The Daily Populous

Cynthia Moss, director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya, told me of a wonderful matriarch named Big Tuskless.

There are several dozen elephant jaws on the ground in the camp, but the family detoured right to hers.

After the others left, one stayed a long time, stroking Big Tuskless’s jaw with his trunk, fondling it, turning it. »

Mail carriers in Metro Atlanta are told if they deliver packages late, customers will get a free month of Amazon Prime.

As for the free month of Amazon Prime, it turns out the company gives no official guarantee of free stuff if your package comes late.

Hopefully the large scale late mail delivery around Atlanta doesn't force the company to change its unspoken giveaway policy. »

Magnani and her colleagues argue that these faults would not have produced the recent earthquakes if not for wastewater injection.

The seismologists compared images of faults in north Texas with images of other faults that have been active throughout geologic history.

New Madrid-area faults produced earthquakes as large as 7 or 8-magnitude in the early 1800s and have produced smaller quakes since then. »

Earlier this month, we reported that an LAPD investigation into rape claims against former That ‘70s Show star Danny Masterson had “inexplicably stalled” despite “compelling evidence” against him.

As Leah Remini explains in a new story with The Daily Beast, though, it might go a lot further than Scientology simply being unhelpful.

The implication—which is putting it mildly—is that Scientology specifically butters up the LAPD so things like the investigation into Masterson will conveniently disappear. »