‘Scrotum Squeezing’ Getting Closer Look From Paralympics Officials

People who drink about three to five cups of coffee a day may be less likely to die prematurely from some illnesses than those who don’t drink or drink less coffee

Our findings showed that people felt less stressed when they checked their email less often

Couples who have sex weekly are happiest. More sex may not always make you happier, according to new research

The effect of wearing different types of textiles on sexual activity was studied in 75 rats

What is stupid? People’s conception of unintelligent behavior

Even the CEO’s Job Is Susceptible To Automation, McKinsey Report Says

Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky?

Color preference in the insane

Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states has nearly tripled.

Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks

Gluten Free Museum

Period panties

Indonesia considers crocodiles for prison guards

Coffee hydrates as well as water, study says. The belief that caffeinated drinks such as coffee could cause dehydration is based on a 1928 study that demonstrated caffeine’s diuretic effect.

It costs as much as $4 million to open a new diner these days, compared with $500,000 to $1 million for a higher-end restaurant, because diners require so much storage space for the inventory that their large menus require.

The Air-Conditioning Capacity of the Human Nose

Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells?

Human language may be shaped by climate and terrain

What will the English language be like in 100 years?

English Names for fungi 2014

$635 pills of fecal matter cure deadly gastrointestinal infection

What if the gamblers are researchers betting on how each other’s experiments will turn out, and the results are used to improve science itself?

Not even astrology researchers believe in astrology

Astrobiologists Revise the Chances of Finding Advanced ET Civilizations

Last year, Kennedy, a 67-year-old neurologist and inventor, did something unprecedented in the annals of self-experimentation. He paid a surgeon in Central America $25,000 to implant electrodes into his brain in order to establish a connection between his motor cortex and a computer.

What’s worse than a password? A fingerprint. + How to mimic a fingerprint

What is becoming of Deleuze?

Casualty-free casual fighting for free

Baby Born Pregnant with Her Own Twins

First ‘KFC’ to open in Iran shut down after just 24 hours

Diners at his restaurant are presented with an iPod loaded with a recording of crashing waves and screeching gulls to listen to while enjoying an artfully presented plate of seafood

Testosterone levels affect how much makeup women use, study finds

The best way for swarming insects to get the protein and salt they need is to eat each other.

Can scientists agree on a definition of curiosity?

Self-driving delivery robots to hit streets of London in 2016

How does a container port work? And why aren’t America’s shipping ports automated?

Liverpool Just Opened Fast-Walking Pedestrian Lanes

The mansion is what real estate experts call a “stigmatized property” — jargon for a listing with a grisly back story

There are approximately 900 actively working mail chutes in New York. As letters grew in size, clogging of the mail chutes became an increasing problem.

Smell expert Sissel Tolaas is on a mission to capture and replicate the “smellscapes” of cities around the world [Thanks Tim]

The Popularity of Music Genres, 2005-present

I renamed some of the paint colors at the hardware store

18% of Americans say they’ve seen a ghost

Our investigation found lottery retailers make up at least three of the top five D.C. Lottery frequent winners – all with about 100 wins or more

Intestinal worms can actually be good for you

Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores. The bad air quality found in many office buildings may also affect performance, health.

When daylight saving time ends in fall, criminals use the extra hour of evening darkness to commit more robberies

Sleep interruptions worse for mood than reduced overall amount of sleep and Black Americans aren’t sleeping as well as whites.

The Changing Vocabulary of Mental Illness

French city launches literary vending machines

How Auction Houses Orchestrate Sales for Maximum Drama [NY Times]

The mystery of the woman who reviewed 30,000 books on Amazon and The Most Prolific Editor on Wikipedia

Sony Filed a Copyright Claim Against the Stock Video I Licensed to Them

How a Fracking Company Borrowed $5 Billion from Itself and Stuck Its Landowners with the Bill

Why The Machines That Dig Tunnels Are Always Named After Women

Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible? The science of and psychology behind bouncing breasts

Why don’t people see the yeti any more?

Brian Eno’s Music For Airports played at San Diego International Airport, Terminal 2

23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company’s parking lot and saves 90% of his income

As part of the performance, named ‘Site’, she will sit naked on top of Toynbee Studios between 1-5pm today and Saturday.

