Happy Friday everyone. Here’s our weekly roll-up of some of the most bizarre (and often disturbing) stories from around the world that we’re following:

Apparently it’s a crime to sit down in public

A dangerous criminal in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 20 weeks in prison after an[...]

Last week the price of Bitcoin was double what it was on April 1 of this year.

Then it crashed by almost 20% in matter of days. Then it surged again. And at the time of this writing, the price of bitcoin is just shy of $8,000.

That's a pretty[...]

Last week when Uber finally went public, the stock set a record for the largest first-day dollar loss in IPO history: over $6 billion vanished from the company’s valuation in a matter of minutes.

But that shouldn’t be surprising since Uber doesn’t actually make a profit.

And the[...]

Like many of our readers, I’ll never forget the Great Crash and the Global Financial Crisis from more than a decade ago.

Some of you may be too young to remember. But it was pretty gruesome.

One of the largest investment banks in the world collapsed in September 2008, nearly[...]

Let the weekly absurdity begin!

New SAT scoring will combat Asian privilege

The infamous SAT has been used since 1926 as a sort of university entrance exam to objectively test high school students’ scholastic aptitude. Until now.

Test administrators announced plans this week to include an ‘adversity score’ for every[...]

The banking scandals are all starting to blur together.

When I heard that five big banks were fined by regulators today, I had to think…

Was that the scandal over employees creating fake accounts? No. Was it the scandal over recommending investments “highly likely to lose value”? No, not that[...]