The Darwin Awards: Wendy Northcutt torrent

Come discover the entertaining and morbid series of awards "'presented' in honor of the recipient doing something so stultifyingly stupid," says author Wendy Northcutt, "that it results in the individual's removal from being able to make any future donations to the human gene pool."

Her concept has become a cult favorite, leading to five books and a web site, filled with stories of individuals whose time on earth and contribution to the gene pool have ended.

Wendy Northcutt - Wendy Northcutt is the creator of the Darwinawards.com website and author of five books on the Darwin Awards. Northcutt completed a degree in molecular biology at Berkeley, worked in a neuroscience research lab at Stanford, and later managed the protein purification group at a biotech startup developing cancer and diabetes therapeutics.