Fifty wild elephants went on a drunken rampage after downing 18 containers of mahua, a powerful alcoholic brew, in India.

Dead candidates win elections in Florida, Alabama.

A new study shows that the equivalent of a few cups of coffee can help us process words more quickly and accurately.

The “name uniqueness effect” - believing that your first name is more unusual than other people do.

Your brain on speed dating: Activity in two regions helps calculate compatibility with potential mates.

Will we ever decipher everything about a life form based just on its DNA?

First gene therapy to go on sale in Europe in 2013.

Anthropologists are pretty sure that Neandertals and humans interbred — and DNA analysis backs up this idea. But we don’t know the date ranges involved — including when the two groups stopped hooking up.

Habermas’s Linguistic Theory Applied to David Mamet’s Films.

Blumenberg created what has come to be called ‘metaphorology’, which states that what lies under metaphors and language modisms, is the nearest to the truth (and the farthest from ideologies).

A Brief History of the Teleprompter.

How My Danish Friend Paid Off His Debt By Becoming A Gay Prostitute.

How Much Does the U.N. Cost Us?

What are the best responses to “you don’t talk much”?

Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare [PDF]

Natural Harvest - A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes.

The Philadelphia 76ers unveil the world’s largest T-shirt cannon.

Scientists Use Cadaver Hands to Study the Dangers of Pumpkin Carving.

Can We Link Hurricane Sandy to Climate Change?

The research labs lost ALL their mice (1000s) and most of their research samples.

Between now and 2045, TRS [the Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System] will pay $376.5 billion to retired teachers. It has just $36.3 billion on hand.

Your personality is revealed in the way you speak, according to new research. Introverts tend to use more concrete words and are more precise, in contrast to extraverts, whose words are more abstract and vague.

Exercise is smart for your heart – and makes you smarter.

Researchers found that subtle changes in a food’s flavor and texture can increase the expectation of how filling it will be and suppress hunger, regardless of the number of calories.

Primates, rodents may show signs of sadness, study suggests.

After conducting experiments on the bacteria, invisible to the naked eye, the team found that the current was in fact generated by the bacteria themselves, essentially acting as power cables.

Technology is finally coming up with solutions that could eliminate animal experimentation.

People may seem very different from lemurs, monkeys and apes, but all primates share a few key physical and behavioral characteristics.

When a person moves their head while undergoing fMRI, it looks like the neural activity observed in autism. According to a piece in Nature today, a major line of research about autism might be seriously flawed.

A study called Tanner Stage 4 Breast Development in Adults: Forensic Implications looks at the very different things different experts saw when they all peered at the same female nipples.

Why does shock therapy beat back depression? New experiments show how such a blunt treatment can have such positive effects.

Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power.

New Fusion Engine Could Cut Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks.

A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance.

The Psychology Of Tetris.

Why are rainbows curved?

Should Museums Exhibit Bad Art?

How many kids are found as a result of missing-child posters?

What Is the Use of Elephant Hair?

Ask A Banker: What Do Investment Bankers Actually Do?

A majority of actors don’t really set out to memorize dialogue at all.

The Story Behind The FedEx Logo.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Cannibalism But Were Afraid to Ask.

Google Earth Finds More Strange Patterns in the Chinese Desert.

Jeremy Hunt to open world’s first placebo hospital.

Album Cover Locations In NYC.

Monday night, NYC.

Snow Drawings.

Russian Website Selling Hacked Servers.

Security holes enable attackers to switch off pacemakers, rewrite firmware from 30 feet away.

Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with ‘James Bond Dry Erase Marker.’

Experts warn about security flaws in airline boarding passes.

Disney Research has unveiled its new method of creating eerily perfect copies of human faces for use on robots.

A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for US$780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmmaker, although a man who did the same only fetched US$3,000.

Brazil car washer turns up alive at own wake after his family mistakenly identified a murdered local man at the morgue as him.

In September 2012, the FBI learned that Valle was sending e-mail and instant messages discussing plans with multiple co-conspirators to kidnap, rape, torture, kill, cook, and cannibalize a number of women. A court-authorized search of the computer revealed that Valle had created files pertaining to at least 100 women and containing at least one photograph of each woman. Related: His OKCupid profile.

More Biting Attacks in the News.

Can you turn a rat gay?

Why don’t apes have bigger brains? They can’t eat enough to afford them.

Men, not women, are better multitaskers.

Same neurons at work in sleep and under anesthesia.

Why are some consumers willing to pay more for less information?

Could Bricks Made of Animal Blood Be the Future of Construction?

Moderate Drinking Decreases Number of New Brain Cells.

How can I mitigate the effect of heavy drinking on my liver? You can’t. Here’s why.

Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychological Profile.

Interviews with interrogators.

The Telephone Directory as a Species of List Media.

In the last three months, Apple sold 27 million iPhones, 14 million iPads, a record number of laptops, and 70% of America’s MP3 players. It still missed earnings expectations badly.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invalidates Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent asserted against Samsung.

Facebook Patents Pokes-Per-Minute Limits.

Air Force plans for a flying saucer.

For reasons scientists have not quite figured out, the immune system can go on the fritz in space: wounds heal more slowly; infection-fighting T-cells send signals less efficiently…When Astronauts Get Sick.

A small collection of items about dropped and bounced cats.

Cat-bounce.com

How to eat a Triceratops.

Why does the bowl of a spoon turn my reflection upside down?

Mexico 68.

The World’s Shortest Freefall.

Guiltless Excuses is a mobile application that pragmatically deals with people’s inner guilt and helps them to maintain a balance between the personal and the public self. [thanks Rob]

This is not a photograph.

This is not a cube.

Man made 6,000 calls saying his penis was stuck in household objects including a jam jar and a vacuum cleaner.

Breast Cancer-Sensing Bra Detects Tumors Years Before Some Mammograms.

The ambient air in eight Italian cities has been found to contain low levels of cocaine and marijuana.

HIV infections in Australia jumped 8% last year and 50% in the past decade.

Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed.

How to diagnose a sexual addiction.

Evaluation of penile erection rigidity in healthy men using virtual touch tissue quantification..

Research suggests shared secrets can be beneficial.

Drug helps put bad memories to rest.

In response to Anthony Gottleib’s New Yorker article about the shortcomings of evolutionary psychology, three articles that defend the field of evolutionary psychology.

