52-year-old mom fails at impersonating daughter in English exam.

Mother who chose faith healing over medicine charged with murder after second son died of pneumonia.

High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree.

First Farmers Were Also Inbred.

Before 1950 the Word ‘Stress’ Didn’t Exist.

New theory of emotions.

New research has found that workers who used the words “yeah,” “give,” “start,” “meeting” and ”discuss” ended up with more accepted proposals in meetings.

Evaluation of cats fed vegetarian diets.

It will take a picture every 30 seconds of what’s in front of you, resulting in a visual diary of your life, browsable from an accompanying app on your iOS or Android smartphone.

“Was that ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’?” [Thanks Tim]

Popular gaming site Giant Bomb rented a “professional studio” for some of their coverage. Things got weird, though, and it quickly became apparent that what they were renting was actually the set for a bunch of pornography.

The Bicycle and the Women’s Movement of the 1890s.

Would you copy your mind to a robotic body-double?

Could the energy from gym workouts be harnessed?

What is it like being nerve gassed?

Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings.

every day the same again | June 25th, 2013