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Butt-dialing mistake sends SWAT team to school. “You know how when you sit on your phone when it’s in your back pocket and it calls the last number that was dialed?”

Drug catapult discovered on Mexico border.

Rat Eradication Begins in Galapagos. Related: New York City rat map.

Though the complexities may appear endless, the global economy’s coming implosion is really fairly easy to understand: here are four charts which do the heavy lifting.

NY Times: Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets.

Oddly, as Chinese incomes have grown, so has their propensity to save. Why don’t Chinese spend more money?

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Hit the Forests of Malaysia.

New cure for the hiccups: Rectal stimulation.

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks discusses his new book, “The Mind’s Eye,” which explores how creative people compensate for their sight disorders or blindness. He also discusses his own “face blindness,” which makes it difficult to recognize people.

The Over-Interpretation of Dreams. Why people act as though their dreams can predict the future.

The fallibility of eye-witness memory is well documented. But what about people’s memories of their own past intentions?

Researchers in British Columbia suggest that beautiful people make better first impressions. Related: Seeing a picture of someone doing something makes you think about the thing they are doing, according to new research.

Jeff Hawkins is a successful computer programmer who is really interested in aping the brain to come up with more efficient algorithms.

This is a short sketch of some central ideas developed in my recent book Being No One. [PDF]

Would death be easier if you know you’ve been cloned?

Modern studies using MRI imaging have shown that brain size correlates with IQ by a factor of approximately .40 among adults. IQ test.

Secret Service Study Probes Psyche of U.S. Assassins.

Life expectancy rising slowly in the US.

The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical.

Koalas spend the majority of their time sitting around, copulation events are rare and males do not actively compete for mates. What a conundrum when it comes to the evolution of sexual selection.

The long curious extravagant evolution of feathers.

The Raw and the Cooked: An Interview with Cătălin Avramescu.

The Sleeping Beauty Problem. Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep on Sunday night. A coin is tossed. If it lands heads…

A physicist turns the city in an equation.

No, Eric Schmidt didn’t step down from being CEO of Google to take Steve Jobs’s position at Apple. I’m fairly certain Schmidt was demoted. Or if he wasn’t, then he should have been.

Verizon’s iPhone story isn’t so black and white.

Coming soon: Holographic Skype. Researchers close to creating real-time 3-D TV.

Why So Many Augmented Reality Apps Fail in the Real World.

Visitors to Twitter.com Drop 14%.

Eng. Andrea A. Rossi and Professor Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna, have announced to the world that they have a cold fusion device capable of producing more than 10 kilowatts of heat power, while only consuming a fraction of that.

Giant Black Solar Pyramids. Lunar Cubit is the winner of the Land Art Generator Initiative, a contest to make green-energy production beautiful.

ODR recently published the story of an intelligent, educated Russian woman who is HIV+ and drug dependent. This was followed by her cry from the heart, asking where the medication is that will help her and millions of others in Russia. Her recent success in finding her voice, writing and being active in the field led, sadly, to another crash.

Over the course of 45 years in the film business, Francis Ford Coppola has refined a singular code of ethics that govern his filmmaking. There are three rules: 1) Write and direct original screenplays, 2) make them with the most modern technology available, and 3) self-finance them. Interview.

Neil Faulkner examines China’s imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.

The Evolution of Beach Culture. A look at the people and places that have shaped seaside culture.

Marina Bay Sands hotel, Singapore.

The past 12 months were the best ever for the tourism industry in the Palestinian Authority (PA), where the industry grew by nearly 35 per cent.

NASA got a PR budget.

France’s experimental-comic-book movement, OuBaPo, has been trying to revolutionize the genre for two decades.

The lounge suit, battledress of the world’s businessmen, is 150 years old—possibly.

Ten things I Learned from Jim Cramer. (reply to emails, use every moment…)

Get ready to wear everything from invisibility cloaks and fabrics that can generate electricity to T-shirts you can hear and spray-on. The future of fashion.

Fashion has a funny way of co-opting the ephemeral energy of film and sublimating it into so much more.

A new generation is making street art that is conceptual, abstract, and even sculptural in nature.

February 2010, press and notable art-world figures were invited to Jeff Koons studio.

Video walk through of planned Eli Broad Art Foundation.

Interview with Frank Gehry.

EU describes the Flavin work as having “the characteristics of lighting fittings… and is therefore to be classified… as wall lighting fittings.”

Steven Brahms, Sightings.

Concorde tours offer cockpit access.

Why are there seven days in a week?

Karate Hand Techniques - Japanese Terms.

Model Bukkaked by Sephora.

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Japanese 19th-century pregnant dolls.

Pullover and ear.

every day the same again | January 28th, 2011

Every day, the same, again