Four years ago, Ed Snowden thought leakers should be ‘shot.’

Billionaire sends a porn video he filmed to his powerful New York contacts.

For the guys playing this game, the point isn’t to worry about when QE is going to end. The point is to get out before the other guy realizes the game is going to end.

Researchers say ability to throw played a key role in human evolution. That ability – to throw an object with great speed and accuracy – is a uniquely human adaptation.

What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy?

What is the Best Predictor of Unhappiness?

What kind of music do dogs prefer?

How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub.

A Mathematical Guide to the World’s Most Livable Cities.

The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Wooden popsicles.

Fur coat made entirely of male chest hair used to promotes chocolate milk drink for Men.

Back to school.

52-year-old mom fails at impersonating daughter in English exam.

Mother who chose faith healing over medicine charged with murder after second son died of pneumonia.

High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree.

First Farmers Were Also Inbred.

Before 1950 the Word ‘Stress’ Didn’t Exist.

New theory of emotions.

New research has found that workers who used the words “yeah,” “give,” “start,” “meeting” and ”discuss” ended up with more accepted proposals in meetings.

Evaluation of cats fed vegetarian diets.

It will take a picture every 30 seconds of what’s in front of you, resulting in a visual diary of your life, browsable from an accompanying app on your iOS or Android smartphone.

“Was that ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’?” [Thanks Tim]

Popular gaming site Giant Bomb rented a “professional studio” for some of their coverage. Things got weird, though, and it quickly became apparent that what they were renting was actually the set for a bunch of pornography.

The Bicycle and the Women’s Movement of the 1890s.

Would you copy your mind to a robotic body-double?

Could the energy from gym workouts be harnessed?

What is it like being nerve gassed?

Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings.

Boeing caught charging Defense Department $2,286 for $10 part.

Forget lab rats. Scientists are testing drugs on silicon chips engineered to replicate functions of human organs.

How You Know You Are not a Brain in a Vat.

A study has identified the brain regions and interactions involved in impersonations and accents. “Consider the difference between talking to a friend on the phone, talking to a police officer who’s cautioning you for parking violation, or speaking to a young infant. While the words we use might be different across these settings, another dramatic difference is the tone and style with which we deliver the words we say.”

The psychologist Dan Gilbert calls this kleptomnesia: generating an idea that you believe is novel, but in fact was created by someone else. It’s accidental plagiarism, and it’s all too common in creative work.

New research suggests that just thinking about greenbacks might cause people to subconsciously make unethical decisions.

6 hostage negotiation techniques that will get you what you want. [Thanks Jane!]

This Is How You Respond to an Unjust Cease and Desist Letter.

Are there any big misperceptions about bear attacks you’d like cleared up? The most tragic one is people playing dead during a predacious attack. Because in that circumstance, the bear just keeps on chewing.

A plot to design a radiation weapon that could fit in a small van and be used to silently kill humans was unraveled by an FBI task force that charged two men with conspiring to sell the weapon to Jewish groups or a southern branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Heaven’s Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1, Part 2 [Heaven’s Gate on Wikipedia]

For one day, the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) will Tweet on your behalf.

Ammunition cross-sections.

Heyyy I just wanna say thanks for the gift but unfortunately I can’t eat any of it lol I’m gluten intolerant. Do u maybe have a receipt

Hairy Stockings For Young Chinese Girls To Fend Off Perverts.

THE U.S. NAVY WILL NO LONGER COMMUNICATE EXCLUSIVELY IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

The three highest paid officials on the Pentagon budget?  The football coaches at Army, Navy and Air Force.

Many things could trip up the housing recovery, from stalling job growth to higher mortgage rates; at the moment, a bursting bubble is not one of them.

Last year writer Evan Osnos chronicled on his New Yorker blog the premature decline of his courtyard house: “When the rainy season hit Beijing, our house began to show its age. About four years old, to be precise.”

The US is a world leader in sperm exports primarily because sperm banks in the U.S. are run on a for-profit basis. Denmark also exports a lot of sperm because of high standards and demand for that blond, blue-eyed look.

Trying to Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home.

The geometry of persuasion: How do seating layouts influence consumers?

David Brooks Doesn’t Understand Neuroscience.

Interface between neurons and computers are still in their infancy. Here are four big improvements that will soon bring brain-machine interfacing to the next level.