New work suggests that a hormone that makes the body think it’s starving could prolong life about as long as severely cutting calories does but without the denial. Fasting hormone helps mice live longer.

A new study examines the neurological basis for unpleasant noises—and finds exactly which sounds are the most irritating.

The bottles break only when filled still water and not when filled with the fizzy stuff or when empty. The question is: why?

Researchers wanted to test how long can a dolphin stay alert without interruption. The result: Up to 15 days, maybe even more.

Neither of us liked a recent paper on “genes for internet addiction” that got a lot of public press.

Create a Self-Destructing Message in Google Docs.

We now expect long life, a beautiful body, sexual and job satisfaction. But the idea that we can perfect ourselves dooms us to failure and misery.

Economists have found that the benefits of bank-robbing are on the decline, and they can explain why.

Do you think like a psychopath? It has been claimed that one quick way of telling is to read the following story and see what answer to its final question first pops into your head.

One of his forgeries hung in a show at the Met. Steve Martin bought another of his fake paintings. Still others have sold at auction for multi-million-dollar prices. So how did a self-described German hippie pull off one of the biggest, most lucrative cons in art-world history? And how did he get nailed?

Why do people always look so serious in old pictures?

The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Pyramid Headphones, 1976.

Fata morgana.

Man cooking squirrel for lunch sparks fire that destroys eight apartments.

PETA Attacks Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse.

Entire cities in the World of Warcraft have been reportedly destroyed with no one spared. Hack suspected.

Always, always bribe the school directly. Can’t stress this enough.

Urinating Through Your Mouth Is Great. Ask This Turtle.

Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers.

Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television altogether, say paediatricians.

Women try to look more masculine as they embrace the ‘lowbrow’ look and even turn to surgery to achieve it.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Whether You Like Someone Affects How Your Brain Processes Their Actions.

Researchers find mechanism of opiate addiction is completely different from other drugs.

Similar Molecular Origins for Certain Breast and Ovarian Cancers. Therapeutics for one could work in the other.

Scientists have figured out how to remotely control a cell’s self-destruction. Cancer cells executed by magnet.

Needle-Free Injections Perfected Using Supersonic Liquid Microjets.

Maths overtakes the speed of light.

The more we depend on the Web, the more passwords we accumulate—and forget. Some startups think they have a solution.

Facebook “Want” Button: Collecting massive amounts of data about you has never been easier.

Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers.

Instantly check your privacy settings across Facebook, Google and the other websites and companies collecting your data. Get to the fix with one click.

China’s greatest innovators are the people ripping off companies like Apple and Nintendo.

We may soon find ourselves living in a world where cheap 3-D printers allow the dissemination of designs for physical objects through the Internet.

About six months ago, I realized that I had no idea what the handwriting of a good friend of mine looked like. I had known him for over a decade, but somehow we had never communicated using handwritten notes.

Insane, crabby lesbian Jack Welch quits ‘Fortune’ like a little bitch.

Derailment is when a manager with a great track record hits the skids, often spectacularly. Tendency to ‘move against’ others predicts managerial derailment.

How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans.

Prof John Hagelin‘s decision not to run against Mitt Romney and Barack Obama left this year’s US presidential race without a major candidate who is a scientist and who acknowledges – publicly – his ability to both counteract gravity and prevent crime. The Natural Law party believes that yogic flying is the key to a happy, problem-free nation.

What’s the best way to sterilize myself without telling my wife?

Why do gangsters hold their guns sideways?

Why aren’t two-by-fours two inches by four inches?

It is estimated there are about 2,000 people signed up for cryonics and approximately 250 people currently cryopreserved. Over 100 pets have also been placed in vats of liquid nitrogen with the hopes of a future recovery.

All Nobel Peace Prizes.

Do you think humans will ever walk on the sun? like i kno its realy hot but i am thinking if they went in the winter time when the sun is only like 30 degrees i bet they could do it.

Octocat Adventures.

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Detroit Police Officer Angelica Robinson apparently tweeted a photo of herself with a gun in her mouth.

Mugshot.

A woman has successfully grown a new ear on her arm.

A woman woke from brain surgery to find quarter of her head missing - and it was being stored in her stomach.

Farmer eaten by his own hogs.

Connecticut man shoots burglar dead, turns out to be own son.

Maria TV, a new Egyptian channel that solely features veiled women, might be the first in the industry without a makeup room.

Oklahoma Survivalist Claims Motor will Run on Anything.

Could Psychoanalysis Be a Science?

California has become the third state to explicitly legalize driverless vehicles.

Phones to drive cars in future of “ubiquitous computing.”

Newspaper sales suffer due to lack of stimulating content.

Can You Change Your Political Beliefs? New research suggests that most people may not be as committed to their moral principles as they think they are.

Genetics may make some women more vulnerable to the pressure of being thin.

Can glass shape really affect how fast you drink?

Black mamba venom makes a great painkiller.

Genetically engineered cow makes anti-allergy milk.

Vampyroteuthis infernalis – the ‘Squid from Hell’ – is the only species in the order Vampyromorpha, where it was placed in 1903. Secrets of the squid from Hell revealed

In late 2011, Broad built a 30-story building in 15 days; now it intends to use similar methods to erect the world’s tallest building in just seven months.

The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World

How To Build A Black Hole Laser.

Evidence Emerges That Iran Is Building Its Own Hidden Internet.

Where Do India’s Billionaires Get Their Wealth? [PDF]

A hole in the head. More tales in the history of neurosciences. [PDF]

When she asked why Tom Cruise would not break up with her himself, she was told he was not to be disturbed. […] She was also harangued for hours and made to confess what a horrible human being she was. Normal education was minimized because of Scientology’s belief in reincarnation—everyone was already millions of years old.

“This would be from 1983. Hair length, and H.R. missing that tooth he knocked out hitting a huge stage divider pole at the Reggae Lounge. Brooke would have been around 18, maybe still a Ford model.”

Jewelry in motion: Kinetic architecture for your hands and optimization of parenthood. [Thanks Tim]

Dog shaming.

Exhausted Renegade Elephant, 1979.

Hands-free automatic sperm extractor for donors.

Hospital removes ‘asparagus-sized’ eel from man’s bottom.

Beauty pageant officials in China demanded a minimum nipple spacing for contestants. [via The Beheld]

Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago.

How the mere presence of a mobile phone harms face-to-face conversations.

Brain study reveals the roots of chocolate temptations.

