Woman arrested after restaurant guests covered in soy sauce.

Boulder resident beats raccoon to death as ‘revenge’ for cat’s death.

Former Disney exec’s reputation destroyed after porn-star scandal.

Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend ‘executed by firing squad for appearing in porn films.’

Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues.

Shaking hands with a cheat or thief, or merely sitting in a chair they used, is likely to make you experience feelings of guilt, according to a new study.

Learning a new language alters brain development.

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists.

5 reasons you should be reading the CIA’s online magazine.

The decline of serial killers and rise of the sharing economy.

Impostor uses Facebook and a co-opted photo to befriend California kids.

Google patents ‘Scroogling.’

Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development.

While some researchers have claimed that war between nations is in decline, a new analysis suggests it is not.

What happened to India’s economic miracle?

Here’s what’s in store for India if the rupee continues to crumble.

In the U.S., Lemann is virtually unknown, even though he and his two longtime partners now control three icons of U.S. consumer culture: Heinz ketchup, Burger King, and Budweiser beer. The combined market value of the companies they run is $187 billion—larger than that of Citigroup.

Does Low-Fat Yogurt Make You Fat?

We discuss the idea of building a 2 km high mountain in the Netherlands.

Rain Room.

Inside the hospital-themed restaurant where meals are eaten in a stylised operating theatre, on a dentist’s chair or in a gynaecologist’s exam room.

New surgery trend creates perma-smiles for South Korean women

‘Ghostbuster’ Huang Jianjun Allegedly Tried To Perform Exorcism With His Penis.

Woman’s phone bill during trip to Thailand costs more than holiday itself.

NSA officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests.

It has been long known that some people have severe difficulties recognising faces – something called prosopagnosia and sometimes inaccurately labelled ‘face blindness’. But more recently, it was discovered that a tiny minority of people are ‘super recognisers.’

How Short-Term Stress Boosts Immune Systems.

In a technical tour de force, Japanese researchers created eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Now, scientists have to determine how to use those cells safely — and ethically.

Here’s Why Mosquitoes Can’t Transmit HIV.

New research demonstrates that triggering an out-of-body experience (OBE) could be as simple as getting a person to watch a video of themselves with their heartbeat projected onto it.

10 psychological biases and errors we face when driving.

As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time.

Some financial lending companies have found that social connections can be a good indicator of a person’s creditworthiness. One such company, Lenddo, determines if you’re friends on Facebook with someone who was late paying back a loan to Lenddo. If so, that’s bad news for you.

A scam ad is the industry term for an ad made simply for the purpose of entering it into advertising award shows. It’s made for a client without the client’s consent, and sometimes, the agency or creatives don’t even have that client on their roster.

Bloomberg surpasses Reuters in web traffic for July.

The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has developed high-quality 3D reproductions of some of its finest paintings, with what it describes as the most advanced copying technique ever seen.

Haunted Play House At The Museum Of Contemporary Art In Tokyo.

Siri: The Horror Movie.

This is what’s called a Tetris “line race” (also known as a “sprint”), in this case an attempt to clear 40 lines in the minimum possible time.

Strongest hands in the world.

Strawberry cake.

The world’s first bullet-proof couch.

The thieves sell the hair - sometimes stolen at gunpoint - to salons where it is used for extensions and wigs.

How North Korea got itself hooked on meth.

Florida Keys considering drones to fight mosquitoes.

Single men change bed sheets just four times a year.

Sex workers are operating on Linkedin.

Glasses That Solve Colorblindness, for a Big Price Tag.

Study suggests that depression is associated with problems with a particular memory operation known as pattern separation.

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals’ characteristics, wages and sexual activity. [PDF]

Does High Intelligence Mean Low Cognitive Bias?

Compulsive lying makes you smarter.

How does a brain generate consciousness?

Don’t panic but psychology isn’t always a science.

An Intriguing Correlation between the Distribution of Star Multiples and Human Adults in Household.

Scientists Investigate Whether the City Mouse Is Smarter Than The Country Mouse.

Everyone would save a sibling, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog versus people less connected with them—a distant cousin or a hometown stranger—votes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40% of respondents, including 46% of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist.

The Steve Jobs email exchange that perfectly captures Apple’s strategy.

Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard.

They want to rebuild the internet — one block at a time.

Millions stolen from US banks after ‘wire payment switch’ targeted.

