The Belgian city of Bruges has approved plans to build a pipeline which will funnel beer underneath its famous cobbled streets. Locals and politicians were fed up with huge lorries clattering through the cobbled streets.

10,000 pigeons underwent anal security check in China

Virgos suffering ‘astrological discrimination’ in China

Survey says half of all married women have a ‘backup husband’ in mind

Alcohol makes smiles more ‘contagious,’ but only for men

Neural activity predicts the timing of spontaneous decisions

Winners evaluate themselves favorably even when the competitor is incompetent

Couvade syndrome: why some men develop signs of pregnancy

Who are the men and boys suffering from anorexia?

A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story on a Kindle were significantly worse at remembering the order of events than those who read the same story in paperback.

The ban against Spinoza was the harshest ever issued by the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community

In the autumn of 1931, the philosopher Martin Heidegger began to record his thoughts in small diaries that he called the schwarze Hefte, or “black notebooks.”

Why conspiracy theories in America are not on the rise after all

Why do Autocrats Disclose?

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

“You don’t have to be clever to make a discovery”

Things That Cost More Than Space Exploration

World’s smallest microphone is just one molecule

Living in a Dumpster More: My boyfriend lives in a dumpster

Statistician Creates Mathematical Model to Predict The Future of Game of Thrones

Schizophrenia in rap music

How much actual trading is done at 11 Wall Street? “It’s pretty darn close to zero”

“It was here where I believe Andy [Kaufman] would develop the concept of ‘bending reality’ to suit his needs”

Overspire: The experience of too much inspiration, resulting in no further gains in creativity.

How Wolves Change Rivers and Maybe Wolves Don’t Change Rivers, After All

Ice tsunami [more info]

every day the same again | October 1st, 2014