The rotten egg gas leaking from sewer pipes and costing billions of dollars worldwide in odour control may soon be far less of a problem thanks to a magic mix of chemicals, called Cloevis.

In the euro zone, only Greece has government debt approaching the Japanese level.

Stealing magic has become a commonplace crime. Teller, a man of infinite delicacy and deceit, decided to do something about it.

It’s 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today’s top players assess his legacy?

11 Historical Geniuses and Their Possible Mental Disorders. [Thanks Tim]

List of English contractions and List of camouflage patterns. [via List of lists on Wikipedia]

The Velvet Underground and Nico, Press Release.

Louis CK just hanging out.

This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail. Her e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1). The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully.

The soul-brother handshake. [Survival City Guide]

Man tries to buy beer with bartender’s credit card.

Rapper Tweets ‘YOLO’ About Driving Drunk At 120 MPH, Dies Minutes Later.

Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumors and multiple organ damage, according to a French study published on Wednesday.

Drunk airline passenger stole other passengers’ food and demanded crew put some ‘f****** music on.’

The cats brought home just under a quarter of what they killed, ate 30% and left 49% to rot where they died. When researchers attached kittycams to house cats, they found a secret world of slaughter.

Israel sperm banks find quality is plummeting. Sperm quality is down everywhere, but Israel is worse off than other developed countries. Theories about why vary from cellphones in pockets to estrogen in milk or water.

Menstruating women do not attract bear attacks.

Deaf police officers have been recruited to monitor security cameras in the Mexican city of Oaxaca because of their ‘heightened visual abilities.’

Women speak less when they’re outnumbered.

Men with divorced parents are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke than men from intact families, shows a new study.

Does sleeping face-down induce more sexual dreams?

How do we ignore the obvious grossness of sex for long enough to propagate the species? Maybe, researchers say, by turning off our disgust reflex whenever we get turned on.

Pacifiers may have emotional consequences for boys.

The orientation of a diagram on the page of a textbook may seem inconsequential, but it can have a significant impact on a reader’s ability to comprehend the information as presented.

Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the University of Maryland, College Park, advocate that music underlies the ability to acquire language.

Green tea is good for brain cells, specifically for memory and spatial learning.

Acupuncture Works, Even if It’s a Placebo.

Why Does Coffee Smell Better than It Tastes?

Eating more fruits and vegetables may help smokers quit and stay tobacco-free for longer.

Scientists have found the answer to why female killer whales have the longest menopause of any non-human species - to care for their adult sons.

Diagnosing Skin Cancer via iPhone. [Thanks Tim]

Nanotechnology used in fight against counterfeiters. An invisible tag made of nanoparticles, similar to a ‘quick response’ or QR code, could be used to help thwart banknote forgers and criminals who sell bogus drugs or fake vintage wine.

Self-taught technologists are almost always better hires than those with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a huge student loan. Is a computer science degree worth the paper it’s printed on?

If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?

We surveyed some current analysts about the classic and ridiculous questions they were asked when applying to the Wall Street internship that got them to their current position.

Did journalist David Sanger discover the true story behind Stuxnet, or was he caught in a deeper web of deception?

Dumbo is Walt Disney’s myth of modernity, a film in which he uses a story about infant-mother separation as a vehicle for assimilating modern technology and management structure to the evolved mechanisms of the human mind.

I know why Bret Easton Ellis hates David Foster Wallace. I edited both authors when they were starting out and can attest that the enmity between the two goes back decades.

So in April Vorobyev ploughed 400,000 roubles ($12,500) of savings into a self-styled ‘mutual aid fund,’ known as MMM-2011, promoted by Sergei Mavrodi, a guru-like financier, former lawmaker and convicted fraudster.

Facebook leads to fall of two Brooklyn gangs.

“My tattoos are poison. People can tell.” When I ask what they communicate he says, “My propensity for sudden and horrific violence.”

“He’s kind of a slender guy but he inserts these huge objects to an incredible depth. I admire his capabilities.”

the death of the fresh prince of bel air. the death of molly ringwald…

Although I am not a painter, I think that the subaqueous qualities of the purity of line makes resonant the distinctive formal juxtapositions. The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator.

17 Euphemisms for Sex From the 1800s.

Jon Hamm’s Penis Takes Its Owner Out for a Walk.

One guy who really wanted to get on TV making blowjob faces.

Missing tourist in Iceland joins search for herself.

Texas mayor killed in apparent donkey attack.

Kim Ramsey, a nurse from New Jersey, has hundreds of orgasms a day.

Designer £185 menswear brown paper bag sells out worldwide.

Gay couple sues United Continental over sex toy incident.

A pregnant rape victim in Turkey shot and decapitated her attacker then left his severed head in the square of her local village.

Message in a bottle found after 97 years sets new world record.

75% of Homeless Youth Use at Least One Social Network.

Are Big Banks Criminal Enterprises?

The justification for all this skimming and scamming is always the same: “everybody else is doing it.”

A recent study has shown not only that positive emotion from sales staff is contagious to a customer, but that a satisfied customer also improves the salesperson’s mood.

Having to Make Quick Decisions Helps Witnesses Identify the Bad Guy in a Lineup.

Even while in a deep slumber, people can still learn brand new information. Sleepers soak in new associations between smells and sounds, knowledge that lingers into the next waking day, researchers report.

When do we lie? When we’re short on time and long on reasons.

People drinking beer from curved glasses tend to drink it faster than those with straight glasses.

A chemical in scorpion venom reduces the spread of brain tumor cells.

Redness enhances perceived aggression, dominance and attractiveness in men’s faces.

‘World-first’ bionic eye implanted in human patient.

A ‘magic carpet’ which can immediately detect when someone has fallen and can help to predict mobility problems has been demonstrated by University of Manchester scientists.

Sugar molecules discovered around Sun-like star.

Indo-European Languages Originated in Turkey, Research Suggests.

The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects.

Five Ways Science Can Make Something Invisible.

Could it be that “doing nothing” is a healthy teenage behaviour? [PDF]

Talmon Marco and Igor Magazinik co-founded Viber just under two years ago. They run the business from Israel but have developed the Viber app in Belarus.

How an iPhone announcement affects Apple’s share price. The old adage — “buy the rumor, sell the news” — doesn’t necessarily apply.

Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins.

Quite naturally, when the Lehrer scandal first broke, the editors at Wired.com worried that his work for them was tainted as well. That’s where I came in.

