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Every day, the same, again

c6.jpgFrustrated owner bulldozes home Ahead of foreclosure.

The Chinese, for example, eat dog (as well as cats, but I’m going to focus on dogs here).

Top Italian food writer suspended from TV show after for recommending stewed cat to viewers as a “succulent dish.”

Diapers’ contents could change way of finding intestinal disease. The procedure uses fecal samples rather than the oft-dreaded colonoscopy.

For the first time in the republic’s history, government officials are being asked to grant a trademark for the nickname a man has given to his abdominal muscles.

Stalker pheasant terrorises English village. He has reportedly attacked men, women, children, baby-strollers, bikes, dogs and even cars.

For 900 euros ($1,200), clients of Ultime Realite (”Ultimate Reality”), a firm in eastern France, can buy a basic kidnap package where they’re bundled away, bound and gagged, and kept incarcerated for four hours.

Pole dancing as an Olympic sport? Yes, say the athletes and advocates behind the fledgling international discipline.

Topless sledging proves surprisingly popular.

Foot-long surgical instrument found in the abdomen of a woman who was operated on five months ago.

Lower Merion School District sued for cyber spying on students.

Woman shoots at hubby after he refused to give her some of their tax return money.

In 2009, crime went down. In fact it’s been going down for a decade. But more and more Americans believe it’s getting worse. Why do we refuse to believe the good news?

Police officer says divine intervention is fighting crime.

Even in a recovery, some jobs won’t return.

Guess who produced the most toxic CDOs?

1w1.jpgMany young writers and journalists I meet are close to penniless. They have almost not a hope of supporting themselves in the pursuit of their calling.

Business culture steers flow of ideas, study says.

Does the U.S. produce too many scientists?

Can blogs change traditional scientific writing?

NASA research finds the last decade was the warmest on record, and 2009 one of warmest years.

Why the media seems biased when you care about the issue.

Why winning is a mental construct.

The complex relationship between age and scientific creativity.

Insincere flattery. New research suggests that one’s initial conscious reaction - discounting the flattery as a self-serving ploy - may mask a more durable implicit positive emotional association with the flatterer.

A study on dream smoking.

The top ten bioethics stories of the decade.

ICU room assignment can affect survival.

Up to 20 percent of combat soldiers and an estimated 1.4 million U.S. civilians sustain traumatic brain injuries each year. But the mechanics behind these injuries have remained mysterious. New research suggests exactly how a blow to the brain disrupts this complex organ.

Synthetic lethality: A new way to kill cancer cells.

Ibuprofen may ward off Parkinson’s

Placebo treatments stronger than doctors thought. [?]

Stop funding homeopathy, say British MPs.

Hot and heavy matter runs a 4 trillion degree fever.

Cellphone traces reveal you’re so predictable.

Can you trust a Facebook profile?

Non-private person: Openness is becoming the default social norm.

What babies know and we don’t.

Imagine how our world would change if, when the truth really mattered, it became impossible to lie.

The case against banning the word ‘retard.’

Advice for artists seeking gallery representation.

hh.jpg4 people who faced disaster—and how they made it out alive. Realted: 5 unexpected survival kit essentials.

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook.

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.

Flash is old. Apple’s preferred media architecture, HTML5, is the future of the web.

Computers turn flat photos into 3-D buildings.

iPad, the forgotten details.

What is pornography? If you know something is happening and can’t see it, there might still be some appeal.

For myself personally, all I can say for certain is that Jesus was an end-times preacher who offered up some radical, compelling shit. Beyond that, it gets pretty hazy.

My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.

What happened to all the angry, powerful women in ’90s rock?

Is an animal’s agility affected by the position of its eyes?

A new VH-1 documentary celebrates the landmark television show Soul Train, but as Stanley Crouch writes, the real power of looking back at Soul Train is seeing what black culture has lost.

Feature documentary about The Doors.

With the death of JD Salinger last week, a remarkable era in US literature came to its end.

Club DJ-ing can’t be that hard, can it?

e8.jpgMy gun will shoot anybody’s anus. and Xzibit use his dick like a Visa.

The odds an adult ever uses swear words in conversation is 1 in 1.27.

Tequila balls, the Kabukicho version of jello shots.

An evening stroll through Mumbai: Just down the street from the Gateway of India, across from the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, is the Gupta Juice Center.

10 bizarre asian festivals.

The 10 craziest Facebook groups.

What drug dealers can teach the digital world. [video]

If surgeons remove part of your brain, how do they fill up the space?

List of unusual deaths.

CIA forced to complete all scheduled torture in one hectic weekend.

Last spring the Art Institute of Chicago unveiled its most significant acquisition to date. It was neither a painting nor a sculpture, but Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing.

World’s first cologne exclusively for gay men.

I’m trying to learn things about motion. I consulted Motionographer today to that end, and found Nuit Blanche.

H5’s Logorama.





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