Choosing the sex of your baby has become a multimillion-dollar industry.

1 in 3 Men Can’t See His Penis.

Denver mailman mistakes corpse for Halloween decoration.

Staff emails are not owned by firms, rules UK judge.

Meet The Texas Lawyer Suing Hundreds Of Companies For Using Basic Web Encryption.

Gay anti-mafia politician breaks mold in Sicily.

Humans can read and do arithmetic with no conscious awareness, according to new research that could lead to an updated scientific view of human consciousness.

Most people can fake a genuine “Duchenne” smile.

Research into group decision-making in social animals has shown that ants, fish, birds, and bees have all discovered strategies to make intelligent group decisions. If they can do it, we can do it, right? What can we learn from these critters about harnessing the knowledge in all of us to move our whole group in the best possible direction? We will explore these insights in this post.

Do desert ants really count their steps?


Carbon, the main component of most everything in your body, is special because of the electron configuration of the individual atoms. Why Humans Are Carbon-Based Lifeforms.

Humans dined on grass 3.5 million years ago.

Sea levels may swell much higher than previously predicted.

Any city would suffer if 500 million tons of seawater were to spin ashore at a hundred miles (160 kilometers) per hour. But it turns out New York City—which the remnants of Hurricane Sandy hit hard this week—suffers more than most.

How Larry Gagosian is like Goldman Sachs.

The French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own.

Ever wanted a life-like miniature of yourself or loved ones? Now’s your chance, thanks to Omote 3D, which will soon be opening a 3D printing photo booth in Harajuku, Japan.

How I learned a language in 22 hours.

A group of Harvard students sent a hamburger attached to a helium balloon and a camera 100,000ft into space.

Mummified bat in wholegrain wheat flakes.

Fire Penguin Disco Panda.

every day the same again | November 12th, 2012