American man wakes up with amnesia, speaking Swedish.

The best estimates suggest that the authorities in Baghdad bought more than 6,000 useless bomb detectors, at a cost of at least $38 million.


Why are some people mosquito magnets?

US honey bee colony numbers are stable, and they have been since before CCD (colony collapse disorder) hit the scene in 2006. In fact, colony numbers were higher in 2010 than any year since 1999.

Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not.

Here’s all the evidence that Apple is making an actual TV—and the remote will likely be your hand.

A new piece of malware is targeting OS X to extort money from victims by accusing them of illegally accessing pornography.

International journals, they’re giving them to everybody these days. The International Journal of…Zizek Studies! Baudrillard Studies! And now, Badiou Studies! Unfortunately, there is currently no International Journal of Deleuze or Ranciere Studies, because there is no justice in this world. Also: Schizorevolutions vs. Microfascisms: A Deleuzo-Nietzschean Perspective on State, Security, and Active/Reactive Networks. [both via Bookforum]

More Proof The Big Six Of Publishing Are Run By Morons.

Can you patent a magic trick?

Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac? It’s not why you think.

Every action and drama seems to violate Alfred Hitchcock’s rule of matching the length of a film to the endurance of the human bladder. Why Are Hollywood Movies So Long?

Because.

every day the same again | July 16th, 2013