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Unagi Travel, the “Japan Travel Agency for Stuffed Animals.”

The drink is designed to taste like kissing an older man who has just shaved and smoked a cigarette.

Miley Cyrus files lawsuit over sex doll. [Thanks TG]

In basic literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills, the new study shows, younger Americans are at or near the bottom of the standings among advanced countries.

Salsa overtakes ketchup as America’s No. 1 condiment, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns.

In Japan, sales of adult diapers exceed those for babies.

Washing your hands makes you optimistic.

Your body language doesn’t only reflect your mood, it causes it.

Reading this in a meeting? Women are twice as likely as men to be offended by smartphone use.

Recipe For A Happy Marriage: The 7 Scientific Secrets.

A team of scientists has explained the physics behind why beer in a bottle transforms into an overflowing mass of foam when the bottle receives a vertical tap on the mouth.

The science of ice, melting, and chilling (as it pertains to drinks).

The CIA’s Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren’t Even Human.

Trees mark the spot of buried gold. Tiny bits of the precious metal in eucalyptus leaves indicate much more belowground.

The world’s oldest bank struggles to survive.

The movie “Gravity” depicts two astronauts fighting to survive while floating in the void of space. German astronaut Ulrich Walter explains what the film got right and wrong.

Before we take a look at where Freud was right, let’s consider where he went wrong.

Lady Gaga‘s Telephone music video was a strange but significant addition to our collection of material that in one or another way signaled a move beyond, post, or after postmodernism.

Until now theorists have predicted that information can always spread until it saturates a network to the point where everybody has received it. These predictions come from models based on our understanding of diseases and the way they percolate through a population. The basic assumption is that information spreads in the same way. Not so fast, say Chuang and co. Information is different.

Don’t expect self-driving cars to take over the roads anytime soon. Here’s what carmakers are really working on.

The Decline of Wikipedia.

Sasha Frere-Jones on Morrissey’s “Autobiography.”

13+ Things You Shouldn’t Eat At A Restaurant.

List of cognitive biases.

suckmydicknewyorker.tumblr.com [Thanks GG]





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