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61.jpgQuebec poop painter says cops bullying him.

Bird Poop Facials at NYC Spa, $180.

Despite popular folklore, hypnosis is not a form of sleep. Brain imaging findings support the contention that hypnosis is a distinct form of consciousness.

The sad tendency for whistle-blowers to be ‘accused’ of being ‘mentally ill’ when others don’t like what they’re saying.

A new Florida State University study has found that adolescent boys who are hurt in just two physical fights suffer a loss in IQ that is roughly equivalent to missing an entire year of school. Girls experience a similar loss of IQ after only a single fighting-related injury.

Human cells make mice smarter.

Questions answered with the pupils of your eyes.

Blundering Makes You More Attractive.

Why Every Coin Flip May Be a Schrödinger’s Cat. Previously: In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger devised an insidious thought experiment.

Loeb, Clooney said, “calls himself an activist investor, and I would call him a carpet bagger.”

Cell phone ownership (i.e., cellular subscribers/population) has grown sharply since 1988, average use per subscriber has risen from 140 to 740 minutes a month since 1993, and surveys indicate that as many as 81 percent of cellular owners use their phones while driving—yet aggregate crash rates have fallen substantially over this period. [PDF]

Math advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years.

With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Android to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can do the same to microphones in laptops without the user knowing, the person said.

It Now Appears Possible to Hack a Japanese Toilet.

How the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife.

Gay Russian Neo-Nazis Are Fighting And Fisting For Gay Rights… Or Something.

Neuroscientist, Robert Ferrante, 64, denies the homicide charge. It’s not clear, of course, how he’ll explain the fact that he purchased a half-pound of cyanide. Investigators also found witnesses who saw Ferrante experimenting with mixing up the creatine-enhanced energy drink that his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein, was taking in the belief that it would help her become pregnant.

How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish.

Abandoned Walmart is Now America’s Largest Library.

The Fake Townhouses hiding Mystery Underground Portals.

Porn Sex vs Real Sex.





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