Humans are meant to walk heel-to-toe, with the leg at about a 90-degree angle to the foot and the ankle joint employing a 60-degree range of motion during normal daily activities. By wearing a high heel, “you’re altering the position of the foot and how the foot is to function. Therefore, lots of bad things happen.”

Some 25% to 40% of the population suffers from motion sickness. Cool compress, listening to music can help.

If you are unlucky enough to be suffering from the effects of long-haul jet-lag, you could try shining a very bright light into your popliteal fossae (the backs of your knees).

Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old Japanese artist, creates vibrant landscapes using Microsoft Excel. [Thanks Tim]

The average destination of international flights from every country in the world.

How many houseflies would it take to lift me?

Dog grooming competition – in pictures.

The ‘Face Slimmer Exercise Mouthpiece’ From Japan.

Why More People Are Renting Tires.

Wal-Mart has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world’s largest retailer has done so outside of the holiday shopping season.

How Technology Is Destroying Jobs.

The effectiveness of placebo treatment for pain is related to personality traits.

People anticipate others’ genuine smiles, but not polite smiles.

How many newly-adopted pets are still kept six months later?

Three Ways to Discover If Your Puppy’s a Prodigy.

Researchers used GPS trackers to record the cats’ movements over six 24-hour periods. Micro-cameras were attached to a selection of cats to film their activities.

Real-Life ‘Game of Life’ to be Played on Japanese Island.

Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC.

Can you patent genes? The court is trying to protect big pharma and our economy without offending basic principles of ethics and law. It may succeed in doing neither.

He is director of the world’s largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command. As such, he has his own secret military, presiding over the Navy’s 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army.

Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence.

Fraud cost online retailers $3.5 billion last year. Credit bureaus and payment companies (PayPal, Intuit…) have begun trials to see whether social posts can help prove identities or detect whether customers are lying about their finances.

Predicting collective online behavior. A new study shows that small websites, in terms of daily user flux based on number of clicks, have a disproportionally high impact when it comes to traffic generation and influence compared to larger websites.

New diet craze offers five days of feasting for two days of famine.

Japan’s youth is caught up in a new craze — eyeball licking.

The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous. A new book on women’s sexuality turns everything we think we know on its head.

Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (1999) [PDF] [Thanks Paul]

When Winogrand died, of gallbladder cancer in 1984, he left behind more than half a million exposures. Most of them were unedited. Most of them he had never even looked at.

How Do Death Valley’s “Sailing Stones” Move Themselves Across the Desert?

How to: Instant Ice. [video]

Sid Vicious on his way to a David Bowie concert in London, 1973.

5 Unusual Ways to Reduce Crime.

47,000 Hand-Painted Stars.

40 Numbers Under 40.

Experience: I’ve worn the same outfit as my husband for 35 years.

How sad when atheists die.

Prisoner of the month.

German bank employee naps on keyboard, transfers millions.

Woman allegedly stabbed a University of Houston professor to death with a stiletto heel.

It takes just one hour, six minutes and 48 seconds before the average woman’s feet begin to feel the agony of being strapped into high heels, a study has found.

People are now running from bonds. Running.

Investors Are Not Waiting for the Fed.

We’re taught from childhood how important it is to explain how we feel and to always justify our actions. But does giving reasons always make things clearer, or could it sometimes distract us from our true feelings?

People Are Overly Confident in Their Own Knowledge, Despite Errors.

U-M study links social media and narcissism.

The Health Benefits of Beer.

Five myths about legalizing marijuana.

Could “Magic” Mushrooms Be Used to Treat Anxiety and Depression?

Lead Exposure Shown to Trigger Schizophrenia .

‪Effect of psychoactive drugs on animals‬.

How various scientific techniques (X-ray light, Ultraviolet light…) are used to analyze works of art.

Inside Google’s Secret Lab.

Supermarkets are high-tech hotbeds. Kroger’s infrared cameras to shorten checkout queues is just one example.

You enter the supermarket, grab an electronic cart that recognizes you from your touch, toss in some bags and begin shopping. The monitor on your ‘smart cart’ displays products, price, and total amount spent; and subtracts items returned to the shelf.

“When swimming inside the cloak, the goldfish becomes invisible and does not block the scene of green plants behind the cloak.” More: More Large-Scale Invisibility Cloaks.

Elevator plunges are rare because brakes and cables provide fail-safe protections.

Why Are We Signing Our Emails With “Thank You?”

Discoteche lituane fotografate.