Woman’s house burgled while she was at Neighbourhood Watch meeting

3D-printed teeth can kill 99% of bacteria

Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

The moles on your right arm may predict your risk of skin cancer. New research suggests that it’s specifically those with 11 moles or more on their right arms who need to care the most

Scientists Hope to Lengthen Dog Years

An algorithm can predict human behavior better than humans

Here we show that searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information.

Life is different for people who think in metaphors

I asked psychologists to analyze Trump supporters. This is what I learned.

Disabling parts of the brain with magnets can weaken faith in God and change attitudes to immigrants, study finds

How America is attempting to stop school shootings by using community detection and behavioural intervention programmes for people identified as potential killers – before a crime has ever been committed.

A new study suggests that receiving rewards as you learn can help cement new facts and skills in your memory, particularly when combined with a daytime nap. “Our findings are relevant for understanding the devastating effects that lack of sleep can have on achievement”

How Many Real Friends Can You Have at Once?

We estimate a real financial return to wine investment (net of storage costs) of 4.1%, which exceeds bonds, art, and stamps

We report here that the amount of heat gained by a Bedouin exposed to the hot desert is the same whether he wears a black or a white robe.

How we are all contributing to the destruction of coral reefs: Sunscreen. A new study finds that a single drop in a small area is all it takes for the chemicals in the lotion to mount an attack.

Australian researchers have accidentally discovered a way to remove mercury from water using a material made from industrial waste and orange peel.

Crocodiles, like some birds and aquatic mammals, may well sleep with half of their brain at a time. The researchers found that crocodiles were more inclined to sleep with one eye open when humans were present, and that the open eye was always directed towards the human.

Mozambique is landmine-free thanks to rats

A paper by a team of astronomers is getting some notice because of aliens. First, what’s the science?

Tokyo Bookstore Only Stocks One Title at a Time

“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.”

In 1996, drugs relieved pain 27% more than a placebo. But in 2013 that gap had fallen to only 9%.

Four Reasons Drugs Are Expensive, of Which Two Are False

Finding cannabinoids in hair does not prove cannabis consumption

The Scientists Who Pee Plutonium

New study says 30 minutes of exercise isn’t enough. You should double or quadruple that.

Scientists have discovered more than 200 genes linked to ageing and have found switching them off could boost lifespan by 60 per cent, say scientists

Does the smell of a rare mushroom found in Hawaii really cause woman to have spontaneous orgasms?

The earliest example of a decapitation, dating from approximately 9,100-9,400 years ago

Meet the Library of Babel: Every Possible Combination of Letters That has Been (or could be) Written

Twitter’s New AI Recognizes Porn So You Don’t Have To

Adobe’s new algorithm can erase tourists from your photos in real time

Experts have no confidence that we can protect next-gen streets and cars from hackers

Squatty Potty [more] And: Colonic gas explosion during therapeutic colonoscopy with electrocautery

Patriarch Kirill’s folding cross

Self-driving cars could reduce accidents by 90 percent, become greatest health achievement of the century

Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan

The inequality of who dies in car crashes

Boring cityscapes increase sadness, addiction and disease-related stress. Is urban design a matter of public health?

Study by the US Federal Reserve Board finds that the higher your credit score, the higher your chances of a lasting relationship.

Evidence of the cheerleader effect—people seem more attractive in a group than in isolation

Estimating Body Shape Under Clothing

People talk about an individual’s genome as if it was a single consistent entity—but it isn’t. Every one of us actually contains a cosmopolitan melting pot of different genomes.

Can exercise be replaced with a pill?

Shady dealings of William Shakespeare’s father helped to fund son’s plays

Employment rates of women in Japan and US

Montreal Man Makes His Own Campaign Posters For No Apparent Reason

The Catholic church is estimated to own twenty percent of all real estate in Italy, and a quarter of all real estate in Rome.

Does the presence of a mannequin head change shopping behavior?

Expressing anger might lead men to gain influence, but women to lose influence over others (even when making identical arguments)

How jurors can be misled by emotional testimony and gruesome photos

The assumption that people who watch porn are more likely to hold negative or sexist views of women has been challenged by a recent study in the Journal of Sex Research

Scientists identify potential birth control ‘pill’ for men

Losing weight is hard — and it’s getting harder. That’s not an excuse, a group of researchers say, it’s science. When comparing people with the same diets in 1971 and 2008, the more recent counterpart was on average 10 percent heavier.

