Woman, 85, lay dead in her flat for five years before anyone noticed

Woman, 85, lay dead in her flat for five years before anyone noticed she was missing | Mail Online: "The badly decomposed remains of an 89-year-old woman were discovered in her flat five years after she died, police revealed today.

Isabella Purves' body was only found after a downstairs neighbour noticed water dripping through the ceiling of her tenement flat and reported it to the local council.

Officers forced their way into her flat, fighting through the piles of unopened mail which had gathered behind her front door, before making the gruesome discovery."

15 Useful and Creative Inventions

15 Useful and Creative Inventions | Toxel.com: "Collection of innovative gadgets and creative concept designs that promise to make our lives more comfortable and exciting."

Inflatable Tower Promises Easy Access to Outer Space

Inflatable Tower Promises Easy Access to Outer Space: Discovery News: "An inflatable tower nine miles tall and tethered to a mountain top could cut the cost to launch spacecraft, reduce the need for geostationary communications satellites, and improve cell phone signals.

'This structure could be made of commercially available materials,' said Brendan Quine, who, along with Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, wrote an article detailing their tower in the journal Acta Astronautica.

The tower itself would be 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) tall, 230 meters (754 feet) across, and weigh approximately 800,000 tons, or about twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker when fully inflated with a variety of gasses, including helium."

11 Yearbook Photos That Musicians Wish We'd Never Seen

11 Yearbook Photos That Musicians Wish We'd Never Seen - 11Points.com: "People in the music industry are all about their image. The image sells everything. As Jennifer Lopez proved, singing talent is among the least important, if not THE least important, determinant of record deals/album sales/industry success.

So here we're going to look at 11 people in the music industry whose yearbook photos completely and totally belie the marketing image their entire careers are based upon."

Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret

Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.com: "During last week’s discussion of whether couples choose to learn the sex of their baby before he or she is born, a number of you said you wanted to keep the secret as long as possible, because the moment people hear “boy” or “girl” they begin to make assumptions about a child.

One couple in Sweden decided to take that logic a few steps further, and are refusing to tell anyone whether their toddler is a boy or a girl."

Cameron Sinclair Double Backflip at Red Bull X-Fighters

20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools

20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools - Surgical Technologist: "You might think your HMO plan is scary, but at least it doesn't use these vintage surgical instruments...hopefully."

The 50 Most Influential Movie Directors of the Century

The 50 Most Influential Movie Directors of the Century: "“In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane."

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10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken

10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken - Listverse: "The words “Last picture taken” before his or her death conjure up many emotions, whether in front of the camera or behind it. This list consists of 10 last time stamps in history taken of and by some fascinating individuals. If anyone has new or conflicting information concerning the photos or information in this list I hope you will share it in your comments."

Badass Granny And Her Badass Car

Badass Granny And Her Badass Car

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Flight diverted after passenger undresses in seat

Flight diverted after passenger undresses in seat : "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A cross-country US Airways flight was diverted to Albuquerque after a male passenger removed his clothing mid-flight. Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport, said 50-year-old Keith Wright of New York disrobed Tuesday while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft. He said Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him repeatedly to get dressed and refused to be covered with a blanket.

Jiron said law enforcement employees who were passengers on the plane helped subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed. The FBI said Wright is in federal custody on a charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.

A US Airways spokeswoman said the plane from Charlotte continued on to Los Angeles after Wright's arrest."

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Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated

Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated | Jeff Pearlman: "One of my favorite all-time stories is about Elvis Grbac, Rich Gannon and People Magazine’s Sexiest Men issue from 1998. It is both outlandish and 100-percent true."

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

Biggest Surprise Product Hits

Biggest Surprise Product Hits - AOL Money & Finance: "From BlackBerrys to iPods to Dippin' Dots, DailyFinance.com writers reveal the decade's 20 products that nobody saw coming until they'd taken the world by storm. Click through our gallery above to see who made the list."