Chris Jackson/Getty Images filesDubai is considering restricting car ownership to only those over a certain income level to help stem gridlock issues in the emirate.
Each week, CBC Radio’s Brent Bambury collects six of the oddest and most interesting news items for you to peruse. This week: Students get unemployed professors to plagiarize for them; a concept drone add-on helps drivers gauge traffic; and a mathematician calculates there are 177,000-plus ways to knot a tie.
1. Gary Campbell, who tracks sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, says she hasn’t been seen for over a year and may in fact be dead.
2. A city council in the U.K. is sending motivational text messages to overweight citizens(BMI +25) who voluntarily sign up for the service.
3. Students are turning to unemployed professors to write original term papers now that software like turnitin.com spots plagiarized essays.
4. Automaker Renault has unveiled a concept car sold with a roof-mounted drone which detaches to gather traffic info.
5. Dubai is considering restricting car ownership to those earning above a certain monthly salary in a bid to limit gridlock.
6. Inspired by the design in The Matrix Reloaded, mathematician Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson calculates there are 177,147 different ways to knot a tie.
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