Dozen camels disqualified from Saudi ‘camel beauty contest’ over use of Botox [Thanks Tim]

Swiss town denies passport to Dutch vegan because she is ‘too annoying’

Strange phenomenon left dog stuck in tree for almost 60 years without rotting

One in five Toys ‘R’ Us stores is located within 15 minutes of another Toys ‘R’ Us

The world’s billionaires – the richest 2,000 people on the planet – saw their wealth increase by a staggering $762 billion in just one year. That’s an average of $381 million apiece. If those billionaires had simply been content with staying at their 2016 wealth, and had given their one-year gains to the world’s poorest people instead, then extreme poverty would have been eradicated.

0% of Icelanders under 25 believe Bible creation story

Singapore’s crime rate is so low that many shops don’t even lock up

People don’t remember changing their minds

Raw intelligence doesn’t reduce conflict. Wisdom does. Such wisdom—in effect, the ability to take the perspectives of others into account and aim for compromise—comes much more naturally to those who grow up poor or working class, according to a new study.

Being too intelligent might make you a less effective leader

we show that high-testosterone hedge fund managers significantly underperform low-testosterone hedge fund managers after adjusting for risk

In the 1980s, a quiet hedge fund located above a Marxist bookstore launched a revolution that would change finance (and give us Amazon).

First came dark pools, private trading venues that challenged old-school stock exchanges. Now something else lingers in the shadows of Wall Street: ping pools.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is responsible for over half of the world’s market for chips, and it’s the world’s largest contract manufacturer. Today it reported revenues driven by demand from cryptocurrency miners for the second consecutive quarter.

50 Cent Makes $8 Million in Bitcoin: “I forgot I did that s***.”

CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

In order to show that happiness cannot be equated with pleasurable experiences, Robert Nozick (1974) invented a thought experiment involving an experience machine.

Teens whose eyes are habitually glued to their smartphones are markedly unhappier, study Specifically, young people’s life satisfaction, self-esteem and happiness plummeted after 2012. That’s the year that the percentage of Americans who owned a smartphone rose above 50 percent.

Mark Zuckerberg’s company is imitating Snap in trying to focus on interactions with “friends and family.” Facebook’s New Mission May Be Impossible

The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathematical challenge.

Do ethicists steal more books?

The written word lacked the life of human speech; it encouraged idleness; it was dangerously susceptible to misinterpretation.

We show that the introduction of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) leads to a decrease in violent crime in states that border Mexico.

Why do dogs eat poop? [Washington Post]

Why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened

10 things to know about Garry Winogrand

Burger King | Whopper Neutrality [Thanks GG]

Phuong Tran, who is known as the Bunnyman, kicked out of a $75,000-a-year elite sex club, accused of ‘disgusting behavior’

every day the same again | January 25th, 2018