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23.jpgScientists have created a chemical that can be added to food to make people feel full.

People trust NSA more than Google, survey says

Almost one-fourth of video ads and 11 percent of display ads are viewed by bots created by cyber crime networks seeking to siphon advertising money

List of search terms blocked in China

BitTorrent launches invite-only torrent-based browser

The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple

This startup wants to pay you to fly with strangers’ stuff in your luggage

Anyone with more than 2,000 personal Facebook friends or 100,000 followers on Instagram gets a free seven-night stay at the luxury hotel, which usually costs $360/night.

Museums are mining increasingly detailed layers of information about their guests, employing some of the same strategies that companies like Macy’s, Netflix and Wal-Mart have used in recent years to boost sales by tracking customer behavior

How Law Defines Art

It turns out that the modern affliction of spellcheckers wreaking havoc has been given a name.

Wittgenstein and Hitler Attended the Same School in Austria, at the Same Time (1904-1905)

Lonely Sculpture

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34.jpgSmoking erases Y chromosomes

How addicts gained the power to reverse overdoses

When a man was fitted with a new heart, his mind changed in unusual ways. Why?

Effect of Vaginal Electrical Stimulation

The Sex Lives of Sex Researchers

The Associations Between Adolescents’ Consumption of Pornography and Music Videos and Their Sexting Behavior

Evidence for ‘bilingual advantage’ may be less conclusive than previously thought

Subclinical Primary Psychopathy, but Not Physical Formidability or Attractiveness, Predicts Conversational Dominance

Men were influenced by lucky numbers, the women by unlucky numbers

A simple trick to improve your memory

You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?

Art Collectors, Beware: Even Steve Martin Got Sold an $850,000 Forgery

How Some Video Stores Are Thriving in the Age of Netflix

12 excellent features from directors who never made another feature

Food Guns

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21.jpgA World War II grenade apparently landed on a tree during fighting. It was then enveloped by wood growing around it to the point that it was invisible when the tree was chopped down for firewood and sold to the supermarket…

WhatsApp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings

Most American presidents destined to fade from nation’s memory, study suggests [more]

Women outperform men in some financial negotiations

Microbial succession in a sterilized restroom begins with bacteria from the gut and the vagina, and is followed shortly by microbes from the skin.

‘Off switch’ for pain discovered

Crazymeds.us gives mostly accurate and readable descriptions of the costs and benefits of every psychiatric medication.

Forty percent of trials reported significantly greater long-term weight loss with diet compared with aerobic exercise. Diet+aerobic exercise resulted in significantly greater weight loss than diet alone in 50% of trials.

A new study looks at the changes in social structures and diet during the transition from the Merovingian (6th to 9th c. CE) to Vikings era (9th to 11th c. CE) in Northern Europe.

things you (probably) didn’t know about the Middle Ages

Many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth.

Does Religious Beliefs Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from Provincial-level Panel Data in China

The balcony scene in “Romeo and Juliet” is not actually in Shakespeare’s play.

Alfredo Martinez strapped his little brother to a rocket engine at the age of 12, was shot in the leg in Guatemala by a death squad in the 1980’s, and he himself shot his dealer at an art fair in New York City with a self-made gun.

Art

Much Contemporary Art is a Sham Says Famous British Critic

The FBI’s astonishing new facial recognition technology is the product of 175 years of innovation—and paranoia.

Startup wants to build you a personal website that’s automatically updated with your own data

The Cost of the “S” in HTTPS [PDF]

The tattoos are worn exactly as a regular temporary tattoo would be worn. The sensors simply sit atop the skin without penetrating it and interact with Bluetooth or other wireless devices with a signal in order to send the data.

New York City Pizza Principle

MIT holds satirical conference where researchers offer fake theories supported by real scientific evidence.

Big Bang, Universe, Sun & Earth, Life begins…

Amazing unknown transparent vehicle captured over Vienna, Austria - Nov 26, 2014 [Thanks Tim]

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211.jpgRussia: Passengers ‘get out and push’ frozen plane

Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog

Dogs hear our words and how we say them

Researchers has determined the location where memories are generated with a level of precision never achieved before.

