Dying man sells advertising space on his urn.

A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals. Related: Zoophiles make scientists rethink human sexuality.

A Michael Jackson impersonator is facing 12 counts of sexual misconduct for allegedly assaulting an 11-year-old boy.

Man loses licence after drink-driving in toy Barbie car with a top speed of 4mph.

A Twin Falls woman convicted of forcing a 13-year-old boy to touch her breasts was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

UK surgeon cut off testicle ‘by mistake.’

Man ‘deliberately vomits’ on police officer at baseball game.

Man wrote and delivered his own obituary to a newspaper, then hanged himself from a local bridge.

Iranian cleric: Women who wear revealing clothing cause earthquakes. Related: FAQs - Common Myths about Earthquakes.

Despite new law, gender salary gap persists.

Male day laborers turn to prostitution.

A 19-year-old Florida teen’s suicide broadcast Wednesday on Justin.tv was a result of an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine. About 185 people were viewing the feed on the San Francisco-based live-streaming service. The teen had announced his pending suicide on a bodybuilding.com chat forum, which linked to the broadcast.

Researchers say dead gray whale discovered on West Seattle’s Arroyo Beach was filled with garbage.

Tuna sushi bought at a range of U.S. restaurants and supermarkets had mercury that breached levels set by health watchdogs.

John Lennon’s LSD stash ‘discovered.’

An innovative new study has analysed YouTube videos of people tripping on a hallucinogenic plant called salvia to understand the behavioural effects of the ‘legal high’ that is still relatively new to science.

Does one drug cause the user to be more annoying?

Since Thursday, the volcano has paralyzed flights not just for people, but also for their cargo-class pets, many of which were traveling without their owners. Among the stranded menagerie are horses, snakes, geckos and turtles.

Microbial life found in a lake of asphalt that is the closest thing on Earth to the hydrocarbon seas on Titan.

Study suggests indoor tanning may be an addictive behavior.

There’s an interesting distinction here between what it means to have a quiet mind and what it means to have a quiet brain.

People lie more in email than when using pen and paper.

Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments, in which a majority of participants applied an apparently fatal electric shock to an innocent ‘learner’, are probably the most famous in psychology, and their findings still appall and intrigue to this day. Milgram’s personal archive reveals how he created the ’strongest obedience situation.’

With the release of the iPad, Apple has hastened its censoring, competition-blocking ways. Even though the iPad doesn’t connect to the telephone system, Apple is still insisting on locking the device down as though it were an iPhone: No third-party apps can run on it unless they’re approved by Apple.

In 44% of married couples, at least one partner is secretly checking up on the other’s online activities.

The BBC apparently has conducted a remarkable study looking at how eyewitnesses remember a staged crime.

Don’t start group discussions by sharing initial preferences.

Understanding cumulative risk.

Computer brain training doesn’t work.

For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasn’t just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. Related: This is Apple’s next iPhone.

Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?

Are e-readers value-added?

U.S. needs new national strategy in era of cyberaggression, UC paper concludes.

Professor of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Engineering is collaborating with General Motors Research Israel to develop advanced algorithms that will help cameras mounted on GM cars detect threats, alerting drivers to make split-second decisions.

Child prodigy explains mysteries of the universe. [video]

How to give advice.

How did bedbugs make a comeback?

What is terrorism, anyway? The expert consensus converges on a few key traits.

But now Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth.

Woman vs. man: Who’s a better driver?

Will special paint keep my house cooler in summer?

Dede Allen dies at 86; editor revolutionized imagery, sound and pace in U.S. films.

7 unproduced screenplays by famous intellectuals.

Photographer Zed Nelson found over time that the faces looking back at him in countries around the world were becoming more and more alike. Bodies altered in pursuit of beauty.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. [trailer]

A parking garage outside a library in Kansas City, Missouri.

Sex A-Peel vibrator.

The most obscene use of scrunchies ever in an ad.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. [Thanks JB]

Take it easy T2 it’s called “jogging.”

Creepy anthropomorphised box of Grape-Nuts removes corpse from bed. [ad from 1905]

Ready for immediate delivery as illustrated.

every day the same again | April 20th, 2010