Another good one at Damn Interesting, about a little-known pioneer of cryobiology:

One afternoon in the early 1950s, a young biochemist left his suburban lab bench at Britain’s Mill Hill National Institute of Medical Research and boarded a tube train to Leicester Square. His destination was on nearby Lisle Street, in an area which today makes up part of London's glittering West End theatre district. But in the post-war years the sector was better known as a hectic hub for two of humanity's oldest professions. Only one of these was of interest to the young scientist. The girls hawking their wares seemed to sense his single-mindedness and kept their distance as the greenhorn scientist turned his attention to his true quarry: the vast abundance of second-hand military hardware that could be found in the shops lining Lisle Street.

Specifically, he was looking for war surplus radar equipment. His intention was to cannibalize a suitable radio frequency transmitter for the purpose of reanimating dead, frozen hamsters.

In Poland, a man has awakened after being in a coma since since before the fall of Communism:

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Mr Grzebski said.

The following year's elections ushered in eastern Europe's first post-communist government.

Poland joined the Nato alliance in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Mr Grzebski.

Welcome to the century of spoiled, whining idiots, Mr. Grzebski.

UPDATE:  According to the Guardian, the story is bogus.

And its name was Fred.

From the Ledger-Enquirer.com: Monster pig raised on a farm

Stone said he brought Jamison to meet with Blissitt Friday morning because he wanted to get more details about the hog. Blissitt said he had about 15 hogs and decided to sell them all off for slaughter, but no one would buy that particular hog because it was too big for slaughter and too big to use for breeding purposes, Stone said.

Stone said Blissitt told him the pig had become a nuisance and that people were often frightened by it when they came onto his property. "He was nice enough to tell my son that the pig was too big and needed killing,"

Stone said. "He shook Jamison's hand and said he did not kill the family pet."

So the family who "hunted" it was sort of hoaxed because they thought it was feral.  It was just a really big domesticated hog that had been released into the wild.

Forensic examinations on the original Hogzilla by National Geographic determined that it was 1/2 domesticated Hampshire.

Others are calling this "Hogzilla II" but they have apparently chosen to ignore the fact that this is the third monster hog (that I know of) to make the news.

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