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Sicily couple murdered man with butter.

French police arrested a 63-year-old woman who was leading her 40-year-old companion along a busy shopping street by a leash attached to his exposed penis.

Donald Trump says he might run for president.

Jesus Christ appears on rocking chair.

A bettor playing Gulfstream Park’s races last month cashed a ticket that was almost unprecedented in U. S. parimutuel wagering. He collected $221,677 for a winning combination that cost 10 cents.

One third of Russians say Sun revolves round Earth.

A month after Romanian authorities began taxing them for their trade, the country’s soothsayers and fortune tellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don’t come true.

Girl with 12 fingers, 14 toes reaches for a record.

Mother took away son’s PlayStation. Son hits her 20 times with a claw hammer and ultimately kills her.

Just last week, TripAdvisor awarded the Desert Inn Resort in Daytona Beach the title of third-dirtiest hotel in America. (Belated congrats, guys!) The hotel’s owner celebrated by being arrested on child porn charges.

Two TSA officers were busted Wednesday for stealing $40,000 from a bag at Kennedy Airport they thought belonged to a drug dealer.

On Comprehensive Prostitution Reform: Criminalizing the Trafficker and the Trick, But Not the Victim.

How Bouncers Are Doing Their Job: article, PDF.

The search for the Securitas millions. Will we ever know what became of the money?

Asleep or awake, brain activity is delicately balanced between inactivity and runaway catastrophe, according to a new study.

Being Multilingual Helps with Multitasking.

How Depression Dulls the World—Literally.

How does the brain pick which neurons to use?

Fecal transplants could be a cheap and effective treatment for gastrointestinal disorders.

Beer could be good for bones.

A study reports that electronic cigarettes are a promising tool to help smokers quit, producing six-month abstinence rates nearly double those for traditional nicotine replacement products.

A genetic adaptation in a Hudson River fish species allows it to simply store toxic pollutants in its fat.

Hibernating bears may help humans in space.

Flea’s jumping ability explained.

The history of lice and men is a long story that intertwines co-evolution not only with these blood-sucking little parasites but also with the microbes they carry.

A few years ago, the eco-conscious couple heard about “Colony Collapse Disorder,” a syndrome affecting commercial beekeepers worldwide wherein a bee colony unexpectedly abandons the hive for no apparent reason. Wanting to do their part by helping to repopulate L.A.’s bee population they contacted local bee guru Kirk Anderson who taught them all they needed to know to begin their own hives.

For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica’s frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

The Amazing Steam Engines Of The First Century. An online translation of an ancient text reveals some engineering marvels from antiquity.

Fluorescent Tattoo Alert! MIT’s Latest Trick for Embedded Medical Sensors.

Scientists Building Largest Antimatter Trap Ever.

Why Astrophysicists Need a Lightbulb in Orbit.

Electrified sand. Exploding balloons. The long and colorful history of weather manipulation.

The Untold Story of How My Dad Helped Invent the First Mac.

Federal and state prosecutors in New York brought charges against a ring of international cyber-criminals who used computer viruses to break into bank accounts. Among them were four New York students, including 21 year Kristina Svechinskaya, who is being groomed as the next Anna Chapman by the NY dailies.

How The Huffington Post Works.

In cramped Japan, the iPad is the home library. Families save space by paying startups to digitize their books.

“It’s pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York’s cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There’s no magazine I know of that’s so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented.” –Dave Eggers. “It’s a piece of garbage” –Donald Trump. Spy magazine, all issues.

Correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi.

The quotations here are grouped in two categories: the misattributed and the forgotten.

Present tense is part of the joke’s code (a man walks into a bar). Past tense moves us tonally toward fable, allegory, or tale.

In woods not far from Philadelphia, the body of a young boy was found in a box in 1957. An autopsy showed the 4-to-6-year-old child had died from a blow to his head and had sustained numerous bruises. A widespread, prolonged investigation failed to even determine the boy’s name.

The Visual Language of an Autistic Photographer.

How Skyscrapers Can Save the City.

This building, located on 138th Street, is the biggest obstacle preventing a local church from building a middle school for the community. More:Religions of Harlem.

Are silk flowers better for the environment than fresh ones?

What’s the best remedy for a bee sting?

Why do I sneeze after every orgasm?

Can Botox really cure chronic migraine?

Do Doctors Really Have Bad Handwriting?

Designers and design historians told me over the years that they had heard about the existence of a Nazi graphics standards manual.

Organized Crime: The World’s Largest Social Network.