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Penguin Robot infiltrates Penguin colony
Two Chinese officials bought corpses from grave robbers to meet government cremation quotas
Google Wants to Store Your Genome
China Builds Anti-Drone Laser Tech
Airport security agents using a new conversation-based screening method caught mock airline passengers with deceptive cover stories more than 20 times as often as agents who used the traditional method of examining body language for suspicious signs
How can a sequence of dance steps best be learned?
Can Anatomical Brain Images Alone Diagnose Psychiatric Illnesses?
The Public Find Neuroscience Irrelevant and Anxiety-provoking
The Effects of Subtle Misinformation in News Headlines
English has recently developed a new intensifier, ass, which means something very close to very, is marked as vulgar and colloquial, and appears in cases such as in: That is a big-ass chair, It is a cold-ass night [PDF]
In politics we’re familiar with the non-apology apology (well described in Wikipedia as “a statement that has the form of an apology but does not express the expected contrition”). Here’s the scientific equivalent: the non-retraction retraction.
The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia
The Influence and Legacy of Larry Sultan
A Feather and a Bowling Ball Dropped Together Inside the World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber
Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin
Cleaning a vinyl record with wood glue. This trick works because the glue and record are somewhat chemically similar, so the glue only sticks to stuff that’s not supposed to be there.