Why More People Are Renting Tires.

Wal-Mart has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world’s largest retailer has done so outside of the holiday shopping season.

How Technology Is Destroying Jobs.

The effectiveness of placebo treatment for pain is related to personality traits.

People anticipate others’ genuine smiles, but not polite smiles.

How many newly-adopted pets are still kept six months later?

Three Ways to Discover If Your Puppy’s a Prodigy.

Researchers used GPS trackers to record the cats’ movements over six 24-hour periods. Micro-cameras were attached to a selection of cats to film their activities.

Real-Life ‘Game of Life’ to be Played on Japanese Island.

Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC.

Can you patent genes? The court is trying to protect big pharma and our economy without offending basic principles of ethics and law. It may succeed in doing neither.

He is director of the world’s largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command. As such, he has his own secret military, presiding over the Navy’s 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army.

Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence.

Fraud cost online retailers $3.5 billion last year. Credit bureaus and payment companies (PayPal, Intuit…) have begun trials to see whether social posts can help prove identities or detect whether customers are lying about their finances.

Predicting collective online behavior. A new study shows that small websites, in terms of daily user flux based on number of clicks, have a disproportionally high impact when it comes to traffic generation and influence compared to larger websites.

New diet craze offers five days of feasting for two days of famine.

Japan’s youth is caught up in a new craze — eyeball licking.

The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous. A new book on women’s sexuality turns everything we think we know on its head.

Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (1999) [PDF] [Thanks Paul]

When Winogrand died, of gallbladder cancer in 1984, he left behind more than half a million exposures. Most of them were unedited. Most of them he had never even looked at.

How Do Death Valley’s “Sailing Stones” Move Themselves Across the Desert?

How to: Instant Ice. [video]

Sid Vicious on his way to a David Bowie concert in London, 1973.

5 Unusual Ways to Reduce Crime.

47,000 Hand-Painted Stars.

40 Numbers Under 40.

Experience: I’ve worn the same outfit as my husband for 35 years.

How sad when atheists die.

Prisoner of the month.

every day the same again | June 14th, 2013