Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 May 2009

An anonymous 911 call helped police in Duncan arrest a car load of convicted felons with loaded weapons. Five officers were on the lookout for the men after the caller said they were driving the streets of Duncan with a car filled with loaded weapons....

Police in Arnold, Mo., reported that a woman heading for the exit of a grocery store with a shopping cart containing more than $1,200 in stolen "groceries and other items" was thwarted by trying to leave through the wrong automatic door.

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each other's company and decided to meet on a regular basis.

An olfactory receptor neuron (ORN), also called an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), is a transduction cell within the olfactory system... Humans have about 40 million olfactory receptors that detect up to 10,000 different odorsneurons....