The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants.

Author and mother Amy Sohn writes that moms in her affluent Brooklyn neighborhood are going through something called “the 40-year-old reversion.”

The bottom line about abortion is this. Do you trust women to make their own moral judgments? If you are anti-abortion, then no.

“Personality differences” between people from different countries may just be a reflection of cultural differences in the use of “extreme” language to describe people.

The Andreessen Horowitz portfolio includes such familiar names as Skype, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare, Pinterest, Airbnb, Fab, Groupon, and Zynga.

Even with the 53 percent plunge in the stock price since the May 17 initial public offering, Facebook still trades at 33 times earnings over the next year, compared with 14 for Apple.

Heiress, actress, singer, model - Lisette Lee wanted everyone to think she had it all, but beneath the bling were secrets, lies and private jets filled with weed.

The haunting spectacle of crystal meth: A media-created mythology?

What If Hitler Had Not Come to Power?

Why did Michael Jackson get surgery to turn white? There’s no such thing as “surgery to turn white.”

Why is the sky blue?

Why is the sea salty and rivers and lakes aren’t?

My roommate turned a piece of a bowling alley into a dining room table.

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Albert Einstein’s desk, photographed immediately after his death.

A coffin that washed up onto a front lawn due to Hurricane Isaac.

I am collecting an “anthology” of accidents.

Gibbons on helium reveal soprano voice.

Robot learns to recognise itself in mirror.

Man With World’s Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes.

Chimps have better sex than humans.

Man Survives Steel Rod Through His Head. Related: Phineas Gage.

Chinese family car can be driven by remote control.

Iran bans women from more than 70 university degree courses.

Bacteria have become increasingly resistant to the drugs we’ve come to rely on. Will humans lose the battle with microbes?

Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds.

Social rejection can fuel imaginative thinking, study shows.

Creating an artificial jellyfish to model the human heart.

Fathers bequeath more mutations as they age.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have shown that 30 minutes of daily training provide an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as 60 minutes.

Physicists suggest selfishness can pay.

This paper considers the effects of music on intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. It outlines how extensive active engagement with music can induce cortical reorganization. This may produce functional changes in how the brain processes information.

Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.

Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger.

MasterCard Denies Plans For BitCoin Debit Card.

Google Fiber Is The Most Disruptive Thing The Company’s Done Since Gmail.

What is Macroecology?

The Talmud as a Business Guide.

Killers Shouldn’t Inherit from Their Victims…Or Should They?

She poisoned 21 people including her own mother, children and husbands. So why has no-one heard of Britain’s FIRST serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton?

Fatal Russian roulette refers to death following an act of extreme bravado in which the individual spins the cylinder of a revolver loaded with at least one cartridge, aims the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger. The majority of victims are men younger than 30 years who, in the presence of others, are under the influence of ethanol or other drugs. This is a 10-year (1993-2002) retrospective review of self-inflicted gunshot wounds of the head.

Can a Computer Tell Us What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?

Why Is the Night Sky Turning Red?

Can we now transmute base substances into gold?

Some futurists predict that we’ll be able to halt the aging process by the end of this century — if not sooner. Would it be boring if we could live forever?

The Internal Security Act allows the government of Singapore to imprison citizens indefinitely and without trial.

In a story that could be the plot for a film, one of the world’s pioneering anthropologists has been found to have been a member of both the Nazi SS and the French resistance during the Second World War.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Summary and Comments.

U.S. Casinos Discover Macau’s Murky Side.

The burglar who uses taxis to collect him from break-ins.

In West Virginia, however, the drug of choice was OxyContin, or “hillbilly heroin.” 

XO sauce was first created in Hong Kong sometime in the early eighties. It’s been called “the caviar of the East.”

Everyone Poops but Only Julian Assange Doesn’t Flush.

Pujol’s unique gift was based on his ability to “inhale” through his rectum. Air thus inhaled could be exhaled with force sufficient to extinguish a candle from a distance of a foot.

Rich girls are hot because their moms are hot. But they’re also insane because their dads are inbred sociopaths with Nazi fetishes. All of this makes dating one for a short period of time an excitingly weird mixture of prescription pills, naps, crazy arguments, depressing music, room service, therapists, tattoos that cost more than cars, jet lag, and guestlists. The Vice guide to dating rich girls.

People who have walked on the Moon.

I have given up.

For those who like to ride the horse in front of TV. [thanks Tim]

Hi.

Driver swerves to avoid moose, hits bear.

PayPal Founder Backs Synthetic Meat Printing Company. [Thanks Tim]

EBay Bans Magic Potions, Curses, Spells.

Sea-surfing ‘wave glider’ robot deployed to help track white sharks in the Pacific.

Divers discover 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that is so well preserved even the FOOD is intact. Fish, wine, oil and grain found inside pots, giving new insight into Roman lifestyle.

A human skull dated to about 2,684 years ago with an “exceptionally preserved” human brain still inside of it was recently discovered in a waterlogged U.K. pit.

Humans don’t have labyrinthine vaginal canals.

A male contraceptive pill in the making?

Birth control for men edges closer.

How little we know about the brain and how it affects our daily lives.

How to Build a Neuron: Step 1.

Scientists have cracked a molecular code that may open the way to destroying or correcting defective gene products, such as those that cause genetic disorders in humans.

6 to 10 percent of Americans suffer from depression each year. In any given two-week period, about 5 percent of people are depressed.

New research from New Zealand’s University of Otago is casting doubt on a landmark US study that suggested infants as young as six months old possess an innate moral compass that allows them to evaluate individuals as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, have achieved the hottest manmade temperatures ever. […] a number like 5.5 trillion degrees.

Four-Digit Robotic Hand Approaches Human Dexterity.

Should We Make Crime Impossible?

Charles Ponzi, a poor immigrant from Lugo, Italy, pulled off an amazing investment scam in 1920 that defrauded U.S. investors of $20 million ($240 million in today’s money).

“The Julian Assange show,” wherein Wikileaks founder Julian Assange takes his sabre to western governments, no doubt enjoying his fat pay check from Vladimir Putin.

The single most important object in the global economy: The pallet.

“The Player”, “The Beer Drinker” and “The Buddy”. These are tried and true “ideal male images” used by advertisers to attract men to their products and brand. Apparently, it’s not working so well anymore. Researchers say advertisers may need to incorporate “The Dad”, “The Husband” and “The Handyman” or even, “The Mentor” to avoid alienating the Gen X male consumer.