The mysterious ‘action at a distance’ between liquid containers

Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Data Center

Twitter Users Are More Likely to Follow Others With The Same First Name But Nobody Knows Why

Automatic gender spoof detection (make-up and mustaches)

Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917)

My stalker is back.

European art collective created a bot that crawls the Darknet and makes one purchase per week

TED Talk: How to Dispose of a Chimp’s Body by Col. Frank Tuplin

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45.jpgMan’s toilet explodes while city crew cleans sewers

Researchers able to turn sawdust into gasoline

Babies remember nothin’ but a good time, study says

Inferring the best response from a large range of possible actions frequently involves difficult computations that the brain is unlikely to perform rapidly. Nevertheless, humans often do well in such situations. How the human brain exploits and explores options

Being in a position of power can fundamentally change the way you speak, altering basic acoustic properties of the voice, and other people are able to pick up on these vocal cues to know who is really in charge, according to new research

Experimental and Field Evidence that Morality and a Sense of Humor are Psychologically Incompatible [PDF]

When Apple announced the iPhone 6 this September, however, it didn’t have a sapphire screen, only a regular glass one. And a month later, the small New Hampshire-based company chosen to supply Apple with enormous quantities of cheap sapphire, GT Advanced Technologies, declared bankruptcy. The terms Apple negotiated committed GT to supplying a huge amount of sapphire, but put Apple under no obligation to buy it.

The police do not do trauma clean-up. Neither do firefighters or ambulance crews or emergency services. Instead, hired hands like Sandra handle the clean-up at crime scenes, deaths, floods and fires.

How the love of a high school girl sparked a gang war

Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight

Nobody knew how to automatically identify creativity until researchers at Yahoo Labs began studying the Vine livestream.

Why the French state has a team of UFO hunters

Frenchman develops pills to make flatulence smell of roses

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29.jpg Woman opens professional cuddling shop – gets 10,000 customers in first week

Men are more likely to help a woman if she’s wearing heels. And the higher the heels, the more willing the men were to assist her. [via gettingsome]

Business culture in banking industry favors dishonest behavior, study shows

CEO Facial Width Predicts Firm Financial Policies

Facial Feature Assessment of Popular U.S. Country Music Singers Across Social and Economic Conditions

How can it be that new music is liked by young people if so much of it is often regarded as quite bad?

Physicists Explain Why Coffee Is More Prone to Spills Than Beer

The younger generation doesn’t have the time or patience to stick with golf, and it’s killing the industry.

Female inmates regularly concoct their own makeup, or “fakeup,” using food, lotions, and other items provided by their facilities.

Two biotech Startups Want to Make Women’s Private Parts Smell Like Ripe Fruit

The poop bus could actually improve air quality, as biomethane produces fewer emissions than regular diesel fuel does.

bosomcouture.com

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54.jpgPolice in California and Texas Test Networked Guns

10-second kiss can transfer as many as 80 million bacteria

Unattractive men look better to women taking birth control, study finds. [via gettingsome]

Pain communication through body posture: The many postures of pain

Pain from rejection and physical pain may not be so similar after all

A Worm’s Mind In A Lego Robot

Heat Your House with Someone Else’s Computers

“In three years of research and talking to hundreds of people and everyday users, I don’t think I heard anyone say once, ‘I love Facebook’”

One Startup Tried Every Marketing Ploy From ‘Ellen’ To Twitter: Here’s What Worked

New York City’s Pay Phones Will Be Replaced By Free Wi-Fi Mobile Charging Stations

TV intros

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41.jpgIn Australia alone roughly 30 people per year suffer lightning shocks delivered by telephone.

When we lie to children, are we teaching them to be dishonest?

How blind people use batlike sonar

Cotton Vs. Polyester: Which Gym Clothes Trap The Most Body Odor?

Why Are So Few Blockbuster Drugs Invented Today? [NY Times]

When is fortunetelling a crime?

Fletcher Bach and I recently discovered that there are reviews of prisons on Yelp.

