Owl survives head-on collision with pickup truck.

The practice of deforming skulls of children as they grew was common in Central America, and these findings suggest the tradition spread farther north than had been thought.

Is being not-greedy more important than being generous?

Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers for $1.

What’s it like to be face-blind?

When you want what you don’t like.

You’re most creative when you’re at your groggiest.

Marijuana Isn’t a Pain Killer—It’s a Pain Distracter.

Publishing scientific research might help prevent the next pandemic, but there is legitimate fear that critical information could fall into the wrong hands.

We recycle less than we think .

What is it like to surf the Internet in the most secretive country on Earth?

Instagram Retreats Back to Old Policies. But are those older policies really better for users?

Google’s lobbying hard for its self-driving technology, but some features may never be legal.

Hudson Yards, a series of buildings to be built over the rail yards on Manhattan’s West Side, will add a new neighborhood with the population of downtown Detroit to the Big Apple. How do you create a city within a city?

Texas still welcomes human burials alongside animals in pet cemeteries.

The de Sitter Effect showed us how stars would look if light didn’t have a speed limit.

One of the more poignant moments in Nietzsche’s long and tormented career was when the catalogue of his many ailments, both mental and physical, started to include encroaching blindness. To remedy that he turned to experimentation with the (very primitive) typewriters of the time – a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball.

What are the main differences between a Masters and a PhD in computer science?

‘Vomiting Larry’ is busy being sick over and over again in an experiment to test just how far the winter vomiting bug can travel when it makes you ill.

every day the same again | December 22nd, 2012