[Murder with animal hair]. [Article in Undetermined Language]

Guy Typing In All Caps Supports Edward Snowden.

Sushi restaurant drone delivery.

Future showgirl.

Scientists Discover the Genetic Reason Why Birds Don’t Have Penises.

A 911 dispatcher was caught on tape laughing about a call for a Brooklyn stabbing — then passing along bad information to cops that allowed the victim’s body to rot for days in a basement apartment.

The big question worrying investors today is how markets will react when the Federal Reserve starts trimming its stimulus program, something that could happen as soon as this year.

12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is About To Really Slow Down.

Why do identical twins end up having such different lives?

Professor Discovers Way to Alter Memory.

Researchers, Using Light to Activate Neurons, Make Mice Obsessive, or Not. Mind-control optogenetics experiments in mice give new clarity to the neural circuitry that underlines repetitive behaviors.

Parents with heavy TV viewing more likely to feed children junk food.

Procedures in human heart extraction and ritual meaning among the ancient Maya [PDF]

Researchers demonstrate an invisibility cloak that can be scaled to almost any size and say it could be used to hide orbiting satellites.

U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge. Top-secret program allows extraction of audio, video, photos, e-mails and documents, enabling analysts to track movements and contacts.

How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?

It Won’t Be Easy, But Here’s How You Can Keep All Your Conversations Private

N=4 super Yang-Mills doesn’t describe reality.

Japanese kid at Yo Yo Championship.

Breast Milk Flavored Lollipops Make Debut.

A 66-year-old man who thought he had an unusually tiny penis was shocked to find out from doctors that he was actually a woman.

Proposed Calif. law would make “revenge porn” a crime.

New research shows cheese may prevent cavities.

Pedestrians were observed at 20 high-risk intersections. Nearly one-third (29.8%) of all pedestrians performed a distracting activity while crossing. Distractions included listening to music (11.2%), text messaging (7.3%) and using a handheld phone (6.2%).

Facebook Removes Downloads of Your Posts.

The cities that are stealing finance jobs from Wall Street.

Nearly all the plastics sold today come from petroleum and aren’t biodegradable. Researchers are genetically engineering switchgrass to produce a biodegradable polymer that can be extracted directly from the plant.

Will Saudi Arabia Allow The U.S. Oil Boom?

Islands and the CounterIntuitive Effect They Have on Tsunamis.

My theory is that if you meet an unfriendly bureaucrat at the security check in the airport then it is also very likely it will be hard to start a business in that country. Therefore, I tend to think of airport security as an indicator of the level of government regulation of the country’s economy.

What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you’re never really safe.

Why This New York Design Agency Makes Its Employees Pose Naked For Official Staff Photos.

Weird.

Calif. Man Suspected of Painting Crosswalk.

Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand.

Wealthy countries are creating more jobs by creating worse jobs.

What If Monetary Policy Doesn’t Work?

Soda and illegal drugs cause similar damage to teeth.

Ketamine Cousin Rapidly Lifts Depression Without Side Effects.

Australian researchers have isolated an immune system cell in salamanders which helps it regenerate missing limbs and damaged organs — and they suspect the same thing could work in humans, too.

The Latest Artificial Heart: Part Cow, Part Machine.

Why do we have greater insight into others than ourselves?

Genetic factors may exert a tiny influence on how much schooling a person ends up with, a new study suggests.

Simply asking people whether they experienced an event can trick them into later believing that it did occur.

New research shows that asking for a precise number during negotiations can give you the upper hand.

New research from the Netherlands finds that the psychological profile of people who enjoy bondage and sadomasochism is surprisingly positive.

Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331.”

Bell Labs Invents Lensless Camera.

16 Powerful Functions That Show Why Wall Streeters Can’t Live Without Their Bloomberg Terminals.

Hilton ends room service in favor of grab-and-go grub. New York City’s biggest hotel plans to discontinue the amenity and lay off 55; others may soon follow suit.

For Sale in NYC: Morgue cooler.

Female Israeli soldiers post ‘unbecoming’ half-naked photos on Facebook.

This is the true story of turn-of-the-century lesbian romance, erotic Deco illustrations rife with harlequins and crinolines, the world’s first male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, and the 1950s pulp novel that brought it all to light.

A round 1953 VW Beetle.

Breakup letter.

Brain surgery patient plays guitar during procedure.

Endre Tot, Outdoor Tests and To Where.

The road traveled and where it leads.

