A well-funded patent-holding company sues Facebook and seeks a royalty on the “Like” button.

In Spain, paying people to use free texting services.

Ozone layer seems to be on a road to recovery as Satellite images indicate that the hole in the protective layer, which was prominent over Antarctica, is the smallest seen in the past decade.

Extracting Men from Semen: Masculinity in Scientific Representations of Sperm. [Thanks Nathan!]

One of the least understood symptoms in psychosis are hallucinations called cenesthesias. These are ‘inner body’ feelings that often don’t correspond to any known or even possible bodily experiences.

This article examines the conditions under which, in June 1975, a marginalized, stigmatized population -the prostitutes of the French city of Lyon- took the step of collective action, occupying a church for more than a week to protest against police repression. [PDF | via ZunguZungu]

An asteroid the size of a city block is due to come whizzing past Earth on February 15, closer than any other of its size in recorded history.

He’d shave the person’s head, lay his hand on the bald pate and ask for God’s forgiveness for the condemned. Then, he would strap the person into Virginia’s electric chair.

How a Chinese hacker used my private nickname, personal emails, and sensitive documents to try to blackmail me.

Apple Is Testing Watch-Like Device.

Designer glasses correct red-green colour blindness.

A calculation to see how many cups of coffee you would need to drink in order to kill yourself.

Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art.

The Asch Conformity Experiment [video]

every day the same again | February 11th, 2013