Facebook not only is on course to go bust but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it.

Google’s real rival, and real competition to watch over the next few years is Amazon.

ReDigi calls the copy on its site “used” or “recycled” (it was originally sold on iTunes). Why Can’t You Resell Old Digital Songs?

Are some fonts more believable than others?

“Modulo” is on Wikipedia’s preposition list, and has an OED entry.

Names of Dogs in Ancient Greece. [Thanks Tim bis]

This article argues that the “traditional concept” of sex discrimination is an invented tradition.

Study: Eggs Are Nearly as Bad for Your Arteries as Cigarettes.

We ate roasted rat and survived.

High-speed video probes how mammals shake water from their fur.

The farthest point from dry land floats exactly where you would expect: smack dab in the middle of the South Pacific.

OMG: Kitten Stuck In Bag Of Chips Saved From Subway Tracks.

It’s a bookshop right on the canal that floods every year, so the eccentric, stray-cat-adopting owner keeps his books in boats, bathtubs and a disused gondola to protect them.

As a 21-year-old art student, I answered a help-wanted ad at the SoHo studio of Jeff Koons. [NY Times]

Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy (PENIS). [Thanks Tim ter]

Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression.

A speech was prepared by Nixon’s speechwriter William Safire in case of a tragedy that, thankfully, never occurred.

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, Mexico City, 1997.

Bangladesh has a slightly off-center flag, supposedly so that it appears centered when it’s flying.

Two chatbots talking to each other.

Water Jet Pack, $99,500.

Staggering Beauty.

Drunk tourist who fell asleep on airport baggage belt is X-rayed.

Japanese company will 3D print your fetus for $1,275. [thanks Tim]

Value: $0, Taxes: $40 Million.

9 on trial in China after teen sells kidney to pay for iPad and iPhone.

Study Finds Germans Incapable of Enjoying Life.

Doctors baffled by mystery illness which causes woman to grow fingernails instead of hair.

Linsday Lohan was yelling “I’m a star, she’s a nobody, get her out of here!”

Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens to Contain H7N3 Virus.

What Makes Us Accept Unacceptable Acts?

Psychology of Stamina [PDF].

Pupil dilation reveals where a person’s sexual response falls on the spectrum from gay to straight.

Early man was not alone. Homo erectus and a tool-making relative called Homo habilis were probably contemporaries of an even older species called Homo rudolfensis.

African Grey Parrots Have the Reasoning Skills of 3-year-olds.

Salmon sex delayed by global warming. Fishing records from Norwegian anglers show that salmon are staying out at sea for two or more winters instead of one, before migrating upriver to mate

Is there something wrong with people who do not use Facebook?

The average price to buy fake followers is $18 per 1,000 followers.

“When you look at Stuxnet and DuQu, they were obviously single-goal operations. But here I think what you see is a broader operation happening all in one.” A spyware dubbed Gauss targets Lebanese bank customers, carries mysterious payload.

Here is a prediction—Apple devices will soon project holograms like you’ve never seen. This is not mere speculation, but insight based on Apple’s patents, recent acquisitions, and the business imperative to do something to break free of the tablet clutter.

No bomb powerful enough to destroy an on-rushing asteroid.

Spattered blood intentionally hidden under layers of paint can be detected with a standard digital camera that’s been tweaked to record infrared light. The approach could become an important tool for cold-case investigators sizing up an old crime scene.

The Biological Response to Beauty and Ugliness in Art.

Daniel Amen is the most popular psychiatrist in America. To most researchers and scientists, that’s a very bad thing.

UK’s BSkyB to launch 24-hour James Bond TV channel.

The next time I heard from immigration was 13 years later, on 5 May 2010. [FACT mix 340: Kutmah.]

The myth of the solitary inventor — in 8 short stories.

How can water be wasted? Doesn’t it automatically recycle?

The Coolest Things Ever Found With A Metal Detector.

How Not To Get Hacked.

How To Whistle Loudly.

Road crew paints yellow line over dead raccoon.

For a more efficient service please alight at the next stop where a team of heavily drugged sloths will drag you to your destination.

Man texts, ‘I need to quit texting,’ before driving into ravine.

Researchers tracked Google keyword searches in the United States for pornography, prostitution and dating sites between January 2006 and March 2011. Porn-related keyword searches peaked during winter and early summer, a trend not seen with neutral search terms. Scientists have also documented increases in condom sales around Christmas week and during the summer months.

Smiles as signals of lower status in football players and fashion models: Evidence that smiles are associated with lower dominance and lower prestige.

A new study shows that in judging a person’s personality from their gait, you and I (and others) are likely to agree with each other. And yet our judgments would be wrong.

Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as “boys have short hair,” can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found.

Bilingual children outperform children who only speak one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to research.

Recent and past musical activity predicts cognitive aging variability.

Fruit flies offer DNA clue to why women live longer.

Cues to personality and health in the facial appearance of chimpanzees.

Are Butterflies Two Different Animals in One? The Death And Resurrection Theory.

Do cats in shelters acclimate faster if given a bunkmate?

The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth. Contrary to a popular myth, dinosaurs didn’t have butt brains.

MIT students reveal PopFab, a 3D printer that fits inside a briefcase.

War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties.

America’s funeral parlors rely on one man to provide the music. Welcome to “semi-spiritual” ambient music.

The Baltimore’s Twelve O’Clock Boyz, a hundred-strong gang who wheely dirt bikes through a city where police are banned from chasing them.

Point Cloud.

Tire trick.

Feeding seagulls laxatives ends exactly as expected.

Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaults ex-girlfriend who waved at man dressed as Snickers bar.

The controversial billionaire is rumored to be planning to clone a dinosaur from DNA so he can set it free in a Jurassic Park-style area at his new Palmer Resort in Coolum.

How did dinosaurs have sex?

Why India Just Suffered the World’s Biggest Blackout.

Indian police still using truth serum.

What truths does “truth serum” sodium pentothal actually reveal?

The Secret Online Weapons Store That’ll Sell Anyone Anything.

The ‘plasticity of disgust’ report concluded that ‘mothers rated their own baby’s soiled diaper as less disgusting than someone else’s baby’s diaper’.

What will we be eating in 20 years’ time?