Venezuela’s grand plan to fix its toilet-paper shortage: $79 million and a warning to stop eating so much.

NASA funds project to make space meals with 3-D printer.

Formlabs is bringing down the costs of a better 3-D printing technique, but it must survive a patent lawsuit.

Coffee is at its cheapest in three years (but your latte isn’t).

Less than 7 percent of Greece has been properly mapped, officials say. [NY Times]

Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanity.

Researchers say hybrid of human gum cells and mouse stem cells raises possibility of growing new teeth on patient’s jaw.

With aging, our cognition inevitably declines – some faster than others. One brake that slows this process is the ability to fluently speak two or more languages.

Expert in 10,000 Hours? Maybe Not.

In 2008, the 311 complaint hot line introduced a program that allows people to submit photos, audio and video with their grievances. 8,000 were submitted in the last 15 months. One tipster submitted three photos of a suited man at Florio’s Ristorante in Little Italy on Feb. 12, alleging he sold cigars to minors. Disgruntled neighbors photographed at least 19 “illegal animals,” including one ferret and at least five roosters.

Nine years ago, Graham woke up and discovered he was dead. He was in the grip of Cotard’s syndrome. People with this rare condition believe that they, or parts of their body, no longer exist. Interview.

Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?

How many people get hit each year by contract killers?

Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t swim.

Advertising agency is paying to put mini ads in men’s beards. ($5 a day)

A man who set up a video camera to capture paranormal activity in his kitchen instead recorded evidence of his partner engaging in a sexual relationship with his 16-year-old son.

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines.

Why are the cells in honeycombs hexagons? Always hexagons.

Study Shows How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages.

Contrary to popular belief, headaches do not actually happen in the brain.

How pain works.

Hormone levels may provide key to understanding psychological disorders in women.

The Mental Health of Lonely Marijuana Users.

What is going on in the brain of someone who has the deluded belief that they are brain dead?

People with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information, say US researchers.

A brief visual task can predict IQ, according to a new study.

Once I realized that thinking in patterns might be a third category, alongside thinking in pictures and thinking in words, I started seeing examples everywhere. How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley.

CEOs are Terrible at Management, Study Finds.

Google is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook.

New Android malware intercepts incoming text messages, silently forwards them on to criminals.

The first major conference for the digital currency Bitcoin suggests it is gaining legitimacy, but in a manner disappointing to some early enthusiasts.

A network of ex-gay groups that believes that LGBTQ people can be helped to become heterosexuals. [PDF]

Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton.

Thousands of German POWs held captive in England during World War II were bugged by “secret listeners” who were themselves German refugees, working for the British.

Serial Killer Groupies. Who are they? Related: Hybristophilia.

Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?

Colm Ó Cíosóig / My Bloody Valentine Playlist [audio].

Real Lesbians React to Fake Lesbian Porn.

Randy Miller. [Thanks Yvonne!]

Venezuela is running out of toilet paper.

The new legislation stipulates that witches on broomsticks flying over Swaziland may not fly higher than 150 meters.

Prague metro plans to launch love train for singles.

One in five beauty products on women’s shelves are never opened. [via Beauty Blogosphere]

A novel study reports that white men and women of European descent inherit common foot disorders, such as bunions (hallux valgus) and lesser toe deformities, including hammer or claw toe.

How needing a wee affects your decision making.

“Nice guys finish last.” Is it true?

After years of investigations and rumors, prosecutors appear to be closing in on SAC Capital Advisors. SAC Could Face Criminal Charges; Cohen Subpoenaed. Read more: Steven Cohen is an American hedge fund manager, founder of SAC Capital Advisors. He has bought around $700 million worth of artwork, including Hirst’s shark and paintings by Pollock, Picasso, Warhol, de Kooning, Munch.

Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner has a knack for picking talent.

Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs.

Jamaica Ginger extract, known in the United States by the slang name “Jake,” was a late 19th century patent medicine that provided a convenient way to bypass Prohibition laws, since it contained between 70-80% ethanol by weight.

If I fired a pistol and then stuck it in my waistband like on TV, wouldn’t I get burned?

Driverless cars and the automated highway system (1997).

Portfolio boxes for Robert Mapplethorpe’s X, Y & Z portfolios.

Beethoven’s hair.

Racist Park.

You cannot be detained, arrested, or fined for going topless in public in New York. Earlier this year, the Do Not Arrest Topless Women memo was read aloud at NYPD roll calls for 10 straight days. [Thanks GG]

Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.