A computer glitch at Goldman Sachs could cost the investment bank $100m or more after it inadvertently made a large number of erroneous options trades.

The BATS/Direct Edge combination would have 20.6% of overall stock-trading volume, compared to Nasdaq’s 18%.

Rich-Get-Richer Effect Observed in BitCoin Digital Currency Network.

The mystery of China’s missing millionaires.

In a World Where Women Never Narrate Movie Previews.

Usually, the weather — often referred to as an “act of God” in a ticket contract — is a perfectly legitimate reason for a delay or a service interruption. How travelers can challenge the industry’s ‘act of God’ excuses.

Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? David Graeber explored the phenomenon of bullshit jobs.

Unscientific Science and the Insignificance of “Significance” [via Bookforum]

Le Corbusier painting in the nude. [more]

Follow the Frog. [Thanks Tim]

National Cockroach Project.

Ronen, I’m just going to jump in here, as someone who is not employed by PandoDaily, can’t speak for PandoDaily but who has been BCC’d on the conversation so far. Fuck you Ronen, you condescending sack of shit.

Endless bummer.

Chinese zoo under fire for trying to pass off dog as African lion. Related: The Serengeti Lion.

A man who enjoys dressing up as a dog has been arrested for having sex with a cat in Idaho.

Israeli Arrested in International Art Forgery Ring.

Study: How long do little kids stand sitting still?

Seemingly Unimportant Mutations Can Foster Disease. Initially innocuous genetic changes known as neutral mutations may play a role in disorders ranging from the flu and bacterial infections to schizophrenia.

The official list of “never events” in surgery includes operating on the wrong part of the body, performing the wrong procedure, leaving instruments or swabs inside the body, or having the wrong prosthesis or medical device implanted.

Shadows Alter Facial Expressions of Noh Masks.

Are “soft” sciences, like psychology, actually science?

More eye-wateringly egregious neuromarketing bullshit from Martin Lindstrom.

Overview of the Brain In Just Under 4 Minutes.

Who would have guessed that a famous Chongqing pickle, the preserved mustard tuber made in the town of Fuling, would be used by the Chinese government to measure labour migration? The preserved mustard index.

How Chess Explains the World. And predicts the rise and fall of nations.

Facebook to Test PayPal Competitor.

Paying Some Cabbies Won’t Involve Cash or a Card Swipe.

Google is preparing for screenless computers.

My Life as a Cellphone Holdout.

When e-mail was created 40 years ago, security or anonymity wasn’t part of the design.

15 Strange Beaches.

“He’s friendly, relatable, and just a general salt-of-the-earth dude.” –Lying acquaintance of Hollywood megastar

A missile command game comes up and starts to attack the video.

Banana equivalent dose [Thanks Tim]

The man behind the ‘132 Lb. Scrotum.’

Dogs trained to sniff out ovarian cancer.

Two Xiamen Airlines stewardesses kneel in prayer at a shrine dedicated to being “on time”.

17-year legal fight between two law professors over their divorce has lasted seven years longer than their 10-year marriage.

Spain: “Every job has 100 applicants, and you only get work now based on who you know…”

Modern pregnancy comes with a long list of strict rules, but does it have to? An economist examines the data.

Herb used as Chinese herbal remedy for centuries can cause cancer, two studies say.

A man who suffered a stroke can no longer feel sadness.

Testicle-Biting Amazon Fish Caught in Denmark

Fish Fear Robotic Predators, Unless They’re Drunk.

Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?

Why are sales of non-alcoholic beer booming?

How Can You Redeem Stolen Airline Miles?

All Bitcoin Wallets On Android “Vulnerable To Theft.”

UK bars ad firm from using Wi-Fi-enabled trash cans to track passersby through their smartphones.

New delivery service brings retro video game machines right to your door for $75 a month.

We used phony ’service dogs’ to see how easy it is to get badly behaved pups into NYC’s elegant eateries.

40 maps that explain the world.

Map of Manhattan Using Only Handwritten Directions From Strangers.

Currency Collages by Mark Wagner. [More]

Infant Circumcision Trainer, White.

One Second on the Internet…

Builders of Spanish Skyscraper Forgot the Elevator.

A man’s plan to have sex with a woman on a giant pile of cash goes awry after thieves steal the money.

Massive drop in razor sales attributed to hairy hipsters, increased stubble in the workplace.

