Every day, the same, again
Google Street View captures ‘dead girl.’ Neighbors contact police after seeing ominous image online.
A 78-year-old man rode a Pittsburgh-area roller coaster 90 times in one day.
Salon owner blames power provider for customer’s bald head.
Survey: Most Conn. high school students have sex.
College students can bet on their own academic success.
NYC to get hundreds of countdown clock crosswalks.
Gary Loveman left a Harvard Business School professorship to join Harrah’s Entertainment. By putting his theories about customer service into practice, he built the world’s biggest gaming company. Then came the crash. How to survive in Vegas.
Dov Charney, American Apparel CEO, Declares Hipsterdom “Over.” [Thanks Tim]
You can’t anticipate everything.
Left hemisphere already specialised for language by two months of age.
Birth control pill equally effective for women regardless of their weight.
Study suggests boys and girls not as different as previously thought.
Today’s superheroes send wrong image to boys, say researchers.
How badly does it hurt? Research examines the biomedical diagnosis of pain.
In what we suspect is a world first, this week’s cover was created with the help of a technique called neuromarketing, a marriage of market research and neuroscience that uses brain-imaging technology to peek into people’s heads and discover what they really want.
During the Cretaceous, the oceans were ruled not by sharks or aquatic mammals, but by large, predatory marine reptiles. Among these, the dominant ocean predator was the Mosasaur.
Black holes are among the most exotic of astrophysical objects and consequently one of the most deeply studied. White holes, on the other hand, are largely ignored by astrophysicists. A new study explains why astronomers have never seen one of these weird objects.
6 reasons why you’ll never upload your mind into a computer.
Interview with Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google.
How to Install Flash on your iPhone (The Easy Way).
Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup.
Scrax, polkadodge, papcastle… Many of the words shut away in the OED’s vault are profoundly useful.
Roles of the President’s White House economic advisors.
How I Learned to Fly (In a Week).
So, I began to create a scale of evil. I ended up at first with just a few numbers on my scale, but I then got it up to 22 of which the first one was “not evil,” just justified homicide. Number two was crimes of passion, all the way up to 22 where there was usually a serial killer subjecting victims to prolonged torture.