Florida Mayoral Candidate Boasts Endorsement from Jesus Christ.

Is the Canadian Housing Market Falling Apart?

The effectiveness of placebo treatment for pain is related to personality traits.

More sleep may decrease the risk of suicide in people with insomnia.

Biological clue to why women live longer than men.

Recent research discovered that an individual can indeed successfully try to be happier, especially when cheery music aids the process.

Using the size of the CEO signature on annual SEC filings to measure CEO narcissism, we find that narcissism is positively associated with several measures of firm overinvestment.

A picture of a large pair of eyes triggers feelings of surveillance in potential thieves, making them less likely to break the rules.

Experienced job interviewers are no better at spotting lying candidates.

Composite and 3-D-printed components will mean jet engines that use 15 percent less fuel.

Terahertz image reveals Goya’s hidden signature in old painting. Terahertz radiation occupies the part of the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and the microwave.

How to Mine Cell-Phone Data Without Invading Your Privacy.

Acxiom knows where you live, where you shop and what you like to do. But it’s not quite the evil data monolith you might expect. A peek inside one of the world’s largest data brokers.

The least racially tolerant countries.

Meet the new Google Maps.

Google Images Atari breakout

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2011.

Robbers target Bieber’s South Africa concert, steal $330,000.

Flying car accident in Canada under investigation.

There was no WiFi switched on during the experiment, and the headband antenna was a sham. Yet 82 of the 147 subjects—more than half—reported symptoms.

Do these startling longevity studies mean your lifespan could double?

Make your own invisibility cloak with a 3D printer.

Least efficient packing shapes.

Exploring the Boundaries of Photo Editing. Even top news photographers have their work digitally enhanced these days. Mounting competition in the market for news images is forcing photo-journalists to make their output as dramatic as possible.

Too much media is going to turn out like too many calories. No one who asks tough questions will ever get “access.” The news media is even worse than you think. 5 corrupting influences are keeping the public from the facts.

Fuck You, a magazine of the arts (1962-1971). [via Sunday Reading]

The story behind the viral Vine sensation “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal.” [Thanks Tim]

Ten Things Romans Used for Toilet Paper.

Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account, and a 5 in 6 chance that it just posts “I played Social Roulette and survived” to your timeline. [Thanks Nathan]

There is a metal band in Brooklyn called Unlocking The Truth that is made up of three 11-year-olds.

Bottle opener.

The market for methadone vomit in prison is lively.

They busted the Colombian fugitive despite the breast implants and other cosmetic work that had helped him morph into a very chesty “Rosalinda.’’

Bizarre 6-inch-long skeleton “is human, there’s no doubt about it.”

The second-biggest robbery in New York history: 3,000 withdrawals from local banks using doctored debit cards during a 10-hour spree in February that netted $2.4 million. More: There were two separate attacks, one in December that reaped $5 million worldwide and one in February that snared about $40 million in 10 hours with about 36,000 transactions. The scheme involved attacks on two banks, Rakbank in the United Arab Emirates and the Bank of Muscat in Oman, prosecutors said.

The State Department is forcing Defcad, known as the Pirate Bay of 3D printing, to remove its 3D-printable gun files.

Followup: Getting killed by falling objects (pianos, anvils, etc) happens more often than you might think.

10 New Things Science Says About Moms.

Restaurant menu psychology: tricks to make us order more.

Anal Del Ray.

Wife accidentally shot in mouth with harpoon, survives.

3D-Printed Gun’s Blueprints Downloaded 100,000 Times In Two Days (With Some Help From Kim Dotcom).

I don’t believe that the NSA could save every domestic phone call, not at this time. Possibly after the Utah data center is finished, but not now.

Women are more attracted to guitarists than sporty guys.

Physical, Behavioral, and Psychological Traits of Gay Men Identifying as Bears.

A biopharmaceutical company will know this year whether an antibody produced using a unique technique can prevent chronic migraines.

Cone receptors in the human eye lose their color sensitivity with age, but our subjective experience of color remains largely unchanged over the years. “This suggests that the visual brain re-calibrates itself as we get older.”

The future of a home computer controlled by your eyes may be far closer than you think.

Why do cardio exercise when you could just do cocaine?

Ultraconserved words? Really??

Voina (or “War” to give them their English name) are a radical art group concerned with challenging the Russian establishment. [Thanks Yvonne]

A blog about trying to find affordable housing in New York City. [Thanks Stella]

Fartscroll. Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too.

