Every day, the same, again
Woman swallows toothbrush while talking on the phone.
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Man with brewer’s yeast in his gut gets drunk from beer he generates.
Swedish court: Public masturbation not a crime.
What if someone told you the stock market crashed and spiked 18,000 times since 2006, and you had no idea? The secret financial market only robots can see.
In 2012, real median household income was 8.3% lower than in 2007, the year before the most recent recession. [PDF]
Always Emerging, Never Arriving: The Middle Class.
New Revelations about the Biodiversity of Belly Buttons.
Women’s feelings toward their partners shift subtly during peak fertility.
Forget good cop, bad cop - the real psychology of two-person interrogation.
Is it ethical to instil false hope in people with mental illness?
Happiness = Reality - Expectations
The 10,000-hour theory: More than 20 percent of the best players made even quicker work of the process, becoming masters in 5,000 hours or fewer.
Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding.
Perceiving causes; why knowledge doesn’t trump perception.
Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
How people argue with research they don’t like.
Parking space strategy: pick a row, closest space.
The most famous models for how cities grow are wrong.
These 20 cities have the most to lose from rising sea levels.
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. The Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed into a black hole, theorists propose.
Slaves as grave gifts for the Vikings.
Flying Snakes: Aerodynamic Secrets Finally Revealed.
Power outages caused by squirrels. [NY Times]
How Iran built a skyscraper in the middle of New York City and held onto it for decades.
A fake hospital to figure out what saves money.
US Military Scientists Solve the Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing.
Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world.
How to Boost Your WiFi Signal.
How a Food Delivery Service Got into Porn.
How to Raise Money. “Treat investors as saying no till they unequivocally say yes, in the form of a definite offer with no contingencies.”
In 1858, a stationer named Hymen Lipman patented a newfangled pencil with a rubber plug embedded in one end of its wood shaft. An entrepreneur named Joseph Reckendorfer guessed that the pencil-plus-eraser would become a blockbuster product and bought the patent from Lipman for $100,000, about $2 million in today’s dollars. [NY Times]
The languages on Chinese banknotes.
Five Years Of Hard Work By The Federal Reserve.
How to make a clubbing dress out of a boy’s turtleneck.
A video shot with a camera strapped to the back of an eagle flying.
Putting All the World’s Water into a Big Cube.