Researchers have discovered a surprisingly simple way to get kids to eat more veggies

Adolescents with a bedroom television reported more television viewing time, less physical activity, poorer dietary habits, fewer family meals, and poorer school performance

Paralyzed man uses own brainwaves to walk again – no exoskeleton required

An Alfred Hitchcock film helped to prove one patient had been conscious while in a coma-like state for 16 years

Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare

Meet The Man Who Invents Languages For A Living

Robert Samuel, founder of Same Ole Line Dudes, makes up to $1,000 a week to stand in line

Explore Manhattan When It Was Just Forests and Creeks With the 1609 Welikia Map

Martian Life Could Be a Biotech Bonanza

Switzerland begins postal delivery by drone

Gigantic wooden megaphones amplify the sounds of nature

Attention teachers: never assign your class to paint “candlelight”

The Pope comes to America

More people have died while trying to taking a ‘selfie’ than from shark attacks this year.

The price of electricity in Texas fell toward zero, hit zero, and then went negative for several hours

Every person emits a unique blend of microbes into the air, and this “microbial cloud” is personalized enough that it could be used to identify people

Researchers created a synthetic material out of 1 billion tiny magnets. The magnetic properties of this so-called metamaterial change with the temperature, so that it can take on different states; just like water has a gaseous, liquid and a solid state.

Researchers created a new material that is stronger then steel and flexible like gum

Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies

Chimps were shown bizarre videos of an actor in a King Kong costume attacking humans in a cage. A second video showed the humans getting ‘revenge’ with a hammer.

Streaming music is officially a bigger business than physical music sales in the U.S. for the first time. If current trends continue, streaming will surpass digital download sales as the biggest single source of revenue for the music industry by next year.

Before writing most of Taylor Swift’s newest album, Max Martin wrote No. 1 hits for Britney Spears, ’NSync, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, and Katy Perry. Meet the bald Norwegians and other unknowns who actually create the songs that top the charts

China VCs Are Going Crazy for Girl Groups

The International Image of Brazil in 1950 and in 2014: A Study of the Reputation and the Identity of Brazil as Projected by the International Media During the Two FIFA World Cups in the Country

How to make a $1,500 sandwich, in only 6 months

MIT graduate skips shower for 12 years, uses bacterial spray to keep clean

Robot applyed for Screen Actors Guild card. Acceptance into SAG would give the robot health insurance and a pension.

Homeopathy conference ends in chaos after delegates take hallucinogenic drug

Most acts of aggression by toddlers are unprovoked

Separate brain systems process the consequences of our decisions

People are not generally great at detecting deception, but new research shows that discussing with others makes a big difference.

Between 1999 and 2009, the French Full Scale IQ declined by 3.8 points. Results are inline with 7 studies showing a Negative Flynn Effect in Europe.

Google to Start Testing Grocery Deliveries This Year

Mediterranean Diet Plus Olive Oil Associated with Reduced Breast Cancer Risk

You should never let people work on more than one thing at once

a gene—called DEC2—associated with people who can get away with less than six hours of sleep without any adverse health effects

Why you should never make your bed

He doesn’t think any artist since Francis Bacon had pushed art forward. The last notable artists were Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, he said.

Mysterious, blood-sucking fish fall from the Alaskan sky

Tug Toner [Thanks GG]

Scientists say they’ve found a way to slow ice cream’s melting

In this study, 100 percent of the participants remained HIV-free.

Scientists have pinpointed a population of neurons in the brain that influences whether one drink leads to two

Distillery that sent unmatured malt whisky into space to study the effect of near-zero gravity on flavour has described its findings as “groundbreaking”

How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement

The US Navy is working on AI that can predict a pirate attack

Forget body language or eye movements. There are much better ways to detect lies

Queuing on the basis of last-come-first-served may sometimes be more efficient

What’s the best length for online news videos? People liked longer videos better than shorter ones. Long videos averaged 2.08 minutes in duration. Short videos averaged 24 seconds.

If we think that the world of the future will be largely dominated by America and China, then this kind of English-Chinese bilingualism could become much, much more common. Is Singapore the future of language?

Angola was the most difficult of all the countries I visited. Man who traveled to every country on earth explains the most difficult places to visit

Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. At 8,370 meters? There are fish.

