Man on drug rampage leaves stabbed lamb, maimed father, burnt farm and severed penis in his wake.

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) says we don’t have to worry about the effects of global warming, because in the Bible God promises not to destroy the world again after Noah’s flood.

City bed bug expert announced he had seen bed bugs on benches at subway stations as well as one bed bug “catching a ride.” Related: Is it possible to control bugs by making them sterile?

Lottery winner who burned through her million dollar lottery winnings in two years and was desperate for cash reportedly tried to sell her newborn grandson for $ 30,000.

Florida car dealer offers free AK-47 for truck buyers.

Woman suing after TSA agents allegedly humiliated her when her breasts were publicly exposed during an “extended search.”

Police say man swallowed his mom’s rings.

Hong Kong becomes the first place in the world to have McDonald’s wedding packages.

Nude cleaning agency launched by students.

The death of an octopus called Paul in a German aquarium has triggered a global surge in news coverage that underlines the vacuity of celebrity culture, the power of anything football-related to attract coverage, and the relentless march of clever PR.

How skilled are London taxi drivers at learning routes through unfamiliar towns?

IQ scores fail to predict academic performance in children with autism.

Unborn fetuses demonstrate their sociability after just 14 weeks gestation.

But why would having a sister make you happier?

From a sample from 13 countries, the Internet doesn’t make us more lonely, the Internet improves our social lives.

Monkeys have cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans.

Differences in brain development between males and females may hold clues to mental health disorders.

Researchers create ‘lesbian’ mice by deleting a single gene.

Why the Tears of Strangers Are Only Water. MRI findings to the evidence that human empathy and kindness stop at the border between “our group” and “others.”

Pretty much everyone agrees that unemployed people are, in the aggregate, less healthy than the rest of the population, both physically and mentally, and especially over prolonged jobless periods. The complication comes in trying to sort out cause from effect.

Why companies should insist that employees take naps.

Regular exercise can help us live longer — but what exercises are the most effective, and how much do we need? New research suggests that more is better, and variety is best.

What’s the chance that a man’s kids are not really his, biologically?

Alcohol is more harmful than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, a new study by British researchers said.

A new theory for the origin of the cultivated banana.

10 strange things about the universe.

Quantum fingerprints that keep secrets.

What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple, and wrong?

Warning Signs of a Possible Collapse of Contemporary Mathematics.

Phrenology: A Beginner’s Guide - The Founder.

Allan Metcalf’s “OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word” goes beyond the birth of OK, created as an offhand journalistic fillip in the Boston Morning Post one day in 1839, used as a facetious abbreviation for “all correct.”

It has been noted that “Uh”s and/or “Uhm”s in linguistic, cultural and situational settings can perform varying functions not only according to their timing and their intonation, but also dependent on their position in a sentence.

Has any author’s reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky’s?

Romain Gary, the most glamorous of literary conmen.

Books that have appeared in Mad Men.

Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards.

Meet Li Hui. + Li Hui’s Shiny, an abstract, futuristic country.

The chainsaw seems an unlikely tool for making art. But along Route 1 in the upper-reaches of coastal Maine, Ray Murphy uses nothing else.

Banksy reveals himself to the public and gives us an exciting glimpse into his day to day life.

How to shrink a city.

How Geography Explains History.

The Weather and its Role in Captain Robert F. Scott and his Companions’ Deaths.

How to save science journalism.

How Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Google, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Samsung, and Qualcomm make their billions.

How did salt and pepper become the standard table spices?

10 Things that Should Exist by 2030.

15 Inviolable Rules for Dealing with Wall Street.

5 Insane Scientific Charts You Won’t Believe Actually Exist.

i have a bad case of diarrhea.

Frequency, Extremity.

BRING ME BACK TO THE FUCKING INTERNET WEBSITE.

Kim’s getting ready. [thanks Cassandra!]

My VCR collection VHS recorder.

Justin Bieber Found To Be Cleverly Disguised 51-Year-Old Pedophile.

every day the same again | November 17th, 2010