Why world hunger won’t be solved with the test-tube burger. About 12.5% of the world’s population is considered “hungry,” but many development economists say we already grow enough food to feed them all.

The Animals are Also Getting Fat.

This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine.

A mother’s perceived social status predicts her child’s brain development and stress indicators.

Possession Trance Disorder Caused by Door-to-Door Sales.

It’s important to differentiate anger and aggression.

Study: Positive comments create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.

New forensic technique for analysing lipstick traces,

Hiring private detectives to investigate paranoid delusions.

One interesting model system for thinking about the consequences of neural delays is the giraffe. Adults giraffes stand 5-6m tall, so the feet are a long way from the brain. Anything that happens to the feet as they walk (say, tripping on a tree root) will potentially not be registered fast enough for the brain to issue a response. Why don’t giraffes fall over often enough that people? Faster neurons? Cautious gait?

The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary.

A network analysis reveals the thinkers who most influence the rest of us.

Goldman’s Top Disruptive Themes: E-cigarettes, Cancer Immunotherapy, LED Lighting, Natural Gas Engines,3D Printing, Big Data…

BTFATH.

Ibiza is enjoying a bumper season with over 900,000 morons flying in.

High speed 3D printed robot. [Thanks Tim]

Blood vessels in a human body.

Dead Shark Found in NYC Subway Car.

How room and desk size affect people’s comfort discussing personal issues.

When asked to imagine going to a cinema, people preferentially select seats to the right. For aircraft, contrary to expectation, occupancy rate was higher for left.

The Nobel disease is a term used to describe a phenomenon in which Nobel Prize-winning scientists endorse or perform “research” in pseudoscientific areas in their later years.

In a predictable world, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon would have been regarded as a regrettable aberration and quickly forgotten. What makes one brilliant iconoclast wildly successful, and another ignored?

Prisoners were immersed into tanks of ice water for hours at a time, often shivering to death, to discover how long German pilots downed by enemy fire could survive the frozen waters of the North Sea. The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments.

Abandoned underwater strip club.

Here’s What Happens Inside You When a Mosquito Bites.

Quebec poop painter says cops bullying him.

Bird Poop Facials at NYC Spa, $180.

Despite popular folklore, hypnosis is not a form of sleep. Brain imaging findings support the contention that hypnosis is a distinct form of consciousness.

The sad tendency for whistle-blowers to be ‘accused’ of being ‘mentally ill’ when others don’t like what they’re saying.

A new Florida State University study has found that adolescent boys who are hurt in just two physical fights suffer a loss in IQ that is roughly equivalent to missing an entire year of school. Girls experience a similar loss of IQ after only a single fighting-related injury.

Human cells make mice smarter.

Questions answered with the pupils of your eyes.

Blundering Makes You More Attractive.

Why Every Coin Flip May Be a Schrödinger’s Cat. Previously: In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger devised an insidious thought experiment.

Loeb, Clooney said, “calls himself an activist investor, and I would call him a carpet bagger.”

Cell phone ownership (i.e., cellular subscribers/population) has grown sharply since 1988, average use per subscriber has risen from 140 to 740 minutes a month since 1993, and surveys indicate that as many as 81 percent of cellular owners use their phones while driving—yet aggregate crash rates have fallen substantially over this period. [PDF]

Math advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years.

With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Android to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can do the same to microphones in laptops without the user knowing, the person said.

It Now Appears Possible to Hack a Japanese Toilet.

How the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife.

Gay Russian Neo-Nazis Are Fighting And Fisting For Gay Rights… Or Something.

Neuroscientist, Robert Ferrante, 64, denies the homicide charge. It’s not clear, of course, how he’ll explain the fact that he purchased a half-pound of cyanide. Investigators also found witnesses who saw Ferrante experimenting with mixing up the creatine-enhanced energy drink that his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein, was taking in the belief that it would help her become pregnant.

How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish.

Abandoned Walmart is Now America’s Largest Library.

The Fake Townhouses hiding Mystery Underground Portals.

Porn Sex vs Real Sex.

Man repays insurance with 4 tons of coins.

Scientists Develop Urine Grown Teeth, Claiming Urine Is Less Controversial Source Of Stem Cells Than Embryos.

Miracle Village, Florida, where half the population are sex offenders.

Where Do Drugs For Lethal Injections Come From? Nobody Knows.

