Every day, the same, again
Man appears alive at own funeral.
Sudden hair loss affects female bears at zoo. [with pics]
Saudi paedophile to be beheaded and crucified.
Have you ever heard of vaginal prolapse? I hadn’t either, until it happened to me.
Police discover nearly 1,000 stolen suitcases in Arizona.
Wife disputes hooker bill: “I need you to repay back the money my husband gave you.”
Goldman Sachs lost money trading only one day in last quarter, and only two days the prior quarter.
Why Wall Street bonuses won’t go away.
What is money and how does one measure it
A top U.S. securities regulator said some hedge funds may now view insider trading as a central tenet of their business models, rather than as a one-time opportunity for big rewards as sometimes happened in the 1980s. More: Federal prosecutors charged 14 hedge fund employees, lawyers and other investors in criminal complaints that seem to be connected to the Raj Rajaratnam case.
How the Angelides Commission can crack open the Wall Street scandal—if it dares. (by Eliot Spitzer)
Derby is an investigator with the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section. Arson investigators have a three-pronged formula for determining the reasons for a fire. “It’s the fuel, the source of ignition and the event that brought those two together,” Derby says.
Imagine you are told, every single day of your life, where you are allowed to go and where you are not; when you can go there and when you can’t; what you can wear and what is not allowed, what you can and cannot do, say, listen to or even watch. This is the life of the average Saudi woman.
Cellphones outnumber lightbulbs in Uganda.
U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2%, highest in 26 years. [Ugly unemployment charts] More: Broader measure of unemployment stands at 17.5% and It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.
After months of prowling Internet chat rooms, posing as the mother of two young daughters, Detective Michele Deery thought she had a live one: “parafling,” a married, middle-aged man who claimed he wanted to have sex with her kids. Both the policewoman and her target give the author their versions of the truth.
How the Internet enables intimacy [TED video]
Google Books ‘finger condoms’ cause mirth.
The man who discovered what killed the dinosaurs.
Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds.
Ten young geniuses shaking up science today.
Female bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. The bats copulate dorso-ventrally, with the male mounting the female from behind. During mating, the females reached over to lick the base of the male’s penis in 14 of the 20 pairs that copulated.
The science of hunger: What 1 billion people feel.
Rumours abound that being vegetarian is better for the environment. Could there be some truth to it?
Why a high IQ doesn’t mean you’re smart.
Are manners logical or superficial?
The history of philosophy itself has a history.
Why can’t you tickle yourself?
Exposing the media bullshit behind New York’s supposed heroin epidemic.
How New York City’s seven newspapers are (nearly) surviving.
How to make it as an artist in New York.
Window displays in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza: Actors replace the silhouettes used in the client’s new print campaign. [via copyranter }
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the man who created modern anthropology, died. More: Susan Sontag on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Claude Lévi-Strauss interviewed by Georges Charbonnier in 1959 [France Culture podcast, Nov. 4, in French]
One formula (of many) for a successful blog is to create a “learning blog”. A blog that shares what you know, to help others. Even–or especially–if that means giving away your “secrets”.
Vintage Ventriloquism (flickr pool).
Facebook’s office in California.
Google Maps show an imaginary place near to where I live: a town with the ugly name of Argleton.
Until quite recently, no-one knew whether Gömböcs even existed.
“Hope for love,” mixed by Mike McGill and Tackleberry.
