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“Then she started showing stallion-like behaviour, urinating on other horses’ feces, mounting the mare horses.” Intersex horse found on Ontario farm.

Flier banged on the cockpit door, claimed to be space alien, plane diverted.

A murder case in Tokyo has lifted the lid on the murky ’splitter-upper’ industry after a man hired to seduce a married woman by her husband fell in love with, and ultimately, killed her.

Chinese man ate 1,500 light bulbs over 42 years.

A Roxbury man who apparently didn’t show enough chivalry was hit with a plate of pasta, punched, kicked and beaten with handbags by two women who told investigators they needed to “teach him a lesson” for not holding an elevator door for them.

Missing iPhone case led to ‘virtual strip-search’.

An inmate in a state prison was hospitalized and needed emergency surgery to remove a hot-sauce bottle he apparently had used as a sex device.

Although fans reportedly only mocked the men during the show, when they left, almost 50 people crashed them with bottles, fists, and kicks.

Cleaners accidentally paint over Banksy stencil.

22-year-old man has been killed trying to ride a wheelie bin down a hill on the New South Wales central coast.

Iran has warned suntanned women and girls who looked like “walking mannequins” will be arrested as part of a new drive to enforce the Islamic dress code.

As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers. [Thanks Tim]

The corrupt reign of Berlusconi.

Was the end of the USSR a negative event? When Americans stopped wasting capital building empty condos in Florida or Arizona, was that bad news? If, like us, our reader answers “no” to the above questions, then the Greek crisis should be seen as a reason for hope, rather than despair.”

Mike Allen’s e-mail tipsheet, Playbook, has become the principal early-morning document for an elite set of political and news-media thrivers and strivers.

The Paralyzing Problem of Too Many Choices.

Character strengths and virtues: a 5/8 factor structure?

Study: Gossip Trumps Truth.

My brain on my mind. The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember.
The emotional deficits of the psychopathic brain.

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on our fascination with excess.

Neighborhood context and the development of aggression in boys and girls.

It’s tempting to think of time as a linear sequence of events best captured by a straight line, the x-axis on a graph for example. But physicists have never felt constrained by such a definition, on the contrary they’ve never hesitated to mould time to their own ends. The two-dimensional arrow of biological time.

Controlling cockroach chaos. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Germany have created a robotic cockroach that autonomously behaves in a way reminiscent of a real cockroach.

Ecstasy (MDMA) as therapy.

Shampoo, cosmetics may form cancer-causing substance.

New research confirms that religious teens in the US start drinking slightly later than non-religious ones, but that this probably is nothing to do with their religious beliefs.

The idea that the Earth shows signs of having repeatedly passed through the tail of a comet does not bear up to scrutiny. Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Could a comet tail have scarred the Earth in the recent past?

Can a plant virus make you sick?

The vast majority of Americans don’t live in the same areas as dangerous snakes. But in three heavily populated states—Florida, Texas, and California—changing snake populations are altering how—and how often—we encounter our legless reptilian friends.

Steve Jobs: “Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true.”

Apple.com: Thoughts on Flash.

iPad users targeted by hackers.

iPad sets sales record for totally unnecessary item. Related: The iPad’s coolness trumps an obsession with the printed word.

6 Factors Why Facebook Can’t Make Money.

Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats.

Once the fake card was inserted, the Python script running on the laptop relayed the transaction, suppressed the verify PIN command issued by the terminal, and responded with the 0×9000 code. The researchers said that attackers could carry similar kit in a backpack, with the wires trailing down a sleeve, for use with a stolen valid card.

So much for fish being automatically the healthy choice.’ [via Ray Sawhill]

Cook your meat in a beer cooler: the world’s best (and cheapest) sous-vide hack.

Hosting a major sporting event: economic gains are unlikely, but will it bring happiness?

Why is tennis scoring so weird?

Interview with Steve and Mark O’Donnell, identical twins. Steve O’Donnell has written for David Letterman, Chris Rock, Jimmy Kimmel, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons. Mark O’Donnell has written many books and plays.

‘Film is a visual medium’. So goes the screenwriter’s favourite truism. And hence the most sublime joy of reading screenplays: the language of scene action. I’m not denying the pleasures of the cinematic experience for one moment. But the literary pleasures to be had from reading well-written scene action can be extremely powerful – and yet are largely overlooked.

Constructed Languages: The Five Weirdest In This (Or Any) World.

In this posting, I’m going to talk a little bit about what it is to be a commercial fiction author.

You catch her eye across the aisle. Not once, but again and again. You know that look. Can it be? Is this girl interested? Getting up from your seat, you hear the click of her belt releasing. You meet in the tiny space, slipping in together somehow unnoticed – you hope.

Let’s get down to the sex, shall we? It was bad. Not just bad. EPICLY bad.

Top 13 Ways to Piss Off a Photo Editor.

In his recent work, entitled Bedrooms of the Fallen, Gilbertson visited with 19 parents who have kept the rooms in tact.

David McCandless, The Visual Miscellaneum. The book dissects our relationship with information in the digital age.

A painting that Picasso created in a single day in March 1932, “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust),” sold for $106.5 million, a world record auction price for a work of art, at Christie’s Tuesday night.

How many of the paintings in our public museums are fakes?

Do Prices Increase When an Artist Dies? Facts About Death and Art Values.

Artcollaboration.co.uk

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