Japanese artist arrested for distributing digital model of her vagina for 3D-printed kayak
Study: Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent
You Can Learn a New Language While You Sleep, Study Finds
Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill
‘Hidden From Google’ Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced to Forget
140 Google Interview Questions
CYNK Short Squeeze Scam Costs Trader His Job
Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can’t see it
Germany’s nudist movement is in decline
Do women perceive other women in red as more sexually receptive?
Does cheating seem as bad when it’s “all in the family”?
What you eat may affect your body’s internal biological clock
Why is Homosexuality Still Classified as a Disease?
How our ideas about pain and suffering have radically changed through the years.
Phantom pain, experienced in missing limbs, tortures amputees and puzzles scientists. Srinath Perur cycles round Cambodia with a man who treats it with mirrors.
Hints of Life’s Start Found in a Giant Virus
How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict [Thanks Tim]
Audio: Nixon’s Secret White House Tapes
The CIA’s writing manual has been leaked
A busy NYC restaurant kept getting bad reviews for slow service, so they hired a firm to investigate. When they compared footage from 2004 to footage from 2014, they made some pretty startling discoveries.
Dear Tim, every time my train is delayed I’m going to edit your face
German airport rolls out world’s first robotic parking valet
South African Doctors Surgically Remove Cell Phone Lodged In Man’s Mouth
People voluntarily leaving jobs at highest rate since 2009 downturn
99% of the plastic we throw in the ocean has mysteriously disappeared
More left-handed men are born during the winter
Why Do Some Teens Become Binge Drinkers? Algorithms Answer.
Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
Less Sleep Means Smaller Brains in Older Adults
Twenty epidemiologic studies have shown that neither thimerosal nor MMR vaccine causes autism
For a long list of investment “biases,” including lack of diversification, excessive trading, and the disposition effect, we find that genetic differences explain up to 45% of the remaining variation across individual investors, after controlling for observable individual characteristics.
Practice accounted for about 26% of individual differences in performance for games, about 21% of individual differences in music, and about 18% of individual differences in sports. But it only accounted for about 4% of individual differences in education and less than 1% of individual differences in performance in professions. Becoming an expert takes more than practice
Don’t Try Losing Weight By Just Eating More Fruits And Vegetables
“Super Bananas” Enter U.S. Market Trials
Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it
How do mosquitoes find some people and not others?
A Contraceptive Implant with Remote Control
Hacking into Internet Connected Light Bulbs
Breakthrough in guessing the risk of popping a balloon
New State of Matter Discovered
Another group ended up believing that quantum mechanics did represent reality, and that, yes, reality was non-local, and possibly not very real either. Quantum state may be a real thing
While on an expedition into Africa during the late 19th century, Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, reportedly bought an 11-year-old girl and offered her to cannibals to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten. [+ NY Times | PDF]
The codpiece, however, may have been a disguise for underlying disease.
8 Summer Miseries Made Worse by Global Warming, From Poison Ivy to Allergies
The dark side of Twitter — Infidelity, break-ups, and divorce
Fake Followers for Hire, and How to Spot Them
Self-refuting sentence of the week
Fastest-Growing Metro Area in U.S. Has No Crime or Kids
Decline of religion in the West has created a rise in black magic, Satanism and the occult. We need more exorcists, say Catholics.
A common but little-known practice in corporate America: Companies are taking out life insurance policies on their employees, and collecting the benefits when they die. [NY Times]
Every American Killed by Lightning So Far in 2014 Has Been Male
The articulation of vowels systematically influences our feelings and vice versa.
Recognizing faces despite amnesia
Ford And Intel Use Facial Recognition To Improve In-Car Tech, Safety
Economist Rick Nevin has an explanation for the 1990s dramatic drop in crime. After lead was banned from paint and gasoline in the 1970s, he says, fewer children suffered mental handicaps that can result from lead exposure, and eventually, lead to criminality. [Thanks Tim]
On the trail of the elusive successful psychopath
When does rude service at luxury stores make consumers go back for more?
Peter Doig, art world phenomenon, set to eclipse Damien Hirst
Kara Walker’s sugar-coated sphinx
This face is unrecognizable to several state-of-art face detection algorithms
Spit masks [Thanks Tim]
New York lawmakers approve ban on ‘tiger selfies’
Not everyone wants cheering up, new study suggests. People with low self-esteem usually prefer negative validation.
