Spain just spent $680 million on a submarine that can’t swim.

Advertising agency is paying to put mini ads in men’s beards. ($5 a day)

A man who set up a video camera to capture paranormal activity in his kitchen instead recorded evidence of his partner engaging in a sexual relationship with his 16-year-old son.

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines.

Why are the cells in honeycombs hexagons? Always hexagons.

Study Shows How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages.

Contrary to popular belief, headaches do not actually happen in the brain.

How pain works.

Hormone levels may provide key to understanding psychological disorders in women.

The Mental Health of Lonely Marijuana Users.

What is going on in the brain of someone who has the deluded belief that they are brain dead?

People with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information, say US researchers.

A brief visual task can predict IQ, according to a new study.

Once I realized that thinking in patterns might be a third category, alongside thinking in pictures and thinking in words, I started seeing examples everywhere. How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley.

CEOs are Terrible at Management, Study Finds.

Google is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook.

New Android malware intercepts incoming text messages, silently forwards them on to criminals.

The first major conference for the digital currency Bitcoin suggests it is gaining legitimacy, but in a manner disappointing to some early enthusiasts.

A network of ex-gay groups that believes that LGBTQ people can be helped to become heterosexuals. [PDF]

Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton.

Thousands of German POWs held captive in England during World War II were bugged by “secret listeners” who were themselves German refugees, working for the British.

Serial Killer Groupies. Who are they? Related: Hybristophilia.

Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?

Colm Ó Cíosóig / My Bloody Valentine Playlist [audio].

Real Lesbians React to Fake Lesbian Porn.

Randy Miller. [Thanks Yvonne!]

every day the same again | May 24th, 2013