Every day, the same, again
Factory robot impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes after malfunction
Parrot uses owner’s Amazon Alexa to order shopping, play music
When faking your own death to get out of catering a wedding is not fraud
Child sex dolls seized by Canadian border agents
Boys experience their first ejaculation (thorarche) during adolescence + Thelarche is the onset of secondary (postnatal) breast development, usually occurring at the beginning of puberty in girls + Menarche
Can Humans Really Discriminate 1 Trillion Odors? (The paper’s extravagant claims are based on errors of mathematical logic.)
Physical activity in the evening does not cause sleep problems
Sleep selectively stabilizes contextual aspects of negative memories
The human brain needs to suppress obvious ideas in order to reach the most creative ones. A new study shows that brainwaves play a crucial role in inhibiting habitual thinking modes to pave the way to access more remote ideas.
The Business of Selling Your Location More: Facebook Filed A Patent To Calculate Your Future Location
These Portraits Were Made by AI: None of These People Exist
Advertisers place a single brown pixel on a bright background in a mobile ad. It looks like dust, so users try to wipe it off. That registers as a click, and the user is taken to the homepage. [52 things I learned in 2018]
Should I buy bitcoin (Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island). Should I delete facebook (Washington). Should I cut my hair (Arizona, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio). The Most-Googled “Should I” Question State by State
There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable
Marriott, like the other big hotel companies, owns very few of its own hotels these days. Marriott is actually a family of 30 hotel brands, many of them virtually indistinguishable. What’s the business logic?
NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its Rings at “Worst-Case-Scenario” Rate
New results suggest there is no methane on Mars, living organisms thus less likely
Planets with oxygen don’t necessarily have life
The Enfer (French for “Hell”) is a special department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. It is a special collection of books and manuscripts of an erotic or pornographic character which, because of their rarity and value, may be seen only with authorization.
Polybius is an almost-certainly fictional arcade game. The original game allegedly was part of a government-run psychology experiment. [Thanks Darren!]
