Nude swimmer distracts home burglary victim.

Drunk man is electrocuted peeing on third rail of G train.

The hero in martial arts movies usually steps in when a passive victim is picked on by a gang of thugs. However a new study finds that in real life, third parties are most likely to intervene in conflict situations when the incident involves mutual aggression between drunk men.

I can pinpoint the exact date our nation’s obesity epidemic began. The day that drinking straws got bigger.

How well can you see with your ears? Device offers new alternative to blind people.

Google spokeswoman confirms that the company has already inserted some of the NSA’s programming in Android OS.

Build Your Own Internet with Mobile Mesh Networking.

Employers Face Changes After Same-Sex-Marriage Ruling.

Moscow’s stray dogs learned to descend the stations’ escalators and, like true urbanites, now regularly navigate Moscow by metro.

The Education of a Bomb Dog.

Passengers in the rear of an aircraft were significantly more likely to survive than passengers near the front.

Q&A With a Pilot: Just How Does Autopilot Work?

How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted?

Searching for the World’s Worst Glass of Water.

Retraction Watch: Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.

Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers.

Cross-serial anaphora.

Airstream Interplanetary Explorer.

Garage Sale.

every day the same again | July 9th, 2013