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The Week in Weird (Roach Smuggler Edition)

Another week has passed, and we've seen a whole lot of bizarre stuff, including cockroach smuggling, some sad news from the Guinness Book of Unpleasant Outcomes, mushroom-based automobiles and the worst reason, ever, to return an adopted dog to a shelter. If you think you're ready, you can jump ahead to Fark.com and take...

Cockroaches: The Antibiotics of the Future?

(Sept. 7) -- Cockroaches, the creepy critters reviled for invading kitchens the country over, might be modern medicine's best option for fending off dangerous, drug-resistant bacterial infections. British researchers at the University of Nottingham's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science are behind the discovery,...

Study Says Cockroaches Exchange Food Tips

LONDON (June 5) -- Next time you raise your shoe to squish a cockroach, ponder this: You might be just about to kill the insect world's version of a Zagat restaurant reviewer. Because according to new research published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, roaches behave like mini-restaurant critics, sharing...