The idea here s that you can have an umbrella that doesnt require any hands, because lets face it, you dont always have one. The other benefit is that your head is blocked from the elements on all sides. On the downside you look like youre being eaten by a transparent Pac-Man. More →

Cops realized something was wrong the moment they spotted a man pushing a baby in a carriage along a Long Island highway during a rainstorm at 3:40a.m. The officers pulled their patrol car over early Thursday and asked Gary Dillon what was going on. Dillon responded immediately, saying he had been wandering the neighborhood with his 5-month-old son since about 10:30 p.m. - to find some crack cocaine, police said yesterday. More →

The monsoon is the great life-giver and the great destroyer of the subcontinent. Without rain from these annual storms, crops wither, animals die and more than half the world's population suffers from potential famine. With too much rain, crops are inundated, animals drown and people suffer from floods and the diseases that follow in their wake. Observations of this critical climate system stretch back decades, and the overall level of rainfall has changed More →

Three hours into the dreary and desultory proceedings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a torrent of water began to pour from light fixtures in the ceiling, creating a waterfall between the nominee and the senators. More →