The odds: 1 in 2,000,000 - drowning. 1 in 11,500,000 - being bitten by shark. 1 in 264,000,000 - dying from a shark bite.

The mystery of monogamy: scientists claim to have the answer. More: Two new massive studies present contradictory results.

High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world.

In the Violent Favelas of Brazil.

The tiny island where men have their own language.

Observations From a Tipless Restaurant.

By simply printing out your own shower curtain rings, iPhone case, jewelry organizer or other common products, an average homeowner could recoup the cost of a 3D printer in under a year.

Escalator etiquette: The dos and don’ts.

Today, almost 90 percent of American households have air conditioning. How to live without air conditioning.

Why Cities Are Safer Than Rural Areas.

Did Archaeologists Find a Piece of Jesus’ Cross?

How to Teach Language to Dogs.

The “-bag” of “slutbag.”

New York is the home to every mentally unstable girl in the country. […] People are snobs for no reason. […] Everyone is full of shit.

The deepest pool in the world.

Dentist who used copyright to silence her patients is on the run. He threatened patients who wrote bad Yelp reviews with lawsuits.

Man acquitted in romantic bear-spray squabble.

Women are more vulnerable to infections.

Health officials are watching in horror as bacteria become resistant to powerful carbapenem antibiotics — one of the last drugs on the shelf.

In 1971, he declared that vitamin C would cause a 10 percent decrease in deaths from cancer. Subsequent studies have consistently shown that vitamin C doesn’t treat cancer.

While in the U.S. and other wealthy countries viruses appear to be involved in about 5 percent of all cancers, in some countries the number can be as high as 20 percent. (The worldwide average is about 13 percent.)

Concepts from the branch of mathematics known as game theory have inspired new ideas in poker strategy and new advice for ordinary players.

The personality trait that distinguishes smokers from nonsmokers: poor self-control.

If you want to make a really good bipedal leg, you should make one a lot like an ostrich’s, and nothing like a human’s.

Another ahistorical analogy for thinking about technology is that the role of technology in learning is similar to the role of technology in sex. Technology may be enhancing, useful, amusing, diversifying, but at the end of the day, it will not replace the basic human transaction. So there is nothing to fear, only something to gain.

Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts.

Chinese Cuisine Patterns Revealed By Food Network Analysis.

Chinese Food Density by Neighborhood in NYC.

Circular map of New York City subway.

Kubrick’s favorite films and viewing habits.

Will Sheep’s wool just keep growing and growing if humans don’t cut it off?

“These two ad behemoths will have the industry’s largest and most formidable talent pool of people called ‘creatives’ who have never created a single thing in their lives and whose only apparent ability is to trick other people.”

62% of women check their phones during sex, new study finds.

Kickstarter Project Canceled After Dude Spends All the Money.

No Menstrual Hygiene For Indian Women Holds Economy Back.

Chuck Feeney is the James Bond of philanthropy. Over the last 30 years he’s crisscrossed the globe conducting a clandestine operation to give away a $7.5 billion fortune derived from hawking cognac, perfume and cigarettes in his empire of duty-free shops.

To Change Behavior, Focus on a Single Situation.

Coldhearted Psychopaths Feel Empathy Too.

There is another number in psychology that makes a lot less sense: the number 2.9013.

MIT scientists implant false memory into a mouse brain.

Dolphins using personal names, again.

Every wolf has its own distinct voice.

The perfect hexagonal array of bees’ honeycombs owes more to simple physical forces than to the skill of bees, according to a new study. Bees simply make cells that are circular in cross section and are packed together like a layer of bubbles. The wax, softened by the heat of the bees’ bodies, then gets pulled into hexagonal cells by surface tension at the junctions where three walls meet.

Fish are the last wild creatures that we eat. And as global demand for fish has doubled in the past 20 years, the prices have remain stagnant. How is that possible, you ask? We catch a buttload more of them now, that’s how.

Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic.

How do smartphones reveal shoppers’ movements?

Ms. Lee is among the roughly 1 in 5 students in South Korea who the government said is addicted to smartphone use. This addiction is defined as spending more than seven hours a day using the phone and experiencing symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia and depression when cut off from the device.

To avoid paying taxes, the rich are emptying their bank accounts in Switzerland and investing in art. This has spawned a new business of storing such works tax- and duty-free in warehouses across the world.

