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62% of women check their phones during sex, new study finds.
Kickstarter Project Canceled After Dude Spends All the Money.
No Menstrual Hygiene For Indian Women Holds Economy Back.
Chuck Feeney is the James Bond of philanthropy. Over the last 30 years he’s crisscrossed the globe conducting a clandestine operation to give away a $7.5 billion fortune derived from hawking cognac, perfume and cigarettes in his empire of duty-free shops.
To Change Behavior, Focus on a Single Situation.
Coldhearted Psychopaths Feel Empathy Too.
There is another number in psychology that makes a lot less sense: the number 2.9013.
MIT scientists implant false memory into a mouse brain.
Dolphins using personal names, again.
Every wolf has its own distinct voice.
The perfect hexagonal array of bees’ honeycombs owes more to simple physical forces than to the skill of bees, according to a new study. Bees simply make cells that are circular in cross section and are packed together like a layer of bubbles. The wax, softened by the heat of the bees’ bodies, then gets pulled into hexagonal cells by surface tension at the junctions where three walls meet.
Fish are the last wild creatures that we eat. And as global demand for fish has doubled in the past 20 years, the prices have remain stagnant. How is that possible, you ask? We catch a buttload more of them now, that’s how.
Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic.
How do smartphones reveal shoppers’ movements?
Ms. Lee is among the roughly 1 in 5 students in South Korea who the government said is addicted to smartphone use. This addiction is defined as spending more than seven hours a day using the phone and experiencing symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia and depression when cut off from the device.
To avoid paying taxes, the rich are emptying their bank accounts in Switzerland and investing in art. This has spawned a new business of storing such works tax- and duty-free in warehouses across the world.
Imprison the Royal Family and Abolish the Monarchy.
Lady Gaga’s early years in NYC.
Of Submarines and Sharks: Musical Settings of a Silent Menace.
How to escape a car underwater.
Lone Signal is a messaging platform that allows anyone with an Internet connection to send a message toward star systems selected for our METI (messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence) experiment. Through our website, users can send a 144-character text message for free, and they can send subsequent messages or photos for a fee.
Amazon, The Complete Hilarious Charts.
Cutting golf balls in half reveals delightfully bonbon-esque interiors.
Urbanism starts with the location of the parking lot. [via Matthew Poplawski]
