Truck driver impaled by flying canoe.

Texting by lifeguards is raising safety concerns.

Family-law and criminal defense lawyer squatted an office at the Empire State Building for seven months.

Man without mortgage loses home in foreclosure.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made bid for poverty grant to heat her palaces. Related: The Queen has been forced to give up the ultimate right to manage the Palace’s financial affairs in a secret deal signed by Palace aides and the Government.

California gynecologist used an electrocautery device to carve and burn his patient’s name on her removed uterus, after performing a hysterectomy. The doctor called it a “friendly gesture.”

Nudists and swingers at war in France.

An estate agent showed prospective buyers around an £800,000 house while the owner lay dead on her sofa.

16-year-old was found dead after somehow becoming entangled in a Bowflex exercise machine.

In the latest in a series of unusual efforts to make Paris green, the city is now offering residents free sparkling water.

Argentina sells DNA as world demands more beef. Exports of bovine semen have increased ten-fold in the last decade.

People form impressions about the personality of politicians simply from the way they move, according to a new study.

New study links political connections to corporate corruption.

Religion causes a chronic biasing of visual attention.

What happens in the brain when you hear an accent–and why you are less likely to trust the speaker.

Children who regularly use the abbreviated language of text messages are actually improving their ability to spell correctly, research suggests.

Developing language skills appears to be more important for boys than girls in helping them to develop self-control and, ultimately, succeed in school.

Can’t focus? Maybe it’s the wrong time of month. New Concordia research links hormones with attention and learning.

Previously, only orchids were known to trick insects into copulating with them. It’s thought that this is a way to enhance pollination. Now, a new tease has been found.

How To Destroy A Black Hole. Astrophysicists think they know how to destroy a black hole. The puzzle is what such destruction would leave behind.

When Will the First Earth-like Planet Be Discovered?

The first Earth-like planet orbiting another star will be announced in May next year, if the discovery of extrasolar planets continues at its present rate, say researchers.

The existence of magnetic fields on cosmologically large scales is an unsolved problem in astrophysics.

How on earth can concentric carbon nanotubes turn into diamond after an intense bomabrdement of radiation?

Examining infidelity: What makes people cheat?

What are the mechanisms by which neurons differentiate to achieve the spectacular complexity of the brain? UCSD’s Nick Spitzer explains what we know about this process. [video]

Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century.

What Does Video Game Research Really Say? Part 1/Part 2.

A study found that playing video games can improve contrast sensitivity, which is the ability to detect slight changes in shades of gray before they become indistinguishable from a uniform background.

Is weight loss associated with increased risk of early mortality?

Why Are Cell Phone Conversations So Distracting?

A scientific research study analyzes when to buy airline and theater tickets.

The Animal Kingdom’s Top 10 Strange Hunting Strategies.

For years, Meredith Maran believed her dad molested her. She talks about “recovered memory,” and finding the truth. Why I falsely accused my father.

To mark GoodFellas’s anniversary, GQ interviewed nearly sixty members of the cast and crew, along with some noteworthy admirers of the picture.

The Lingo of “The Big Lebowski.”

The New York Review of Books: Two books about the TV series The Wire.

Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand.

“2053″ - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe from 1954-1998. [video]

Property Taxes in America.

Houston Pet Cremation Services. For Ashes Returned, add $35.00 (includes black ceramic urn).

The Homer Simpson escalator.

52 ways to die in a cave.

Japanese hair removal commercial.

Praise-r-cise. The Christian alternative. [PRAISERCISE FITNESS]

every day the same again | September 24th, 2010