How smartphones and sitting at a computer can ruin your posture
Personality May Affect Posture, Back Pain
A 1999 outbreak of diarrheal illness affected 44% of patrons (an estimated 4800 people) who visited a new local interactive water fountain in a beachside park. Water recreation illnesses
If our understanding of the physics behind the recently-discovered Higgs boson is correct, our universe shouldn’t exist. That is, however, if another cosmological hypothesis is real, a hypothesis that is currently undergoing intense scrutiny in light of the BICEP2 results.
Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists
The concept of “mother” in linguistics
When you visit BuzzFeed, they record lots of information about you.
Wikipedia editors hit with $10 million defamation lawsuit
How did China become the world’s leader in luxury goods sales — a category that relies heavily on IP rights for its market value — while at the same time achieving unchallenged global dominance in “IP theft”?
Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic ’sperm extractor’ for donors
NY Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Pet Tattoos, Piercings
New Yorkers are prone to wrinkling, a new study has found. Largely thanks to long, hard commute.
Safest and riskiest areas of New York’s subway system
Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking
Is group brainstorming more effective if you do it standing up?
What is episodic memory good for?
Is finding that ‘new’ invention a massive mental leap from point A to point B, or are there scores of unnoticed intermediate steps in between? Pitt psychology researchers explore how engineers create
How often do men really think about sex?
Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain?
The basic unit of neuronal communication and coding is the spike (or action potential), an electrical impulse of about a tenth of a volt that lasts for a bit less than a millisecond. How does the brain speak to itself?
Neuroscience patients who changed how we think about the brain
Human Foreskins are Big Business for Cosmetics
A man with almost no hair on his body has grown a full head of it after a novel treatment by doctors at Yale University. The patient has also grown eyebrows and eyelashes, as well as facial, armpit, and other hair, which he lacked at the time he sought help.
Time Travel Simulated by Australian Physicists
Big Bang backlash: BICEP2 discovery of gravity waves questioned by cosmologists
Blue Light Exposure before Evening Meal Linked to Increased Hunger
Causes of accidents by soy sauce squeezing residue and fish meal
On How Hygiene and Authenticity Shape Consumer Evaluations of Restaurants [PDF]
All-you-can-eat sushi restaurants should not exist. So why do they?
Why We Enjoy Chili Peppers, S&M, Gruesome Movies, and Other Unpleasant Experiences
Readers come to a page to consume content, not ads — so, does higher engagement with a part of a page actually correlate with higher engagement with the ad that’s in view at that position?
Why do your earphones get tangled in your pocket?
This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition
See how borders change on Google Maps depending on where you view them
Jesus Christ could have come to Britain to further his education, according to a Scottish academic.
Tattoo artists sue videogame makers over the copyrights to artworks they’ve inked on athletes that appear in games. [via gettingsome]
Why are countries still using the phony bomb detectors sold by a convicted conman?
Killing a Patient to Save His Life [Thanks Glenn]
The Next Green Revolution May Rely on Microbes
A Re-Evaluation of the Size of the White Shark Population off California, USA
Disturbing Facts About Sunscreen
The history of bear pepper sprays: They played recordings of growling bears and hissing humans. They blared boat horns, blew whistles, engaged strobe lights, and set off firecrackers. Finally, they sprayed chemicals directly into the bear’s face: onion juice, Windex, mustard, and an aerosol-based dog repellent called Halt.
An experience reducing toilet flushing noise reaching adjacent offices
How Would Humans Know If They Lived in a Multiverse?
New study suggests the Universe is not expanding at all.
How can you tell which are the dominant ethnicities, professions, or genders? One easy test: in our society, dominant groups are the ones people are allowed to insult and lampoon.
Job interviews reward narcissists
Ever since “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” everyone is either disrupting or being disrupted.
The human brain is built for art appreciation, suggests a meta-analysis that looked at studies mapping brain processes linked to the arts. [via gettingsome]
New York Dealers Discuss the Future of Galleries
Feedback From James Joyce’s Submission of Ulysses to His Creative-Writing Workshop
O.J. Simpson’s White Bronco Can Apparently Be Rented for Parties
The surprising story of 2 TV chopper pilots who followed the OJ chase 20 years ago
Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image
Man with penis stuck in pipe for two days. “It was hot so I was painting the wall in the nude…”
A small proportion of the population are responsible for the vast majority of lies
New study sheds light on what happens to ‘cool’ kids
When It Costs Too Much to Work
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. [PDF ]
Boredom at work can make us more creative
Job interview tips from a woman who went on 100 job interviews in six years
Toilet psychology: Why do men wash their hands less than women?