A handful of people — only 33 confirmed to date — can remember almost every moment of their lives after about age 10 in near-perfect detail. The researchers note that people with the condition did not score high on routine memory tests and have a different kind of super memory than people who can remember long lists of facts and numbers.

Australian bottlenose dolphins that use marine sponges to forage for food have been found to socialise in cliques, in the first definitive example of subculture in animals.

Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? The mystery of the rumored theft of CP/M by a little company called Microsoft can finally be investigated—using software forensic tools.

How Germans changed their minds about Jews, 1890-2006.

Inside L.A.’s Bizarre Human Hair Business.

Is Barefoot Running Really Better?

Three Fun Ways To Have Three Hands – For You At Home.

Six Things Men Can Learn From Getting Hit On By Men.

Gay app Grindr crashes as Olympic athletes arrive in London.

North Carolina Man Arrested for Refusing to Leave Jail.

Smoking Banned Inside Santa Monica Residences.

New coating technology promises self-cleaning cars.

Alec Baldwin continues to be freaked out by a female stalker, and now Manhattan prosecutors have hit the perky blond fanatic with 20 new harassment counts.

The feds have raided dozens of synthetic-pot and bath-salt operations in more than 90 cities. They also seized $36 million in cash from dozens of manufacturers and sellers.

Numerous Top Bankers Call for Break Up of Giant Banks.

The two Chinatown women executed two weeks ago may have ripped off nearly $100,000 from Chinese thugs, law-enforcement sources believe. Police sources believe the victims were part of a “key club” — a sort of underground banking system.

Worldwide, there are about 6,000 mammal species, each with its own unique milk, but Americans get at least 97 percent of all our dairy products from one animal. (That would be the cow.)

Study finds fastest growing cities not the most prosperous.

The rise in women seeking a perfect vagina.

Men’s friendships with women ‘driven by sexual attraction.’

Two Myths and Three Facts About the Differences in Men and Women’s Brains.

Why Thinking of Others Improves Our Creativity.

Are we really at our most miserable at the start of the week, as the Blue Monday myth suggests? A new study conducted in the US claims not.

City’s drug patterns written in sewage. Drug testers sifting through raw sewage in 19 European cities found the highest cocaine use in Antwerp, a Nordic preference for methamphetamines and Amsterdam unsurprisingly leading in cannabis use.

Study shows the reasons why people find logic in magical rituals.

Hepatitis C can now be totally cured by new nanoparticle.

The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery.

Termites explode to defend their colonies.

Ice is an enigmatic, complex substance that continues to puzzle researchers.

Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home.

A new measure of arrogance, developed by researchers at the University of Akron and Michigan State University, can help organizations identify arrogant managers before they have a costly and damaging impact.

Psychology of Corruption.

Are we creating the future by predicting it?

Tween texting may lead to poor grammar skills.

The story of Microsoft’s lost decade could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.

Why Computers Still Can’t Translate Languages Automatically.

How to Make Your Password So Secret, Even *You* Don’t Know It.

The success of the Avengers is only a small part of a broader phenomenon: the rise of “geek culture” as the single most powerful force, commercial and cultural, in the art and media landscape. At what point is the triumph of comic-book culture sufficient?

The first issue came out in February 1992. Its appearance prompted Julie Burchill to congratulate Ingrams on “producing the most pathetic magazine ever published.”

As Nietzsche’s ideas were being adapted to various and contrary ends by avant-garde artists, psychoanalysts, and racial ideologues, his death provoked a battle over his legacy. Kessler, a prominent patron of culture and a well-connected operator on the European art scene, took part in the fight.

Roland Barthes: It seems to me that, for a writer, the issue isn’t how to be “eternal” but how to be desirable after death.’

List of Authors Whose Copyrights Have Expired. [Thanks Fette]

Shakespeare insult kit.

Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?

The world’s first 3D-printed gun.

iPad painting App for cats invented by US company.

1980: Should we boycott the Olympics?

Tweak of Proximity by Joshua Davis.

In this episode of Skinema, Chris drives out to the world famous Al’s Diamond Caberet in Reading, Pennsylvania, to catch tattooed starlet Joanna Angel’s act and stick some fingers in her butt.

Unboxing the Statue of Liberty, 1885.

The fucking weather.

Fucking Homepage.

London Olympics. Gov. Romney and Mrs. Ann Romney cheer on Michael Phelps.

Idaho farm hosts ‘weed dating’ for singles.

A woman says a man claiming to be with a TV show sucked her toe inside an east Georgia Walmart.

Bees can ‘turn back time,’ reverse brain aging.

Brain Scans Predict When Poker Players Will Bluff.

Spotting Suicidal Tendencies on Social Networks.

People with amnesia can get bogged down by too many memories. Unwanted, irrelevant information crowds in and prevents amnesiac patients from recognizing objects.

How Do Amnesic Patients Vote?

Identical twins aren’t perfect carbon copies of each other even at birth. Study shows where identical twins part ways.

What Effect does Vertical Traction have on Chronic Low Back Pain?

Physical inactivity kills as many people as smoking.

How to walk on water. Physicists use X-rays to probe how a fluid can support a person’s weight.

Are All Anorexics Just Afraid Of Being Fat and Can We Blame The Western Media?

Living by the Sea Is Healthier than Living Inland, Scientists Say.

It’s possible to train people to have something a bit like synaesthesia — which they call Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters.

Higgs Boson May Be An Imposter, Say Particle Physicists.

Asteroids are the most likely source of the majority of Earth’s water, a new study suggests.

Why Some Wild Animals Are Becoming Nicer.

How large should whales be?

What would disprove evolution?

Game theory is marketed as a system you can apply to any sphere of life, but what’s the reality?

Using events logged from 2004 - 2009 in the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary, researchers developed statistical models that predicted the time, place and intensity of ‘future’ conflicts that took place in 2010.

A Brief History of Checkpoints. [PDF]

Newly released UFO files from the UK government.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. They’re not synonyms. They don’t even serve the same function. The Web was born at CERN in 1990, as a specific, visual protocol on the Internet, the global network of computers that began two decades earlier.

There are still nearly 13,000 sidewalk payphones in New York City. Now, the city wants to turn 10 of those phones into free WiFi hotspots.

Shirley Manson, frontwoman for the rock band Garbage, is being barraged with death threats and hate tweets by a fan on Twitter.

David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, has assured me that I can write whatever I want as long as I don’t make fun of Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker acquires The Borowitz Report.

