If you’re in a tropical country and looking to avoid malaria, the scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have an easy pro-tip for you: wash your damn socks.

Actor/activist George Clooney has malaria. Seems he contracted it earlier this month while traveling in the Sudan and is "feeling rough." That's a pretty extreme way to raise awareness for a cause, George! Well, keep the gin and tonics coming.

It turns out that "ladderlike horizontal rods that form an exterior curtain surrounding the floor-to-ceiling windows"—while a neat architectural feature—present a small problem: someone might use them as a ladder! Or two people might use them as ladders! Our only question: When the Times says, "Reporting was contributed by Charles V. Bagli, Russ Buettner, Sewell Chan, Glenn Collins, David W. Dunlap, Jason Grant, Christine Hauser, Corey Kilgannon, Eric Konigsberg, Jennifer 8. Lee, Trymaine Lee, Patrick McGeehan, Colin Moynihan, William K. Rashbaum and Paul von Zielbauer," do they just mean that all those people have offices with windows? [NYT]