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6.jpgTexas woman sues gym over ’sexually suggestive’ exercises.

Pubic hair grooming injuries jumped five-fold between 2002 and 2010, according to a recent analysis of ER visits.

City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation.

The latest Census figures show real earnings for young college grads fell again in 2011. This makes the sixth straight year of declining real earnings for young college grads, defined as full-time workers aged 25-34 with a bachelor’s only.

Three “handy steps” for getting a questionable loan approved by JPM Chase’s automatic system.

One of the most surprising aspects of the Justice Department’s five-billion-dollar lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s, which the D.O.J. accuses of defrauding investors by issuing ratings on subprime mortgage securities that it knew to be misleading, is that the settlement talks broke down.

Baby Boomers Sicker Than Parents’ Generation, Study Finds.

Self-reported feelings of well-being tend to increase with age, but a person’s overall level of well-being depends on when he or she was born.

As winter sets in, many animals effectively shut down their bodies in order to survive. Injured humans might benefit from similar techniques. Hibernation for humans.

Goggles That Block Facial Recognition Technology.

Microsoft only entered the console market because Sony refused to work with them, according to a former Microsoft exec.

Three-legged robot uses exploding body to jump. “By actuating all three legs simultaneously, we caused the robot to jump more than 30 times its height.”

Pundits and the press too often treat terrorism and guerrilla tactics as something new, a departure from old-fashioned ways of war. But nothing could be further from the truth. The Evolution of Irregular War.

Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton had a hard time at restaurants deciding whether to order the best dish they had tried so far or something new, which - who knows - might be even better. So, naturally, they decided to formalize this as a mathematical problem.

A fisherman rowing his boat on a very small lake throws his anchor into the water. Does the water level of the lake rise, fall, or stay the same?

The spectacular anus of Joseph Pujol.

The work is composed of 310 abandoned strollers (collected by the artist from the streets of his neighborhood) surrounded by a field of flattened fire hoses.





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