Gene Simmons “KISS” Makeup Tutorial

Doppio [single]

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53.jpg Man freed after being trapped between two walls of Colorado store

Businesses cash in as women chase bigger butts Gym classes that promise a plump posterior are in high demand. A surgery that pumps fat into the buttocks is gaining popularity. And padded panties that give the appearance of a rounder rump are selling out.

The mathematician who proved why hipsters all look alike

People’s beliefs about their physical attractiveness (self-perceived attractiveness) can also influence whether people will support or reject inequality.

Some people may know what is being said even though the auditory hallucinations may only consist of nonverbal sounds.

When We Don’t Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem

Human tetrachromacy is the purely theoretical notion that a woman might, through a rare mutation on one of her two X chromosomes, end up having four different types of cones in her retina instead of the usual three, and therefore be uncannily sensitive to differences in color.

According to a new study, sad music trigger emotions and experiences beyond sadness.

Why people cry when they are happy

Cremations as a percentage of deaths (Japan: 100%)

A new study says the population could hit 12 billion by 2100, though it doesn’t take into account the effects of climate change, food shortages, disease, or conflict.

75 to 90 percent of the world’s natural sand beaches are disappearing, due partly to rising sea levels and increased storm action, but also to massive erosion caused by the human development of shores. [NY Times]

Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colorful history, new research has found. [via Sunday Reading]

Now 90 percent of all internet thinkpieces are dedicated to explaining why you should have a problem with something you originally had no problem with.

Amy Li Sets Up a Gallery in Her Father’s Button Shop

Genesis and maintenance of a long-track EF5 tornado embedded within a supercell thunderstorm [Researchers Simulate Monster EF5 Tornado]

The Survival Condo is a 15-story building underground that can house up to 75 people

a pregnancy diary that grows with the mother’s belly

Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior. Training video for police, 1990

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35.jpgPenguin Robot infiltrates Penguin colony

Two Chinese officials bought corpses from grave robbers to meet government cremation quotas

Google Wants to Store Your Genome

China Builds Anti-Drone Laser Tech

Airport security agents using a new conversation-based screening method caught mock airline passengers with deceptive cover stories more than 20 times as often as agents who used the traditional method of examining body language for suspicious signs

Once dominated by correlational studies, face-perception research is moving into the realm of experimentation—and gaining tremendous insight.

Misattribution of Arousal

A man’s likelihood of obtaining a woman’s phone number increases three-fold when accompanied by a dog

How can a sequence of dance steps best be learned?

Can Anatomical Brain Images Alone Diagnose Psychiatric Illnesses?

The Public Find Neuroscience Irrelevant and Anxiety-provoking

Life satisfaction dips around the age of 45, after which it starts going up again beyond the age of 54

Writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events has been found to result in improvements in both physical and psychological health

The Effects of Subtle Misinformation in News Headlines

English has recently developed a new intensifier, ass, which means something very close to very, is marked as vulgar and colloquial, and appears in cases such as in: That is a big-ass chair, It is a cold-ass night [PDF]

In politics we’re familiar with the non-apology apology (well described in Wikipedia as “a statement that has the form of an apology but does not express the expected contrition”). Here’s the scientific equivalent: the non-retraction retraction.

The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia

How did Amazon—which was once seen as the book industry’s savior—end up as Literary Enemy Number One? And how much of this fight is even about money?

The Influence and Legacy of Larry Sultan

A Feather and a Bowling Ball Dropped Together Inside the World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber

Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin

Cleaning a vinyl record with wood glue. This trick works because the glue and record are somewhat chemically similar, so the glue only sticks to stuff that’s not supposed to be there.

ShitExpress

The carbon is extracted from the cremated remains, then heated and turned into graphite, then transformed into a diamond.

Happy birthday!

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4.jpgWoman blinded as a child can see again after hitting her head on a coffee table.

Cabbies holding in their urine to a dangerous degree

World’s scariest haunted house with a 24,000-person waiting list

Always Gamble on an Empty Stomach: Hunger Is Associated with Advantageous Decision Making

New research suggests a third child doesn’t bring any extra joy

Can parents make their kids smarter?