Shamed by you english?

A new antibiotic-resistant form of gonorrhoea could be ‘worse than Aids’, according to some US doctors.

Are Those North Korean Long-Range Missiles For Real?

People Feel Less Busy Spending Time on Others.

Fleeing Facebook: Study examines why people quit — and come back — to the ‘global aquarium.’

Doubling the efficiency of solar devices would completely change the economics of renewable energy. Here is a design that just might make it possible.

Capital punishment in China: A populist instrument of social governance.

The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words.’

Radiocarbon dating puts the age of the body between A.D. 1200 and A.D.1280, an era once considered part of Europe’s anti-scientific “Dark Ages.” In fact, said study researcher Philippe Charlier, a physician and forensic scientist, the new specimen suggests surprising anatomical expertise during this time period.

Imagine you’ve been taken, somehow, and dropped into a big city in another place, with comparable technological and economic development, somewhere you don’t speak the language. Here’s the twist: it’s also time travel. How long would it take you to notice that you’ve been shifted in time as well as space?

A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.

Now you can enlarge and denoise your photos, all thanks to basic research.

What would happen if a large chunk (1/8th) of our Earth was suddenly removed?

Child Abuse Billboard Contains ‘Secret Message’ Not Visible to Adults.

Who Me smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer. [Thanks Tim]

A new report shows that, despite the rapid spread of renewable technologies, the energy produced today is just as “dirty” as it was 20 years ago.

Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to private prisons.

Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job. 38% expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016.

Greater use of “I” and “me” as a mark of interpersonal distress.

We decided on a seven-day fast. The plan was to go a full week without eating or drinking anything except water.

Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter. They face trial next week on charges that fall under the sabotage section of the U.S. criminal code

New Camera Inspired by Insect Eyes.

‪Crash Backwards Compilation‬.

Getting old.

so my parents were gone for 2 days and I switched most of our family photos with pictures of steve buscemi…

Cops ticket armless man for not wearing seatbelt.

In China, the license plates can cost more than the car.

According to Argentinian tabloid, a Brazilian woman recently attempted to murder her husband using her vagina.

California woman accused of planting poisoned juice at Starbucks.

Are Vocal Homophobes Really Just Homosexuals in the Closet?

Google Glass is the future – and the future has awful battery life.

IBM researchers have produced a microscopic stop-motion film featuring a hero made up of just a few individual atoms.

On the internet and in the media there has been growing discussion of technological unemployment. People are increasingly concerned that automation will displace more and more workers—that in fact there might be no turning back at this point. What follows is a list of possible responses to technological unemployment.

Conversations with evil men. For most of the men I spoke with, it was the story of killing children that was the hardest, the hardest to remember, the hardest to get them to talk about. So that was hopeful, that there did seem to be red lines. What was depressing was that it was the opposite when it came to women.

This paper presents 12 facts about the mortgage market. [Fact 2:  No mortgage was “designed to fail.”] The authors argue that the facts refute the popular story that the crisis resulted from financial industry insiders deceiving uninformed mortgage borrowers and investors. [PDF]

Facts that sound like “BS” but are actually true. The city of Chicago was raised by several feet during the 1860s without disrupting daily life or businesses closing down to solve a drainage problem. Entire buildings, shopping centers, sidewalks and hotels were all lifted up manually by laborers using jackscrews while people went about their daily lives, shopped and dined. In one case, a large hotel was raised off the ground even while guests stayed on oblivious of what was going on underneath them.

How petals shape up.

A 6-inch-long skeleton found in Chile’s Atacama Desert showed several anomalies, including its alienlike skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have.

Invasive predator fish that can live out of water for days to be hunted in Central Park.

Google Search Terms Can Predict the Stock Market.

Making sacrifices for your partner after a stressful day may not be beneficial, new UA research suggests.

Gypsy law leverages superstition to enforce desirable conduct in Gypsy societies where government is unavailable and simple ostracism is ineffective. According to Gypsy law, unguarded contact with the lower half of the human body is ritually polluting, ritual defilement is physically contagious, and non-Gypsies are in an extreme state of such defilement. These superstitions repair holes in simple ostracism among Gypsies, enabling them to secure social cooperation without government. [PDF]

How bowling pins are made.

The world first web page, posted on April 30, 1993.

“This a composite of all of Jerry Sienfeld’s girlfriends,” Richard Prince explains.