Brazilian bikini waxes make pubic lice endangered species.

Facebook testing $100 fee to mail Mark Zuckerberg.

Clients can advertise their products or events on one of her breasts for a bargain £5, with a special offer of just £9 available for both.

Ancient Egyptians Paid a Monthly Fee to Become Voluntary Temple Slaves.

A priest, handcuffed, bound and gagged in bondage gear, calls police for help.

A deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.

The Quality Cafe doesn’t even function as a real diner anymore. It stopped serving meals in 2006, but it’s been doing pretty well for itself as a film location over the past few decades.

It’s almost impossible to get to a gun in Japan, and selling one or owning one is a serious crime.

The Saudi Arabian government beheaded Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan woman who had worked as a maid in the kingdom, holding her responsible for the death of the baby of her employer.

How belly fat differs from thigh fat—and why it matters.

Male protectiveness can be perceived as sexism. The perception depends on the situation, some protectiveness can be identified as benevolent while other protectiveness can be seen as contributing to women’s subordination.

Hair and eye colour: it’s all in the teeth. A new DNA test can restore at least part of the identity of long-dead people who left no trace of their image, scientists report.

At birth, some infants are already saddled with brains that carry features of Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Newborns who carry certain versions of genes already show brain shrinkage reminiscent of that in adults with brain illnesses, a study of 272 newborn babies reveals.

What is the world’s most dangerous animal? Try bats.

I’ve found lots of old copies of The Phrenological Magazine in the Institute of Psychiatry library.

One of the great explosions of modern literary creativity happened in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with the emergence of writers like Vladimir Mayakovsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Isaak Babel, and Boris Pilnyak. There’s no knowing what the Soviet writing of the subsequent decades might have been if Stalin hadn’t killed, jailed, exiled or silenced everyone. Some of the best writing from that period only surfaced after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and is just now starting to filter out into the international arena. One of the most remarkable discoveries is the work of Andrey Platonov.

After a half-decade, massive Wikipedia hoax finally exposed.

As it turns out, the Weather Channel has a regular audience of hardcore fans. And, among those people, the consensus is that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Video games take off as a spectator sport. Professional gaming, or e-sports, exploded in popularity in the US and Europe last year.

Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say.

Columbia University will offer its first MOOCs this spring, while the University of Virginia fired its president (temporarily, it turned out) for foot-dragging on MOOCsDrawing from the online courses that have become increasingly popular in recent years, MOOCs blast down the two main barriers to access to higher education—having to pay tuition and having to be admitted to college—by opening themselves up to all comers, for free.

The Anti-Surveillance Clothing Line That Promises To Thwart Cell Tracking and Drones.

An Engine That Uses Half the Fuel.

MIT researcher creates Glowing, alcohol tracking ice cubes to help prevent drunken escapades

Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails: Smoking Hot Trend Or Unnecessary Risk?

We report a case of gastric perforation in an 18-year-old girl as a result of ingesting an alcoholic drink containing liquid nitrogen.

Why are dogs racist? Canine experts speak.

There is a bunch of stupidity going on right now about the recently released logo and identity for the University of California (UC) that deserves a response.

How Did Humans Figure Out That Sex Makes Babies?

This is a tardigrade. Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures of close to absolute zero, or 0 Kelvin (−273 °C (−459 °F)), temperatures as high as 151 °C (304 °F), 1,000 times more radiation than other animals, and almost a decade without water. Since 2007, tardigrades have also returned alive from studies in which they have been exposed to the vacuum of space for a few days in low Earth orbit. Tardigrades are the first known animal to survive in space. [Wikipedia]

Bombora.

Anger.

every day the same again | January 14th, 2013