“The world, unfortunately, is real,” as he once remarked, “and I, unfortunately, am Borges.”

Vladimir Nabokov’s understanding of human nature anticipated the advances in psychology since his day.

Can Computers Predict Crimes?

I cracked the door open a few inches, and an agent was already leaning into the frame. He explained that he was from the Electronic Crimes Task Force, and that they had a search warrant.

How Three People Survive Living In The Middle Of Nowhere.

To help them perfect their boxing technique, Eric subjects them to a barrage of verbal abuse, insults, and public degradation. [Thanks Cole]

32-year-old interviews his 12-year-old self on YouTube.

Can opera singers shatter glass with their high notes?

Airbus designer hopes to see planes roll out of hangar-sized 3D printers by 2050.

Strippers Wrestling in Bacon and Lard at Bacon Cup 2012. [Thanks GG]

Renaissance Boob holder.

The Douche Burger costs $666.00.

Paris is burning.

No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. [US government denies mermaids exist after documentary mix-up.]

Survey: 25% of Female Facebook Users Admit to Posting Unflattering Photos of Friends on Purpose .

Fed-up Lebanese protest against protests.

A Korean Rice Liquor Is Far And Away The World’s Best-Selling Booze.

Meet the 14-year-old who unlike her mother and four sisters is refusing to have breast implants.

Drug-Sniffing Drones Are Flying Over Bolivia, the New Cocaine Underdog.

Alex White, a drug dealer in Atlanta with a side business as an informant, had a crisis of conscience. What do you do when the cops you work for are dirtier than you are? [NY Times]

I have been forced to leave Cairo prematurely following a horrific sexual and physical attack in Tahrir Square.

CBS Reporter Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo. [NY Times]

Big Banks Have Become Mafia-Style Criminal Enterprises.

International timekeepers added a second to the clock at midnight universal time Saturday, June 30, going into July 1.

How Exactly Could a Squid ‘Inseminate’ Your Mouth?

We think more rationally in a foreign language.

Embarrassing Conditions: Waking up with an Italian Accent.

What’s it Like to be a Man with an Eating Disorder?

Breast-Feeding Won’t Make Your Children Smarter.

Sleep deprivation affects the immune system in a similar way as physical stress.

LiveScience has a spectacularly bad article that covers the toxicology results of Rudy Eugene, the ‘Miami cannibal’ who was immediately labelled as being high on ‘bath salts‘ and was predictably, not high on bath salts.

A moral argument against the war on drugs.

Physicists seem to have finally trapped their most-desired quarry: the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered fundamental particle in the standard model that underpins modern physics. More: Higgs boson: physics professors answer your questions live.

A rare form of crowd turbulence, rather than deliberate pushing, stampeding or trampling, was a crucial factor in the deaths of 21 people in 2010, according to a new analysis.

According to this study, information gleaned from interrogational torture is very likely to be unreliable, and when torture techniques are employed, they are likely to be used too frequently and too harshly.

Reflections on 10 Years of Countering Terrorism. [CIA.gov]

What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered by Chinese researchers who have traced the evolution of surnames across China. 1.28 billion people share 7,327 surnames

Experienced safe-crackers were brought out of jail to show the recruits the art of breaking and entering. In June he was considered ready for his first mission.

Playing cards, used for games and magic, are so familiar, yet we know remarkably little about the way we perceive and think about them. Are some cards more memorable than others? Are some easier to identify?

How Headphones Changed the World.

How Does the Film Industry Actually Make Money? [NY Times]

New York’s Monument to Gentrification: The High Line represents the high-water mark of the hipster aesthetic, which venerates poverty and decay as signifiers of authenticity.

In human resources departments, having your own LinkedIn Recruiter account is like being a bond trader with a Bloomberg terminal.

Zuckerberg alluded to the “Want” button back in September, when he mentioned that the Open Graph would allow Facebook users to perform actions besides just “Liking” things.

Louis C.K. has taken ticket prices for his upcoming standup tour into his own hands, making all tickets available for a $45 flat rate exclusively through his website. Within the first 45 hours, 100,000 tickets were sold, generating $4.5 million.

Book apps for tablets like the iPad, Kindle Fire and Nook record how many times readers open the app and how much time they spend reading. Retailers and some publishers are beginning to sift through the data, gaining unprecedented insight into how people engage with books.

Google search techniques. [via ZunguZungu]

What is the Fibonacci Sequence and why is it famous?

What If All of America’s Toilets Were Flushed Simultaneously?

I don’t eat junk food and I don’t drink soft drinks—so maybe that’s why all the guys I’ve been with have been so enthusiastic about going downtown.

World’s hardest sudoku.

See Asia Like Asians Do.

Michel Delsol: Portrait of a Zen temple.

How to twerk.

Bear trapped in garage rescued by other bear.

Startup has technology to read fingerprints through the air from 6 meters away.

Adidas cancels release of sneaker designed by Jeremy Scott.

This year, the banks began to once again review unpaid home loans. We should expect to see signs of increasing foreclosures and distressed sales any day now.

Sea-level rise accelerates faster on US east coast.

Alligator caught in Connecticut River.

Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water.

Excitement Builds Over Expected Higgs Boson Announcement.

Persistence is learned from fathers, study shows.

Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males.

We form impressions of strangers incredibly quickly: What your choice of shoe says about you.

New research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.

Semen helps sperm stick to the bitch’s uterus.

Remember the Famous Invisible Gorilla Experiment? The Same Thing Can Happen With Sound.

The perfect pop tune can be engineered by a computer program and refined with the input of listeners, according to a British study.

The idea is to  apply Darwinian-like selection to music.

“What we are trying to find out is whether you need a composer to make music,” says the professor of evolutionary developmental biology.

Google tells operators of YouTube-MP3.org that by converting YouTube music videos into MP3 files, they violate the site’s terms of service and risk “legal consequences.” Also: Clip.dj. Clipped along with YouTube-MP3.

Google detects 9500 malicious sites per day.

Outside of Search, Google’s products— Android, Google Docs— are s**t.

Gigapixel camera could revolutionise photography.
The Truth About What Works in Digital Marketing.

Could Morality Have a Source? [PDF]

I guess I am old enough now for my music-writing “career” to have entered officially into the obituary rather than the discovery phase. Anyway, I wanted to write something about Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch after I heard about his death last week.