Imprison the Royal Family and Abolish the Monarchy.

In the same way that the detective movie is a fantasy about city life, the spy movie is a fantasy about tourism.

Lady Gaga’s early years in NYC.

Of Submarines and Sharks: Musical Settings of a Silent Menace.

How to escape a car underwater.

Lone Signal is a messaging platform that allows anyone with an Internet connection to send a message toward star systems selected for our METI (messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence) experiment. Through our website, users can send a 144-character text message for free, and they can send subsequent messages or photos for a fee.

Amazon, The Complete Hilarious Charts.

Cutting golf balls in half reveals delightfully bonbon-esque interiors.

Urbanism starts with the location of the parking lot. [via Matthew Poplawski]

Changing a tire on a car while driving on two wheels.

Scientists claim to power phone with urine.

Texas Contractor Razes House, but the Wrong One.

A Chinese museum has been forced to close after claims that its 40,000-strong collection of supposedly ancient relics was almost entirely composed of fakes.

Dutch art heist paintings may have been burned by suspect’s mother.

The researchers have shown that people with a preference for the evening and night-time tend to score highly on the “Dark Triad” of personality traits - Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism.

This study extends previous research by showing that expressive writing can improve wound healing in older adults and women.

Shyness is a part of being human. The world would be a more insipid, less creative place without it.

Could open-source GMOs bring down Monsanto at last?

If the planet warms by 4 °C, which is within the IPCC range of estimates, they will eventually rise by 9 meters, on average, and up to 12 meters in some parts of the world. The point, aside from the fact that 12 meters is a lot of water, is that generations of humans will have to deal with sea levels that keep going up.

Bush, Global Warming, Circumcision… The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia.

How big is your chance of dying in an ordinary day?

How Forensic Linguistics Outed J.K. Rowling.

Outsmarting bugs with a fan may be a poorly known strategy. But the method, it turns out, is endorsed by the American Mosquito Control Association. [NY Times]

10 rules of Internet.

The temperatures at the platforms on the L train line.

First 3D printed dress.

There is a rainbow.

Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal forces, 1965.— the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.

American man wakes up with amnesia, speaking Swedish.

The best estimates suggest that the authorities in Baghdad bought more than 6,000 useless bomb detectors, at a cost of at least $38 million.


Why are some people mosquito magnets?

US honey bee colony numbers are stable, and they have been since before CCD (colony collapse disorder) hit the scene in 2006. In fact, colony numbers were higher in 2010 than any year since 1999.

Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not.

Here’s all the evidence that Apple is making an actual TV—and the remote will likely be your hand.

A new piece of malware is targeting OS X to extort money from victims by accusing them of illegally accessing pornography.

International journals, they’re giving them to everybody these days. The International Journal of…Zizek Studies! Baudrillard Studies! And now, Badiou Studies! Unfortunately, there is currently no International Journal of Deleuze or Ranciere Studies, because there is no justice in this world. Also: Schizorevolutions vs. Microfascisms: A Deleuzo-Nietzschean Perspective on State, Security, and Active/Reactive Networks. [both via Bookforum]

More Proof The Big Six Of Publishing Are Run By Morons.

Can you patent a magic trick?

Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac? It’s not why you think.

Every action and drama seems to violate Alfred Hitchcock’s rule of matching the length of a film to the endurance of the human bladder. Why Are Hollywood Movies So Long?

Because.

Testicular Augmentation Using Chin Implants.

Porn Producers Say Unprotected Sex Is Free Speech Right.

There are now more elderly shoplifters than teenaged ones in Tokyo.

Why do we enjoy listening to sad music?

Researchers have developed a new tool that analyzes the cries of babies, searching for clues to potential health or developmental problems.

Study reveals early financial arguments are a predictor of divorce.

What’s Your Social Media Genotype?

This is quite possibly the least comprehensible abstract of a psychology article I have ever read. It starts off dense and wordy and ends up feeling like you’re huffing butane.

Researchers Build 3-D Structures Out of Liquid Metal.

Forget 3D printing—3D subtraction is going to arrive in your garage first.

Fabric as strong as steel? Japanese startup aims to replicate the silk of a spider web.

A group in California is starting to engineer glow-in-the-dark trees that could one day replace streetlights. “The big challenge with the trees is that trees take a long time to grow.”

What Does An Appendectomy Cost?

The Role of Financial Institutions.

