What we have here is a failure to communicate

A recent fatal air crash at Lexington, Kentucky had enough hubris to go around (inattentive pilots who'd first boarded the wrong plane, a lone air traffic controller because of "cost cutting" decisions at the FAA, poor runway lighting, etc.), but there seems to have been one factor not mentioned in the press, though noted via email by an expert observer:

"Comair and the press will tell you what a great plane it is. This is a total lie. The Bombardier CRJ-100 was designed to be an executive barge, not an airliner. They were designed to fly about ten times a month, not ten times a day. They have a long history of mechanical design shortfalls. I've flown on it and piloted it. It is a steaming, underpowered piece of shit. It never had enough power to get out of its own way and this situation is exactly what everybody who flies it was afraid of.
"The senior member of the crew had about five and a half years of total jet experience. The copilot less. They had minimum training (to save money; enjoy that discount ticket!) and were flying a minimally equipped POS on very short rest. The layover gets in about 10pm the night before. They report for pick-up at 4:30am. (This would support an NTSB statement that there was "a lack of precision and accuracy in their actions", but contradicts a statement that "the pilots had arrived the previous day and had plenty of time to sleep, according to a timeline provided by the NTSB".)
"I'm sorry if I sound bitter but this is exactly the direction the entire airline industry is going. Expect to see bigger, more colorful crashes in the future."

Crikey is as crikey does

Shooting a segment for a series called Ocean's Deadliest, Steve Irwin, the 'Crocodile Hunter', was "stung in the chest by a stingray" in Northern Australia and died.
According to University of Queensland marine neuroscientist Shaun Collin, stingrays have a serrated, toxin-loaded barb, or spine, up to 25 centimeters (10 inches) long on top of their tails. The barb flexes reflexively if a ray is frightened, and a sting to a person is usually excruciatingly painful but not deadly. Collin said he suspected Irwin died because the barb pierced under his ribcage and stabbed directly into his heart. "It was extraordinarily bad luck. It's not easy to get spined by a stingray, and to be killed by one is very rare," Collin said.

Underwater at 0200 in the morning, playing with deadly sea animals, fifty miles offshore and hours from a hospital in Cairns. Was Irwin's death extraordinarily bad luck, extraordinarily bad judgement, or just plain hubris?

They were thinking of calling it Soylent Green...

The first genetically engineered bentgrass (designed to resist the effects of the herbicide glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup) has escaped into the wild.
Intended for use on golf courses, the joint venture by Scotts Miracle-Gro & Monsanto went wild when "seed from a test plot escaped several years ago while it was drying following a harvest in Oregon's Willamette Valley, home to most of the U.S. grass seed industry and the world's largest producer of commercial grass varieties".
While some industry experts believe development of the engineered grass may be an economic question rather than a biological issue, acquired resistance could force land managers and government agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, which relies heavily on Roundup, to switch to "nastier" herbicides to control grasses and weeds, according to Norman Ellstrand, a geneticist and plant expert at the University of California, Riverside, who noted "This is not a killer tomato, this is not the asparagus that ate Cleveland."

No. Neither was kudzu. And look how well that turned out...