Scientists claim to power phone with urine.

Texas Contractor Razes House, but the Wrong One.

A Chinese museum has been forced to close after claims that its 40,000-strong collection of supposedly ancient relics was almost entirely composed of fakes.

Dutch art heist paintings may have been burned by suspect’s mother.

The researchers have shown that people with a preference for the evening and night-time tend to score highly on the “Dark Triad” of personality traits - Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism.

This study extends previous research by showing that expressive writing can improve wound healing in older adults and women.

Shyness is a part of being human. The world would be a more insipid, less creative place without it.

Could open-source GMOs bring down Monsanto at last?

If the planet warms by 4 °C, which is within the IPCC range of estimates, they will eventually rise by 9 meters, on average, and up to 12 meters in some parts of the world. The point, aside from the fact that 12 meters is a lot of water, is that generations of humans will have to deal with sea levels that keep going up.

Bush, Global Warming, Circumcision… The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia.

How big is your chance of dying in an ordinary day?

How Forensic Linguistics Outed J.K. Rowling.

Outsmarting bugs with a fan may be a poorly known strategy. But the method, it turns out, is endorsed by the American Mosquito Control Association. [NY Times]

10 rules of Internet.

The temperatures at the platforms on the L train line.

First 3D printed dress.

There is a rainbow.

Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal forces, 1965.— the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.

every day the same again | July 21st, 2013