The theft of used cooking grease from city restaurants has risen in recent years thanks to the demand for “yellow grease” — a valuable ingredient in biodiesel.

Fla. House passes bill banning Internet cafes.

Blood monitoring implant tells your smartphone when you’re about to have a heart attack.

Motion-sensing wristband buzzes to tell health-care workers if they are washing their hands properly.

A huge study involving over 12,000 participants across 51 cultures from Argentina to Uganda has concluded that men tend to have more varied personalities than women. That male and female students tended to rate men’s personalities with more variability might say more about how men are perceived, than about how they actually are.

The Difference between being smart, educated, and intelligent.

Researchers use menstrual blood stem cells to treat heart failure.

Men and women get sick in different ways. Recent research in laboratory medicine has revealed crucial differences between men and women with regard to cardiovascular illness, cancer, liver disease, osteoporosis, and in the area of pharmacology

“On which side of the central seam in your pants, do you keep your penis?”

“I don’t know. I don’t identify with the term ‘rich.’ But I think I make a shit-ton of money,” a 24-year-old Google employee making low six figures told me. Tech has brought very young, very rich people to the Bay Area like never before. And the changes to our cultural and economic landscape aren’t necessarily for the better.

Google’s increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year.

This paper provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of whether so-called automated, autonomous, self-driving, or driverless vehicles can be lawfully sold and used on public roads in the United States. [Stanford | PDF]

When the British eventually moved in on the swamp, they found that of the nine hundred troops that originally fled into the swamp, only around twenty seriously wounded and weakened Japanese soldiers were left. In all, about 500 Japanese soldiers escaped from Ramree despite the intense blockade instituted to stop them. If Wright’s claim is true, however, the Ramree crocodile attacks would be the worst in recorded history. [Thanks Tim]

Scaffolds and sidewalk sheds on the rise in New York.

Two hero lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the museum’s attempts to make its absurd but optional $25 admission fee appear to be mandatory.

Yesterday NY Hardcore scene photographed by Brooke Smith (the actress who played the woman in the well in Silence of the Lambs).

The F-word can only be used once in a PG-13 movie.

Edward Mordake supposedly had an extra face on the back of his head, which could neither eat nor speak, although it could laugh and cry. [Thanks Tim!]

I am looking for a DJ that plays in the pacha basement to help me give the illusion that I am playing with them for 1 hr. [Craigslist]

every day the same again | March 25th, 2013