Police in Russia are investigating allegations of animal cruelty after a donkey was made to parasail as part of an advertising stunt. [video]

But the bottom line is Home prices remain too high: There can be no doubt that home prices have moved way down from the 2005-06 peaks. How did I reach the conclusion that, even after a 33% decrease in prices, home prices are high?

Niederhoffer is a hedge fund manager, a former partner of George Soros, a five-time U.S. Nationals squash champion, and the best-selling author of The Education of a Speculator and Practical Speculation. Those successes notwithstanding, Niederhoffer is best known for two spectacular financial blow-ups. In 1997, a risky investment in Thai bank stocks combined with a dramatic one-day drop in the Dow Jones to permanently close the doors of Niederhoffer Investments. Ten years later, having recouped his losses, Niederhoffer saw his Matador Fund, buffeted by the 2007 credit crunch, self-destruct. Interview.

The hidden, invisible, and private web.

A new kind of time travel based on quantum teleportation solves the Grandfather Paradox.

With wrinkles, it’s the quantity, not their location, that ages you most.

Why we dream.

Why parents hate parenting.

Touching a soft or hard object can influence how a person thinks or even makes decisions, researchers now say.

Do words have a shape?

Money does buy you life satisfaction, but for feeling good rely on psychosocial capital.

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It’s not as easy as it looks.

The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art. [Thanks Daniel]

For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Robert Schumann was confined to a mental institution at his own request.

every day the same again | July 20th, 2010