US to auction 29,656 bitcoins seized from Silk Road
Does the advertising business that built Google actually work?
For non-brand keywords we find that new and infrequent users are positively influenced by ads but that more frequent users whose purchasing behavior is not influenced by ads account for most of the advertising expenses, resulting in average returns that are negative. [PDF]
Gil Elvgren pinup art side-by-side with reference photos
Teen charged as adult due to big penis
In the study, 41 women viewed and handled penises made on a 3D printer
ATM hacked by 14-year-olds using manual found online
A child’s passport doodles did not prevent some guy from leaving South Korea
1 in 10 New Yorkers doesn’t have a bank account
Going out in search of love on an empty stomach makes people more attracted to larger partners, a study suggests [Thanks Glenn]
Studies have shown that children can figure out when someone is lying to them, but cognitive scientists from MIT recently tackled a subtler question: Can children tell when adults are telling them the truth, but not the whole truth?
With distance comes greater wisdom, research finds
How to Criticize with Kindness
How Sleep After Learning Enhances Memory
Meditate to increase your gray matter
Mirror Neurons Are Essential, but Not in the Way You Think
Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds
“Placebos work really well for allergies” Four things you didn’t know about seasonal allergies
Mermaids - their biology, culture, and demise [PDF | via Improbable]
Scientists Create Shatterproof Phone Screens
“So Cute I Could Eat It Up”: Priming Effects of Cute Products on Indulgent Consumption [PDF]
How Amazon got a patent on white-background photography
The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales [PDF]
31 countries Google Maps won’t draw borders around
Back in the 1970s, he and his friends broke into an abandoned house in the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire. It seemed like the family just vanished one day, leaving salt and pepper shakers on the table, notes on the bedroom mirror, and a wallet with money still inside.
Hidden Deep Inside the Oregon Woods Is a Boeing 727 — and It Wasn’t Parked There by Accident
Can a Plane Fly Around the World on Solar Power Alone?
The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins (& Masturbated Them Too)
Zoo Vet Mistakes Employee In Gorilla Suit For An Actual Ape, Shoots Him With Tranquilizer
Sword Fight Erupts at Sikh Temple in India
Husband, Wife Killed After Colliding in Head-On Crash
Couples sleep in sync when the wife is satisfied with their marriage
Sperm size and shape in young men affected by cannabis use
First direct evidence for human sex pheromones
Your Blood Type is a Lot More Complicated Than You Think
Why English Eggs Are Way Different From American Ones
Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals The Most Influential People In 35 Centuries Of Human History
University College London’s Nietzsche Club Is Banned
I suspect we’ll see case law made in the next five years affirming that animated GIFs are fair use.
For the first time in history the CIA is only following 25 people.
‘Anti-Drone’ Burqa. $2,500.00 [Thanks Tim]
A Hong Kong VC fund appointed an algorithm to its board of directors.
Secret Service wants software that detects sarcasm on social media
Study: Women with creaky voices — also known as ‘vocal fry’ — deemed less hireable
Fetus Uses Left Hand When Mother Is Stressed, Study
Do Rats Know When They Don’t Know?
What does it mean when someone favorites your Tweet? Here are 25 possible answers
10 Lazy Ways to Appear Smarter
Philosophy can solve the mid-life crisis, at least in one of its forms [PDF]
A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns
How words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history
The Reverse Yelp: Restaurants Can Now Review Customers, Too
Alexander Shulgin, ‘Godfather of ecstasy’, dies aged 88
Angus Fairhurst and Damien Hirst, A Couple of Cannibals Eating a Clown (I Should Coco) (1993)
Child draws all over dad’s passport, dad gets stuck in South Korea
Parenting Rewires the Male Brain
New research shows that people are more likely to pick a mate with similar DNA
The Top Ten Worst Reasons to Stay Friends With Your Ex
Closing roads can improve everyone’s commute time. You might want to shoot to miss in war. Game Theory Is Really Counterintuitive
The best way to win an argument
Machines vs. Lawyers: As information technology advances, the legal profession faces a great disruption.