Hoping for sex with two women is common but fantasizing about golden showers is not. That’s just one of the findings from a research project that scientifically defines sexual deviation for the first time ever.

3 Servings of Milk a Day Linked to Higher Mortality in Women

Do women perform fellatio as a mate retention behavior?

Sadness lasts longer than other emotions

People change their moral values to benefit themselves over others

Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults

The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

Patent troll suits down a massive 35% in the third quarter of the year

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

Universe older than it looks

The One Basic Fact About History That Time Travelers Always Forget

This paper will explore how this perhaps counterintuitive idea—to help visitors become “delightfully lost”—has influenced mobile thinking at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

What the World Eats

A mug of cocoa is not a cure for memory problems

Does pop music exist? [PDF]

A new San Francisco startup promises “what women really want.”

Bank Of America Psychopath Murderer’s Automated Email Reply [context]

I Scream

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555.jpgSicily, for instance, employs 950 ambulance drivers who have no ambulances to drive

Men who had slept with more than 20 women lowered their risk of developing cancer by almost one third. In contrast, men who slept with 20 men doubled their risk of developing prostate cancer.

Swimming is the individual activity that most people would drop if they faced higher prices

Brain scans show cause of winter blues

Virgin birth has been documented in the world’s longest snake for the first time

there might be a way to determine whether your horse wants a blanket or prefers to be naked

The Case of the Brooklyn Enigma, Part One and Part Two

Experts have severely underestimated the risks of genetically modified food, says a group of researchers lead by Nassim Nicholas Taleb In 2013 roughly 85 per cent of corn and 90 per cent of soybeans produced in the US were genetically modified.

On Fraud, Ignorance, and Lying: Essays in Behavioral Business Ethics

In 2015, most leading Web browsers will be set to support what are known as push notifications.

When Plato gave Socrates’ definition of man as “featherless bipeds” and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato’s Academy, saying, “Behold! I’ve brought you a man.” After this incident, “with broad flat nails” was added to Plato’s definition.

Windowless plane set for take off in a decade

RKO compilation [Thanks Tim]

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34.jpgAlabama man gets $1,000 in police settlement, his lawyers get $459,000

For $100,000, You Can Clone Your Dog

Conman who pretended to be in COMA for two years is caught walking around Tesco

Researchers have shown that exposing people to pictures of money, or to money-related words, reduces their emotional expressivity and makes them more sensitive to other people’s expressions of emotion.

Researchers have hypothesized that men gain greater reward from alcohol than do women. An Examination of the Spreading of Smiles in Male and Female Drinking Groups

The findings suggest that cannabis with low potency does not have any impact on creativity, while highly potent cannabis actually impairs divergent thinking. [PDF]

Cues to Catching Deception in Interviews: A Brief Overview [PDF]

Trust your gut when determining who is a nice person and who is a criminal. 6 seconds of observation will tell you who is good at their job. Trust your gut about whether a neighborhood is safe.

The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed

26% of women between 18 and 24 have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment

British Army Wants Gamers to Drive its Smart-Tank of the Future

Geopolitical Drivers of Future Tourist Flows

How to Get Rich on Pot Stocks

The Children of God practiced Flirty Fishing and Escort Servicing from 1974 until 1987 [Thanks Tim]

Easter Island’s ancient inhabitants weren’t so lonely after all

Meet The 20-Somethings Who Want To Be Sterilized

Winter is the deadliest season. But cold times of year have not always been the most lethal.

Go to This Site Right Now and Check If Someone Owes You Money

Grownups are paying hundreds to have a consultant pick their Halloween costume [via gettingsome]

Did you know you’ve been peeling an orange wrong?

Date Ariane [Thanks Stevie]

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28.jpgCouple Fucking in the Sea Hospitalized After Getting Stuck Together

MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin

The nation’s largest servicer of subprime mortgages has engaged in abuses that could potentially harm hundreds of thousands of borrowers

Even depressed people believe that life gets better

A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.

Are Male Brains Wired to Ignore Food for Sex?