The Paleo diet, which encourages practitioners to eat meat and veggies while skipping grains and dairy, is gaining more followers, but it may not be healthy.

In a 2011 study, psychologists found that individuals who had seen a spoiler paragraph prior to reading a short story rated the story as more, not less, pleasurable. And that held true even of stories where the plot, the “trick” so to speak, was seemingly the center of the experience, such as one of Roald Dahl’s signature ironic twist tales or an Agatha Christie mystery. Why? When we know the plot, the twist, the surprise, we become more able to focus on everything else: language, character, the intricacies of rhythm and technique. We may even pay closer attention than we otherwise would, trying to wrestle with elements that we hadn’t even noticed the first time around. So, too, with magic.

The history of one of the most important and disturbing films in the history of psychiatry is covered by an excellent article in the latest edition of the Journal of the History of Medicine.

Vibrators and other sex toys are big business, and nobody in the United States makes more of them than the father-son team who runs the Valley’s own Doc Johnson.

The Long History of the Espresso Machine.

An air conditioner is a device that lowers temperatures to an artificially cold level, by contributing to global warming. It thereby perpetuates and increases the problem it is designed to solve. Great business model. Just like heroin.

Does the U.S. Really Have More Oil than Saudi Arabia?

After a year of construction and a price tag of $940 million dollars, the Chinese have successfully recreated the Austrian village of Hallstatt in its entirety over in the Southern Guangzhou Province.

And then I learned the first cardinal rule of VC - it’s all about the team.

If your total number of “yes” answers is six or more, then day trading is too stressful and risky for you.

Minimal Business Card Design.

The boxes are the same color.

Chessboxing Worldchampionship.

Another Thing Paris Hilton Sucks At: DJing

I’ve been collecting navel fluff (just my own) since 1984.

Quote from man stabbed.

Public swearing outlawed in Massachusetts town.

Australian court rules dingo killed baby, ends 32-year mystery.

The United Kingdom online monitoring law just got published. Every single thing you do online will be recorded and stored. From exchanging emails, browsing history, instant messaging to the most important use of social networks.

We spend less of our money on groceries than we did 30 years ago. We also spend a much bigger share of our grocery money on processed foods. What America Spends On Groceries.

Kanye West tweets naked pic of Kardashian, TOTALLY FALSE, Porn star Amia Miley says the picture is of her.

Diet sodas may confuse brain’s ‘calorie counter.’

A former pharmaceutical company employee blows the whistle on drug promotion disguised as science.

Artificial intelligence makes sense of psychedelic trips.

Exposure of mothers to pesticides could lead to obesity in children.

How Images of War Can Lead to the Desire for More War.

Why antipsychotics need time to kick in. Insight into how drugs work may explain the delayed action of medications for schizophrenia.

Four new migraine mutations.

Antibody cocktail cures monkeys of Ebola.

The New Science of Computational Advertising.

Channel 4 News found the site to be full of pornographic sexual chat, despite the fact it is aimed at children as young as 13 years old.

Facebook’s social scientists are hunting for insights about human behavior.

Time Inc., the largest magazine publisher in the U.S., announced that it will make all of its magazines available over the Newsstand application built by Apple.

What’s the difference between today’s global finance system and a Ponzi scheme? This is the question that a 56-year-old veteran Russian financial scammer has been asking his victims.

What You Should Know Before Robbing a Bank. Related: Gang attempt to rob moving truck.

The murder of newlywed Sherri Rasmussen went unsolved for 23 years, with the Los Angeles police assuming it was a burglary turned violent. Then, one morning in 2009, when a detective opened the cold-case file, he got his first clue that the killer had been under their noses the entire time.

I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.

The Complex Dynamics Of Bicycle Pelotons.

How will stars be arranged on the flag if the U.S. ever has 51 states?

How to kiss.

Tourettes Dice.

On the Capitol steps, Senator James M. Mead of New York and Representative J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey demonstrated “the maneuverability of the Army’s new midget scout cars.”

Hip Hop NYC map.

Explore Hip Hop History in Google Maps [app].

Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation.

Little ear.

List of paraphilias.

Dead toddler reanimates at own wake to ask for some water, then re-dies.

Norwegian prison may hire friends for mass killer.

Magician Arrested in Series of Brooklyn Bank Robberies. The police say that a self-described escapist who once set a speed record for eating a household light bulb was charged with robbing six banks. [NY Times]

Flame authors order infected computers to remove all traces of the malware. Self-desctruct module overwrites file data to prevent forensic analysis.

“Doug said he hated sleeping with John because his body was very hairy, and he didn’t like the way John smelled,” Britz said. Travolta had 6-year fling with pilot, ex-secretary claims.

Nearly 15 percent of work email is gossip.

Sexual orientation fluctuation correlated to alcohol misuse.

You can’t resist the pull of another person’s gaze. More surprising, perhaps, is their finding that the directing effect of arrows is also impossible to resist.

The benefits of breast milk are well known, but why breastfeeding protects against various forms of cancer remains a mystery. The cancer fighting properties of breast milk.

Medicine has been revolutionised by 3D imaging techniques. But you ain’t seen nothing yet, say data imaging researchers.

Kane propped himself up with pillows in order to get a good view of his abdomen. He injected cocaine and adrenalin into his abdominal wall, and then he swiftly cut through the superficial tissue, found the swollen appendix, and excised it. The Top Ten Strangest Self-Experiments Ever.

Researchers in Hong Kong have analyzed the incidence of maritime piracy during the last decade and have developed a way to predict whether or not a particular vessel, with a specific cargo, shipping in a given patch of water is likely to be a target for piracy and what degree of violence might be involved.

Why on Earth would a working-class person ever vote for a conservative candidate?

Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us.

During the Cold War, prankster physicist Feynman kept the FBI working — and wondering.

How many seconds would it take to break your password?

The life of a ‘booth babe’: $100 to $170 per day and mixed feelings about their work.

First photos ever of jaguars in Colombian oil palm plantation taken with camera traps.

A Look Inside the World of Beep Baseball, Blind America’s Pastime. [thanks GG]

Damien Hirst Brands a London Restaurant. [thanks Tim]

Mirror, plexiglass, 150 lights and water.

Life expectancy of people in the five boroughs of NYC compared to the rest of the country.

New York City. 1985. Pet snake.

26 Dating Site Pictures.

Plan ahead.

Who opens the windows on a redeye flight? Brian does.