New surgery trend creates perma-smiles for South Korean women

‘Ghostbuster’ Huang Jianjun Allegedly Tried To Perform Exorcism With His Penis.

Woman’s phone bill during trip to Thailand costs more than holiday itself.

NSA officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests.

It has been long known that some people have severe difficulties recognising faces – something called prosopagnosia and sometimes inaccurately labelled ‘face blindness’. But more recently, it was discovered that a tiny minority of people are ‘super recognisers.’

How Short-Term Stress Boosts Immune Systems.

In a technical tour de force, Japanese researchers created eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Now, scientists have to determine how to use those cells safely — and ethically.

Here’s Why Mosquitoes Can’t Transmit HIV.

New research demonstrates that triggering an out-of-body experience (OBE) could be as simple as getting a person to watch a video of themselves with their heartbeat projected onto it.

10 psychological biases and errors we face when driving.

As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time.

Some financial lending companies have found that social connections can be a good indicator of a person’s creditworthiness. One such company, Lenddo, determines if you’re friends on Facebook with someone who was late paying back a loan to Lenddo. If so, that’s bad news for you.

A scam ad is the industry term for an ad made simply for the purpose of entering it into advertising award shows. It’s made for a client without the client’s consent, and sometimes, the agency or creatives don’t even have that client on their roster.

Bloomberg surpasses Reuters in web traffic for July.

The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has developed high-quality 3D reproductions of some of its finest paintings, with what it describes as the most advanced copying technique ever seen.

Haunted Play House At The Museum Of Contemporary Art In Tokyo.

Siri: The Horror Movie.

This is what’s called a Tetris “line race” (also known as a “sprint”), in this case an attempt to clear 40 lines in the minimum possible time.

Strongest hands in the world.

Strawberry cake.

every day the same again | August 27th, 2013