Man Hospitalized for 10+ Day Erection
Florida man reports handgun stolen during orgy at his home
Computers start to take over leadership functions once performed by human leaders, e.g., assigning tasks to human workers.
should we eat our research subjects? – it seems that Animal Studies scholars are divided on that issue; some do, some don’t
study found a strong correlation between adultery and workplace misconduct by corporate executives and financial advisers
91.4% of worries did not come true for those with generalized anxiety disorder
Jeff Bezos has done something that even the nonprofits receiving his millions remark is highly unusual: He has given them life-changing money with virtually no restrictions, formal vetting, or oversight
Self-Checkout Thievery“Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron.”
Do We Create Shoplifters?
Scientists develop ‘artificial tongue’ to detect fake whiskies. The technology can also be used to identify poisons as well as to monitor rivers.
A research team is working on training mice to understand irregularities within speech, a task the animals can do with remarkable accuracy
When you go to a website and load a page, in the milliseconds that it takes for that page to load, there are real-time auctions running in the background that determine which ads to load on your page. Almost all online ads are delivered in this way. How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
Hackers working for the Russian government have been using printers, video decoders, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices as a beachhead to penetrate targeted computer networks
Human life is fragile but tardigrades and other extremophiles show that life itself is in little danger of disappearing
Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang
When our cherished ideas are contradicted by the facts, we must avoid the human tendency to double down on those ideas
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Having mastered Space Invaders, chess, and Go, AI tackles video soccer
Most American books published before 1964 never extended their copyright, meaning they’re in the public domain today. Where to download these free Public domain eBooks
A team of scientists have unveiled a vodka which has been produced using grains and water from the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which they claim is completely safe to drin
Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death
Fart-proof underwear
every day the same again | August 15th, 2019
