Danish travel company offers “ovulation discount” for couples, rewards if you conceive on holiday

$4 trillion in “fake” euro bonds seized at Vatican Bank

Feelings of gratitude automatically reduce financial impatience

Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks, study

How behavioral and neural responses to standard moral dilemmas are influenced by religious belief, study

Autism ‘begins long before birth’

How Scammers Turn Google Maps Into Fantasy Land

In a behavior called whitewalling, users post to Facebook—sometimes in great detail — but then quickly delete everything, creating a blank timeline.

Fake Guggenheim Website Announces Sustainable Design Competition for Abu Dhabi Branch

Whose idea was it to put the * and the # on the telephone? The story behind the symbol.

Saving $400M printing cost from font change? Not exactly…

Google Trends data showed a 193% spike in searches for “cancel Amazon prime,” less than the 433% spike observed in searches for “cancel Netflix” in 2011

What Your Accountant Thinks About Your Bitcoins

What It’s Like to Be a Professional Line Sitter

Radiolab: If you could wipe mosquitoes off the face of the planet, would you?

Why do snakes have two penises?

Why light inspires ritual

Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say researchers

By happy, horrified tradition, theater folk hesitate to name a certain Shakespeare play (Macbeth), for fear bad things will then happen.

Penguin Group Targets Artist Over Satirical Art Book

Nietzsche was writing out his own prescriptions for the sedative chloral hydrate, signing them “Dr. Nietzsche.”

Interview with Michel Foucault, 1971 [via SFJ]

Are two interviewers better than one?

Boost your vocabulary with these fiercely plausible words and definitions

Designer Beaver [I Got Vajazzled by Completely Bare Hi-Tech Spa in NYC]

every day the same again | March 31st, 2014