Collision Detection: Bees versus Fish
An air conditioner, powered by fans
20% of Europeans have never used the internet
Time spent looking at screens spent each day by people in different countries
Watermelon juice relieves post-exercise muscle soreness
If we split life into 5000 days units
Physiology and neuroscience combine to explain Bruce Lee’s famous strike, the one-inch punch.
Man in his underwear steals NYC bread truck, makes deliveries
9/11 Memorial has banned soap, gum chewing, and a lot of other things
Families infuriated by ‘crass commercialism’ of 9/11 Museum gift shop
Personal judgments are swayed by group opinion, but only for 3 days
Mutations in a particular gene can cause indecision in flies
Women’s use of red clothing as a sexual signal in intersexual interaction [PDF]
A hormone associated with longevity also appears to make people’s brains work better.
Ever-rising IQ scores suggest that future generations will make us seem like dimwits in comparison
Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming
Forget ‘the Cloud’; ‘the Fog’ Is Tech’s Future
A startup aims to let you charge your gadgets without plugging them in.
A Multiplayer Game Environment Is Actually a Dream Come True for an Economist
There’s how you see yourself. And there’s how the rest of the world sees you.
‘Zodiac’ The Film Vs The Real Zodiac Killer Case
‘Bring Out The Gimp’: The Man Behind The Mask In ‘Pulp Fiction’
Meek, who believes that Cyrus communicates with him through her songs…
A GIF of a Vine of a video of a Flipbook of a GIF of a video of a roller coaster.
Levi CEO’s jeans go unwashed for year; no ’skin disease’ yet
New plastic surgery installs ‘internal bra’ under the skin for ‘firm, young-looking breasts’
Dozens of microbial species may have accompanied the Curiosity rover to Mars
Plastic That Can Repair Itself
1,730 cash machines in Poland are to be given ‘Finger Vein’ technology
Shopping online: Why do too many photos confuse consumers?
The Weird World Hidden in Software License Agreements
Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers, Breaking Industry Taboo
How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?
Fridge magnet research update: Why the fridge?
Relying on a GPS device placed in a decoy pill bottle, police officers tracked an armed man suspected of robbing a pharmacy on Friday afternoon and fatally shot him during a confrontation on the Upper East Side [NY Times]
Nazarian’s team at Hyde at the Bellagio has put together the “$250,000 Package,” which comes with a 30-liter bottle of Armand de Brignac “Ace of Spades” Champagne and the privilege of flipping the switch to turn on the casino’s famous musical fountains.
Procrastination is a common phenomenon — but new research suggests that “pre-crastination,” hurrying to complete a task as soon as possible, may also be common.
The impact of stress on brain function is increasingly recognized. Various substances are released in response to stress and can influence distinct neuronal circuits, but the functional advantages of having such a diversity of stress mediators remain unclear.
Your brain processes more thoughts and feelings during meditation than when you are simply relaxing.
Science fact and fiction behind fat loss (Part 2)
Why Dieting Does Not Usually Work
Jellyfish are the most energy efficient swimmers, new metric confirms
Yes, Your Internet Is Getting Slower
The Mathematics Of Murder: Should A Robot Sacrifice Your Life To Save Two?
The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Square is the latest example of a struggling industry segment that may never take off. Mobile Wallets Are Doomed
The Curious Case of the $2 Bill
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood: Writing the Script for Gay Liberation
Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries. There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington Square Park alone. Central Park is larger than the principality of Monaco. It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times. 41 random facts about New York
For those of you looking for some problems and puzzles to brood over
Forget the 3D Printer: 4D Printing Could Change Everything
Correction fluid and permanent marker on September 2007 issue of Vogue Magazine
Scientists have discovered a single gene that can boost a person’s IQ by about six points
Why Every Racist Mentions Their Black Friend
Arguing Too Much Increases Premature Death Risk: Study
Birth of new brain cells might erase babies’ memories
What doesn’t kill you may make you live longer: McGill research finds unexpected link between cell suicide and longevity
What does not kill me makes me stronger: Study suggests improved survivorship in the aftermath of the medieval Black Death)
Things You Cannot Unsee (and What That Says About Your Brain)
Any time you email somebody who uses GMail, Google has that email.
Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that
Transform any text into a patent application
Anti-Surveillance Mask Lets You Pass As Someone Else
Firms almost never have enough data to justify their belief that ads work
The true story of Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient.
How 10 Minutes of Mild Exercise Gives Your Brain a Boost
Why Don’t We Eat Swans Anymore?