Whales Can Only Taste Salty

Why Bats Are Such Good Hosts for Deadly Diseases

Rats aren’t smarter than mice. So where did this idea that rats are smarter than mice come from, anyway?

Our mood clearly affects how we walk, but how does our walking style affect our mood?

The locomotion and ‘navigation’ abilities of Mexican Jumping Beans

How Drag Queens Protect Their Intellectual Property Without Law

How Facebook is wrecking political news

Ferrari hit with lawsuit for taking over Facebook fan page

Facebook has sent a letter to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration demanding that agents stop impersonating users on the social network.

A National Study on the Lives of Arts Graduates and Working Artists

Y2K Cooking [thanks GG]

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25.jpgDeath metal band to play in airtight cube until they run out of oxygen [Thanks Tim]

An average of 31 children per day are hospitalized because of injuries caused by a Bounce House or Inflatable Castle. [via Adam Geber]

Elephants may be able to hear rain generated sound up to 150 miles away

NYC rats are infected with at least 18 new viruses, according to scientists

I spoke to dozens of women in their early to late 30s who had frozen eggs and to a few whose unfrozen eggs had resulted in successful pregnancies. This is a relatively invasive procedure that has a success rate of only 20 percent.

You might have expected that feeling many negative emotions would be worse than only feeling one of them – but in fact, it’s better.

Is It Good or Bad to Zone Out, Space Out or Daydream?

A paper published recently in the journal F1000 Research rose more than a few eyebrows by claiming to support the existence of telepathy.

How English beat German as language of science

We took a hacker to a café. On his screen, phrases like “iPhone Joris” and “Simone’s MacBook” start to appear. The device’s antenna is intercepting the signals that are being sent from the laptops, smartphones, and tablets around us.

Alleged Bitcoin ‘creator’ is crowdfunding his lawsuit against Newsweek using Bitcoin

The bill for all that security: $42,000 – roughly as much as Apple generates in revenue in nine seconds.

The owner of Ebola.com wants at least $150,000 for it.

How the yoga brand Lululemon turned fitness into a spectator sport [Thanks Tim]

Where did the legend of the mermaid come from in the first place?

Electronic Blow Job Machine “Autoblow 2” Opens European Headquarters

Team K9

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24.jpg Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition

PETA slams Google for using camel to capture desert “Street View” photos

Vaginal orgasm doesn’t exist, study

The use and abuse of the prefix neuro-

Tu and Soman hypothesized that one reason for why we procrastinate is that we do not envision time as a linear, continuous entity but instead categorize future deadlines into two categories, the imminent future and the distant future.

The revolution in genetic engineering that will make it possible for humans to actively manage our evolutionary process for the first time in our species’ history is already under way.

Why exercise boosts IQ

A new Dutch study on an old question — should men stand or sit when urinating? — just might weaken the revenue stream of pharma companies that offer treatments for male urinary ailments.

Longevity began increasing long before 1800 and the Industrial Revolution, with marked increases around 1400 and again around 1650.

What makes for a stable marriage?

When science writer Vito Tartamella noticed a physics paper co-authored by Stronzo Bestiale (which means “total asshole” in Italian) he looked it up in the phonebook. [more]

In Search of Time’s Origin

Edible flowers can make for a beautiful garnish on salads and trendy Brooklyn cocktails, but these decorative flourishes can be a disaster for the oblivious amateur.

I Quant NY [Thanks Tim]

Mike Heist has been working in the neon industry for 30 years

Wimbledon 2013

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42.jpgBlind people have four times more nightmares than sighted people

Destroying a $30,000 ISIS Pickup Truck Can Cost Half a Million Dollars

Our results show that even in an environment where other group members show no bias, women in male-typed areas and men in female-typed areas may be less influential [PDF]

Men seem to focus more on the artist’s background and authenticity, while women pay more attention to the art itself.

Genes don’t just influence your IQ—they determine how well you do in school

Low-frequency sounds we don’t hear could still affect our ears

Playful new cooking based on traditional methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine.

