Police in Maryland are on the hunt for the perpetrator of what appears to be an April Fools’ Day prank that left a man glued to a toilet at a Wal-Mart store.

Woman who tried to tear a Gauguin painting off a wall at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC said “Two Tahitian Women” is “very homosexual. I think it should be burned. (…) I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head.”

Paranoid schizophrenic knifed elderly mum after release from hospital for killing dad.

Drunk teacher who allegedly flapped arms and made chicken noises removed from classroom.

Illinois man calls police after strippers fail to show up at his Wisconsin motel room.

A prostitute shot a client to death when their sexual encounter was interrupted by a woman banging at the man’s door, claiming he’d given her a sexually transmitted disease.

Staten Island man set pregnant ex-girlfriend’s apartment ablaze in bizarre fecal rampage.

Cow manure fetish man jailed for 2 years in UK.

Police Officer Pepper Sprays Baby Squirrel In Texas. [Thanks Tim]

Ten flamingoes massacred in frenzied anteater attack in Sweden.

Man ‘goofing around’ falls out bus bathroom window, dies.

An East Village artist uses MetroCards as canvases for her oil paintings, and now the MTA is demanding a 10 percent cut.

Brooklyn Cemetery Expansion Pushing Out Residents.

Three more sets of human remains found on Long Island beach, NY.

Mee became known as ‘hiccup girl’ in 2007, when she began hiccuping 50 times a minute. Her story took another twist today when she gave a tearful interview from prison denying her alleged role in the murder of a Florida man.

Face of Jesus appears on log.

Cambodia sets marriage age limit for foreign husbands. Would-be bridegrooms will now have to be less than 50 years old.

Independent female directors are making pornographic films aimed at women. What makes them so different?

Adult industry enraged as ‘Porn Wikileaks’ gives stars’ real names.

Kremlin rejects FSB proposal to ban Skype, Gmail.

An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award. The accountant’s tip netted the IRS $20 million in taxes and interest from the errant financial-services firm.

Learning new color names increases the volume of gray matter in certain regions of the brain.

‘Molyneux’s question’ asks, “if a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he similarly distinguish those objects by sight if given the ability to see?”

Contrary to our intuition, research suggests that more trusting people are better than cynics at detecting when others are lying.

Olfactory pathogen primes [bad smell] increase intentions to use condoms. Related: Someone please explain this condom ad to me.

Yawns More Contagious Around Relatives, Friends.

Sleepy or Empathetic: What Does Yawning Mean?

Eating freeze-dried strawberries can slow the growth of precancerous lesions in the esophagus.

Confirmation that stressed people can’t resist the temptation of a cigarette.

Starting periods before the age of 10 increases risk of lung complaints in future.

Sand drift explained.

The way galaxies form and evolve is largely a mystery to astronomers. A particular focus of much head scratching is the bar that appears in many spiral galaxies.

By recreating the Big Bang inside a metamaterial for the first time, physicists have shown why the cosmological arrow of time points in the same direction as the thermodynamic arrow of time.

In the continuing series of posts on belief in the paranormal 100 years after it was all originally debunked by Victorian scientists and psychologists, we discuss Michael Faraday who debunked spiritualism by observing the claim that the table at seances could move under its own power.

42% of people who graduate from college never read another book.

Around 25 percent of health messages in Spanish text books are not based on scientific evidence.

How Materialistic Advertising Messages Negatively Shape the Female Body Image.

Media’s focus on ideal body shape can boost women’s body satisfaction — for a while.

Computer Software Proves Shakespeare Co-Authored Plays. Yet some may ask why Shakespeare, the author of the greatest plays in the English language, would tinker with the works of a lesser playwright from a rival company?

Barbarian Group CEO Benjamin Palmer on Cheil, Brands and Social Media.

Apple’s iPad, iOS to Lead Tablet Market Through 2015, according to a report from market research firm Gartner.

Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows.

Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market.

On the eve of our IPO, we decided to withdraw the offering.

The entire history of air power was written the very first time that a bomb was dropped out of an airplane in warfare.

Early on Jan. 1, 2007, Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot to death after a New Year’s Eve party at a Denver nightclub. The police launched a massive investigation that included multiple interviews with two other Broncos who were at the same club that night. But years would pass before the full story came to light.

Tony Botello, the 36-year-old man-boy behind Kansas City’s biggest independent blog.

Mr. Gagosian said the Hong Kong launch means he’s always got a gallery open somewhere in the world, no matter the time zone.

Jeff Koons, The Video Game. [Thanks Daniel]

Does magic need more female performers to be cool again?

I’d seen four shrinks in my life, and they’d all dozed off mid-session. Was it them—or me? I went back to find out.

Why is it so difficult to transcribe birdsong?

Part three in a three part series: Steven Heller on the design practices of the Third Reich.

Welcome to the booming world of high-end aquariums.

A long-forgotten soft drink is helping create surprising new cocktails.

Is organic wine better for the environment?

Why Escalators Bring out the Best in People.

Why Do the World’s Fattest People Live on Islands?

Amid all the earbudded iPods, smart phones and MP3 players, one can’t help but wonder: Whatever happened to the audiophile?

Now I will describe my first analytic experience as an analyst.

7 Most Terrifying Sex Toys Ever Patented.

Here’s a tip for falling asleep. I don’t think you’ll see it anywhere else. It goes like this: Don’t think words.

In a move described as “remarkable” by Joycean scholars, the singer Kate Bush has said she has been given permission to use Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from Ulysses in a song to be released next month. The Joyce estate, whose main trustee is the writer’s grandson Stephen Joyce, are notoriously protective of the writer’s work and have brought numerous lawsuits against scholars and artists attempting to quote from the writer’s work.

James Joyce estate strikes again with writ to DNA pioneer Craig Venter.

I’ve seen every Woody Allen movie. Here’s what I’ve learned.

A Complete Guide to Seinfeld’s Sneakers.

Drug runners’ jungle-built Kevlar-coated Supersubmarines.

Where does the suffix “-arama,” as in “foodarama,” come from?

Do It Yourself : How to Build Hallucinogenic Goggles.

A brief history of time zones.

The History of Science Fiction.

Polaroid of Keith Haring painting Grace Jones, signed by Andy Warhol. Sold for $2,425.00 on eBay.

At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants. ‘We’re Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,’ Entire Populace Reports.

Family Freud.

Chinese Boob Clamp Commercial. [Thanks Glenn]

every day the same again | April 11th, 2011