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.

every day the same again | November 7th, 2012