers talking over each other, endless repetition of 'safety' announcements... It's a soul-crushing nightmare.

Why I Suck At Probability

For all you science geeks out there, A Review of the Universe is a fun way to waste an afternoon.

Be warned, though: the site is very slow.

Why Newsweek Needs To Die

Yo, Congress: Don't Kill my S-Corp

Hampton Stevens, subbing for Ta-Nehisi Coates, asks readers to name their five favorite words. OK then. In no order, I give you:

• Slathered - Thanks to the way Cormac McCarthy used it in "Blood Meridian".
• Astringent. It's nearly onomatopoetic - except it sounds like it is, not like the noise it makes.
• Interstitial. Spaces between the big things. I like that.
• Sylvan. Who among us does not like a tree?
• Flense. What it describes is gruesome. But it sounds lovely.

I'm all about the S and the L.

Shir o shekar

Nightmare Scenario

Joe Cooper might want to think twice the next time he’s asked to participate in a bikini waxing fundraiser for charity.

Cooper, 24, was left in agony after an “intimate beauty waxing” event at a pub went a bit too far and he nearly lost a testicle.

“I'd never do it again. I wouldn't put any man through that pain,” he told British media Wednesday.

Cooper and 10 male friends had agreed to undergo the waxing on June 5 to raise cash for a local hospital. But all the others just had their chests waxed, while Joe endured the "male Brazilian,” the Daily Sun reports.

Onlookers placed bids to pull the strips off in the charity event at the pub in Birstall, Leicester.

One of the strips stuck to a very sensitive spot — and an over-energetic tug by one of his friends tore off six of his seven layers of skin, the newspaper said.

Pub manager Josh Adcock told the U.K. Daily Mail: 'Joe's a bit of a clown, he likes to do things like that.

Barf

The Reagan Revolution