The science and history of pepper spray.

Rauschenberg Research Project.

Joseph Beuys: New Letter Debunks More Wartime Myths.

A new film reconstructs Félix Guattari’s unproduced sci-fi script. [Thanks Niki]

Much nonsense is talked about Shakespeare not writing his plays, but more interesting questions remain: who edited the First Folio? And were substantial changes made?

The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax.

The Onion’s Tips For Treating A Sunburn.

Pen Tapping.

Teacher wears same clothes for 40 years of yearbook photos.

Kerr has a sister, Rosa, whoz ass is three muthafuckin years olda than her muthafuckin ass.

Make your own deer butt art.

Nude swimmer distracts home burglary victim.

Drunk man is electrocuted peeing on third rail of G train.

The hero in martial arts movies usually steps in when a passive victim is picked on by a gang of thugs. However a new study finds that in real life, third parties are most likely to intervene in conflict situations when the incident involves mutual aggression between drunk men.

I can pinpoint the exact date our nation’s obesity epidemic began. The day that drinking straws got bigger.

How well can you see with your ears? Device offers new alternative to blind people.

Google spokeswoman confirms that the company has already inserted some of the NSA’s programming in Android OS.

Build Your Own Internet with Mobile Mesh Networking.

Employers Face Changes After Same-Sex-Marriage Ruling.

Moscow’s stray dogs learned to descend the stations’ escalators and, like true urbanites, now regularly navigate Moscow by metro.

The Education of a Bomb Dog.

Passengers in the rear of an aircraft were significantly more likely to survive than passengers near the front.

Q&A With a Pilot: Just How Does Autopilot Work?

How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted?

Searching for the World’s Worst Glass of Water.

Retraction Watch: Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.

Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers.

Cross-serial anaphora.

Airstream Interplanetary Explorer.

Garage Sale.

Northern California roller coaster taken offline because riders were screaming too loudly.

The Division of Frozen Embryos at the Time of Divorce . [via Bookforum]

Any pet owner or custodian who allows a dog to bark continuously or for an extended period of time in a manner that annoys the neighbors and disturbs the peace and tranquillity of the neighborhood may be guilty of allowing a public nuisance and punishable by a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1000 and/or six months in jail.

Because there’s no law against bestiality in Texas, Castillo can, according to Trevino, only be charged with trespassing and maybe cruelty to the horse, if there’s evidence the animal was hurt.

a sampling of a few popular drugs of the day: 2C-P, Bromo-Dragonfly, NBOMe Series, Benzo Fury, MDPV, 5-MeO-DMT.

How easy is it to fake mental illness?

How is the weather affecting your mood?

Is Your Olive Oil As Healthy As You Think?

A good way to highlight where your sensitive military installations are is to ask Google Maps to blur them out.

8 frames of Psycho.

Remains of New York woman missing for 28 years found in wall.

Several times every day, at airports across the country, passengers are trying to walk through security with loaded guns in their carry-on bags, purses or pockets, even in a boot.

Human breast milk has become a new luxury for China’s rich, with some firms offering wet-nurse services. “Adult [clients] can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed.”

State Department spent $630,000 to boost Facebook ‘likes.’

A Japanese economist has studied the mathematics used by air companies to set the prices of flights. According to his research, eight weeks before departure is the ideal timing to buy a travel ticket.

Where The Mask Seen In Global Protests Is Made.

There’s a new date for the end of the world: 2000002013.

Overdose deaths in the United States are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers.

When exposed to humor, women’s brains exhibit more activity than men’s in reward-related regions.

Exercise reorganizes the brain to be more resilient to stress.

Reading books, writing and engaging in other similar brain-stimulating activities slows down cognitive decline in old age.

Frontal Cortex Deficit Identified in Morning Insomnia.

A Battery and a “Bionic” Ear: a Hint of 3-D Printing’s Promise.

Failure is inevitable. Disks fail. Software bugs lie dormant waiting for just the right conditions to bite. People make mistakes. Data centers are built on farms of unreliable commodity hardware. If you’re running in a cloud environment, then many of these factors are outside of your control. To compound the problem, failure is not predictable and doesn’t occur with uniform probability and frequency. The lack of a uniform frequency increases uncertainty and risk in the system. In the face of such inevitable and unpredictable failure, how can you build a reliable service that provides the high level of availability your users can depend on?