He said he was hired with a mandate to clean up the building, which meant “trying to get all those people who were involved with drugs out.” Duarte began by winning the residents’ trust, which he did by hiring the most destructive young male tenants to work for him.
How much would it cost to protect New York City from the next superstorm Sandy?
Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius
Chinese police to patrol streets of Paris to protect high-spending tourists
Can you tell a person’s gender by their video game avatar? According to a new study, a male gamer who chooses to play as a female character will still display signs of his true gender.
“It’s simple, the less stress you have the better your memory.” The facial expression that fights memory loss
Lack of sleep not only makes you ugly and sick, it also makes you dumb
A study that was published a few years ago in Nature suggests that indeed our initial inclination is to cooperate with others. We are only selfish if we are allowed to reflect.
What’s the evidence on using rational argument to change people’s minds?
You might not realize it, but every time you order dinner digitally, you subconsciously order more
How do you price a bottle of milkshake?
Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food.
A startup is seeking approval to sell powderized alcohol
Biologists Create Cells With 6 DNA Letters, Instead of Just 4
Controlling fear by modifying DNA
The CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years. [Thanks Tim]
An influential report concludes that prohibition and the war on drugs have failed
10 Most Stressed Out Cities In America
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault debate, 1971 (full video)
Artist who tied a live rooster to his penis found guilty of exhibitionism
Geophysicists link fracking boom to increase in earthquakes
You don’t always know what you’re saying. People’s conscious awareness of their speech often comes after they’ve spoken, not before.
What makes women attractive depends on how healthy the place they live is
Difference between how men and women choose their partners
Two teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains. [NY Times | Nature]
Bleeding wound? Relax and roll a cigarette
Antibiotic resistance is now rife across the entire globe
Immortality through advanced technology and primitive diet
The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention
Spritz, the materials claim, “reimagines” and “reinvents” reading
How NYC’s gay bars thrived because of the mob
Possible Food Poisoning Sickens 100 at Food Safety Summit
Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Using A Foreign Language Changes Moral Decisions
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. [Thanks Tim]
Scientists may have solved one of history’s biggest biomedical mysteries—why the deadly 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, which killed perhaps 50 million people worldwide, largely targeted healthy young adults.
The Mathematical Con of Hedge Funds and Financial Advisers
Corporate cash holdings are at the lowest level in 15 years
Vox has a piece claiming that there’s a ‘much better way’ to board planes. Are the airlines just stupid?
What you actually get when the package is labelled “Organic”
Why Is There No Pill For ‘Asian Glow’? Plus, why Esquire’s consequence-free drinking method sounds like total bunk.
10 of the weirdest birth control methods from throughout time. [via gettingsome]
Lab-Grown Organs: Yes. Lab-Grown Meat: No.
Flexible battery, no lithium required
How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors
Man With Genius Strategy Poses As Cupcake On Tinder And It Actually Worked [Thanks Tim]
A cardboard cutout of Paris Hilton has a painkilling effect on mice
A growing number of women are being arrested for driving while drunk since 2003
People seem to have more heart attacks on Mondays than other days of the week.
Could the menstrual cycle have shaped the evolution of music?
Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences
Predictors of Extra-Marital Partnerships among Women Married to Fishermen
Couples need just 1 conversation to decide not to have children
The age at which you reach reach cognitive performance: 24
The brain pathway that regulates behaviours associated with fear has been discovered, and it could help researchers develop better treatments for anxiety, phobias and panic attacks.
Smoking synthetic marijuana leads to self-mutilation requiring bilateral amputations
One Startup’s Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush
This 3D printer technology can print a game controller, electronics and all
China: Firm 3D prints 10 full-sized houses in a day
The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper [Thanks Tim]
In NYC, a $185M tunnel that leads nowhere, for now
New York will never stab you in the back. It will, however, stab you multiple times right in your face. [Thanks Tim]
The fastest ways to board a plane are Southwest’s boarding method — where people choose their own seats — or a theoretical boarding method known as the “Steffen method” that’s not currently in use.
Most men who undergo circumcision do not know where their foreskins go after the process.
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured
The real reason behind the downfall of the Roman Empire might not have been lead contaminating in the water, which is the most popular theory, but the use of concrete as a building material.
How movies forge great art, legally
Remembering Index Magazine With Peter Halley
The decline and fall of trading as a money maker for giant banks