Pirate

Police in North Dakota can now use drones armed with tasers

A portable toilet with a woman inside was accidentally carried across a festival site by a forklift truck.

“Asking drug dealers to turn in other drug dealers,” Sheriff Melton said. “It’s comical, and it’s working.” [NY Times]

Researchers help identify neural basis of multitasking

Of 100 studies, more than half could not be reproduced using the same method

Women who exercised during their teen years were less likely to die from cancer and all other causes during middle-age and later in life

Scientists have discovered why running makes you happy

People’s “coming out” experiences are related to their psychological wellbeing years later

More than eight out of 10 people surveyed online admitted to sexting in the prior year, according to new research

Ashley Madison created more than 70,000 female bots to send male users millions of fake messages

Electrical engineers demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body

Google’s self-driving cars WON’T have windscreen wipers

How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election [Thanks Tim]

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide [PDF]

Largest of the Five Mass Extinctions Caused By Microbes

Panspermia is a process where life is somehow transplanted from planet to planet.

Four Centuries of Development Surprises on a Single Stretch of a New York City Street [PDF]

Useless Press has obtained a dataset of ten years worth of official reports about decapitated animals discovered in New York City public parks

Scientists discover that Earth has 2.64 trillion more trees than previously thought. But there’s a dark side to the discovery.

First Written Use of “Fuck” (1528)

TYOP (tell you on phone), TOL (talk offline) and LDL (let’s discuss live) are red flags for prosecutors combing through the e-mail transcripts of Wall Street traders suspected of illegal activity

Our analysis provides evidence that journals which publish papers with shorter titles receive more citations per paper

Why Do So Many Hot New Restaurants Have Names That Sound the Same?

Inside the Fondazione Prada

Mount Rushmore before carving

Xiao makes a living by imitating US president Barack Obama

RIP Jamiroquai [Thanks Tim]

London bar where you absorb equivalent of large drink through lungs and eyes in 40 minutes

Finnish schools phase out handwriting classes, in favour of keyboard skills

Seven-year study of adults in China matches regular consumption of spicy foods, such as chilli peppers, to 14% reduced risk of death

Fatherhood at young age linked to greater likelihood of mid-life death

How to Flirt Best: The Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Techniques

We present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats.

How your eyes betray your thoughts

Archillect’s curation process works like a simple neural network [archillect.com] [Thanks Tim]

Facebook patents technology to help lenders discriminate against borrowers based on social connections

How to Charge $1,000 for Absolutely Nothing

You can now listen to NASA Voyager’s ‘Golden Record’, intended for aliens & future humans

A golden sex toy that contains your partner’s ashes

Chinese workers go ‘faceless’ for a day to avoid stress of faking facial expressions

There is a widespread consensus amongst psychologists that tyranny triumphs either because ordinary people blindly follow orders or else because they mindlessly conform to powerful roles. However, recent evidence concerning historical events challenges these views.

40% of the US population would not consider voting for an atheist presidential candidate, regardless of their policies

Among our findings, 56% of students report changes in the strength of their religious convictions during college, while 45% report changes in religious service attendance frequency

“Millennials,” a demographic group defined by a slavish devotion to “keeping it real” by purchasing the correct consumer products

In 1770, the world’s average life expectancy was just 29 years old.

For people who want improved health, association with other healthy people is usually the strongest and most direct path of change.

Evaluation of environmental impacts: The case of pasta

Sun Tzu 2.0: Is cyberwar the new warfare?

Researchers perfect technique that profiles people based on unique keystroke traits.

Uber’s Phantom Cabs

Researchers demonstrate the world’s first white lasers More luminous and energy efficient than LEDs, white lasers look to be the future in lighting and light-based wireless communication.

How Far Can the Human Eye See a Candle Flame?

Intravenous garlic juice herpes treatment (Self-tested!)

Kayak struck by lightning

Why Britain has secret “ghost trains”?

We don’t look like we think we look, study

How rudeness spreads like a contagion

Why does “schizophrenia” persist?