Apple Hires Yves St Laurent CEO for Special Projects.

A Chinese Company Says Apple Stole Its Technology For Siri.

China’s fake Apple stores.

Players Rewrite Story Lines to Highlight Heroines; Princess Peach Saves Mario. Even Ms. Pac-Man began as a hack.

Fly Guy. [Thanks Tim]

Removing Dolls’ Makeup.

Exploding Fridge Leads to Pot Find in San Diego.

The boy who learned to speak again after losing his left brain hemisphere.

Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review.

Last week Boston Magazine published an article claiming a “new theory” of emotion [previously]. Here is why I hated this article.

How Older Couples Handle Conflict: Just Avoid It.

Companies look at wrong things when using facebook to screen job applicants.

A lesson in the kind of degradation of quality—and ethical standards—that can happen when a news organization cedes content to contributors.

Glaciers for Sale: A global warming get-rich-quick scheme.
“It’s the illusion of danger,” said Rob Decker, who has collaborated on more than 30 roller coasters. Here’s a look at the forces at work and why they make us scream.

Biking with the Human Torch.

No airbags.

Vegan extremists launch Web site to name and shame ex-vegans.

In San Diego: 13 Years In Jail For Writing On A Sidewalk With Chalk?

MIT researchers can see through walls using ‘Wi-Vi.’

Qatar National Bank to issue diamond-embedded credit card.

Five big Chinese cities rank among the priciest housing markets in the world, surpassing notoriously expensive cities like Tokyo, London and New York, based on calculations by the IMF.

For half a century, one theory about the way we experience and express emotion has helped shape how we practice psychology, do police work, and even fight terrorism. But what if that theory is wrong?

Late bedtimes and less sleep may lead to weight gain in healthy adults.

When a Small Thing Means so Much: Nonverbal Cues as Turning Points in Relationships.

The Physics Behind Traffic Jams.

Apple Seeks to Trademark ‘IWatch’ in Japan for Devices.

Apple is still one of Samsung’s biggest customers for processors and memory chips.

Firm that did background check on Snowden is under investigation.

How The NSA Collects Your Internet Data In Four Charts.

4 Changes to English So Subtle We Hardly Notice They’re Happening.

10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work.

Why we fall victims to scams and bad sales tricks.

Why Americans Are Eating Fewer Hot Dogs.

Why Do Dogs Eat Grass?

Scientists Find Link Between How Pathetic You Are, How Fast You Respond To Emails.

Keeping cool in extreme Texas heat.

Liar-for-hire Tim Green will tell anyone anything — for a fee. As the founder of Paladin Deception Services, he will say what clients want him to say to anyone calling on his dedicated phone lines. He provides cover for cheating husbands, fake references for job-seekers and even “doctors” to confirm that someone needs a sick day.

Italian press finds gay hookup site for priests – in Rome.

“Monica Lewinsky items are very, very rare,” said auction manager Laura Yntema. “We were interested in this lot because they were all investigated by Kenneth Starr.”

Self-Disciplined People Are Happier (and Not as Deprived as You Think).

Do People Get Better Looking When the Bar is About to Close?

The female libido and ‘the two-year itch.’

Is the Internet killing the porn industry?

Midnight Madness, a scavenger hunt played by a group of Goldman’s New York City financiers and some of their friends with expenses totaling roughly $270,000 for a single evening of play.

6 Reasons Why the MIT Blackjack Team Became Entrepreneurs.

More Small Businesses Embrace Bitcoin.

Is Patent reveals fingerprint scanner in next iPhone?

Microsoft Research has built a prototype system that runs on smartphones and can infer a user’s mood.

A San Francisco company called Planet Labs aims to launch 28 mini-satellites that will provide frequent snapshots of Earth.

The nation has done a good job preparing for natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. The difference between a disaster and a mega-disaster is scope.

Economists Have A One-Page Solution To Climate Change.

In this paper I distinguish principles from rules and standards and ask if there are norms that fit this description. I conclude that these may be moral principles but that there are no legal principles.

Here, you see participant six looking at a cook preparing dinner – in this case cockroaches.

The Church does not oppose tattoos.

The string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (”$%@!”) is called a grawlix.

Dalston House.

Ivory Snow Accessories.

Money shot [NSFW]

A coffee chain in Taiwan offers a latte printer that creates portraits on top of caffeinated beverages.