Red Bull drinkers can claim $10 in class action lawsuit

Writer offers US$500,000 in solid gold to first reader who can solve the puzzle in his book

A history of the word “Bitch”

USB cigarettes (pay-as-you-smoke) patent

What happens if racing greyhounds not just chase, but actually catch the mechanical rabbit?

Robot milk

matt.cash

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5.jpgAnarchist conference descends into chaos

Rollercoaster thrill-seekers showered in blood after ride decapitates deer

Penises grown in lab could be tested on humans within five years

Americans love to eat out. During the year 2012, the average resident of the United States of America ate more than 200 meals outside the home. This paper studies the history of eating outside the home in America from Colonial to modern times.

Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight

Losing the sense of smell predicts death within five years, according to new research.

Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness can continue for at least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible

Who has more appeal and influence: Someone who makes decisions with considerable thought and analysis or someone who takes virtually no time and seems to make decisions effortlessly? [PDF]

Over-caffeinated people may have a hard time expressing emotion

Mosquitoes think and act 100 times faster than you can

A New York appeals court will soon decide if chimps should have the same rights as humans

Other people can tell whether your partner is cheating on you

‘Back-up husbands,’ ‘emotional affairs’ and the rise of digital infidelity

Being a gynecologist in Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world

Sensory deprivation goes from CIA torture manuals to a yoga studio near you.

World’s loudest sound circled the Earth four times

In carefully crafting a lightbulb with a relatively short life span, the cartel thus hatched the industrial strategy now known as planned obsolescence.

The online illicit drug economy is booming. Here’s what people are buying.

The World’s Most Dangerous Garden

Too Much Air in Potato Chip Packets? Students Make a Boat to Prove It

A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama’s hair [PDF]

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2.jpg The Belgian city of Bruges has approved plans to build a pipeline which will funnel beer underneath its famous cobbled streets. Locals and politicians were fed up with huge lorries clattering through the cobbled streets.

10,000 pigeons underwent anal security check in China

Virgos suffering ‘astrological discrimination’ in China

Survey says half of all married women have a ‘backup husband’ in mind

Alcohol makes smiles more ‘contagious,’ but only for men

Neural activity predicts the timing of spontaneous decisions

Winners evaluate themselves favorably even when the competitor is incompetent

Couvade syndrome: why some men develop signs of pregnancy

Who are the men and boys suffering from anorexia?

A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story on a Kindle were significantly worse at remembering the order of events than those who read the same story in paperback.

The ban against Spinoza was the harshest ever issued by the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community

In the autumn of 1931, the philosopher Martin Heidegger began to record his thoughts in small diaries that he called the schwarze Hefte, or “black notebooks.”

Why conspiracy theories in America are not on the rise after all

Why do Autocrats Disclose?

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

“You don’t have to be clever to make a discovery”

Things That Cost More Than Space Exploration

World’s smallest microphone is just one molecule

Living in a Dumpster More: My boyfriend lives in a dumpster

Statistician Creates Mathematical Model to Predict The Future of Game of Thrones

Schizophrenia in rap music

How much actual trading is done at 11 Wall Street? “It’s pretty darn close to zero”

“It was here where I believe Andy [Kaufman] would develop the concept of ‘bending reality’ to suit his needs”

Overspire: The experience of too much inspiration, resulting in no further gains in creativity.

How Wolves Change Rivers and Maybe Wolves Don’t Change Rivers, After All

Ice tsunami [more info]

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4.jpgScientists confess to sneaking Bob Dylan lyrics into their work for the past 17 years

Men are now the primary grocery shoppers in about four in 10 households. But men, food companies have found, have their own priorities.

Morphed images of Hollywood celebrities reveal how neurons make up your mind

Motion, audio, and location data harvested from a smartphone can be analyzed to accurately predict stress or depression

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Order doesn’t just happen, and it isn’t the product of individual freedom. It needs to be established, and it needs to be established first (sometimes by force), before individuals can be granted civic, economic, and social freedom. [via Rob Horning]

How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Iconic Painting Nighthawks

Artists to Serve Radioactive Soup at Frieze London

New York artist creates ‘art’ that is invisible and collectors are paying millions. Previously: Andy Warhol: Invisible Sculpture [photo]



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