Semen has controlling power over female genes and behaviour

Fat should be considered the sixth taste, study

Sleep not just protects memories against forgetting, it also makes them more accessible

Thousands of Apps Secretly Run Ads That Users Can’t See Advertisers lose $895 million per year to invisible fraud within mobile apps

Gmail messages can now self-destruct

More data has been created and stored since the turn of the millennium than in the entire history of humanity

Russia’s lost punks [via Nils Runeberg]

Each house owns at least one black Indian cobra. None of the serpents are defanged but children play with them as if they were toys.

A night in Japan’s robot hotel

Meet a man who has been dating a crowdsourced Internet girlfriend for the last three months

Restaurant food not much healthier than fast food

The Four Types of Drunks, According to Science.

Effect of climate and seasonality on depressed mood among twitter users

Eyelashes divert airflow to protect the eye and the ideal eyelash length is about one third the width of an eye. And that goes for 22 different animals, not just humans

Passionate kissing is not a human universal

Getting to know her before asking her out could make you seem more attractive, suggests research

The sex life of the American teenager is apparently far less busy than it was in generations past

The case of man left with 90 minute memory and feeling that it is the same day every day

A password cracker that steals bitcoins from your brain

CrossFit mascot is a homicidal-looking shirtless monstrosity called Pukie the Clown. Thirty days in a gay CrossFit cult

Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

Rotterdam could be first to pave its streets with recycled plastic bottles, a surface claimed to be greener, quicker to lay and more reliable than asphalt

3D Printed Guided Missiles are Now a Reality

Neighborhood Nuisance Sound Effects

New York Wants Google Maps to Discourage Left Turns

Left Turns Cause A Quarter Of All Pedestrian Crashes In U.S.

Coffee neither increases nor decreases the risk of developing lifestyle diseases such as obesity and diabetes, new research

Substance abuse reduces brain volume in women but not men

Since 2009, progress has been made in devising techniques for determining ideal male nipple positions

Facial Features: What Women Perceive as Attractive and What Men Consider Attractive

Cross-cultural study finds wide gap in what men and women want in a romantic partner

Research does show that if you increase people’s time awareness—by placing a big clock in front of them, for example—they do more stuff

Is your fear of radiation irrational?

Sharks living in a volcano

How to Sue Richard Prince and Win

Population density in NYC at day and night

Give me all of your bee syrup now

Donald Trump butt plug

A Researcher Made an Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains

Scientists have discovered that living near trees is good for your health Related: Green and blue spaces promoted feelings of renewal, restoration, and spiritual connectedness

Text messaging during surgery provides analgesic-sparing benefits that surpass distraction techniques

How You Consist of Trillions of Tiny Machines

Stanford neuroscience research identifies more effective way to teach abstract math concepts to children

What It’s Like to Be Profoundly Face-Blind

Scientists showed domestic dogs avoid people they have seen behave unhelpfully to their owners

Swimming under the surface is faster than swimming on the surface. And the fish kick may be the fastest subsurface form yet.

Where does water go when it doesn’t flow?

Why do puddles stop spreading?

Global sea levels have risen six meters in the last three decades

Chinese Zoo Animals Monitored For Earthquake Prediction

It is forbidden to die in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen

Canadian lifted into sky in lawn chair by 100+ balloons, arrested upon landing

Braille tablet using a new liquid-based technology create tactile relief outputting braille, graphics and maps for the blind

A bizarre crime wave is sweeping one part of England - thieves are stripping down Vauxhall cars as their owners sleep

Smile at a party and people are more likely to remember seeing your face there

Key element of human language discovered in bird babble

New method reveals exact time of death after 10 days

This Is How Uber Takes Over a City

How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet

The authors find no evidence of predictive ability from candlestick patterns alone, or in combination with other common technical indicators, like momentum.

The Physics Of Fireworks

Secrets of catching attention revealed. 1,072 ‘context words’ disclosed.

What happens to sardine prices when fishermen get mobile phones ?

Walmart Dress Code

43% of married people don’t know how much money their spouse makes

Revealing the face of a criminal based on their genes may be closer than we think

Scientists build artificial neurons able to communicate with organic neurons

Brain connections last as long as the memories they store, Stanford neuroscientist finds

The hack is simple: if you are an average adult, a cup of coffee every 48 hours will do the trick.

Taking control remotely of modern cars has become distressingly easy for hackers

The pleasure of listening to music was not as great as he anticipated. He found more pleasure in manipulating music files.

Do observers like curvature or do they dislike angularity? [PDF]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

How to steal an election